SELLING advertisements for both the print media and radio is one of the benefits the Cork Examiner expect out of its involvement in the new

-radio station.

The Examiner, through its holding company, Thomas Crosbie & Co, became an investor in the Radio Ireland only days before the oral hearings last month.

Yesterday the company secretary, Anthony Dinan, said the Examiner would see the new station offering opportunities to have an input through the Cork Examiner, the Evening Echo, the Western People and the Waterford News and Star, all owned by the group. This would strengthen the regional content of the new station. Yesterday at a meeting of the consortium, the chairman, Mr John McColgan, said that it was planning a November start from studios in temple Bar, so long as the transmission was in place.

Radio Ireland would attract a younger audience than RTE Radio I, with new voices and a fresh music policy. He believed the station would attract between 750,000 and one million listeners by the end of its first year.