Coimisiún na Meán’s regulatory functions include:
- Licensing radio and television services additional to those provided by RTÉ, TG4, the Houses of the Oireachtas Channel and the Irish Film Channel. The current Commercial Radio Licensing Plan can be found here.
- Regulating TV and radio services and audiovisual/video on-demand services established in Ireland.
- Having overall responsibility for the regulation of Irish public service broadcasters.
- Devising and implementing codes and rules for programme content on Irish broadcasting services.
- Handling complaints from viewers and listeners concerning content broadcast by licensed and public service broadcasters and made available on video on-demand services.
- Implementing a range of plurality activities, including providing advice to the Minister is respect of media mergers.