RTE Managing Director Leaves to Join eir

Music
07 Jul 16

The Managing Director of Television at RTÉ, Glen Killane, has announced he will leave the national broadcaster to join telecom group eir. He will head up the company's TV business, including the recently rebranded eir Sport (formerly Setanta sport) as well as all sports related sponsorships.

Killane was MD of RTÉ Television and a member of its executive board since 2010. He was previously its group head of sport for six years. In that role, he was responsible for RTÉ’s sports rights negotiations.

Killane has been at RTÉ for 18 of the past 20 years, first joining RTÉ Sport in 1996 as series editor of the Sunday Game, Rugby World Cup, Champions League and football internationals. He originally trained as a television producer and director at the BBC and was editor of live football at ITV Digital between 2001 and 2002.