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Local radio support possible if people pay the license fee
"increasingly difficult"

Local - small market - media continues to decline in some parts of the world under a variety of pressures. Local newspapers have disappeared. And so have local radio stations. There is seldom sufficient interest to keep them afloat.

The center-right Fianna Fáil political party last month resurrected a legislative proposal to share public broadcasting license fee revenues with Irish local radio stations. The measure received debate in the lower house of parliament and would provide up to €250,000 annually to local and regional radio broadcasters to support news and public affairs programming. Funding would come from improving license fee revenues. A bill to authorize the measure could see a parliamentary vote in September.

"Local stations have a contractual obligation to fulfil the 20% public service obligation to provide new and current affairs programming, but they are finding it increasingly difficult to find the funds to maintain a full service newsroom,” said Fianna Fáil communications spokesperson Timmy Dooley, quoted by the Irish Examiner (February 27). Independent local radio (ILR) is a license class and includes 34 commercial radio stations, some in metropolitan areas. In addition there are 20 non-commercial community stations.

Separately, regulator Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) announced the award of €630,000 to radio broadcasters - public, ILR and community - for 90 program grants under the Sound & Vision 3 Broadcasting Funding Scheme, noted RadioToday Ireland (March 18). Television broadcasters received €5.1 million for 29 projects.

Irish radio broadcasters are also asking for relief from fees assessed to support the BAI.

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