Bil Keating (Producer/Director)
Bil began his television career as a drama director with the BBC, where he enjoyed four successful years prior to returning to Ireland to take up an appointment with RTE.

Fully supported by a large number of teenage viewers he caused a near sensation with his innovative pop show ‘Like Now’ and was awarded the coveted Jacobs Award for his efforts. Twelve further awards were to follow during which time he was to direct many original top rating musical shows and some old favourites such as ‘The Late Late Show’. He devised RTE’s first successful home produced quiz programme, ‘Murphy’s Micro-quism’ which ran for seven years and this was followed by the equally successful ‘Where In The World’. He pioneered the televising of ‘Tops of the Town’ and brought laser light and holography to the Irish screens for the first time. He has worked with all of the big names in Ireland and is credited with giving a ‘first break’ to such international stars as U2 and David Bowie whom he knew from his days at the BBC.

More recently he went freelance to enable him to work for other companies and his work has been seen on TG4 and TV3 while retaining a contract with The National Lottery for such programmes as ‘Winning Streak’ and ‘Fame & Fortune’. He enjoys his work immensely and is dedicated to upholding a high standard of television production. He became alarmed at a sudden drop in the quality of programming and with this in mind he founded 'The Bil Keating Centre' in an effort to offer the student an opportunity to gain first hand knowledge of the industry not just from text books but from working professionals engaged in the day to day business of making and creating television programmes.

Marty Whelan (Presenter)
In the mid-eighties, Marty made an immediate impression as the first male presenter of the fashion programme ‘Head 2 Toe’. Other TV shows followed, including ‘Where In The World’ (1986-1989) and ‘Video File’ (1983-1989), in which he interviewed major stars of the music industry.

Since then, he has presented such top-rated shows as , ‘Go For It’, ‘Off The Record’ and ‘Millionaire’. He hosted ‘The Rose of Tralee’ for seven years and enjoyed six years as co-presenter of RTE’s popular daytime show ‘Open House’. He also hosted RTE 1’s lottery show, ‘Fame & Fortune’ for seven years and continues to present RTE’s annual coverage of ‘The Eurovision Song Contest’ and ‘Celebrity Jigs ‘n’ Reels’. In September, it was announced that Marty would be presenting the new series of 'Winning Streak' on RTE1 and would become the new host of the lunchtime show on Lyric FM.

Michael Murphy (Newsreader)
Michael joined RTE as a Continuity Announcer on Radio 1 in 1971. Shortly afterwards, he was appointed newsreader, reading news in Irish and English on radio and television for which he won the N.A.D. award. In 1980 he became a television Producer and Director, working in RTE’s Light Entertainment Department, then to RTE 1 where he produced such programmes as ‘S.B.B. on Tour’, ‘Access Community Drama’ and ‘Access Community Television’ for which he won the Prix Jeunese Internationale and a Jacobs Award. Michael continues to present the news on RTE Radio and Television.

Margaret Martin (Researcher)
A graduate of UCD in French and Irish. Margaret initially joined RTE’s Audience Research Dept.- then moved to Television Production as a production assistant involved mainly in Sports, Current Affairs and Drama. Margaret was RTE's Eurovision News Co-Ordinator before moving to Television Research where she worked on innovative and established top rating shows - among which were 'Saturday Live', 'Kenny Live' and 'The Late Late Show'. She is currently a freelance researcher working both for independent production companies and RTE.

Walter Harrington (Floor Manager)
Walter has worked as a Floor Manager in RTE for over 20 years. He has various live, recorded, in-studio and outside broadcast programming experience including ‘The Late Late Show’ with Gay Byrne and Pat Kenny, various current affairs, news and election programmes. He has also worked on all types of live and post-match sports coverage and specialised music programmes. Walter has also been Floor Manager for three Eurovision Song Contests.