the number of people listening to radio in ireland has risen 3% in the latest JNLR survey. small minority stations are pushing up the figure! time to licence all aplications sent to the BCI, there is no good reason left to exclude new stations entering the spectrum. more from radiowaves.fm
John Peel 1939 – 2004
Legendary broadcaster John Peel of the BBC died yesterday while on aworking holiday in Peru. He will be sadly missed. Thank you for themusic.radio rewind
soundz that you wanna hear
for radio from the US thats not owned by big business and thats leftof centre try RBN and Air America Radio I’ve been listening to air america for some months via the online stream, and the focus is on Nov 2nd in a big way, I found RBN tonight, in a strange kind of way,…
asking the hard questions
if its Bertie Ahern or Kofi Annan, you’re sure to find the hardline questions comming in from Socialist Party TD Joe Higgins. From time to time we will give space in this blog to “joe blogs” the comments questions and writing of dublin west TD Joe Higgins. from a recent Irish Independent article on an…
who cares wins?
US election 2004 $x days to go, who cares who wins? the world does. but will either bu$h or k€rry be all that different? smell it decap by own heli since Bush’s execution of the war in Iraq has never had enough boots on the ground, as a consequence, if there had been WMD in…
N.T.L. (No Telephone Line)
NTL Ireland withdrew its Dublin phone service 12 days ago without notice or even a supporting cust care line, many customers listening to the Saturday evening news learned that the service had been withdrawn, there was a “health & safety” issue with the installed device… Many shocked users, will their house burn down if they…
HOUSING v HOSTING
Have you ever met a homeless server? & why is hosting so expensive? I have a hosting bill for a single co-lo box that is more expensive that a 10 year old mortgage + I provide utility to the mortgaged house such as standing orders on ESB TV licence GAS water (oops no abolished that…
end of the spam as we know it
no, i don’t predict the end of spam as we know it, but reading the latest crop of spam, I read between the spammers lines that they might guess that their days might be numbered so they are going all out for now to make hay while the sun shines, the porn spam has gotten…
I DONT BELIEVE IT
wrt the arrests and now charges of 8 uk ‘terror’ suspects reutes saysOne of them, Dhiren Barot, 32, was also accused of having “reconnaissance plans” of the Prudential building in New Jersey, the New York Stock Exchange and Citigroup headquarters in New York, and the International Monetary Fund in Washington. The plans were “of a…