Mr. Jackie Conboy:

We can look at the Irish country scene as a really good example. Some of this could be brought into other genres as well. In fairness, local radio has promoted many of the artists in question, for example, Nathan Carter, Mike Denver, Derek Ryan and Johnny Brady. There is a whole list of these people who cut their teeth and made their careers on local radio stations. Unfortunately, that does not transfer to the national stations. On the other side of the equation, some local stations do not play hip-hip or dance artists, and those artists then find it difficult to get their music played on 2FM. The country artists are saying they cannot get played on national radio and the other artists are saying they cannot get played on local or national radio. Look at the way local radio brought country music on in Ireland. It was always there. From the sixties on, there were the likes of Brendan Bowyer, the showbands and country artists like Larry Cunningham and Big Tom. They were getting played on national radio.