September 2018 – Wireless Flirt

September 24, 2018August 31, 2019

Into the licensed era: Horizon Radio in Bray

By the autumn of 1989 I was pretty despondent about radio, having filled my teenage summers with pirate bliss only to see it snuffed out when the sector was finally regulated. There were a lot of unemployed former pirates in …

September 3, 2018August 18, 2019

Programme #22 (September 2018)

On the first programme of series 3 of Wireless on Flirt FM we have a distinctively pirate theme. Broadcast historian Eddie Bohan tells us about his travelling pirate radio exhibition currently running in Galway and Liam Byrnediscusses the history …

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Since 2016, Wireless has been the only regular radio show in Ireland to discuss media, audio and radio in depth. We have covered all aspects of this fast-changing landscape including broadcasting history, digital and social media, community media, specialist services and platforms, media and diversity, pirate radio, sound studies and the development and regulation of future media.