Programme #45 (September 2020)

Photo courtesy of Eoin O’Hagan, Scariff Bay Community Radio

Wireless on Flirt FM is back for its 5^th series. The September edition contains an interview with broadcast historian Eddie Bohan on the large number of unlicensed transmitters operated by the Irish Catholic Church. We meet Jim Collins and Eoin O’Hagan of Scariff Bay Community Radio in east Clare, which recently also celebrated its 5^th birthday. And we talk to Dublin community station NEAR FM on the occasion of its 25^th anniversary.

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Hello and welcome to Wireless, an award-winning programme about media, radio and audio in Ireland and abroad. The show is broadcast from 3-4pm on the first Monday of every month on community station Flirt FM in Galway, is heard on many other community radio stations across Ireland and is also available wherever you get your podcasts.

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.