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Ireland’s first regional radio station, Beat 102-103, has signed up to Media Central, the Communicorp sales house. Media Central, run by Gavin Deans, is also operating airtime, sponsorship and promotions business of Spin 103.8, 98FM, Spin SW, iRadio NE, iRadio NW and Cork’s Red FM.  While there have been some cross regional station partnerships for […]

The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) has signed a contract for a ten-year sound broadcasting service for the franchise area of Dublin city and county with Radio 2000, trading as 98FM. The contract is for a music-driven service for 25-44 year olds. The BAI was represented at the signings by chairperson Bob Collins (right) and […]

Cliona Hurson will become marketing director at Communicorp with effect from mid-January. She has been marketing director for 98FM and Spin 103.8 for the last 18 months, having previously been marketing manager for 98FM. She will work to CEO Gervaise Slowey, who joined Denis O’Brien’s group from Ogilvy last year. Hurson has a BA from […]

Research conducted this week by Core Media claims that a quarter of the current Pat Kenny audience on RTÉ Radio 1 is at risk and could move over to his new show on Newstalk. This increases to 52 per cent of Kenny listeners when those who are ‘somewhat likely’ to move channels are included. Based […]

RTÉ has confirmed that broadcaster Pat Kenny will not be renewing his contract with RTÉ and is leaving the station to join Newstalk 106-108FM. Kenny (pictured above right, with John McColgan), will host a news and current affairs show from 10am to 12.30pm weekdays from September 2. Kenny joined RTÉ as a part-time radio announcer in […]

RTE Radio has made some ground in the year to the end of June, the latest Joint National Listenership Research (JNLR) shows. On RTE Radio 1, Morning Ireland and the News at One had increases of 6,000 and 8,000, bringing their respective audiences up to 450,000 and 365,000. Pat Kenny (above) was unchanged at 328,000. […]

David Tighe is the new chief executive of Independent Radio Sales (IRS), Marketing.ie has learned. Tighe was the first boss of  Dublin rock music station Radio Nova before he was replaced by director Kevin Branigan. Before that, he spent seven years with the UTV-owned Limerick’s Live 95FM. He worked with Emap in the UK. He […]

Beat 102-103, the regional radio station broadcasting in Wexford, Waterford, Kilkenny, Tipperary and Carlow, celebrates 10 years on air this July. In that time, Beat has become the top station in the south east and now attracts 151,000 weekly listeners, up 16,000 listeners in the last year. The station’s most popular shows include Beat Breakfast […]

RTE and Ireland’s independent radio stations have combined to run a new episode in the series of radio promotion campaigns. If You Want to Be Heard is the theme of the fifth annual Choose Radio push urging advertisers to invest in radio by showing its power and reach. Jointly developed by the Independent Broadcasters of Ireland […]

Irish marketing and media executives interested in the vacant chief executive post at Independent Radio Sales (IRS) sales house for local radio stations have until next Monday week, May 27, to apply. The job spec entails delivering sales and profit forecasts for the company and achieving revenue targets for the IRS network’s 20 local member […]

The chairman of the Independent Broadcasters of Ireland (IBI) group John Purcell is calling on the Minister for Communications Pat Rabbitte to hold a meeting with the IBI and RTÉ to establish “a fair and equitable broadcasting landscape” for Irish radio listeners. Such a meeting would be the first of its kind. Addressing the IBI […]

One of the most widely known and respected names in local radio Dan Healy has quit as boss of Independent Radio Sales (IRS) to head up 2FM at RTE. Before taking over from John O’Connor at IRS three years ago, Healy was a founder of iRadio, which won the competition for licences for the north […]