The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) has today (12th September 2014) signed ten-year contracts for three radio services. The three services are Sunshine 106.8FM, a niche music-driven service for Dublin City and County; Highland Radio, a local, broad-format service operating in the franchise area of North Donegal; and Ocean FM, the local, broad-format service for … Continued
The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) has today (4th September 2014) signed ten-year contracts for three local and one regional youth radio service. The three local services are Cork’s 96FM, a music-driven service, C103, a broad-format service; both of which serve Cork City and County, and Midlands 103, also a broad-format service, which operates across … Continued
A solar-powered mobile cinema – the Sol Cinema – will offer visitors to the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland’s offices a special cinematic experience at next month’s Culture Night. Culture Night 2014 takes place on Friday, 19th September, and, for the second year in a row, the BAI building at 2-5 Warrington Place, Dublin 2 will … Continued
The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) has today (14th August) published the most recent broadcasting complaints decisions. At its meeting held on 17th June, the Compliance Committee of the BAI considered 13 complaints. Of these, one complaint was upheld in full, one complaint was upheld in part and 11 complaints were rejected. In addition, two … Continued
The deadline to submit feedback to the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland’s (BAI) public consultation on proposals for a revised draft Code of Programme Standards that will apply to all Irish broadcasters is 5pmnext Friday, 22nd August 2014. Following a review of the current Code of Programme Standards, which has been in operation since 2007, the … Continued
A Joint Invitation to Tender has been issued by The Commission for Communications Regulation and The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI). The BAI invites tenders from suitably qualified service providers to advise and deliver on the provision of the BAI website www.bai.ie together with on-going web hosting, website design, product support, and continuous service optimisation. … Continued
New application documents have been published for the upcoming round of Sound & Vision II – the Broadcasting Funding Scheme. Updated Guidelines for Applicants and a new Application form are now available. The next round of the Scheme (Round 22) is a targeted round and is specifically seeking Education andAnimation applications. Applications to the Scheme … Continued
The latest JNLR/Ipsos MRBI report into radio listening has been published today, 31st July 2014. The report covers the 12-month period from July 2013 to June 2014. All data is reported as “average” listening data for that 12- month period. No data will be published for any single month of the 12-month period. On behalf … Continued
The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland has today (Monday 28th July) announced the decision of the Contract Awards Committee regarding the award of the contract for a local, broad-format radio service for Sligo, North Leitrim and South Donegal. A contract has been awarded in principle to North West Broadcasting Limited (t/a Ocean FM) for the provision … Continued
The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI), today (20.08.14) announced that it will enter into negotiations for a television content provision contract, under Section 71 of the Broadcasting Act, with Teilifís Mhaigh Eo Teoranta. Irish TV is a new local and international channel targeting the global Irish diaspora. Its schedule consists of weekly half-hour programmes from … Continued