Ulster 873

The other day while killing time in the car I dx’ed the MW band on the car radio, and heard live house of commons debate on the air at 873khz, I knew it wasn’t five live as I had passed a phone in on 909am and I checked radio 4 and it wasn’t them. The…

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breaking breaking news

QUESTION: Do Irish breaking news services [online] alter the timestamps of news stories without renewing the content of a story? ANSWER : Yes this is really annoying, it servers to dilute the importance of breaking news just like Sky News / BBC 24 and CNN do. Flashing breaking news every 15/20 minutes is aggressive, but…

Little Robots

saw this in the guggenheim last week and had to to buy it; buy the postcard not the installation! Nam June Paik – Family Robot – Grandmother left Grandfather right [1986] single channel video sculptures with vintage television and radio castings and monitors; colour silent.

RTÉ w i d e s c r e e n

RTE has a aertel page that explains wide screen, on pg 192. [they should have used the unused pg 169 aka 16:9 ah well] what I don’t get is WHY cant I get RTE on Digital Satellite for free, I have a licence, I have had one since 1993, I don’t have $ky, dont want…

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Phantom FM Launch Podcast

The new soon to be ‘rock’ radio station from Dublin Phantom FM are podcasting pre broadcast. the rss feed is at http://phantomfm.libsyn.com/rss for the moment there is some talk shows that will fill the feed, ‘The Two Petes Talk Rubbish’ sits very well in the podcast arena, but the rock station will come into its…

w800i podcatcher

I got my w800i sony walkman phone today; the day meteor messed up credit control, blocked my phone & over charged me. You see the postal service is being run down so much that the lag time between bill arriving and cheques arriving is so expanded up to 16 days that monthly billing is running…