This Week In Radio 29/5/2021

Lots happens in the radio industry each week so hears a summery of the week we just enjoyed.

Hears what happened

The owner of stations like FM104 in Dublin and 96fm in Cork have confirmed a €7 million loss in there latest accounts. Wireless Group also gave information on some of there costs as well as other interesting business insights.

Read the story here on the Irish times

The brand new 2fm breakfast starts Monday and who needs one host when you can have three? Doireann Garrihy will be joined by Donncha O’Callaghan and Carl Mullan on the all new show airing each morning on 2FM. Best of luck to you all from Radio Land

Read the story on RTÉ

IMRO Awards entries have opened for 2021. If your interested in applying we wish you good luck. It isn’t yet clear if the awards are in person so we will need to just wait and see.

Read the story on Radio Today

🚨Bonus Story🚨

Usually we stick to three Irish radio stories but this week heart in the UK did something interesting and I want your thoughts. Basically they gave away ÂŁ1 million in a competition on there breakfast show. Do you think Irish stations should have more competitions to give away cash? Or do we do it enough/too much already? Check out our poll on Instagram.

Check out our Instagram story

And that is the summery for this week. Come back to radio land next week for more radio newsđź“»