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Are you interested in joining our team of Community Radio enthusiasts as a radio presenter? We will explain how. Thursday 13th September from 7.00 pm to 8.00 pm . All welcome.
The application for a renewal of our community licence was submitted to the BAI at the beginning of August. I texted our members for some their own words to help with the application and asked them to answer these 3 questions: 1. What does it mean to you to be a member of Dundalk FM 97.7? 2. What is missing from the schedule. 3. What year did you start? …and here are the replies… Being a member of Dundalk FM is extremely important to me as it allows me to contribute something to my community and to be a part of making a difference in the lives of local people. There is very little missing from the schedule. Joined in 2005 Kevin Marley, Heart of the Matter Being a volunteer at Dundalkfm has been an awesome experience. The staff and management have been so friendly and supportive. They believed in me when I didn’t believe in myself. It has been an amazing learning curve. I’m learning new skills that I thought I could never learn, working the desk producing and presenting programs, interviewing guests etc etc. Dundalkfm is the voice of our community. I feel part of a very useful and necessary community organization. I’m getting great feedback from the people I meet not only about me but the station in general. This station has given me a new lease of life. Marian Del Duca, Presenter on the Town Talk, Health and Well Being, Conversations with Dundalk Toastmasters and stand in presenter for Lunch Box, Afternoon Show and Drive Time I feel a member of a really close-knit and vibrant community. Joined in 2010. Noel Sharkey, Music and Local History Documentary Maker Being a member opens a whole new world. …ability to broadcast. .meet new people. …try different types of programmes. …and enjoy the journey. I feel that more educational and local history programming which involves the local schools should be considered I’ve been involved in community radio for about 10/12 years Alan Bogan, Radio Documentary Producer 1. I am a member of a viable and valuable community entity that affords me the opportunity to forge strong local links and influence positive action in the sector. 2. Female Voices on Air 3. 2015 Marissa Lucchesi, Town Talk and Dundalk FM Board Member Great to be part of a community based radio station providing a unique service for the town of Dundalk. Joined in 2002. Michael Duffy, Town Talk 1. It has opened doors for me in the dj world. Since starting the show. I have done the Dublin, Cork and Belfast ska festivals and next week I do a set at Wexford ska festival. I feel part of something and I have the freedom to express myself on the station. 2. It needs more music shows and younger presenters to tap into the future of our listenership. 3.2015 and please God I have many more years ahead. Karl Collins, Rocksteady Rhythms It means the freedom to broadcast a show to my own style with the support of the management and the members. It has also meant the opportunity to develop skills and attributes that have seen me grow as a person and a journalist. 2. What is missing from the schedule? A late night show for the 169 demographic 3. What year did you start? 2009 Ciaran Callan, Drive Time 1. Great to be part of such a great resource for the community of Dundalk. 2. Probably room for more Irish language programming. 3. Joined in 2016. Good luck with application. Pat Byrne, Dundalk Lions’ Club – at your service, Director Hi Alan Answer 1. It means a great deal to me being a member of Dundalk fm as being a person with a disability it has giving me an opportunity to for-fill one of my dreams of presenting my own radio show an opportunity I don’t think i would have gotten anywhere else. Also I have received great help support and advise from the staff and fellow members of Dundalk fm. Answer 2 subject to demand i think more air time needs to be made available for more programs Answer 3 I joined in 2018 Martin Trodden, Classic Love. Alan, answers as follows: 1. Being a presenter on Dundalk FM, gives me the chance to communicate my passion for music, with the listeners, and hopefully educate, inspire, and ultimately, entertain them at the same time. Being part of the Dundalk FM community gives me a sense of contributing to the local community, with like minded people, who have a similar goal and vision. 2. There should be more live content, especially in the evening, and most especially over the weekend. 3. I joined in 2018. Hope that helps. Mike McMahon, Mike’s Music Express 1. To be a member of Dundalk fm97.7 means a lot to me. I’ve upgraded my mass communication and broadened my mind how community based radio runs and the target audience it is transmitting to. 2. To be realistic I don’t see anything missing. I just assume if the volunteers have the ability to bring up new ideas to upgrade for the better of our dear listeners interest. 3. I joined Dundalk FM 2 years ago. Tony Banda. Music Show 1. Making listeners happy, bringing sport to their homes. 2. Should be more Outside Broadcasts around Dundalk. 3. about 2004 Gussie Hearty, Summer League Focus. 1. What does it mean to you to be a member of Dundalk FM 97.7? As a new resident of the town, being a member of Dundalk FM means I feel a part of the community. There are familiar faces at the station and out and about now that make me feel like less of a stranger in a new place. 2. What is missing from the schedule? From what I’ve seen, the schedule is pretty broad. I’d like to do more to promote the
Which album by an Irish artist would you like to hear featured on Dundalk FM?
Dundalk FM would like to invite you to come along to a Coffee Evening this Thursday 10th May between 7pm to 8pm. Are looking for a new hobby? Are you thinking about a third level digital media course? Do you have an idea for a music or community based programme or would you just like to see the studios? We are looking for people like you to join our team of over 81 voluntary community radio broadcasters. You will be invited to take the first steps into broadcasting by recording a one hour show about your favourite band or musician for our weekly ‘Spotlight’ series’. So that’s a date for your diary – Thursday 10th May from 7 at Dundalk FM Studios, Partnership Court, Park Street, Dundalk. Looking forward to seeing you then.
Radio trainees at the end of their 2 day course. Mike Mc Mahon, Pat Hamilton, Peter Kirk and Kevin Larney completed a 30 minute radio show about the Adelphi, Dundalk. To listen to the show click here. They are holding the Cinema Advertising Schedule dated 7th May 1989. Advertisers that day were Murphy Jewellers, Tony McDonnell Menswear, Four Lanterns, Jetstream Travel, James Dearey and John Bereton. Congratulations on completing the show and asking lots of questions! – looking forward to hearing you on radio shows next month. Alan
Come along to the station on Thursday April 12th at 7pm to find out how you could start recording a radio documentary for Dundalk FM. No experience necessary.
The ideas and enthusiasm for becoming a community radio volunteer was evident at the March Information Evening. Theresa Burns is interested in community development and current affairs. Dan Pope would like to contribute to the sports news team and also to do an alternative music programme. Peter Kirk is preparing a Spotlight show about Jason and the Scorchers. He is interested in how music from years ago is used in films and TV shows nowadays. Faizam Ahmed would like to a monthly show about gadgets, talk about international politics and do a commentary on a cricket match. Mike McMahon has a lot of experience as a music radio presenter and is interested in the back stories and how singers and bands criss cross and overlap each other. Séamus Fee is interested in promoting the Red Cross and Order of Malta. He has a few ideas for a Spotlight including one on Charlie Pride. Kevin Duffy would like to be involved in a programme which promotes health lifestyle and especially outdoor sports like hill climbing. The next Information Evening will be on Thursday 10th May from 7.00 pm to 8.00 pm and all are welcome.
Track appears in new box set… A new box set showcasing recordings Captain Beefheart made in the early Seventies is due for release. After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. Sun Zoom Spark: 1970 To 1972 features newly remastered versions of three albums that Beefheart and the Magic Band released during that period – Lick My Decals Off, Baby, The Spotlight Kid and Clear Spot – as well as an extra disc of alternate versions. Scroll down to hear a previously unreleased take of the track, “Little Scratch“, which appears on the fourth disc of outtakes. Long-time Magic Band guitarist Moris Tepper, first met Beefheart [aka Don Van Vliet] at the Troubadour in Los Angeles during the Clear Spot tour. He stayed in the band until 1982. Speaking to Uncut, Tepper reveals that aside from the alternative versions that appear on Sun Zoom Spark, there is also a trove of unreleased Beefheart material. “I can name a dozen songs right now that I wanted to record with him but which never got recorded,” says Tepper. “They exist maybe more as poems than as songs. He had music for a song called ‘Your Love Brought Me To Life’, I think it was published in a book in Germany. We had worked on a song called ‘Child Ecologist‘ which was another symphony. He’d done something before I ever met him called ‘Big Sur Suite’ which was an incredibly beautiful piece of music, this huge, thematic, movie kind of theme and gorgeous words. He probably had more unrecorded, undocumented works than recorded works. He’s an artist.
You are invited to come along for a chat about how you can join our team of community radio activists in Dundalk on Thursday 8th March from 7 pm to 8 pm. We will tell you about the opportunities to learn new skills and meet new people! For new presenters, we run a 2 day Radio Course. This covers two sections: Community Radio Theory Ethos and background of Community run and owned Radio Stations Radio programme Documentation such as Running Orders, links Programme Formats and Features Health and Safety Libel Practical Radio Skills Setting Microphone and Playout levels Recording and Editing Show intros and links Creating a promo for a show Creating a 25 minute magazine show Listening Exercise
