Archive for the ‘Public Service Media’ Category
Monday, August 11th, 2008
As another follow-up - this time to my post on commercial DTV in Ireland - the plans for the publicly-operated multiplex have been announced. With transmissions expected from Autumn 2009 (and the analogue signals to be switched off by 2012), the roll-out will be phased in over time - 80% ...
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
One of my colleagues in the ICR, Andrew Kennis, has published an overview of the Venezuelan media system at Narconews. He starts with an analysis of US coverage, such as of the recent decision not to renew the license of one of the independent commercial stations, and moves on to ...
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Friday, February 15th, 2008
I've discussed the pending elimination of medium wave broadcasts a number of times here. If you're interested in contacting RTÉ to comment on the decision, their Information Office is the most readily available email address you can use.
I've already contacted RTÉ, and include the text of my email below.
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Monday, February 11th, 2008
The Éan (Emigrant Advice Network) blog has compiled a list of coverage of RTÉ's decision to cease broadcasts on Medium Wave. In my own piece I noted that while RTÉ touted the fact that it would continue service on Long Wave:LW is not present on most domestic receivers at this stage, so it will ...
Posted in Citizenship, migration, race, and ethnicity, Digital Audio, Public Service Media | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
Reports over the past few days that RTÉ is to drop its medium-wave broadcasts from March. In many senses it's not surprising, given that FM has been the dominant band in Ireland, particularly since the decision to license local stations (almost) exclusively on FM (and one can look previously to ...
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
The EU continues its slow assault on public service broadcasting (framed as preventing 'unfair' subvention that might interfere with commercial media operations) with a new consultation process into state aid and public broadcasting. The consultation runs until 10th March, 2008, and responses can be made online.
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Monday, November 12th, 2007
The 'he said/she said' model of journalism is frequently problematic, reducing complex issues to two 'sides' and often unduly elevating a marginal or rogue opinion to parity with broad informed consensus. Sometimes, however, it can be rather helpful, and I think that this example from the BBC shows that in action. ...
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Monday, September 17th, 2007
I recently got a mail calling for proposals for a symposium on "Media | Literacy | Education" to take place 3rd November in Dublin. Proposals are due by 28th September:We are specifically looking for people to contribute to A) parallel breakout sessions and B) general assembly presentations.
The facilitated parallel breakout sessions ...
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Monday, September 10th, 2007
Interesting news from Enda O'Kane, letting me know of some new DRM tests being conducted by RTE on the 252kHz wavelength:This broadcast will also be available at the IFA Show Amsterdam and is part of a 24hr trial. RTE has carried out digital trials over the past month on Longwave 252 kHz.These ...
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Friday, September 7th, 2007
It's always interesting to consider the difference in scale between the costs of radio and television programming. Today the BCI announced €8.7m in funding for television programming, spread across 54 projects (out of 121 applications). With over €150k on average being provided for each project, one of the figures released by ...
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