Home Broadcasting Tax

first published March 1st 2013 via the office of Clare Daly TD The TV licence fee funds public service broadcasts and insures that private media moguls do not get to own all the viewpoints in broadcast media. What we must avoid is allowing a home broadcasting tax become a tax that is not linked to…

Nothing radical on RTE Radio 1

moving the deckchairs around on RTE Radio 1. This schedule says that emerging talent is not breaking through on the big Radio 1. Not considering Claire Byrne ’emerging’ as she came in from Newstalk / TV3 Claire is now a core presenter of morning Ireland + a Saturday job! and while it is not mentioned…

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Pat Kenny – 4 Songs

Legend Irish broadcaster Pat Kenny has decided to plug his headphones into someone else’s mixer, into a 1/4 inch hole of Denis O’Brien owned Newstalk. Best of luck in the new job Pat. Here are 4 songs I have strong memories of Pat playing on his radio slot on RTE Radio 1. Eleanor McEvoy –…

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Big D 273

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The First Radio Broadcast 24/12/1906

via http://www.wfn.org/story.html The first extended broadcast of the human voice was transmitted through the air on December 24, 1906 from Brant Rock, Massachusetts. A Canadian engineer, Reginald Fessenden, had worked for Thomas Edison in his New Jersey Laboratory, and later became a professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Fessenden was convinced that the “wireless telegraph”, which…

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software defined radio

link to SDR station http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/ link to audioBoo http://audioboo.fm/boos/148504-software-defined-radio