Bauer Media

Sebastian Barnes, IFAC and unfortunate timing

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Bauer Media Audio buys youth music station iRadio

Acquisition by German-owned company follows its purchase of Cork’s Red FM

Radio group Bauer completes deal to buy Cork’s Red FM

Station now joins Today FM, Newstalk, 98FM, Spin 1038 and Spin Southwest in Bauer portfolio

RTÉ Radio 1 loses listeners as ‘news fatigue’ erases pandemic bump

Radio industry’s Joint National Listenership Research survey shows market share gains for Today FM, Newstalk, RTÉ 2FM and others

Bauer Media Audio agrees deal to buy Cork’s Red FM

Acquisition is subject to regulatory approval from the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission

Ray D’Arcy listener figures drop to new low as Irish radio audiences move closer to pre-pandemic levels

Ray Foley adds listeners on Today FM but Ray D’Arcy drops to a new low on RTÉ Radio 1

Ryan Tubridy’s ‘nice little distraction’ now number two Irish radio show

Claire Byrne, Matt Cooper and Pat Kenny among ratings winners

Exit Denis, enter Yvonne: 2021 saw one Irish media era end and another begin

A screen production boom and funding policy impasse marked the industry’s year

Claire Byrne is radio’s prefect, Cormac Ó hEadhra and Sarah McInerney its maverick cops

Radio in 2021: Radio 1’s new guard found their voice, Newstalk stayed scrappy

Radiocentre Ireland appoints Ciaran Cunningham as first CEO

Former Carat Ireland and Dentsu X chief executive to lead cross-industry alliance

Radiocentre Ireland formed to promote medium of radio to advertisers

New body set up by RTÉ and IBI is seeking a chief executive to champion the sector

Media organisations banning journalists will be in breach of licence – SF Bill

Bill came about after Communicorp banned Irish Times and Currency journalists

Streamers drown us in choice as we scroll forever

We are frozen, unable to make a decision. Do we really want someone to make it for us?

Upbeat Bauer bids to reverse radio fortunes and ‘bring new things’ to listeners

Former Communicorp group will explore subscriptions in future, says Paul Keenan

Ban on Irish Times contributors lifted by Bauer radio group with immediate effect

Move follows completion of deal to buy Communicorp from Denis O’Brien

What will Bauer do with the Irish radio stations it picks up from Denis O’Brien?

Family-owned German media giant will soon complete deal to buy Communicorp

Denis O’Brien’s decades of investment in Irish media gained him almost nothing

Forays into Irish newspapers and radio have caused magnate nothing but grief

Pat Kenny is fuming – and it’s not because of his property dispute

Radio: Host tires of Charlie McConalogue’s vagueness as Ministers fudge pandemic plans

‘Ireland is a great country, but we can’t help ourselves being nasty to people sometimes’

Denis O’Brien says he is delighted with ‘very big offer’ Communicorp received

Denis O’Brien’s Communicorp agrees €100m-plus sale to Bauer Media Audio

Employees informed of deal as billionaire exits Irish media market

Rebel Wilson’s ‘unrecognisable’ weight-loss photos are toxic and depressing

Best of 2020: The headlines implied she’d found a cure for Covid or won an Olympic medal, not lost 18kg

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