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Blog roundup: RTE medium wave move
By Noreen Bowden | February 11, 2008
The controversy over RTE’s decision to shut down medium wave – a move that will affect Irish emigrants in Britain and beyond, as well as people in the North – has been reflected in a variety of blog postings around the Internet. Here are some of them, from a variety of sources, including political parties, media commentators and others.
- Alliance backs bid to save RTE medium wave broadcast – Alliance Party
- Is RTE medium wave cessation premature?
- Discussion board on An Fear Rua
- Contacting RTE about medium wave
- Probe over RTE medium wave axe?
- Labour criticises RTÉ over MW plans
- Closure of RTE’s medium wave service will have a negative effect (Labour Party)
- RTE plans to switchoff medium wave on March 24th
- Medium-wave customers must be accommodated – Cregan (Fianna Fail)
- PJ Bradley urges RTE to increase access across whole of Ireland (SDLP)
- Sinn Fein seek urgent meeting with RTE Director General
- Closing Down Medium Wave 567Khz – A Grave Error
- RTE Lundys
- RTE Religious Services Move to Longwave
- Radio Telefís Éireann
- Wave of protest engulfs RTÉ
- RTE abandons Medium Wave Band
- Call to keep RTE medium wave
- RTÉ to abandon Medium-wave
- Concerns are aired again (Irish Times reports GAA concern)
- Medium Wave… So, Is FM Radio Dead?
- Anger as RTE to switch off medium wave band
- Medium Wave switch off not without its problems – Coveney(Fine Gael)
- A Public Service Broadcaster?
- Bye bye Tullamore
Topics: newswatch, radio | 1 Comment »
February 11th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
[...] Éan (Emigrant Advice Network) blog has compiled a list of coverage of RTÉ’s decision to cease broadcasts on Medium Wave. In my own piece I noted that while [...]