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Historic Day for Irish Radio as Irish Radioplayer launches

Radio listening on smartphones and tablets is set to be transformed with the launch of the Irish Radioplayer on Monday 27th April 2015, which sees every radio station in the Republic of Ireland available on a [...]

Learning Waves Radio Academy launches Music Radio Presenter Bootcamp

Learning Waves Radio Academy, has launched its Music Radio Presenter Bootcamp programme. This programme is aimed at finding the next group of Music Presenters for the Independent Commercial Radio Sector [...]

iRadio awards iGrant of €2000 to 20 local businesses

Twenty businesses have been chosen as shared winners of iRadio’s €40,000 iGrant prize. The successful applicants have been selected by an independent expert judging panel including former Irela [...]

Congratulations to Lena Murphy on her recent appointment

Lena Murphy has been appointed as Financial Director to Beat 102-103 & WLR FM. Lena, a first class honours business graduate of Waterford Institute of Technology, previously worked as an Audit Manager [...]

Newstalk and Northern Sound win at Justice Media Awards 2020

The Law Society of Ireland announced the winners of the 2020 Justice Media Awards this afternoon. It was the first time in 29 years that the event was held online. Michele O'Boyle, President of [...]

Julie Smyth appointed as News and Sport Editor in WLR FM

Congratulations to Julie Smyth who has been appointed as News and Sports Editor for WLR FM. The Tramore woman who began her career with the BBC has recently taken over the position with the award-winning [...]

Skillnets appoints new Chief Executive Officer

Skillnets, the national agency responsible for funding and supporting training networks, has appointed Paul Healy as its new Chief Executive Officer. Mr Healy brings strong expertise in HR, Learning and Develop [...]

Total Irish advertising spend edges up to €1bn mark

John McGee, Adworld.ie whispers it quietly, 'the Irish Media industry can look forward to substantial growth in 2016, with every media category expected to benefit from the ongoing upturn in the economy and [...]

JNLR figures highlight the strong appeal of Radio in Ireland

Results from the latest JNLR figures indicate that Irish audiences continue to listen to a significant amount of radio everyday – tuning in, on average, for almost 4 hours per day during the prime 7am to [...]

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Learning Waves members celebrate at Love Radio Awards

On Friday 19th February 2016, the radio industry celebrated at the Mansion House during the annual Love Radio Awards. The Lover Radio Awards showcase the amazing vibrant creative medium and honours the ve [...]

Senior Producers workshop planned for June 2016

A 3 day senior producer workshop has been designed and developed in conjunction with trainers from the BBC Academy. The course will be 3 long days and will be intensive in terms of content and learning. The t [...]

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