Still no Nationwide DAB Radio

I also find it sad that there is no nationwide DAB coverage in the Republic Ireland. I also find the attitude of "not it's too late" rather sad, at a time when countries like France are rolling out DAB more and more. I always enjoy the choice they have in Northern Ireland, - it's much more even in remote locations.

a wealth of local content but mostly the same thing with little difference in reality.

remember also, ireland has a very expensive model of both doing radio and regulation, the most expensive in the world i believe, so even a decent sized audience is no guarantee of paying the bills.

in most countries or even cities an audience the size of the former TX fm as an example would be enough to pay the bills whereas in ireland it is saw as a tiny audience and can't bring in enough to pay the out of wack costs.

You might pick up BBC Radio from Brougher Mountain on FM? I take it DAB from NI doesn't make it to Sligo at all?

Monaghan and Dundalk do get DAB from NI, but that's about it, I think.

Agree with most of what you say about the FM availability in Sligo but local stations have a target demographic of certain age groups hence the type of music broadcast. I think Ocean have changed their music to a more pop type output rather than country. There are very few country and trad songs played in the peak time, seems more like stuff from the 60s right up to the present. Marty Probsts show is great, he plays some great oldies!

Looks like Joe and Georgie are here to stay as Francie Boylan and David have left the station to form their own media company!

I don't see the logic of this at all. Even if we had a DAB service here, nobody in the UK would've been able to pick up the signal. I see your registration date is very recent. Don't tell me you're that Save 252 lad, back to cry about the closure of Longwave again...

Bravo - agree - compare us to the U.K. - where most radio stations are available in the car on DAB

We only ever had a very limited transmission network, but the cost of actually putting one in place is only part of it. There would be a massive public awareness campaign required, and you'd need to give people a reason to go out and buy a new DAB radio.

When everyone has a phone in their pocket which can get every radio station on the planet, what's the selling point?

Same with me,I love listening to BBC Radio Scotland via BBC Sounds in the car, Alexa or on a Roberts Stream 93i.

As noted above, even the most basic plans come with unlimited data now, and the areas that have poor mobile coverage would also be the last ones to get DAB.

It makes my blood boil reading some of the stupid comments here, why should We have to pay a third party a monthly fee to listen to RTÉ Gold. We had a very good dab service here in some parts of the country until a person in RTÉ had it shut down, RTÉ only broadcast dab to less than half the country and then used the excuse that nobody was listening to it. It is not easy to buy a new radio that does not have dab in it, you can not buy a new car today that does not have dab, all new cars must have dab it is a European law. The top managers in RTÉ must be cleared out. I recently was driving to my home in Dublin from Wexford and tried to play RTÉ Gold in my car using my mobile phone and it was a disaster as it kept stopping because the signal was crap and I was driving on the motorway M11. Reading about most countries in Europe rolling out dab makes this country an embarrassment. I recently scanned my dab radio in the carpark at a golf club in the Dublin mountains in Glencullen. And I got 79 radio stations all working from Northern Ireland and north Wales on dab and dab+.