If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)

Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest

Radio: Phantom FM win Dublin alt rock licence.

DMC · 2004-11-08 15:35:43

Justice at last! :D Post your warm wishes to Simon, Ger, Pete and co on the Phantom FM board

08-11-2004 3:35pm

#1

DMC

Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,726 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: May 1999

Posts: 10086

Justice at last!

Post your warm wishes to Simon, Ger, Pete and co on the Phantom FM board

0

Comments

#2 08-11-2004 5:46pm

celticfc

Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 2,884 Mod ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: January 2003

Posts: 2701

Great stuff!!

0
#3 08-11-2004 5:49pm

Coconut

Closed Accounts Posts: 57 ✭✭

Join Date: October 2004

Posts: 53

Wahoo!!
[Cue long list of similar congratulatory comments..]

0
#4 08-11-2004 6:55pm

BuffyBot

Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,924 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: February 2002

Posts: 23571

Coconut wrote:

Wahoo!!
[Cue long list of similar congratulatory comments..]

Indeed congrats to Phantom.

Hope it works out though, Dublin's radio market is getting crowded!

0
#5 08-11-2004 6:57pm

mayordenis

Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 9,654 Mod ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: May 2004

Posts: 9413

i'm a waterford lad but everytime i went up to dublin i'd have my brother throw it on as a law - great news

0
#6 08-11-2004 6:58pm

Charles Slane

Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,817 ✭✭✭

Join Date: May 2001

Posts: 1677

I was just SO glad to hear this news.

Really looking forward to hearing the guys with a nice big legal signal !

0
Advertisement
#7 08-11-2004 9:55pm

byte

Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 19,157 Mod ✭✭✭✭

byte

Join Date: May 2001

Posts: 18934

Woohoo! All we need to do now is convince them to broadcast on satelllite so people like me can listen too!

0
#8 10-11-2004 5:22pm

Elmo

Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: March 2002

Posts: 22833

Why not give them a national Licence?

Too many radio stations in Dublin, but well done.

Hopeful they will stick to what the set out to do unlike others that could be mentioned.

0
#9 10-11-2004 5:28pm

LegacyUser

Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: -

Posts: 125685

bout time

0
#10 10-11-2004 6:08pm

DMC

Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,726 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: May 1999

Posts: 10086

Elmo wrote:

Why not give them a national Licence?

Too many radio stations in Dublin, but well done.

Spectrum. No more space on FM for another national station.

0
#11 10-11-2004 6:15pm

Cork

Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,924 ✭✭✭

Join Date: July 2001

Posts: 3537

DMC wrote:

Spectrum. No more space on FM for another national station.

Are you sure of this?

Surely, we have more room than for 5 national stations?

But well done to Phantom.

We don't need any more mid Athlantic formated pop stations.

But I hope more stations go national when Irish digital radio gets going.

0
Advertisement
#12 10-11-2004 6:49pm

DMC

Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,726 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: May 1999

Posts: 10086

Yes, DAB or Satellite might be the best route for national coverage, but not now.

In Dublin, we are almost at capacity. I'd say there wont be another FM licence awarded by the BCI, maybe one more.

Of course, down the country there are great swathes of the band where you could fit in a national station, but, taking the UK for example, there is only space for 5 national FM stations, and like here they are grouped in the 88-90, 90-92, 92-94, 97-99 and 100-102.

And with that, and the transmission cost, and the only moderate success of Today FM (anyone remember its launch as Radio Ireland, and Century before it??) needs to know that a national station is a heavy enough propostion to make a sucess. If anyone one now went for a national FM licence, they would run a mile...

0