BANDSCAN THREAD

It's back on now. Some sort of FM maintenance maybe.

I imagine the person who started the rumour of raids must be laughing into their coffee at how quiet the FM band is, and has been for the past week or two. Comreg couldn't have done a better job.

tiswasfan wrote: »

I imagine the person who started the rumour of raids must be laughing into their coffee at how quiet the FM band is, and has been for the past week or two. Comreg couldn't have done a better job.

?? - once we went into phase 3 of reopening Comreg where back in action. It was apparent to all that 24 hour a day main steam broadcasting would not be continuing not to mention the financial losses being faced by the legals with the collapse in advertising.
Comreg don't rely on rumours and stations don't react to posters on boards.ie - no offence. Raids / legal letters etc is how Comreg operate.

In the real world, pirate operators react to rumours hence the sudden disappearance of most stations (weekdays and weekend). I don't give a sh!te about how comreg operates the result is the same.

Pirate FM, Easy Radio and Club FM are all off FM for over two weeks now.

Hot FM have a previous history with Comreg yet have been able to continue broadcasting non-stop 24/7 (apart from one outage). There have been up to 10 adverts for small businesses running on the station.

radioguru02

JDxtra wrote: »

Pirate FM, Easy Radio and Club FM are all off FM for over two weeks now.

Hot FM have a previous history with Comreg yet have been able to continue broadcasting non-stop 24/7 (apart from one outage). There have been up to 10 adverts for small businesses running on the station.

Heard it this morning, plenty of ads
Certainly not the VO’s I would’ve chosen, but whatever

Declan A Walsh

JDxtra wrote: »

Pirate FM, Easy Radio and Club FM are all off FM for over two weeks now.

Hot FM have a previous history with Comreg yet have been able to continue broadcasting non-stop 24/7 (apart from one outage). There have been up to 10 adverts for small businesses running on the station.

Neither Retro FM or that station on 94.3, sometimes referred to as All 80s, have been on over the last couple of weekends either.

It's interesting how some businesses are advertising on pirates again. I think they could be heavily penalised for doing so.

pirateradiohed wrote: »

Heard it this morning, plenty of ads
Certainly not the VO’s I would’ve chosen, but whatever

Here's a recording. Hot FM have 12 different adverts running at the moment (run time = 5:41).

https://we.tl/t-Qdi1iaBOLi

end of the road

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

Neither Retro FM or that station on 94.3, sometimes referred to as All 80s, have been on over the last couple of weekends either.

It's interesting how some businesses are advertising on pirates again. I think they could be heavily penalised for doing so.

mostely seem to be small businesses, probably unlikely to be able to afford the rates legals charge.

Whoever has just plopped themselves on 99.5 should buy an FM radio to check who is already using the frequency a while now. DIXONs have a wide range of suitable radios I believe.

end of the road wrote: »

mostely seem to be small businesses, probably unlikely to be able to afford the rates legals charge.

Forgot to add that Comreg will also write to advertisers and advise of the substantial penalties they face for advertising on a pirate station.

Dance music has appeared on 99.5 this afternoon across Dublin

Declan A Walsh

Infoanon wrote: »

Dance music has appeared on 99.5 this afternoon across Dublin

Fresh FM, perhaps?

end of the road wrote: »

mostely seem to be small businesses, probably unlikely to be able to afford the rates legals charge.

Forgot to add that Comreg will also write to advertisers and advise of the substantial penalties they face for advertising on a pirate station.

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

Fresh FM, perhaps?

Not sure. Audio is mono with no RDS currently and no station IDs (that I heard anyways).

TheBMG

tiswasfan wrote: »

Whoever has just plopped themselves on 99.5 should buy an FM radio to check who is already using the frequency a while now. DIXONs have a wide range of suitable radios I believe.

I suspect this is probably an attempt to hold the frequency for one of Dublins oldies stations.

Very strong carrier now on 99.5. I presume the dance station is underneath it, but it is wiped out.

Update: carrier off now, back to the dance station. Fun and games.

The strong carrier on 99.5 now has the RDS "ENERGY" and radio text that says "ENERGY POWER AM".

Dipole Keith

JDxtra wrote: »

Very strong carrier now on 99.5. I presume the dance station is underneath it, but it is wiped out.

Update: carrier off now, back to the dance station. Fun and games.

The blank carrier on 99.5 is Energy Power Am that use that frequency at the weekend, They’ve started to play music now, the dance station is winning the battle in the Phoenix park, put it this way I can work out what both stations are playing.

No sign of the dance station driving through Dundrum and Sandyford just mellow music and ENERGY on the radio display.

Rock Solid

99.5 Energy Am very strong in Tallaght area, much stronger than before, must be a different site, sounding well. A welcome change from what was on 99.5 all these years.

Unfortunately we have stupid going on - despite an abundance of pirate frequencies an Unid Dance station has appeared on a frequency in use 99.5 leaving an audio mess near the city centre / Kimmage / Rathfarnham / Woodtown