iRadio is a music-driven youth radio station broadcast in the

Border Borders are usually defined as geographical boundaries, imposed either by features such as oceans and terrain, or by political entities such as governments, sovereign states, federated states, and other subnational entities. Political borders c ...

West West or Occident is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from east and is the direction in which the Sunset, Sun sets on the Earth. Etymology The word "west" is a Germanic languages, German ...

, Mid-East and Midland regions of

Ireland Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ...

. The station is one of four music-driven youth stations that were licensed by the

Broadcasting Authority of Ireland The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) ( ga, Údarás Craolacháin na hÉireann) was established on 1 October 2009 effectively replacing the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland (BCI) ( ga, Coimisiún Craolacháin na hÉireann). The BAI is ...

to challenge the current

duopoly A duopoly (from Greek δύο, ''duo'' "two" and πωλεῖν, ''polein'' "to sell") is a type of oligopoly where two firms have dominant or exclusive control over a market. It is the most commonly studied form of oligopoly due to its simplicit ...

in the 15-34 age bracket for those outside Dublin by national stations

RTÉ 2FM (RTÉ) (; Irish for "Radio & Television of Ireland") is the national broadcaster of Ireland headquartered in Dublin. It both produces and broadcasts programmes on television, radio and online. The radio service began on 1 January 1926, while ...

and

Today FM Today FM is an Irish national commercial FM radio station, owned and operated by Bauer Audio Ireland Limited. Broadcasting since 17 March 1997, it broadcasts mostly music, with a daily news and current affairs programme. Today FM holds a lic ...

. The station, based in

Athlone Athlone (; ) is a town on the border of County Roscommon and County Westmeath, Ireland. It is located on the River Shannon near the southern shore of Lough Ree. It is the second most populous town in the Midlands Region with a population of ...

and broadcasting to an average listenership of 227,000, was created by the merger of

i102-104FM i102-104FM was a regional station in Republic of Ireland, Ireland, launched on 7 February 2008. The station had won a licence – as part of a strategy by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland to create a network of regional youth stations acr ...

and

i105-107FM i105-107FM was a regional radio station in Ireland that broadcast to the north east and midlands of the country. The station was one of four regional youth orientated stations that were licensed by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland to chall ...

on 4 July 2011. The combined 15-county franchise was awarded a new ten-year license in 2019.

Notable people

Claire O'Callaghan Claire O'Callaghan is an Irish news and sports journalist and radio presenter, employed by iRadio. Claire reports and reads the news and sport semi nationally for i102-104 and sister station i105-107. Claire used to work for Belfast radio stat ...

, news and sports journalist and radio presenter

References

External links

iRadio
{{Navboxes , title = Media by county navboxes , state = collapsed , list1 = {{Media in County Cavan {{Media in County Donegal {{Media in County Galway {{Media in County Kildare {{Media in County Laois {{Media in County Leitrim {{Media in County Longford {{Media in County Louth {{Media in County Mayo {{Media in County Meath {{Media in County Monaghan {{Media in County Offaly {{Media in County Roscommon {{Media in County Westmeath Contemporary hit radio stations in Ireland Radio stations in the Republic of Ireland

Notable people

See also

References

External links