History
In 1994 the Independent Radio and Television Commission (IRTC) established an 18-month community radio pilot project to explore and evaluate the potential offered by community broadcasting in Ireland. Licenses were issued in 1995 to eleven community and community of interest groups across the country. The IRTC implemented, during the pilot project period, the Community Radio Forum, now called now CRAOL.
The Community Radio Forum was set up to provide inter-station communication and information exchange. Craol produced a report in 1997 on the outcomes of the pilot project, called "A Community Radio Model for Ireland", which was a key information sources for the IRTC's final evaluation report. The Broadcasting Commission of Ireland, now the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI), has supported a significant expansion of the sector and a deepening and broadening of CRAOLs activities. CRAOL was formally incorporated as a Registered Society (co-operative) with a constitution and standing orders and rules in 2004.
CRAOL is a co-operative whose shareholders are the fully licenced community radio stations. Those stations which do not yet have full licences can join as Associate members. Each full member station nominates a CRAOL Representative and these representatives meet twice a year in ‘Forum’. From these twenty representatives, nine form the organisation's governing body, the Co-ordinating Committee, which takes place at the AGM. One third of the Co-ordinating Committee rotate every year.
Stations Represented by CRAOL:
- Claremorris community radio - Claremorris, Co. Mayo.
- Connemara Community Radio - Letterfrack, County Galway
- Cork Campus Radio - based at University College Cork and licenced for the general student population of Cork City
- CRC FM - Community Radio Castlebar - Castlebar, County Mayo
- CRY 104.0FM - Community Radio Youghal - Youghal, East Cork
- Dublin South FM - South Dublin
- Dundalk FM 100 - Dundalk, County Louth
- Flirt FM - Galway (community of interest, students)
- Liffey Sound FM - Lucan, Dublin
- Life FM - County Cork
- NEAR 90FM - North East Access Radio - North Dublin
- ICR FM Inishowen Community Radio - Carndonagh, Co. Donegal
- Phoenix FM - Blanchardstown, Dublin
- Raidio na Life - Dublin (in the Irish language)
- Raidio Corca Baiscinn - Kilkee, Kilrush and rural south west Clare, County Clare
- Tallaght FM - Tallaght, Dublin
- RosFm - County Roscommon
- Tipperary Mid-West Community Radio - County Tipperary
- West Dublin Access Radio - West Dublin
- West Limerick 102 - County Limerick
- Wired FM - Limerick City
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