Sunrise Radio was a
radio station which broadcast to the
Greater Dublin area in
Ireland.
It was a temporary licence station and began broadcasting in March 2006. Based in
Swords
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Sword, Swords, or The Sword may also refer to:
Places
* Swords, Dublin, a large suburban town in the Irish capital
* Swords, Georgia, a community in the United States
* Sword Beach, code name for ...
, and operating on a frequency of 94.9 MHz, the station broadcast only on weekends.
Programming contributions from
Polish,
Russian,
Chinese,
Indian,
African and
Pakistani presenters appeared on the schedule.
Programmes were a mix of
English and the presenters' native tongue, with no advertising permitted under the terms of the station's licence.
The station broadcast on a temporary licence from the
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland for several months in 2006 (with a licence renewal the following year), and was reputedly the "only dedicated multiethnic or polylingual radio service to broadcast" within Ireland.
The station's licence was not renewed or made permanent, and the broadcast frequency was later allocated to another station, 4FM (now known as
Classic Hits).
References
External links
Sunrise Radio Website
Defunct radio stations in the Republic of Ireland
Chinese-language radio stations
Russian-language radio stations
Mass media in Dublin (city)
Radio stations established in 2006
Radio stations disestablished in 2006
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