Trackback [20.03.2008 first posted on silicon republic] A huge portion of Ireland’s emigrant population not to mention 600,000 listeners in the greater Belfast area will be disenfranchised when RTÉ switches off its analogue medium-wave services without making a clear, determined switch to digital. Despite last year’s broadcasting legislation allowing for licence money to be spent…
Month: March 2008
whose emigrants voice? – stay tuned if you can
RTÉ closes MW after 82 years on Easter Monday details from RTÉ photo taken Cobh. County Cork “Droichead nua Ã?tha Luain is ea é, droichead idir na Gaeil in Éirinn agus Gaeil in imirce” “It is the new bridge of Athlone, a bridge between the Irish in Ireland and the emigrant Irish.” Taoiseach Eamon de…
what does DRM sound like
So you are driving down the long mile road or the autobahn and you turn on the DRM radio in the car and tune to a station ~1000KM away in a different country, it sounds like this. video flash from drm.org
viewers & listeners association
under a new working title ‘Diaspora TV’ RTÉ International got a welcome from rte2fta.com yesterday. The petition for RTÉ to follow its own guidelines and go FTA is gathering pace with 295 signatures (probably due to the exposure RTE2FTA is getting via the diaspora tv press release & the RTÉ MW closure). This has me…
unpopular decisions v deciding to serve the unpopular
Hats off to RTÉ who see a future for MPEG4 on DTT. RTÉ don’t do visions they receive apparitions. There has been mention of MPEG4 in the tender docs for the 3 commercial mux. It would seem that RTÉ favour MPEG4 and the possibility of HD. This is a good thing and is forward looking.…
[Rpt] Osez Jos̩phine РAlain Bashung
first seen on FTA MTV idol 13East Hotbird (Sunday, August 5th, 2007)
so longwave has more reach?
RTÉ claim Longwave has more reach that medium wave. LW travels further than MW during the day, but not at night. But more reach? Reach means getting onto more radios. As MW radio ownership in so much greater than LW radio ownership (based on manufacturing figures researched here) Medium wave will always have greater reach…
killing MW to save DAB
in reply to Wave of protest engulfs RTÉ to the persons who commented and doubted the validity of the British Journalists claim on NI reception of RTE. The 600,000 people in the Greater Belfast area knew MW was the only way to hear radio 1 on a portable radio. RTE knew this and were forced…
[Rpt] Mother Board
first invented for children’s entertainment and folksy guitar playing this model went on to greater things. {final upgrade of eprom chip before switch on} shane hegarty has a election piece on time past over on the ireland.com blogs