Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 24 November 2022
Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media
Future Business Model Plans and Long-term Vision for the Media Sector: Discussion
Mr. Se?n Finnan:
We consider ourselves a community media organisation. As a community Internet radio station we see it as a novel form of community media. We are Internet native. We are a website that uses an audio stream. We are not regulated by the BAI and I do not think there is any need for us to be. We do not use public airwaves. We are a website.
Something we are doing that we believe is novel is trying to create a broad membership base of people who subscribe to the radio station but also have access to how the radio station runs. They can come to the general meetings and steer the station in terms of its yearly objectives through the AGM. We are trying to figure out a different way of doing media. If we were doing it under the BAI's regulations with just a voluntary labour force we would not be able to do the administration as well as run the radio station. It would be impossible.
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