Background

Radio Kerry was established in 1990. The station headquarters are in Tralee, the county town of Kerry, with additional studios in Killarney and Cahersiveen.

April 1995 … Radio Kerry moved to a new custom-built building in Tralee town centre with top quality digital broadcasting and production facilities as well as a fully equipped editing suite and a television studio. There are approximately 60 people employed at the station in full-time, part-time and freelance positions.

January 2005 … Radio Kerry moved to custom built studios in Killarney town centre.  Many programmes and features are broadcast from here on daily basis.

August 2005 … Radio Kerry completed the purchase of Shannonside/Northern Sound, becoming the first of the original local radio stations to go on to this level of expansion. Shannonside/Northern Sound broadcasts to Longford, Roscommon, Cavan, Monaghan and Leitrim.

January 2006 … Radio Kerry commenced providing a Broadcast Media Skills course in conjunction with FAS and established the Radio Kerry Training Centre.

Summer 2006 … a new logo was introduced, the building refurbished and the entire broadcast network along with studios and equipment was updated.

April 2007 … Radio Kerry introduced a new Outside Broadcast Unit which is equipped with the latest in digital broadcasting and IP satellite technology.

2009 ... Radio Kerry introduced two new events ... The Kerry Wedding Show in February and Kerry’s Got Talent for the Summer period.

2010 ... Radio Kerry brought X Factor Winner Alexandra Burke and Britain’s Got Talent winners dance group Diversity to Tralee and also introduced a FREE App for download to enable Apple iPhone and iPod Touch users the opportunity to listen to Radio Kerry wherever they are in the world!

2011 ... Radio Kerry celebrated 21 years on air on July 14th 2011.

Broadcast

Radio Kerry broadcasts on five frequencies – 96.2, 96.6, 97.0, 97.2 and 97.6FM - throughout the County of Kerry. The station can also be picked up in parts of the surrounding counties of Cork, Limerick, Tipperary and Clare and on the internet at www.radiokerry.ie. Listening is also available via our App for iPhone, iPod Touch, Nokia and Android devices.

Listener Profile

Due to the nature of a local radio station's audience profile it is necessary to cater for a variety of programming tastes. A typical Radio Kerry listener is aged between 25 - 65 and their main information requirements are current affairs, local news, sports, music, specialist speech programming and weather. Their music interests are very varied. For this reason Radio Kerry broadcasts a number of special interest music programmes nightly.

IPSOS/JNLR Quarterly Listenership Survey

The IPSOS/JNLR Listener Survey results are released quarterly. 
The latest details – OCTOBER 2011 - CLICK HERE.
The next results are due February 2nd, 2012.

Awards

The station has won several Radio Advertising Awards, Community Games Media Awards, the McNamee Award for Sports Programmes, a New Adventures in Broadcasting Award, a Seachtain na Gaeilge award for Irish language programming and a BT award for technical innovation.

October 2005
Radio Kerry named Local Radio Station of the Year at the PPI Radio Awards.

October 2006
Radio Kerry wins the National PPI Award for Sports Coverage.

October 2007
Radio Kerry named Local Radio Station of the Year at the PPI Radio Awards.

October 2008

PPI Sports Programme of the Year for Terrace Talk.

PPI Silver Awards for:
Speech Broadcaster - John Drummey
Specialist Music Programme - JJ O'Shea for The Global Village.

PPI Bronze Awards for:
News Programme - Radio Kerry's One O’Clock News
News Story: Coverage of the closure of the Contact 4 call centre in Dingle.
Specialist Speech Programme: Ask the Explorer - a special programme during which Explorer Pat Falvey took questions from Deirdre Walsh and schoolchildren throughout Kerry about his trip to the South Pole.

2010 PPI Awards

Local Station of the Year 2010

2 Golds:
Sports Broadcaster of the Year - Weeshie Fogarty.
Specialist Speech Programme - Sean Hurley, Kerrywide.

2 Silver:
Short Feature - The Shrone Project - JJ O Shea and children at Shrone National School.
Drama - Tom Crean and the Terra Nova Expedition by Daithi Mc Mahon.

4 Bronze:
Sports Programme - The Greatest Day Series - Joe O'Mahony and the Sports Dept.
Special Speech Programme - The Saturday Supplement - Frank Lewis.
Drama - The Levellers - Daithi Mc Mahon.
Station Imaging - John Herlihy and FAS students.

2011 PPI Awards

Gold Awards:

News Story - The Bull Bows Out
A compilation put together by Aisling O'Brien of interviews with John O'Donoghue on the canvass trail, and on the day of the count when he lost his seat, and an interview with Deirdre Walsh several months afterwards.

Short Feature - the Moments That Shaped Kerry
A series by John Herlihy and the FAS students.

We also won two Bronze Awards

• Speech Broadcaster of the Year - Jerry O'Sullivan
• Irish Language Broadcasting - Talamh Draiochta by Muireann Ni Loingsigh.
  

Management Team

Paul Byrne, Chief Executive
Fiona Stack, General Manager and Programme Controller
Melanie O'Sullivan, Events, Marketing & Promotions
Pat Reidy, Sales Manager
Marie Sweeney, Finance Manager

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