LOCAL RADIO IN IRELAND!

[blackgold]

Radio in Ireland has become a varied spectrum in the past 4 decades. When I came over to Ireland, all there was on the radio was RTE. At night, you could pick up Radio Luxembourg on 208, as well as several European radio stations, including the infamous Radio North Sea International.
When I visited in 1994, and again in 1996, I found that 2FM had become the top national radio station, while a number of local radio stations had blossomed across the country. Also, there was a longwave station called Atlantic 252, which was targeted at Britain. 208 had closed down in '92, so people turned to their local stations for rock music.
And with the advent of satellite technology in the 1980s, people who had satellite aerials could pick up Sky TV with numerous music channels from across Europe. Of course, if you didn't have Sky TV, you were stuck with Ireland's national broadcaster(which had expanded to 2 TV channels).
Now, with digital and internet technologies bursting forth in Europe(Europe is way ahead on teletext and interactive technology, by the way), there are new avenues for musical expression. I hope that we can continue to see more of these open in Ireland.

 

[Ger]

per 88 there was lot radio station on air but only rte1 ,2 ,RNG radio was the Licensed Operators
From 88 the Irtc (Independent Radio and Television Commission ) came to be , responsible for the licensing of broadcasting services which happen but slowly in Ireland .... todate you need a lot off money to run station . currently license 20 community here with 2 National Radio Stations, 1 Independent Commercial, 1 Quasi National Commercial , 5 regional/multi-city radio stations , 26 local radio stations .
Now we have The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) and was Broadcasting Commission of Ireland (BCI ) befor that was Irtc (Independent Radio and Television Commission ) and in 5 years time be some think eles

Astra 28.2 have radio station from uk with the launch of Astra 1A in 1989 ( there only about 50 radio channels ) we used to used 19.2 east where over 1000 radio station there on the digial transponders from all over serving Europe, transmitting over 1,150 TV, radio and interactive channels to more than 93 million direct-to-home (DTH) and cable homes in 35 countries ( dont for Ireland and UK )

 

[BMR]

Atlantic 252 closed down about eight years ago. Longwave is fast dying out in the UK, and many hi-fis, boomboxes etc and clockradios only have 2 bands now- MW (generally labelled AM) and FM.

Car and stand-alone portables still have Longwave though.

The 252 frequency broadcasts RTE 1 these days, and is audiable across most of the UK just as Atlantic was- not sure how many people listen in- there are a fair few Irish 'ex-pats' on the UK mainland.