Welcome to the first edition of a new weekly web-article on the Irish blog community. The concept of this weekly piece is to round-up the popular topics of discussion during the week and highlight the range of opinion and angles available in the Irish blogosphere. If this were a new media application it would be [...]
Just a short and snappy little piece from todays Sunday Business Post on a new series being undertaken by City Channel; Local television station City Channel is to launch a weekly half-hour programme from September that will target the Filipino community in Ireland. The cable-based broadcaster, which is available to audiences in Dublin, Galway and [...]
From the BBC: Â A US programme to tap some phones without warrants is unconstitutional, and must be halted at once, a federal judge in Detroit has ruled. The scheme, approved by President George W Bush in 2001, involves tapping conversations between some callers in the US and people in other countries. The American Civil Liberties [...]
Following on from the Sunday Times article, which I blogged about here, the DCMNR has just released a statement on its plans to make TG4 independent by 2007, meaning the Irish TV market will be balanced with two independent stations and two state broadcasters; the deal that sees content provided by RTÉ will continue and [...]
Ullu on boards.ie pointed it out and the VoD clip from RTÉ.ie (launches realplayer) confirms it, RTÉ’s reporter in South Lebanon, Tony Connelly is brandishing a slightly different mic to the rest of the RTÉ crew, namely his colleague Richard Crowley in Haifa. The difference is this; Crowley has the standard RTÉ microphone which has [...]
A quick browse around Ray Foley’s site brought this post to my attention, in which Today FM’s voice of the tween-massive tells us where our “tax dollars” are going at RTÉ. His post is in relation to Rick O’Shea’s blog, which is now being contributed to by Amanda, a researcher from his 2FM show. Foley [...]
It seems that the kidnap of a Fox News journalist and cameraman in Gaza has caused some initial confusion over the origin of one of the men involved. Sky News, highlighting the dangers of their high-speed news format had a ‘Breaking News’ alert on the story, claiming that the cameraman was Irish. BreakingNews.ie, which has [...]
The Sunday Times has an article on the expected plans by DCMNR Minister Noel Dempsey to put a framework in place to finally allow a TG4/RTÉ split. The Government has planned a split for some time now and TG4 has been patiently waiting for it to see the light of day. The now largely defunct [...]
Today’s YourTech section in the Sunday Business Post features my ‘how-to’ guide to DTT; it gives a simple explanation to DTT, tells you where you can get it and how as well as what’s on offer. Hopefully it will act as a good starting point for people interested in DTT but who aren’t sure where [...]
I’ll be on the look out for a decent recording device in the next while; can anyone recommend me something that has the following (HI-MD or dictaphone are suitable); Decent level of capacity (enough to hold a high quantity of content at a high quality) Mic-in jack so I can attach an external mic and [...]
Blog of Irish journalist Adam Maguire, focusing mainly on Irish media & current affairs.
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