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RTE's mobile community radio station - 1980s

  • 27-07-2008 12:17am
    #1
    Antenna
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    See

    http://img77.imageshack.us/img77/1181/avondhu24april2008wg5.jpg

    a 'nostalgia' piece from the weekly Avondhu newspaper (circulates in the north-east of Co.Cork) from the 24 April of this year (2008) looking back at events of 21 years previous (1987) and mentions a stint of RTE's mobile community radio station in Mitchelstown for a week of community broadcasting. Has anyone more to say about this mobile station - a somewhat forgotten about piece of Irish broadcasting history. It visited many towns around the country, existing from sometime in the 1970s until 1987 or 1988? It broadcast on both FM and MW

    PS
    in some instances the temporary broadcasts covered much larger areas (covering a county) for a period of over several weeks. Googling I discovered this:
    http://radioeireann101.blogspot.com/
    regarding RTE community broadcasts to Co. Mayo in 1981.


Comments

  • #2
    rlogue
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    The whole approach of RTÉ in the 70s and indeed right into the 80s was that local radio had to be managed by RTÉ - their vision was that of talk based local radio in partnership with the local communities.

    The Labour-FG government of 1982-1987 could not agree a common approach to local radio as Labour insisted the RTÉ community radio model should be used exclusively despite the emergence of the FM super pirates, Nova, Sunshine, West and South Coast.


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