Connemara Community Radio is a community-based and run radio
station broadcasting for 10 hours per day throughout the north-west Connemara
region of Ireland. We legally began
broadcasting on the 1st of July 1995. The station dates back to 1988 when we
started broadcasting as a pirate community radio station for a short time (6
weeks). We broadcast six hours of live radio between 11.00 am – 12.00 noon
(10.00 am – 12.00 noon Sunday) and 4.05 pm – 9.00 pm and 4 hours of the
previous evenings programme from 12.05 am – 4.05 pm.
It’s a community radio station based in Letterfrack,
Connemara with a possible audience within a franchise area of 13,000 people,
with up to 30,000 people during the summer. The management and operation of the
station is undertaken on a voluntary basis assisted by a small core staff. Involved
with the station we have a core of 85 volunteers who contribute each week to
the station as presenters, technicians, correspondents, etc. We have
enjoyed strong commitment by the 85 volunteers in the past 28 years and believe
we can continue to rely on this level of voluntary activity into the future.