Sound & Vision 4

Applicants must complete the Application Form and submit their application via e-mail, sv4@bai.ie. Completed applications must be submitted by the closing date of each funding round.

Round 35

• Open to Independent Commercial Stations only.
• Closes 29th April 2020.
• Decisions expected May 2020.

• Copy of the Scheme
• Guide for Applicants
• Application Form
• Outcomes of previous rounds are available on request, with those for the last three rounds posted to this page
  • Round 34
  • Round 33
  • Round 32
• The lists of the assessors of previous rounds are available on request, with those for the last three rounds posted to this page:
  • Round 34
  • Round 33
  • Round 32

• Develop high quality programmes based on Irish culture, heritage and experience;
• Develop these programmes in the Irish language;
• Increase the availability of programmes referred to above to audiences in the State;
• Represent the diversity of Irish culture and heritage;
• Record oral Irish heritage and aspects of Irish heritage which are disappearing, under threat, or have not been previously recorded, and;
• Develop local and community broadcasting.

To achieve these objectives, the Scheme offers grant funding to new television and radio programmes which deal with the themes of:

• Irish culture, heritage and experience;
• Improving adult or media literacy;
• Raising public awareness and understanding of global issues impacting on the State and countries other than the State; and/or
• Any of the above in the Irish language.

• The Scheme is financed from the Broadcast Fund which comprises 7% of the annual net receipts from television license fees.
• The BAI has been assigned the responsibility of administering this fund.
• The BAI Archiving Scheme is also financed from the Broadcast Fund.
• The BAI will generally allocate funding using a funding rounds system.
• For each round, the BAI determines the closing time and date; the types of applications that can be submitted and the amount of funding available.