As a producer of public service content ourselves, community radio and television stand in solidarity with RTÉ, the public service broadcaster in Ireland, and will do whatever we can to help it restore the public confidence it has lost recently, in such spectacular fashion. The root of the problem, however, is not to be found…
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Ireland transmits 1916 Rebellion becoming the world’s first radio broadcast
Witness testimony of Fergus O’Kelly. read by Brian Greene for The Media Show Background. In 1964, Marshal McLuhan, Canadian philosopher of communication theory, wrote of the incident, The Irish Rebels used a ship’s radio to make, not a point-to-point message, but a diffused broadcast in hope of getting word to any ship that would relay…
Euranet: Pan European Radio
I am interested greatly in this project of the EU called Euranet. A Pan European multilingual radio service of the EU contributed to by 16 broadcasters in 13 countries in 10 languages rising to 23 by year 5. Due to launch April 2008 and online from July 1st it is set to broadcast on FM…
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…