In live radio, you are only ever as good as your last show.

90 judges, drawn from the industry in Ireland and Europe, judged 282 hours of submissions from the 700 entries across 37 categories and today they announced the shortlist.

News Corp has posted global losses of 28%.

An alleged Twitter troll used a series of fake accounts to bombard 98fm presenter Jeremy Dixon with threats, a court has heard.

The new UTV Ireland television station generated a loss of £7.5m (€10.2m) in the first half of this year; representing approximately 65% of the venture’s anticipated losses for the full year.

Officials in Dublin and Clare last night expressed their willingness to take part in the championship play-off belatedly offered to them yesterday by the Camogie Association - one which finally brought the lengthy saga to an end.

The newly launched UTV Ireland television station is expected to generate losses of around £6m (€8.3m) this year — roughly double the amount initially anticipated by parent group, UTV Media.

Radio station FM104 have suspended to of its presenters for breaking an embargo on announcing details of Ed Sheeran's Croke Park gig this summer.

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Wayne Rooney can’t catch a break. The English media are debating whether he belongs in the national team’s starting line-up at all, his awful corner in the Italy game is being replayed relentlessly, and now Jim-Jim Nugent of FM104 has parodied his woes.

Combined revenue from UTV Media’s radio assets in the Republic grew by 6% on a year-on-year basis in the first quarter of this year.

He’s leaving Today FM to return to Cork to RedFM — but DJ KC believes it’s the best decision he’s ever made. He tells Áilín Quinlan why family comes first.

We LOVE that music's golden couple take the kids to the park, just like anyone else.

UTV Media has reported a 15% year-on-year increase in third-quarter advertising revenue for its television operations here.

Competition in the Irish television market is set to intensify after UTV announced it will launch a station in the Republic in early 2015.

Shareholders in UTV Media are in line for a 17% increase in their annual dividend, despite the Belfast-based broadcasting group suffering a 10% fall in profits for 2012.

UTV Media has said that its Irish radio division has “significantly” outperform- ed the market so far this year, despite revenues showing a 6% annualised decline.

You know times have changed when the Dublin minor footballers’ idea of an All-Ireland final celebration includes a night partying with Harry Potter.

PRE-TAX profits at the company that operates the UTV-owned Limerick Live 95 radio station last year dropped by 15% to €895,680.

Radio is a people business.

RTÉ Radio 1 and 2FM continue to dominate the airwaves as figures show the national broadcaster remains the leader in the battle for the nation’s ears.

REVENUES at the Irish radio division of UTV Media – which includes FM104 and Q102 in Dublin and Cork stations 96FM and C103 – fell by 2%, on a year-on-year basis, in the first 10 months of the year and is expected to continue in this vein until the end of the year.

PRE-tax profits at the UTV-owned Limerick’s Live 95FM radio station last year decreased by 40% from €1.79 million to €1m.

SOME of the best-known names in Irish radio are gearing up for a major battle of the airwaves this autumn as Ryan Tubridy aims to boost flagging audiences for 2FM following the death of the station’s flagship presenter, Gerry Ryan, earlier this year.

UTV MEDIA has seen a further 7% fall in advertising revenue from its Irish radio operations since the beginning of this year, following a 16% fall for the whole of 2009.

RTÉ Radio last night paid tribute to the late Gerry Ryan as the latest listenership figures showed he remained a popular host even though his audience fell below 300,000 for the first time in many years.

THE taxpayer bill for witnesses and their legal costs at the Mahon Tribunal continues to mount – a year and a half after the planning corruption inquiry stopped hearing evidence.

THE taxpayer bill for witnesses and their legal costs at the Mahon Tribunal continues to mount – a year and a half after the planning corruption inquiry stopped hearing evidence.

TV and radio stations will have to pay a €5.7 million levy to fund the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland this year in a move that broadcasters have warned could cost jobs in the sector.

ADVERTISING revenue at UTV’s Irish radio operations fell by 16% last year, but the group’s business here maintained overall annual revenue levels at £24.8 million (€27.5m).

RTÉ maintained its dominance of the national airwaves during 2009 according to the latest Joint National Listenership Research results, although its pop station 2FM continues to lose audiences.

THE Republic-based radio portfolio of UTV Media – the Belfast-based broadcast media group – has continued to be one of the best performing divisions of the group into 2009, just as it was last year.

UTV Media chief executive John McCann yesterday said he was pleased with the Belfast-based broadcasting group’s static performance for last year, given the downturn in the advertising market and wider economy.

UTV’s Irish radio division — which includes Cork stations 103 and 96FM, Dublin’s Q102 and FM104 and Limerick’s Live 95FM — provided the main impetus to the Belfast- based-broadcasting group’s first half results.

UTV MEDIA, which yesterday reported that group revenues rose by 7% year-on-year over the first four months of 2008, is understood to have considered purchasing Irish television station, Channel 6, before deciding against making a bid.

Meteor award winners Aslan are to help raise thousands of euro for sick children, it emerged today.

Local radio stations have won a host of awards at the annual PPI radio awards ceremony in Dublin.

Thomas Crosbie Holdings Ltd (TCH) is part of a consortium which has applied for a radio licence to broadcast to people in the 45+ age group.

The Broadcasting Commission of Ireland (BCI) has today approved the proposed sale by EMAP to Communicorp of Today FM and Highland Radio, but has not approved the proposed sale of FM104 to Communicorp.

The Broadcasting Commission of Ireland is expected to make a decision today on whether to approve Denis O'Brien's planned takeover of three more radio stations.

RTÉ stars are fighting back in the battle for radio listeners, although their main rivals, Today FM and Newstalk, continue to perform strongly.

Private equity firm Apax has made a £1.3bn (€2bn) approach for a major slice of magazines and radio group Emap, it was reported today.

ALTHOUGH just a few months ago Denis O’Brien was distancing himself from speculation regarding a bid for Emap’s Irish radio operations, his emergence as the successful bidder — through his Communicorp Group — this week, has really come as no surprise to the industry.