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After nearly 70 episodes, the time has come to hang up the headphones and bring Wireless on Flirt FM to an end. In this final episode, we talk to Liz Greene of Northumbria University about …
May 1, 2023
59 min
RTÉ long wave facility pictured in 2018 (photo by John Walsh).
On April 1st 2023, RTÉ announced the closure of the long wave service of Radio 1 on 252 kHz. Based in Clarkestown in Co. Meath, the transmitter designed …
Apr 3, 2023
21 min
Independent audio documentary maker Orla Higgins.
Orla Higgins is an award-winning documentary maker and independent audio producer from Galway. Her work has aired on the Documentary on One series on RTÉ Radio as well as on the BBC World Service …
Mar 13, 2023
19 min
Alternative Eye is supported by the College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies, University of Galway and Flirt FM
In the March 2023 edition of Wireless, we go behind the scenes in the world of audio documentary with independent …
Mar 10, 2023
59 min
Tom Felle, head of Journalism and Communication at the University of Galway
Ireland’s new media commission, Coimisiún na Meán, is currently being established following the publication last year of a report on the future of media and the enactment of …
Feb 20, 2023
20 min
In late December 2022, a new temporary radio station called Classic Hits 80s took to the airwaves in Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Clare and Galway. The station, which broadcast for a month under a 30-day licence, was the first ‘brand extension’ …
Feb 15, 2023
13 min
Outside broadcast by KWLP, a station for the Hualapai nation in Arizona (photo courtesy KWLP).
Dr Katie Moylan is an Associate Professor in the School of Media Communication and Sociology at the University of Leicester and a researcher into US …
Feb 13, 2023
22 min
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In the February 2023 edition of Wireless on Flirt FM, Tom Felle of the University of Galway discusses the challenges facing the Ireland’s new media commission, Coimisiún na Meán. Kevin Branigan, CEO of …
Feb 6, 2023
59 min
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In the January 2023 edition of Wireless on Flirt FM, we look back at highlights of the show from 2022. Harry Browne of TU Dublin reviews the report of the Future of Media Commision and …
Jan 9, 2023
1 hr
In the November edition of Wireless on Flirt FM, a review of this year’s CRAOL Féile of community media held in Galway, the theme of which was inclusion. Jamie Medhurst of Aberystwyth University analyses a century of broadcasting in Wales …
Nov 6, 2022
57 min