November 2018 – Wireless Flirt

November 19, 2018September 1, 2019

‘You’re playing senior hurling now!’ In the deep end at Century Radio

Century Radio – 100.3 in Dublin and various FM, 1143 AM in Dublin and Cork

I heard the launch of Century Radio on September 4^th 1989 on a tinny transistor in my grandmother’s house in Dublin. After all the …

November 5, 2018August 18, 2019

Programme #24 (November 2018)

It’s been a big month for pirate radio history in Ireland. We report on the donation of the Irish Pirate Radio Archive to DCU and also bring you a flavour of the pirate radio meet-up in Dublin, where we recorded …

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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.