30th November 2018: Communicorp Media has today announced a new appointment to the audioXi team with David O’Brien joining as Account Director. David brings a wealth of experience from his role as Business Director in global media agency, Initiative. Launched in September, audioXi is a digital audio exchange that consolidates some of Ireland’s largest audio creators and aggregators in one place and under a single media buy. This makes it easier for media buyers and brands to tap into this audience […]
25 October 2018: According to the latest JNLR results released today, Newstalk has grown its listenership by 30,000 over the past year to achieve a weekly reach of 769,000 listeners. Newstalk’s daily reach stands at 402,000 which is an increase of 7,000 year-on-year. The station’s primetime market share has grown 0.5% year on year to an all-time high of 6.7% nationally. In the key Dublin market, Newstalk has a market share of 11%, making the station the second most listened to […]
Friday, 12th October 2018: SPIN 1038 has announced a new exciting duo to host its hugely popular evening show, ‘The Zoo Crew’. Laura Bracken and Jaz Keane will present an all new ‘The Zoo Crew’ (weekdays, 7pm-10pm), kicking off later this month. Both Laura and Jaz are no strangers to SPIN fans; Laura is the station’s entertainment & showbiz reporter as well as presenting her own weekend music show, while Jaz, an emerging club DJ, who joined the SPIN family […]
– Communicorp Media take home 40 awards on the night, more than any other radio group Friday, 5 October 2018: Communicorp Media was the most successful radio group at the 2018 IMRO Radio Awards in Kilkenny tonight, taking home a total of 40 awards with Newstalk, 98FM and Today FM all winning Gold on the night. Communicorp Media received 15 Gold, 10 Silver and 14 Bronze awards. 98FM won the coveted Music Station of the Year award. Awards won by […]
audioXi… Ireland’s market-leading digital audio exchange Monday, 17th September 2018: Communicorp Media has today launched audioXi, Ireland’s largest digital audio exchange, set to transform audio advertising. With audioXi, many of Ireland’s largest audio content creators and aggregators will be consolidated in one place providing audience scale that radically changes the way in which Irish brands and agencies buy digital audio. Digital audio, which is audio content streamed using a connected device, is a rapidly growing market. The Irish Digital Audio market is estimated to […]
12 September 2018: Newstalk has today announced that Pat Kenny has agreed a new two year contract with the station. The broadcaster is set to continue hosting The Pat Kenny Show every weekday from 9.00am to 12.00pm. In the latest JNLR figures published in July, the show reached an all-time high listenership of 152,000. Speaking about the announcement, Pat Kenny said: “For the past five years, the show has examined the main issues in Ireland and around the world and […]
10 September 2018: In an exclusive interview broadcast on Newstalk’s The Pat Kenny Show this morning, former US President Bill Clinton has expressed his dismay at US politics and Brexit and the importance of Ireland having a president. President Clinton highlighted that the current political climate in the US is creating a very dangerous symptom of an ‘us versus them’ world. Referencing the thorny issue of immigration, President Clinton said that while everyone wants some limits on the flow of […]
98FM’s Brian Maher has partnered with Special Olympics Ireland to raise funds and send Irish athletes to the 2019 Special Olympic World Games Special Olympics Ireland and 98FM have announced that 98FM’s Brian Maher is to swim from Poolbeg Lighthouse to the Forty Foot in Dun Laoghaire on Sunday 7th October to raise vital funds for the charity. Brian will complete the 10K swim across Dublin Bay as part of a fundraising initiative to raise €10,000 in funds to help […]
“It’s going to be LOUD” Today FM is gearing up to bring its hugely successful Sound Garden Stage back to Electric Picnic next weekend and this year’s line up is set to be bigger and better than ever before. With the sole intention of giving festival goers more of what they love at the biggest festival of the year, The Today FM Sound Garden Stage will welcome a host of familiar and new faces to its stage across live music […]
98FM has extended its brand portfolio to launch a new digital music stream offering listeners the best of 90s and 00s music. 98FM Throwback brings listeners their fix of 90s and 00s 24/7 via the 98FM app and online at 98FM.com. 98FM Throwback is your new destination for non-stop nineties and noughties music where you can enjoy the biggest tracks from these decades that you thought you’d never hear again. 98FM Throwback takes you back to the old skool twenty-four […]
