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East Coast FM
East Coast FM (formerly known as BLB, Horizon FM, then East Coast Radio) is an Irish local radio station broadcasting from Bray, County Wicklow under a sound broadcasting contract from the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland The station operates in County Wicklow and into the adjoining counties of Dublin, Kildare, Carlow and Wexford, broadcasting on the following frequencies: 94.9 FM, 96.2 FM, 99.9 FM, 102.9 FM and 104.4 FM in Arklow. To achieve coverage of all of its franchise area, it requires six transmitters including stations at Bray Head, Wicklow Head, Avoca, Arklow, Baltinglass and a transmitter located at Slieve Thoul in Saggart County Dublin where the Wicklow, Kildare and Dublin borders meet. History East Coast FM began as BLB (Bray Local Broadcasting) in 1984. Originally an unlicensed operator, it was launched as "Horizon Radio" when it received a licence from The Independent Radio & Television Commission (now known as The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland) and later m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wicklow
Wicklow ( ; , meaning 'church of the toothless one'; ) is the county town of County Wicklow in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is located on the east of Ireland, south of Dublin. According to the 2022 census of Ireland, 2022 census, it had a population of 12,957 people. The town is to the east of the M11 motorway (Ireland), M11 route between Dublin and Wexford. It also has Rail transport in Ireland, railway links to Dublin, Wexford, Arklow, and Rosslare Europort. There is also a commercial port for timber and textile imports. The River Vartry is the main river flowing through the town. Geography Wicklow town forms a rough semicircle around Wicklow harbour. To the immediate north lies 'The Murrough', a grassy walking area beside the sea, and the eastern coastal strip. The Murrough is a place of growing commercial use, so much so that a road by-passing the town directly to the commercial part of the area commenced construction in 2008 and was completed in summer of 2010. The e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claire Byrne
Claire Byrne (born 11 August 1975) is an Irish radio and television presenter. Byrne presented ''The Daily Show'' from September 2010 to March 2012. In 2013, she became an anchor on RTÉ's flagship current affairs programme ''Prime Time''. From January 2015 until May 2022, she hosted her own self-titled weekly current affairs television programme, ''Claire Byrne Live''. In August 2020, she took over the hosting of the ''Today with ...'' programme, presenting it as '' Today with Claire Byrne'' on RTÉ Radio 1. Early life Byrne is the daughter of Tom and Breda Byrne. She grew up on the family farm in County Laois, and was educated locally at the Brigidine Convent in Mountrath. She later studied Politics, Sociology and Social Science at University College Dublin, but did not complete the course. She subsequently attended the Rathmines College of Further Education where she studied journalism. Career Byrne is a client of self-styled "agent to the stars" Noel Kelly of NK Managem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio In Ireland
Licensed radio broadcasting in Ireland is one element of the wider media of Ireland, with 85% of the population listening to a licensed radio broadcasting service on any given day. History Ireland as a radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi, the Italian inventor and the father of long-distance radio transmission, had a significant connection to Ireland as a descendent of the influential Jameson family, and the country played a crucial role in his early radio experiments. The earliest known radio broadcast in Ireland took place on 6 July 1898, when Marconi set up a wireless telegraphy link between Rathlin Island and Ballycastle. This communication system was established on behalf of Lloyd's. In 1907 Marconi International Marine Communication Company the world's first transatlantic wireless telegraphy service in the world in Clifden. The station conducted the first successful transmission of the first commercial wireless messages across the Atlantic Ocean between Clifden and Gla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Whitmore
Laura Whitmore (born 4 May 1985) is an Irish media personality, model and actress based in London. She was a video jockey for MTV in 2008, and has since presented television shows, such as ''This Morning'' (2014), ''Survival of the Fittest'' (2018) and '' Love Island'' (2020–2022). In 2020, Whitmore became a team captain on the comedy panel show '' Celebrity Juice''. In 2023, Whitmore hosted her first ITV1 chat show ''Laura Whitmore's Breakfast Show'' and released her own one-off ITVX documentary series ''Laura Whitmore Investigates''. Early life Whitmore was born in Dublin on 4 May 1985. She has two half-brothers. She grew up in Bray, County Wicklow, where she attended Loreto Secondary School, before studying journalism at Dublin City University. Career Television In April 2008, MTV Networks Europe launched a campaign ''Pick Me MTV'' where Whitmore competed to become the face of MTV News in MTV Europe. She won the competition, and between 2008 and 2015 hosted news bulle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Declan Meehan (radio Presenter)
Declan Meehan () is an Irish people, Irish radio presenter. Currently fronting ''The Morning Show'' with local radio station East Coast FM, his career has incorporated involvement with multiple pirate radio stations (including Radio Milinda, the first to be raided and prosecuted) and, later, RTÉ 2fm, RTE Radio 2 (where he was one of the pioneering station's original presenters). From there he moved to the superpirates of the 1980s, before a spell with legal radio in London, England. He is remembered for "presenting a cool and calm front". on the morning that Radio Nova (Ireland), Radio Nova was raided in May 1983. He had joined the station from Irish pirate radio#Sunshine Radio and Radio Nova "The Super Pirates", Sunshine Radio. When Radio Milinda was threatened with closure in December 1972, Meehan declared on air in the week prior to the eventual raid, that they would "fight anybody who tried to close them down". Years later, he commented on the raid: "We were fined £2, all ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim McCabe
James McCabe may refer to: *James D. McCabe (1842–1883), American author *James McCabe (judge) (1844–1911), Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court *James H. McCabe (1870–1957), American lawyer and politician *Jimmy McCabe (1918–1989), Northern Irish footballer *Jim McCabe (politician) (1922–2019), Australian politician *Jim McCabe (broadcaster) (fl. 1990s–2010s), Irish broadcaster *James McCabe (tennis) (born 2003), Australian tennis player {{hndis, McCabe, James ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrian Kennedy (journalist)
Adrian Kennedy is an Irish radio News presenter, broadcaster. He is a regular panellist on RTE1's Today Show and freelances on Newstalk, Classic Hits, and East Coast FM. He was host and producer of the late-night radio chat show ''FM104 Phoneshow,'' alongside co-host Jeremy Dixon, from 1997 to 2013. When he left the programme, it was the highest-rated nighttime radio show in Ireland. In August 2013, Kennedy and his co-host and producer Jeremy Dixon resigned from FM104 to take up a job offer with the rival station, Dublin's 98FM, 98FM. Due to a stipulation in their contracts, both were placed on six months' garden leave after their final show on 25 September 2013. Kennedy presented the morning phone-in show ''Dublin Talks'' on 98FM, alongside Dixon, from 2014 to April 2021. On 23 April 2021 it was announced on air that the duo had presented their last show on the station. This meant that 98fm would move to a more music oriented format. Following his departure from 98fm, Kennedy a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jenny Kelly
Jennifer D'Arcy (née Kelly; born 6 May 1972) is an Irish people, Irish radio personality who came to prominence during the 2000s as Ray D'Arcy's producer on his The Ray D'Arcy Show, self-titled radio show on Today FM. The pair now have one daughter and one son together. Kelly previously worked for East Coast FM and then for the state broadcaster's pop music station RTÉ 2fm. Reared in South Dublin county, Kelly's father Michael was a lawyer and a major influence on her career. Jenny would attend horse races with him, and was seen at the Galway Races in 2003 whilst running in the 2.30 race. She attended St Joseph of Cluny's primary school and Newtown School in Waterford for her secondary education before spending time delved in theatre studies at Trinity College, Dublin. Before obtaining a position in RTÉ, Kelly volunteered for a place at Dublin South Community Radio and received in return a weekly half-hour arts programme to present. She began working with state broadcaster R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikki Hayes
Nikki Hayes (born Eimear O' Keeffe on 7 May 1979) is a DJ who currently works for East Coast FM. She previously presented on Classic Hits and RTÉ 2fm and has also DJ'ed in numerous clubs across Ireland. RTÉ 2fm Hayes joined RTÉ 2fm from SPIN 1038 in November 2003. (Before SPIN 1038, she had her first stint with East Coast FM that followed a period with pirate radio.) She obtained a show of her own during the weekends. Then, when Rick O'Shea moved along to present the now defunct '' The Rick & Ruth Breakfast Show'', Hayes replaced him and in doing so was given her own weekday show which was broadcast from Monday until Thursday from 20:00 until 22:00. In March 2007, she moved to a weekday show broadcast from 12:00 midday until 14:00. The ''All-Request Lunch'' show featured Hayes presenting all alone with listeners sending in requests by text, phone and the networking site, Bebo. In August 2007 it was reported that she had increased her listenership by 11,000. In December 2009 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Harrington (broadcaster)
Joe Harrington is an Irish presenter of radio employed by Sunshine 106.8, Dublin's Sunshine 106.8. He is a multi nominated award-winning broadcaster who has vast experience in radio programming and management. His brother Paul Harrington (musician), Paul Harrington won the Eurovision Song Contest 1994. He co-wrote a number of tracks on the Paul Harrington album ''What I'd Say''. The album entered the Irish charts in the early nineties. Career He worked as a presenter with Ireland's first Independent National Broadcaster Century Radio, he then worked with Dublin's Rock 104 and subsequently FM104, he joined East Coast FM in 1994 as Head of Music and then became Programme Controller, a position he held until 2011. In 2009, he joined with his brothers as "The Harrington Brothers" to record Molly Malone with The Official Leinster Supporters Group and the song became the Official Anthem for The Leinster Rugby, Leinster Rugby Team. The song Molly Malone entered the Irish Charts in 2009 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colette Fitzpatrick
Colette Fitzpatrick (born 25 June 1974) is one of the main news anchors at Virgin Media News (formerly known as "TV3 News"), since September 2006. She is a native of Holycross, Thurles, County Tipperary.("Colette, 31, from Thurles, Co Tipperary") Fitzpatrick is a Virgin Media News anchor. She presents the weekday bulletins: ''News at 12.30'' and '' News at 5.30''. She has also hosted the prime time current affairs show ''Midweek''. Fitzpatrick began working in the TV3 newsroom in March 2001. She has edited and anchored bulletins for the morning news programme ''Ireland AM'' and also reported on a range issues for the main evening news. She reported from Kashmir on the aftermath of the earthquake. She was also a regular stand-in as main presenter on ''Ireland AM'' alongside Mark Cagney, Alan Hughes and Aidan Cooney. Fizpatrick previously worked in the newsroom in Today FM where she edited and presented hourly bulletins and reported on a range of stories including courts and tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Music Rights Organisation
The Irish Music Rights Organisation (IMRO) is a national performance rights organisation based in Ireland. It administers the performing right in copyright music on behalf of its members (who are Irish songwriters, composers and music publishers) and on behalf of the songwriters, composers and music publishers of the international overseas societies that are affiliated to it. As of December 2022, IMRO had over 17,000 members. History IMRO was founded in 1988, initially as a subsidiary of the Performing Right Society (PRS) in the UK. It became independent of PRS in 1996. During 1996, IMRO was described as described as being engaged in a "dogged pursuit of performance royalties in relation to primary schools". IMRO stated that the use of copyrighted music in public schools for events like plays, concerts, or dances meant that each school should pay a licensing fee. Following the controversy, a compromise was reached with reduced fees to be paid. IMRO is also involved in the promo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
