This Week in Radio 24/10/20

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

Here’s what happened

Halloween fm is back as scary as ever. The station is on air for 10 days bringing the music monster back to Ireland👻 you can listen in the Christmas fm app

Listen here

In happy news 2fm presenter Carl Mullen got engaged this week. He posted the news on Instagram and it gives us a bit of happiness that we all need. Congratulations to Carl and Aisling

Read the story on RSVP

And finally this week Spotify launched a breakfast show. Imagine a voice tracked playlist designed around your music taste and your imagining this. All music and links can be skipped of course.

Read the story here.

And that is the summery for this weak. Come back to radio land next week for more radio news📻

This Week In Radio 17/10/2020

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

Here’s what happened

Sunday roast on Today FM Has come to an end. The show presenter MARIO Rosenstock is however staying with the station to continue his work on Gift Grub..

Read the full story on Radio Today

Halloween FM is on its way back for 2020! The station can now be heard testing in the Christmas FM app. The station will be back on air from the 22nd.

Ghosts might get you if you click here👻

And finally this week the BAI have launched a public consultation on there new strategy statement. For all the details here the BAI website is the place to go. There’s an artical explaining it all in the News section.

Visit the BAI website

And that is the summery for this weak. Come back to radio land next week for more radio news📻

This Week In Radio 10/09/2020

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

Here’s what happened

Student radio station Juice FM returned to the air in cork on Thursday with shows from 8am through until 9pm.

Listen to juice and check out the schedule on the Juice website.

Iradio has a new jingle package now on air thanks to Wisebuddah. The station got the new jingles to celebrate there new BAI broadcast licence.

Read the full story on Radio Today

And finally there was a wholesome moment on Corks Red FM this week. I could explain but it’s best if you go see for yourself.

Just click and see

And that is the summery for this weak. Come back to radio land next week for more radio news📻

This week in radio, IMRO Awards edition

Lots happens in the radio industry every week but last night was IMRO night so I’m changing up the intro.😂

Here’s how it all went down

Those who applied got a very nice email with a link to view the stream and with it came some small bits of handy info. Test card at 7:00pm and show start at 7:30pm. Excitement could now begin
The time arrived and we all had a bit of a moment when the test card didn’t show up on time, but we didn’t have long to wait and when that test card appeared you could hear an Audible sigh of relief in every radio station in the country.
Then show time came and any notion I had of being able to tweet live info as the event unfolded went out the window. The set was bright and colourful. It honestly looked amazing.
It was now time for the opening monologue which was absolutely fantastic. Radio joke after radio joke made every station CEO a bit nervous. It was really brilliant.
the President popped in to say hello.
And then just as we got to the speach from the chair of IMRO, the sound died. Everyone including us then made the same comment about sound dying at a radio event and a funny sense of pride was felt by all.
The super team at IMRO got things sorted quick though and after a fewspeeches we went straight into the award giving.
Now I can’t possibly summarise every award here but the fine people at Radio Today have done that so click here to read that.
We flew through the awards and sprinkled amungst them we got treated to some guest appearances and musical performances. Bosco and Gavin James were there for example. It really was great seeing such appreciation for radio.
And before we knew it we were coming to the end. Everyone had got there awards, Gavin James had rushed off to the Late Late show and a good time was had by all.

Congratulations to all the winners and thank you to everyone involved in making last night happen.

On a personal note, I remember being about 14 or 15 and following the then PPI Awards with excitement. Now I’m 19, studying radio broadcasting and I got the pleasure of watching the event and talking about it here on Radio Land. Radio is still cool and it does still inspire so to all the radio people that read this I just want to say thank you and keep doing what your doing.

And that is the summery for this weak. Come back to radio land next week for more radio news📻

This week in radio 26/8/2020

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

Here’s what happened

It emerged this week that apple bought Scout FM, a company turning podcasts into radio station like feeds. Apple are showing a lot of interest in radio lately having recently launched new stations.

Read the full story on Bloomberg

Flirt FM in Galway are hosting a 25 hour broadcast marathon on Monday to celebrate 25 years on air. Best of luck to everyone involved.

Read the story on Radio Today

And finally this week producer Helena O’Toole is leaving the Niall Boylan show on classic hits and is moving to produce Newstalk Breakfast. Aisling lynch is taking up Helena’s classic hits role. Best of luck to you both.

Aisling Lynch becomes senior producer at classic hits

Helena moving to Newstalk breakfast.

And that is the summery for this weak. Come back to radio land next week for more radio news📻