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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10The answer for this kind of thing is obvious.
Pirate Radio
plain, simple, sweet.
"Don't hate the media,
BECOME the media"
Jello Biafra
This is quite a pity really. I remember being down in NUIG once and being taken into see the studio. It was a novelty to see the news being read straight off Indymedia in front of me.
This is proof if ever there was that once a dissenting voice becomes popular, it is time to shut it down.
Clearly in comparison with the rest of our radio landscape, this was the only real beacon and the fear was that it would expose the facade of so called free speech on them.
Nope it's alright for a few individualls to see through the system, but when the potential is there for thousands and possibly tens of thousands then it's time to pull the plug. I mean it could spread like wildfire and people might start waking up and demanding control over the own lives and communities.
It's kinda of why pirate radio also was okay for a while because they didn't say too much except play music, but as the 90s arrived and the copyright boys realized they were loosing potential revenue, then they had to go too.
It would be interesting to know the exact background/rationale for closing the station.
have you links to any archived radio shows, did you put any on indymedia radio?
were trying to build up the radical radio network, maybe some of you will be down for seomra spraoi night this fri?
the RADICAL radio network
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=71892
Seomra Spraoi collective invites you to a night of play, art, discussion, film, food, disco
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=71888
Could someone from Flirt FM post the reasons behind the axing of the show? Or could the original poster tell us why they feel a community radio station would axe a popular talk show. Under BCI rules, community stations have to produce a lot more talk-radio than commercial or state broadcasters- this is the most difficult type of programme to resource and source so i know if a show was dropped it must be for some pretty serious reason or set of reasons.
More information please???
After beiong an award winning station year after year.
Freedom of speech and freedom of expression is a right, guaranteed under the constitution.................until it becomes effective. Galway radio must have been telling some truth, they describe as 'sensitive'.
Sorry Paul,
but North West was a commercial station, set up to make money for its owners, which it did very effectively, perhaps you should go and ask them why after so many years on air their studios were still 100% inaccessible to wheelchair users???
Flirt FM is a community station and is bound to operate not only within the rules set down by the BCI but also within the guidelines of the AMARC charter which sets down the ethos of community stations all over the planet.
I too would like to know why this programming decision was made, but don't confuse this issue with one that relates to the tendering process for a commercial licence.
The cancellation of the show was alledgedly due to failure to meet talk/music content.. And whilst there may be an element of truth in this the fact remains that most of the programming in the station falls short of the demands. In fact the Earth Show was the only show broadcasting Gaeilge for manys the week and if one researches the stations overall output there is very little if any Gaeilge output. Indeed many Earth shows were composed entirely of speech such was the nature of many of the interviewees. Also without naming names I will state that there were many radio programmes that were left abandoned for weeks at a time and boring repeats were used to 'fill-the-gap'. To the best of my Knowledge very little disiplenary action was taken and very rarely would a broadcaster be informed through email that their show had been cancelled due to talk/music content.
more to follow........
if one wants another point of view feel free to ring them up at 091-750445.
I'm very sorry to hear that Galway Community Radio has ceased broadcasting. I am a volunteer at Cavan Community Radio and the people I met there initially had a very high code of ethics regarding community radio. It's for everyone and is inclusive - Furthermore it connects communities all over the county and gives THEM a voice. I, however see strange elements infiltrating our communities and they bring a hidden agenda... They have weird philosophies and while appearing to want to empower people they actually tie them in with THEIR plans.