DIT FM hits the airwaves and the Internet for a week from next Monday morning. For the first time in DIT FM's nine-year history listenership will not be confined to Dublin.
Brian O'Neill, lecturer in communications at DIT, says that for anybody in the world with a web browser it can be accessed with the click of a button.
According to O'Neill, "the integration of these new technologies is an extension of traditional media".
To put DIT FM online, the communications department linked up with the Digital Media Centre in DIT.
The station is a showcase for DIT's journalism and broadcasting students, and will provide vital experience for those involved. The programming is "going to a sound a bit different, but not wacky", says O'Neill. Third-year journalism students will provide hourly news as well as news programmes from 11 a.m. to 12 noon and 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.
There will also be prizes and giveaways, a travel show and Soul Food, a specialist music programme, at 10 a.m.
The website will include an archive where listeners can access highlights of programmes. Listeners can tune in to 106 FM or go to www.dmc.dit.ie/ ditfm from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
