Wireless Flirt

Wireless Flirt

radio about radio from Ireland

Episodes

  1. 01/05/2023

    Final programme – May 2023

    Photo credit: Denisse Leon, Unsplash After nearly 70 episodes, the time has come to hang up the headphones and bring Wireless on Flirt FM to an end. In this final episode, we talk to Liz Greene of Northumbria University about …

    1 hr

  2. 03/04/2023

    History of campaign to keep RTÉ on long wave

    RTÉ long wave facility pictured in 2018 (photo by John Walsh). On April 1st 2023, RTÉ announced the closure of the long wave service of Radio 1 on 252 kHz. Based in Clarkestown in Co. Meath, the transmitter designed …

    22 min

  3. 13/03/2023

    Interview with audio documentary maker Orla Higgins

    Independent audio documentary maker Orla Higgins. Orla Higgins is an award-winning documentary maker and independent audio producer from Galway. Her work has aired on the Documentary on One series on RTÉ Radio as well as on the BBC World Service …

    19 min

  4. 10/03/2023

    Programme #68 (March 2023)

    Alternative Eye is supported by the College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies, University of Galway and Flirt FM In the March 2023 edition of Wireless, we go behind the scenes in the world of audio documentary with independent …

    59 min

  5. 20/02/2023

    Analysis of challenges facing new media commission

    Tom Felle, head of Journalism and Communication at the University of Galway Ireland’s new media commission, Coimisiún na Meán, is currently being established following the publication last year of a report on the future of media and the enactment of …

    20 min

  6. 15/02/2023

    First ‘brand extension’ of Ireland’s Classic Hits Radio

    In late December 2022, a new temporary radio station called Classic Hits 80s took to the airwaves in Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Clare and Galway. The station, which broadcast for a month under a 30-day licence, was the first ‘brand extension’ …

    14 min

  7. 13/02/2023

    Research into US tribal radio

    Outside broadcast by KWLP, a station for the Hualapai nation in Arizona (photo courtesy KWLP). Dr Katie Moylan is an Associate Professor in the School of Media Communication and Sociology at the University of Leicester and a researcher into US …

    23 min

  8. 06/02/2023

    Programme #67 (February 2023)

    Photo credit: James Kovin on Unsplash In the February 2023 edition of Wireless on Flirt FM, Tom Felle of the University of Galway discusses the challenges facing the Ireland’s new media commission, Coimisiún na Meán. Kevin Branigan, CEO of …

    1 hr

  9. 09/01/2023

    Programme #66 (January 2023)

    Photo credit: Andy Makely/Unsplash In the January 2023 edition of Wireless on Flirt FM, we look back at highlights of the show from 2022. Harry Browne of TU Dublin reviews the report of the Future of Media Commision and …

    1h 1m

  10. 06/11/2022

    Programme #65 (November 2022)

    In the November edition of Wireless on Flirt FM, a review of this year’s CRAOL Féile of community media held in Galway, the theme of which was inclusion. Jamie Medhurst of Aberystwyth University analyses a century of broadcasting in Wales …

    57 min
  • 10 Episodes

About

radio about radio from Ireland

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  • Creator
    Wireless Flirt
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2023
  • Episodes
    10
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Show Website
    Wireless Flirt