{"id":411805,"date":"2026-04-22T13:33:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T13:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/411805\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T13:33:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T13:33:13","slug":"radio-stations-reeling-over-hike-in-levy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/411805\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio stations reeling over hike in levy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A dramatic hike in broadcasting fees to be imposed on Independent radio stations, including Midwest Radio, by the regulator has sent shockwaves through the radio industry.<br \/>Without any warning, commercial stations are now faced with an almost 40 percent increase this year in the broadcast levy, that is used to fund Coimisi\u00fan na Me\u00e1n.<\/p>\n<p>This hike in the levy comes on top of increases applied last year, representing an average increase in the charge on the Irish Independent radio stations, over 2 years, of just under 70 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The Chief Executive of Independent Broadcasters of Ireland (IBI), Michael Kelly, insists the levy hike is not sustainable.<\/p>\n<p>There is very strong opposition among Members of IBI to the excessive hikes , and the organisation has today written to the Minister for Communications Patrick O\u2019Donavan requesting his immediate intervention.<\/p>\n<p>Michael has been speaking to Midwest News Editor Teresa O\u2019Malley about the sudden imposition of this significantly increased levy on local radio stations\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/mkradio.mp3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/mkradio.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A dramatic hike in broadcasting fees to be imposed on Independent radio stations, including Midwest Radio, by the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":{"0":"post-411805","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}