9 groups propose Christian stations in Ireland

June 4th, 2005 | by aobaoill |

You’ve got tot hand it to the wanna-be Christian broadcasters in Ireland. They’re persistent. By my count fully 9 of the expressions of interest in operating new commercial radio services in Ireland were for Christian operations – from United Christian Broadcaster who are interested in running national services on both AM and FM to Radio Maria Ireland Ltd. (which has an address at the Morning Star hostel operated by the Legion of Mary in Dublin). My local ecumenical Christian group, Foundation In Christ Ministeries, which applied for a community station in Galway earlier this year is back too, again looking for a station to cover Galway City and County. I wonder if they’ve addressed the flaws I identified in their earlier proposal (mainly that their funding comes, in the main, from a US church group, giving effective control of the station to a group of whom the BCI can have no oversight).

  1. 2 Responses to “9 groups propose Christian stations in Ireland”

  2. By redjade on Jun 5, 2005 | Reply

    would you (please) also blog this stuff on indymedia.ie – we need this kind of analysis and media watching.
    Would make a great feature as well.
    cheers

  3. By Andrew Ó Baoill on Jun 10, 2005 | Reply

    Thanks for the pointer. I won’t cross-post this, but I may post a general guide to the issue to Indymedia shortly.

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