The future of RTE Radio 1 LW

burnsey1987 wrote: »

That's amazing!!!

Ah , you'll regularly hear U.S hams on 20 meters during the day and 40 meters in the evening and then on 80 meters late at night, depending on conditions how clear they are.

One minute you'll hear them clear as a bell then nothing, amazing.

Sometimes you can even hear U.S Medium Wave stations come in in the night with a good external antenna and sometimes on the internal antenna outside if you;'e lucky enough with a good radio not your off the shelf muck you get in a shop these days.

RTE would tell you that no one listens to LW any more.

"when is the last time someone asked you for a Long Wave radio ?" muppets !

For anyone reading this who doesn't know what the lase sentence was about, read below.

When RTE closed MW they went to some electrical shop and asked one of the sales Men when was the last time they were asked for a medium Wave radio and the sales man replied "no one ever asked me for a MW radio"

This was to try and deceive the public that no one is listening to MW because no one would ever ask any sales person in a shop if they had a MW radio because one would naturally expect any radio to cover MW and FM , equally, you'll never hear anyone walk into a shop and ask for an FM radio !

Someone will go into a shop and buy a "radio" and if they can't find a radio they will ask the shop assistant for a "radio" simple as that.

And I bet there was little to no whinging on Joe Duffy either over the shut down of MW because RTE won't want to admit there was probably a large audience for MW and so would not allow anyone on to tell the public otherwise , they wouldn't get past their researcher, trust me, I know how RTE operate, I've been in the situation, if it does not fit their agenda you're voice will not be heard on RTE 1.

My Mother and Aunt listened to MW because at the time there were certain programming on MW that was not on FM and to a lesser extent the same applies to LW and FM.

The fm band is too crowded and so the likes of Joe Duffy could be on MW/lw and other programming on FM, the Transmitter is there, the spectrum is available, use it RTE ffs! The quality is more than acceptable on MW/LW despite what they might like to tell the youth !

Can anyone post that video again please of the MW shut down where they walk into the Shop asking for a MW radio ?

There's something to the sound on AM on a quality radio , I can relate to that, I don't think it's all nostalgia , I think it's more to do with the fact digital has kind of ruined the way we listen to music especially streaming services, there's no personal touch to it, it's too easy and you just keep flicking to the next track and the next 30 seconds of this 1 min of that etc.

And those younger folk streaming all day won't hear the banter of a DJ or the excitement of a new chart buster , a life story here and there, the rambling or just the sound of a human voice and listening to people ring in with their requests and the craic they might have with the DJ.

The Audio quality may have improved but the quality of the way we receive it has got worse.

To think RTE now have a digital first campaign going on is really worrying.

MW will be here for decades and longer in some form or another, parts of it will become digital and you may see a lot of pirates crop up and no one will care any more as it's deemed no one will listen anyway.

I think the internet in general has meant a lot of people now sit in front of a screen or stuck with earphones in not communicating with real people.

Mickey Mike wrote: »

This is what most of us want, but the tough reality is from next year there will be no MW or LW on our radios from Ireland.

Apart from Spirit. It's a shame no commercial station sees the value of MW in Ireland. FM is too crowded in many parts. Spirit signal isn't particularly strong. DAB is crap.

Old tech but if it works so bloody what. One day we'll seriously regret depending on the internet as much as we do.

Radio stations in the dark tangled clutches of the Web could end up dead without internet free transmitters.

burnsey1987 wrote: »

While I may not be a particular fan of Donald Trump, I do think that all of this anti-Trump stuff is becoming a bit tiresome to listen to at this stage. Do the media actually think that he gives two fcuks about them? Of course he doesn’t. Maybe focus on real issues that matter???

That said I still find RTÉ a lot less biased than most other radio stations in this country. At least they actually discuss the news

The only one I find any way less biased about trump is Paul Williams on newstalk and will actually give credit where credit is due and I respect him for that. The rest of the media just follow the crowd and the agenda.

Trump isn't popular with the media so they will try to destroy him and everything he does. They can't even give the Man credit for getting the North Koreans to the table or at least talk about talking, no they have to try find something negative.

Trubidy will bash him every chance for no other reason other than he thinks it's what everyone wants to hear, Tubridy will go along with popular opinion regardless of facts.

When I ask people what they have against Trump they can't actually give me a valid reason or some fools say "he hates Women and Gays" WTF ? are you serious, give me examples, and they just can't because they're brainwashed and all they think about when they Hear the name Trump is Trump is bad, it's kind of a disease the Liberals have too or those that like to think they're liberals and their attitude is I'm right you're wrong and that's the end of it move along please.

RTE need to change their pathetic journalism , they'll go along with the Liberal loonie opinions of the USA they'll side with the corrupt Clintons any day because they think it's in their own best interest and their own best interest to bash Trump every single minute of the day.

I presume RTE is going to concentrate more and more on digital content meanwhile they'll advertise it as offering something wonderful.

I agree 100% that the Internet should never be allowed to replace FM or indeed AM.

Everyone doesn't need a high speed internet connection and there are many people that don't even want the internet.

Just think of the amount we depend on the internet already and more and more and more....... huge mistake.

Truth be told RTE wouldn't allow anyone use the old 567 Transmitter, they're that against AM !

Not only that but I can install a set of batteries in my radios and replace them weeks later or sometimes months. Can't do that with a phone, or internet radio.

Having said that my Roberts R100 has an option lithium battery and that's pretty handy. No AM only DAB+ , FM and internet radio. DAB 0 coverage...... I'd rather AM for feck sake.

Another problem is can't take the feck1ng thing out of the house too far or the signal dies, internet radio dies and so stuck with the hideous pop crap on FM, and I can't stand it !

Why do they seem to think everyone wants to listen to pop rubbish all the time on most stations ? The radio is large enough for a decent AM antenna and it would cost feck all to include AM, ridiculous decisions they make, trying to force the way we listen to radio.

Maxi used to play decent Music on Rising time now Shay's music choice isn't the best I have to say and I'm not a fan of him to be honest. But I wonder is the music choice that of the DJ these days anyway ? I don't really think it is.

On the plus for MW it might hopefully encourage a lot more pirates when the commercial stations are gone and have destroyed their transmitters and antenna arrays.

I'd love to buy one, and have an SW station with maybe 3 or 4 transmitters and different antenna arrays so I could beam towards a particular continent.

I don't ask for much do I ?