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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.

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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.

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

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.

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)

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.

added 30/03/2007 [xml]

my favourite Nob Nation - Dail Quiz Show

[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/

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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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.