Would you welcome Community Radio where you live.

Xenophile

Would you welcome Community Radio where you live.

I am advocating Community Radio for Clonmel. List your town here if you think that Community Radio would help the quality of life where you live.

Here is a good definition from Wikipedia,

Community radio is a radio service offering a third model of radio broadcasting in addition to commercial and public broadcasting. Community stations serve geographic communities and communities of interest. They broadcast content that is popular and relevant to a local, specific audience but is often overlooked by commercial or mass-media broadcasters. Community radio stations are operated, owned, and influenced by the communities they serve. They are generally nonprofit and provide a mechanism for enabling individuals, groups, and communities to tell their own stories, to share experiences and, in a media-rich world, to become creators and contributors of media.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_radio

bbability

I'm a big supporter of community/hospital radio. I believe outside the Dublin commuter belt there isn't enough of it. There are many who will say that local commercial radio does that job but its an area that's not utilised enough.
There are many positives and negatives to way up the argument.

Xenophile

In my opinion more positives than negatives in large rural population centers. In the long run it will help curb the power of media moguls.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Yes a good idea but would you not see money to be made in such a venture? I think there could be with local sponsorship. Small beans obviously but I think in a town like Clonmel or Thurles you could turn a profit, especially considering that Tipp Fm are dying a death.

Have I gone against the ethos of community radio. :pac:

Trick of the Tail

Tipp Mid West Radio in Tipp town are making money, even with the constraints placed upon them by the BAI's community radio rules.

They don't sound like a big-business commercial station, but hey, they're not supposed to.

It looks likely that Tramore and Kilkenny may get full-time community stations too shortly.

A.

DJP

I have been involved with community radio since 2001- mainly with NearFM and now Raidió na Life. My parents have a house outside Castlerea and I would be interested in getting involved with the community radio station for the county but 1) it is only for people with disabilities and 2) it is only broadcast around Roscommon town. I think it should be a regular community radio station, yes welcoming people with disabilities- they could even have a special welcome for them, and that it should be broadcast throughout the county.

jkmanc1974

The one in Claremorris works very well to be fair, would be interesting to see whether it would work in Clonmel though, and also whether it would be supported by the locals?

Brgds
Johnny

StaticNoise

There were good and bad things about it, but the demise and loss of Tallaght FM was a significant one. Yes, it was not always very well run, and there were disputes and the like regarding it, but as a localised service, it had a purpose.

OK, it is Dublin based (and we're well covered), but you still can't do local on these platforms.

Xenophile

alinton wrote: »

Tipp Mid West Radio in Tipp town are making money, even with the constraints placed upon them by the BAI's community radio rules.

They don't sound like a big-business commercial station, but hey, they're not supposed to.

It looks likely that Tramore and Kilkenny may get full-time community stations too shortly.A.

Kilkenny Local Radio was originally a Community Radio before it was merged with Carlow under what the locals would term as controversial circumstances.

Good luck to Kilkenny they have a great community spirit in that city.

And with Big Phil based there it is a great help

Trick of the Tail

No, it wasn't.

The franchise was readvertised as Carlow-Kilkenny, and the incumbent, Radio Kilkenny (a community station) were NOT awarded the new licence.

The new station KCLR96FM were awarded it.

The original organisation kept their studios and have run temp community licences successfully for a couple of years - it is they who will likely be given a community licence for Kilkenny city soon.

A

Losty Dublin

StaticNoise wrote: »

There were good and bad things about it, but the demise and loss of Tallaght FM was a significant one. Yes, it was not always very well run, and there were disputes and the like regarding it, but as a localised service, it had a purpose.

OK, it is Dublin based (and we're well covered), but you still can't do local on these platforms.

Tallaght FM is not the best example of a community station unless you want to talk about how not to do things. It was more so a local station than a community station, which it was supposed to be.

Xenophile

alinton wrote: »

No, it wasn't.

The franchise was readvertised as Carlow-Kilkenny, and the incumbent, Radio Kilkenny (a community station) were NOT awarded the new licence.

The new station KCLR96FM were awarded it.

The original organisation kept their studios and have run temp community licences successfully for a couple of years - it is they who will likely be given a community licence for Kilkenny city soon.

A

No argument with the above facts. All I was saying that procuring a Community Radio for Kilkenny at present Big Phil is a good man to have on your side.

DT100

Xenophile wrote: »

Would you welcome Community Radio where you live.

I am advocating Community Radio for Clonmel. List your town here if you think that Community Radio would help the quality of life where you live.

Here is a good definition from Wikipedia,

Community radio is a radio service offering a third model of radio broadcasting in addition to commercial and public broadcasting. Community stations serve geographic communities and communities of interest. They broadcast content that is popular and relevant to a local, specific audience but is often overlooked by commercial or mass-media broadcasters. Community radio stations are operated, owned, and influenced by the communities they serve. They are generally nonprofit and provide a mechanism for enabling individuals, groups, and communities to tell their own stories, to share experiences and, in a media-rich world, to become creators and contributors of media.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_radio[/QUOTE]


Advocating is one thing,but it happening is another.I would agree that Clonmel could do well with a community radio station.But I dont ever see it happening.

StaticNoise

Losty Dublin wrote: »

Tallaght FM is not the best example of a community station unless you want to talk about how not to do things. It was more so a local station than a community station, which it was supposed to be.

OK, I'll actually come to agree with you on that. Maybe it is more due to the fact that there was so much opportunity wasted. It could be relaunched and used well.

Oasis_Dublin

What are the listenerships like for local radio? The real justification will come through engagement with a community base.