Frequencies

exyte

Hi,

I've just moved to the Dublin area and i'm wondering what are the radios here, and responding frequencies. I'm looking for a stations pointed to a young listener (say around ~25 year of age), if possible - NOT comercial ones with loads of house, nujazz and maybe drum'n bass music and if not - somethining similar to bbc/radio1.

thanks.

Wertz

Not commercial? Out of luck there. ALL Irish radio is commercial and advert funded
We have 2 national "yoof" stations (I use the term in it's loosest sense)...RTÉ's 2FM and TodayFM (independant), then we have stations like Spin103, the usual Dublin based ones; 104fm, 98fm and probably a load of dodgy dance ones at the top end of the FM band.

You'll be lucky to get Radio1 on the FM band in the Dublin area since all the Dub stations tend to output on the same frequencies and drown out teh weaker signal.
[edit] House and other forms of electronica don't really impact daytime radio airplay here...some of the stations at the weekends will stick on a token few hours in the early hours of the morning, otherwise if it's not in the charts or wasn't at some point in the past then it doesn't get played -simple as.

As for frequencies, can't really say as for some typically Irish reason, the different stations output on several different frequencies up and down the country...it crowds out the airwaves and makes it seem like we have a lot more stations than we actually do...always wondered why it's this way....I might actually make a thread about it.

Norfork Nights

Wertz wrote:

As for frequencies, can't really say as for some typically Irish reason, the different stations output on several different frequencies up and down the country...it crowds out the airwaves and makes it seem like we have a lot more stations than we actually do...always wondered why it's this way....I might actually make a thread about it.

Well its actually so the same station dosen't eat into each other in crossover area's
If 2fm which is 90.7 in dublin was on 90.7 in wicklow they would most definatly eat into each other causing terrible interference on the frequency
Thats the reason as far as I understand.

Litcagral

Wertz wrote:

You'll be lucky to get Radio1 on the FM band in the Dublin area since all the Dub stations tend to output on the same frequencies and drown out teh weaker signal.
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I never have this problem in Dublin - RTE Radio One - 88.5 or 89.1 MHz FM

radioman

I think the OP made it clear (s)he meant bbc radio 1

legspin

Ummm, no they didn't

BrianD

You'll get the BBC channels on digital cable or satellite. In some parts of Dublin you can receive BBC radio on FM from the North - mainly the higher ground areas to the south.

In the meantime you can always listen to the best indie/alternative and local bands on Phantom FM online at www.phantomfm.com or on FM later on this year.

Wertz

To clarify; if I'd have meant RTÉ Radio 1 I'd have put the RTÉ ahead of it....since the OP asked about stations similar to Radio1 (it's RDS tag) I assumed I was clear.

Norfolk Nights wrote:

Well its actually so the same station dosen't eat into each other in crossover area's
If 2fm which is 90.7 in dublin was on 90.7 in wicklow they would most definatly eat into each other causing terrible interference on the frequency
Thats the reason as far as I understand.

Knew there was some reason...it just sucks that when you live in an area with decent reception, you're faced with several clone stations cramming into the FM band. Thanks for clearing it up anyhow.

legspin

BrianD wrote:

In the meantime you can always listen to the best indie/alternative and local bands on Phantom FM online at www.phantomfm.com or on FM later on this year.

We hope later this year anyway;)

monkeyfudge

The radio station I work for, NEAR fm 101.6, is non-commercial and features a lot of talk programming and specialist music programmes.

I'm not sure how much of the content would be of interest to you..

But have a listen to some of our Podcasts for a sample of programming.

http://www.nearfm.ie/podcast

It's a community access station so all of the programmes are made by members of the local community of Dublin North-East who we have trained in radio production.