The History Behind The 90s Network
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On Sunday January 11th one of Dublin's more unique stations closed down, hopefully not for the first time. The 90s Network was granted a temporary licence by the BCI to broadcast over thirty days. The station chose to break this up into fifteen weekends to prolong their presence on air.
The 90s Network focused on the 1990s with the strapline 'A Decade in Rewind'. They added to the feel of the decade by filling their news broadcasts with stories from the 90s. They have carried on streaming from their website the90snetwork.com and they plan keep the website updated with '90s-related video, trivia and station photos.
Radiowaves News caught up with station chief Mike O'Brien following the station's closedown and posed a few questions
The 90s Network focused on the 1990s with the strapline 'A Decade in Rewind'. They added to the feel of the decade by filling their news broadcasts with stories from the 90s. They have carried on streaming from their website the90snetwork.com and they plan keep the website updated with '90s-related video, trivia and station photos.
Radiowaves News caught up with station chief Mike O'Brien following the station's closedown and posed a few questions
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Tell us a little about The 90s Network from conception through to launch?
The original concept came from an unlicenced station which I operated in 2003 called Breeze FM. It was a small station but received great feedback so I knew there was a market for a station playing something other than the top 40.
In November 2007 I pitched the idea of operating a temp station to a good friend of mine, Paul Duffy. The original idea was to have the station as an automated one called Splash FM but as we met with Ralph McGarry, whom we worked with on Freedom 92FM, we decided to go all out and have presenters on air.
Ralph did most of the paperwork that is involved with an application for a temp licence and the date was set for a launch of 4th October 2008!
How did it feel to broadcast 'legally' considering considering your unlicensed past?
The feeling was fantastic. The work that goes into the preparation for a temp is huge, far more than I had anticipated. The organising of the presenters, the special themed weekends, the news bulletins right down to getting the logger tapes in order is hugely time consuming but worth it. That feeling of when the tx goes on for the first time is a huge sense of achievement.
What was the listener response like? Did many listeners discover you?
Listener response for the first few weekends was quite small but as the weeks went by we steadily grew our listener base through our text line and also through our website.
We also set up a Facebook page which has over 70 fans from all parts of the world.
Did you get much response from outside Dublin's confines (overspill/net)?
We got a huge response from our website and the online feed.
We got 67 hits from the feed from New York for some strange reason and about 20 odd hits from Australia.
As for response outside Dublin we got some response from the commuter towns around Dublin.
The original concept came from an unlicenced station which I operated in 2003 called Breeze FM. It was a small station but received great feedback so I knew there was a market for a station playing something other than the top 40.
In November 2007 I pitched the idea of operating a temp station to a good friend of mine, Paul Duffy. The original idea was to have the station as an automated one called Splash FM but as we met with Ralph McGarry, whom we worked with on Freedom 92FM, we decided to go all out and have presenters on air.
Ralph did most of the paperwork that is involved with an application for a temp licence and the date was set for a launch of 4th October 2008!
How did it feel to broadcast 'legally' considering considering your unlicensed past?
The feeling was fantastic. The work that goes into the preparation for a temp is huge, far more than I had anticipated. The organising of the presenters, the special themed weekends, the news bulletins right down to getting the logger tapes in order is hugely time consuming but worth it. That feeling of when the tx goes on for the first time is a huge sense of achievement.
What was the listener response like? Did many listeners discover you?
Listener response for the first few weekends was quite small but as the weeks went by we steadily grew our listener base through our text line and also through our website.
We also set up a Facebook page which has over 70 fans from all parts of the world.
Did you get much response from outside Dublin's confines (overspill/net)?
We got a huge response from our website and the online feed.
We got 67 hits from the feed from New York for some strange reason and about 20 odd hits from Australia.
As for response outside Dublin we got some response from the commuter towns around Dublin.
Article Courtesy of Radiowaves.fm
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