{"id":421626,"date":"2026-04-28T12:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T12:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/421626\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T12:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T12:48:09","slug":"levy-increase-for-radio-stations-unacceptable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/421626\/","title":{"rendered":"Levy increase for radio stations \u201cunacceptable\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Coimisi\u00fan na Me\u00e1n urgently needs to examine its decision to sharply increase the broadcasting levy on independent radio stations across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The broadcasting regulator is being told it should appear before the Oireachtas Media Committee to explain the hike and what the money will be used for.<\/p>\n<p>Committee member Miche\u00e1l Carrigy says local radio stations have been blindsided by the increase of 39%\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/NEWSTALK202604280109.wav\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/NEWSTALK202604280109.wav<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coimisi\u00fan na Me\u00e1n urgently needs to examine its decision to sharply increase the broadcasting levy on independent radio&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-421626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421626","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=421626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}