BCI set to rule on radio licence

THE Broadcasting Commission of Ireland (BCI) will today announce the winner of the licence to operate a youth-focused radio station across the south-west.

The BCI has been poring over the details of two rival bids for a number of weeks and a decision is to be made at a meeting of its board later today. Oral hearings on both applications for the licence took place in July.

The two consortiums are Red FM South West, which already operates the Red FM station in Cork, and Spin, part of Denis O’Brien’s business empire.