podcasting news ireland

keying up for jesus

2007-07-19T03:13:00.000+01:00

On twitter recently I blogged "listening to 27.825 27.815 27.665 27.626 27.603 27.891mhz 9am mass dublin followed by rosary" I have now logged 12 different churches in the Dublin area with masses funerals and christenings.

Now news reaches us that two religious services are to start next year on broadcast radio frequencies and DVB digital satellite.

The Broadcasting Commission of Ireland (BCI) has signed a ten year contract with United Christian Broadcasters (Ireland) Limited for the provision of a satellite radio service, which will be available on the Sky digital platform in Ireland and the UK.

UCB Ireland will be a dedicated Christian radio service which will give an Irish perspective of news, issues and life in Ireland. Programmes will have an interdenominational focus and the primary target audience will be 25-55 year olds. The service will broadcast 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, from January 2008.

O'Briens Communicorp gets Today FM

2007-07-16T10:32:00.000+01:00

UK media group Emap plc has agreed the sale of its Republic of Ireland radio stations to Communicorp Group Ltd, a leading Irish and European radio group, on a debt free, cash free basis, for a cash consideration of 200m euros (approximately £135m). The sale is conditional upon obtaining certain necessary regulatory clearances which are expected to be obtained in the second half of our financial year.

Emap’s Republic of Ireland radio business comprises Today FM, FM104 and Highland Radio. Emap acquired these stations with Scottish Radio Holdings (SRH) in 2005. Communicorp Group Ltd already owns Newstalk 106, as well as Dublin stations 98FM and Spin 1038.

bhg says now the two main Dublin stations and the national independent station are owned by Communicorp

Straight Talking Bank at No 1 with Talking Voices

2007-07-13T19:13:00.000+01:00

first posted on Talking Voices blog

The TalkingVoices.com produced podcast for Rabobank [web] has entered at number one in the Irish iTunes Business chart. First recorded in February 2007, a second series was commissioned and recorded in May 2007, the episodes of which will be released between July and December.

“It has been an interesting first venture into podcasting for the bank and I’m sure it’s a channel we will continue to grow” commented Martin O’Leary of Rabobank.

In Ireland Talking Voices has also recently completed podcasts for Enterprise Ireland eBusiness Unit [iTunes : Web] and the Irish Internet Associations annual conference.

RTE to launch six new digital radio channels on trial

2007-06-13T15:05:00.000+01:00

first seen here first published here

RTE to launch trial station on DAB.
We ask, are these services not going to co exist online? Whats the budget for these stations. What is the likelihood that they will exist beyond the trial.? where is the interactive dimension to this?

Will this trail go the way of RTE community radio and RTE local radio? I believe radio one needs an opt out service on digital but this could carry the MW/LW/Digital Europe feed. 2FM could do with a youthful current affairs opt out but a Classic Hits station RTE Gold, where is the need for that? Local radio can do this, sounds like an all day Late Date.. Digital Sport will be popular more UK & Irish horse racing needs coverage, I wanted to see more of this on the renewed LW service but alas its just a relay of FM for most of the week.

100 million iPods sold

2007-04-11T11:06:00.000+01:00

There a .8 billion radios in the states thats a fact It's a thing we can't deny.

Apple has sold its 100 millionth iPod, five years and five months since the music players first went on sale in November 2001. By comparison, it took Sony 14 years to sell 100m iPods Walkmans, of course. The now ubiquitous players have a 74% share of the MP3 player market in the US, but sales are lower outside the country with just a 50% share in Japan and 60% in Australia. The iTunes store has sold 2.5bn songs to date - a curiously low 25 songs per iPod. (Wall Street Journal via Guardian Organ Grinder)

radio 4 moves to the movies

2007-04-11T01:25:00.000+01:00

radio is staggering but at least its still moving. we read in the Guardian [free sub] that Radio 4 (BBC) is making a 90 minute movie to sit along side two 45 minute audio pieces. The film is to be made by director Conor Lennon.

Mr Lennon said the project aimed to invert the relationship between sound and vision and provide a "vision track" to the spoken material.

When it is broadcast, Radio 4 will have a red button service for digital TV transmission enabling viewers to see the visual material, the first time the station has shown a feature-style film to accompany spoken material.

"Radio is very excited about introducing visual material because of new technology," Mr Lennon said. "In Korea they are developing Eye River radio sets which can transmit images to accompany the sound and Radio 4 wants to be a part of this multiplatform revolution.

bhg says -- did they mean iRiver ? DRM will have images too! and DRM+ will have mobile TV "radio - i get the picture"

Virgin Console Move

2007-04-10T18:26:00.000+01:00

Virgin radio moves to the wii & ps3 more at [ahn] this follows BBC Radio 1 xtra which is in some playstation games.

bhg says - If Mohammed will not go to the mountain, the mountain must come to Mohammed - radio is on the move.

Nob Nation podcast from rté

2007-04-04T03:09:00.000+01:00

added 30/03/2007 [xml]

my favourite Nob Nation - Dail Quiz Show

EMI DRM & Podcasting

2007-04-03T20:58:00.000+01:00

[oops EMI got chipmunked]

I have been seeking the podcast angle in the EMI Apple DRM removal story.

there isn't one. unless you proclaim what is good for the goose is good for the gander. EMI made a podcast, put licenced music that they own in it and released it without DRM to the world. spot on dude's about time.

So what if others linked to this podcast sent audio comments with mash ups of the podcast and did real world not second life things to this web 2.0 piece of audio. Would that be ok with EMI. ? I have put the EMI podcast here.
http://www.briangreene.com/bhg/2007/emi-podcast-on-drm-removal/

Indie music global web2.0 licence

2007-03-08T11:31:00.000Z

Global Music New Media Licensing Agency Merlin Launches at Midem With Snocap Deal
from www.musicindie.com ezine (today)

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The agreement will enable repertoire from potentially thousands of independent labels across the world to be put into Snocap’s retail MyStore initiative, which enables music to be downloaded from web sites across the world, including via their partnership with MySpace, the world’s number one social networking site.

Caldas explains: “The Snocap deal is a perfect example of the value that Merlin brings to its members and to new music services, by creating an easy one-stop mechanism for both to do business”. More high profile deals will follow, giving independents across the world access to digital opportunities and income streams that were only available to the majors previously.
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Google to fuel Podcasting Ad Revenue Growth

2007-02-15T16:37:00.000Z

According to a couple of articles I scanned today Ad Revenue from Podcasting is predicted to really grow and the growth may be pushed by Google. According to a report to be released by eMarketer this week podcasting advertising will quintuple over the next five years from $80 million in 2006 to $400 million in 2011. This is small compared to the interactive advertising and the traditional advertising markets (and the figures probably relate to the US) but it does bode well for the podcasting production and advertising markets.

Mediaweek have reported that eMarketer analyst James Belcher is predicting that Google will fuel much of the growth. He expects that by 2008 Google will have developed a version of AdSense that can be used with podcasts, allowing podcasters to add advertising to their casts.
Media week says:

Despite the small base of users, podcasting represents an attractive medium, given its targeting, its low cost and its obsessive/passionate user base, says the report. “These people constitute an excellent media target,” Belcher said. “It’s a self-selecting medium. These people are into it, and they’re really into it.”

Interesting one to watch and see what happens when podcasting gets googled.

netvibes warms to podcasts

2007-02-14T00:04:00.000Z

listening to podcasts just got easier. i scan 55 rss feeds quickly in Netvibes.com and it used to allow you follow enclosure links to dock into its own flash player. Well it still does that but now it shows items/posts with enclosures in the initial panel view. The icons are links to play or download the media.

netvibes is a feature rich web based rss reader / feed manager; supports OPML in/out and has tabs also!

stop the lights - RTÉ take on web 2.0

2007-02-12T06:44:00.000Z

RTÉ is to digitise its entire archive and is looking into featuring user-generated content on its website, siliconrepublic.com reports

when RTÉ press released on their podcasting output in Dec 2006 SR asked me for a comment.

Brian Greene, head of the podcasting representative body in Ireland and winner of the Irish Internet Association’s podcaster of the year award, said RTÉ’s adoption of the medium was a positive development. “The entire independent sector is still larger than the RTÉ output, but the fact that they’re doing more podcasting is good,” he said.

Greene pointed out that the broadcaster is sitting on decades’ worth of material that could be of interest to listeners if it was made available via podcast. “Let’s see some older archives, original music and more diverse programming,” he suggested.

todays full story from Silicon Republic and BHG's Dec20 post

Balcony TV unplugged by YouTube

2007-02-12T06:05:00.000Z

YouTube has deleted the account of Balcony TV. The vidcasters 220+ videos are off line and Balcony TV are not sure why. breaking details at BalconyTV.com
in a statement there Stephen O'Regan says

BALCONY TV REMOVED FROM YOUTUBE!!!
ALL VIDEOS REMOVED
Its true we are very sorry to say. We have just checked the BalconyTV YouTube account and it seems all our videos have been removed and our account has been disabled. The first we sensed of this was a couple of weeks ago when the Dirty 9s video was removed for apparent copyright reasons. The same happened with Super Jimenez and Barry McCabe the following week.
We are guessing that all videos will now be inactive on various groups MySpaces...we are very sorry about this.
For most acts we still have the raw footage of performances...but alas we have lost a few along the way due to technical mishaps.
This is a shock to us as it may be to you.
Watch this space...and keep reading the BalconyTV Blog for updates.

Blooming eck.

more huffing and puffing by me about this on my personal blog

Irish Podcasting comes out on top at this years Digital Media Awards

2007-02-03T15:39:00.000Z

A pioneering Irish-language project won the top award last night at the Digital Media Awards held in Dublin’s Burlington Hotel.

The Irish-language podcast An tImeall won the award for the Best Independent Podcast, and then went on to receive the Grand Prix for the top marks received among the 22 category winners.

Graeme Slattery, Head of Music at 3 Mobile, presented one of the two awards to Conn Ó Muíneacháin from County Clare based company Edgecast Media. Conn launched An tImeall in 2005. It was the first podcast in the Irish language.

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Third in the Grand Prix was WLR FM who also won best Commercial Radio Podcasting award on the night.

Brian Greene, Partner, doop.ie presented the award to Roddie Cleere & Tim Hasset of Waterford Local Radio.

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[disclaimer: i was a judge for the DMA's 2007 and yes that is me pictured above]

[update] Video Bloggers/Podcaster/Youtubers BALCONY TV also took a gong for best music site.

podcasting inclined birds

2007-01-26T04:27:00.000Z

Broadband TV News writes

In a remarkable announcement, the satellite operator SES, European Space Agency ESA and German avionics research institute DLR have claimed there is such a thing as spent Ku-band satellites sitting idle in orbit, without any use or purpose. So why not use them to offer mobile radio services to cars for ‘many more years’?

what a wonderful use of junk space hardware - i wish

and in the words of Billy Bragg "I saw two shooting stars last night I wished on them but they were only satellites. It's wrong to wish on space hardware. I wish, I wish, I wish you'd care"

Euronews No Comment goes podcast

2007-01-15T17:28:00.000Z

No Comment: Images speak for themselves: the most striking pictures from around the world, unedited, with original sound: draw your own conclusion. Now available as a podcast.

	iTunes: Click on to launch the podcast feed with Apple iTunes software (must be installed in your computer - this option works only with Internet Explorer 7 andMozilla Firefox). You can also search EuroNews with iTunes search engine.
	Subscribe: If you have another web browser or podcast software installed other than iTunes on your computer, click on.
	URL: If you want to subscribe manually to our podcasts, click on, then copy the URL and paste it into your podcast software.

RTÉ RADIO NOW IRELAND’S LEADING PODCASTER

2006-12-14T17:25:00.000Z

[this release written about and covered in silicon republic & ENN & briangreene.com]

RTÉ Radio announced today (13 December) that it publishes 30 podcasts, involving over 60 hours of programming, each week - more than any other Irish provider and many are regular entries in the Irish Top 30 podcasts chart.

The Tubridy Show, Playback and Conversations with Eamon Dunphy have all charted on Apple’s i-Tunes Irish site since they were first made available in October of this year. Other entries include the daily Morning Ireland compilation and the award-winning Documentary on One series.

Speaking about the podcasts, Paul Russell of RTÉ Radio’s New Media Unit says,

"RTÉ Radio has increased its podcast output to meet the needs of audiences who can’t always be around when programmes are first aired on the radio. The popular download format gives listeners the opportunity to subscribe to regular programme selections and listen to them on their computer or audio player whenever they want."

RTÉ Radio’s podcasts cover numerous genres of programming including news, sport, arts, education and science so there is something for all tastes. From January, RTÉ Radio plans to podcast Macbeth in Monaghan, a series designed as a study aid for Leaving Cert students, and the broadcaster will also podcast several RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta programmes which will vastly increase the amount of Irish language programming available.

All of RTÉ Radio’s podcasts are available from RTÉ’s award-winning website, RTÉ.ie and with so many popular new podcasts, Apple i-Tunes has given RTÉ Radio 1 its own page on the i-Tunes site.

The growth in podcasts is one element of RTÉ Radio’s move into the digital age. Another is the news that RTÉ’s four fm services, RTÉ Radio 1, RTÉ 2fm, RTÉ lyric fm and RTÉ Raidio Na Gaeltachta are now being aired in the Greater Dublin and the north east areas on the Digital Radio format known as DAB or Digital Audio Broadcasting.

Date: 13 December 2006

For the full index of RTÉ radio podcasts visit www.RTE.ie/radio1/podcast/

To visit the RTÉ podcast page on i-Tunes, go to the i-Tunes store and look for RTÉ through the search engine

For more information on digital radio visit www.RTE.ie/radio/dab.html

For further information or interviews please contact: Sarah Martin, RTÉ Radio Press Office, Tel: 01 208 2312 / 087 750 1850, Email: sarah.martin@rte.ie
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thanks to cork-host for the url edit advice /bhg ina shui/

Irish Rugby Radio Podcast

2006-11-02T12:37:00.000Z

[web] [mp3:promo] Irish Rugby Radio, in association with i-mode, exclusive to O2, will be broadcasting soon on IrishRugby.ie, and will include feature interviews with both Eddie O'Sullivan and Brian O'Driscoll. - from the makers of the toyota rugby podcast 'total munster' at ballywiremedia.com.

JNLR reveals shift to Podcasts

2006-09-23T12:07:00.000+01:00

[Reg Req] [Link] Irish Indo reported September 7th... In Dublin, iPod ownership grew 95pc in the April to June period, compared with the same three months of 2005, with 37pc of under-35s in the city owning one. In Cork, iPod ownership surged 121pc, and 31pc of the population own them.

... these new technologies provided opportunities for radio stations and other media, giving rock station Phantom FM as an example of a broadcaster exploiting podcasting.
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the Phantom returns Halloween October 31st 2006 on 105.2FM & online currently. be scared.

RTÉ audience Council on podcasting

2006-09-23T10:55:00.000+01:00

To the RTÉ Audience Council on june 7th 2006
Podcasts of Radio Programmes

[link] JP Coakley gave a very interesting presentation on podcasts, including a demonstration, as well as other developments which are taking place. There are many audio podcasts available from RTÉ Radio and a video podcast (Crap Rap) has begun recently – however, it was pointed out that bandwidth can be expensive for the broadcaster and that video podcasts use a great deal of bandwidth. Also, a trial is currently underway to send RTÉ 1 and RTÉ 2 TV live to mobile phones. The best way forward is to move FM into the digital age via DAB as well as developing our online offering. Podcasting still has only a very small number of users but it is not expensive to produce if it is recycled content which has already been generated for radio and television. The question of rights was raised and it was confirmed that rights organisations, record companies etc are anxious to protect their rights.
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yes its early days for podcasts but must they only be recycled non music programmes? the BBC is making video and audio podcasts specially for download.YouTube(verb) the TV we pay for with our licence fee (see Late Late Show on YouTube) , the kids will see it on the Bebo flash box TV.

Which mobile operator is streaming RTE TV ? is it DVB-H? does it add up to the audience council quality mark of being "Free To Air"?

Bandwidth is not as expensive as electricity like the €1M+ it costs to power 252LW

DAB is old hat technology invented in 1987 (19 years ago) DAB is sub quality codec cul-de-sac RTE should run away from. Have RTE looked at DRM for FM? there are of 600 HD radio stations on air now in the USA in the MW/FM bands.

extra: a recent podcast of mine dealing with DRM radio

Radio Bebo anseo agaibh

2006-09-22T00:44:00.000+01:00

Radio listeners across Ireland will join internet users worldwide next Monday, as they tune in to the first episode of a new series focusing on the social aspects of the internet.

It’s the first time an Irish radio series has been devoted exclusively to the phenomenon of “online social networking”, of which the best known example in recent months has been Bebo. What’s more: all 59 episodes of the show will be in Irish.

The programme is called An Líonra Sóisialta, which translates to The Social Network. It will broadcast a 12 minute episode each day for 12 weeks.

So far, 7 Irish radio stations have confirmed that they will broadcast the show and its producer believes several more will join over the next few weeks as the series gathers steam.

Thanks to the internet, however, the show will be available to anyone who wants to hear it, anywhere in the world. An Líonra Sóisialta will also be a “podcast” – a downloadable MP3 sound file that users can listen to on their PC, or copy to a mobile device to enjoy at their convenience.

The new series is the brainchild of independent producer Conn Ó Muíneacháin from Ennis, County Clare. After a successful career in local radio, he gave up broadcasting for the computer industry. 10 years later, he sees the two fields converging as technology has put the media into the hands of anyone who has access to the internet.

Conn will co-present the show with Fiona Ní Chéirín, a native of An Spidéal, Co. Galway, and a recent graduate of the multimedia degree programme at Tipperary Institute.

The series has been provisionally approved for funding under the “Sound and Vision” scheme operated by the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland.

The 7 radio stations which have confirmed their participation in An Líonra Sóisialta are: Flirt FM in Galway, Raidio na Life in Dublin, Ocean FM (Sligo, North Leitrim, South Donegal), Clare FM, KCLR (Kilkenny and Carlow), Wired FM in Limerick, and Raidio Fáilte, Belfast’s new Irish language station which launched last Friday.

(pictured: Conn Ó Muíneacháin) more... [web]

eircom podcast article

2006-07-26T00:36:00.000+01:00

online digital version of the eircom broadband magazine summer edition has a cover story and inner 3 page spread on podcasting. read it here. On a critical note the content could have been written in Aberdeen for all the content is UK focused plus none of the links in the ten listed are Irish. Published by Ashville for Eircom I think it could have looked a lot more local unless I can't see the big picture and Eircom is expanding to the UK? While I know from my logs Ashville read this blog (every page last month) they missed the Irish slant on the podcast story here :-( keep scratching your head Ricky.

morning ireland podcast

2006-07-26T00:20:00.000+01:00

[rss] [iTunes] [web]
morning ireland has started podcasting. hosted at pc.rte.ie via colt telecom it is a decent fillet of the 2 hour show distilled to 25 minutes, while this is only half the average dublin commute time, the podcast is for those who did not listen to it live in the traffic jam or did listen and want to hear it again. Im sure some people will be miffed that the bit they heard is not in the podcast, but if you want that try the online archive here

C4 to Simulcast from June 27th

2006-06-23T06:19:00.000+01:00

Soon you'll be able to watch Channel 4 live for free through your computer.

The new broadband simulcast will be available to PC users from 27th June via the channel4.com website. To access the content users will need to register at www.channel4.com/livetv.

Users will be able to access a streamed live version of the Channel 4 schedule, allowing them to watch Channel 4's flagship commissioned shows at the same time as their TV transmission.

The service will not include acquired programmes and films and will carry the same commercials as the Channel 4 TV service. Where Channel 4 programming is not available a loop of Channel 4 promotions will be broadcast.