‘We’ll pull the plug,’ station warns

A RADIO station, which has been given a two-month extension to its licence, said it will go off the air in just over a week, rather than comply with some of the conditions set out by the Broadcast Commission of Ireland (BCI).

The stand-off puts the future of Radio Kilkenny’s 30-strong staff at risk. They now face the threat of being out of work for months from September 30, until the replacement station, Kilkenny Carlow Local Radio (KCLR), which has been granted the new franchise licence for the region, gets up and running.

Within the past fortnight, the BCI gave Radio Kilkenny an 11th hour reprieve. It allowed the highly popular, community- based station to continue to broadcast until the end of November, under strict conditions.