Summary: <br> Declan McLoughlin is a senior manager and the head of communications at the <a href="https://www.bai.ie/en/" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">Broadcasting Authority of Ireland</a>. <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/backlash-over-se-n-brady-s-meeting-with-pope-tcrldr909" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">The Times – but not RTÉ – reported</a> on the disgraced cardinal, Seán Brady, who covered up the crimes of the rapist priest Brendan Smith, meeting Pope Francis at Dublin Airport.<br> <br> <br> <br> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communicorp" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">Communicorp</a>, owned by Dennis O’Brien owns:<br> <br> <br> <br> * Dublin’s 98FM* Newstalk* SPIN 1038* SPIN Southwest* Today FM<br> <br> <br> <br> There are <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_radio_stations_in_California" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">39 radio stations licenced to broadcast from Los Angeles</a> – this does not count all the stations that can be heard in Los Angeles broadcasting from other locations.<br> <br> <br> <br> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DAB_in_Ireland" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">DAB began in Ireland in 2006</a>, but has atrophied since. By contrast <a href="https://radiotoday.co.uk/2018/05/rajar-q1-2018-50-of-radio-listening-is-now-digital/" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">more than half of all radio listening in the UK</a> is on digital, and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/13/norway-becomes-first-country-to-end-national-radio-broadcasts-on-fm" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">100 per cent in Norway</a>.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Note to world-at-large: 'balanced coverage' doesn't mean each side being happy with its hearing. Sometimes it means one side getting spanked— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) <a href="https://twitter.com/gavreilly/status/823962693245792257?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">January 24, 2017</a><br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br>
