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Date:31 December 2017 | Author: AdminThe stations provided hour music with hourly news updates to Dublin City and County. During the mids there were unconfirmed reports of test broadcasts from Irish offshore stations like Radio Shannon and Radio Lambay but such transmissions if they ever took place were probably the work of landbased radio enthusiasts. Kiss found a new frequency at the lower end of the band the former frequency of Galaxy FM with the same owner Franko aka the Man who CAN be moved. NCCR had come into being in when a community cooperative took over the ownership of a previous station NCLR North Cork Local Radio that had been in existence since. In March a number of Phantom staff were laid off both presenters and behind the scene. The hardline stance has also been extended to other pirate heartlands such as Cork Limerick and the border counties
Galway s first pirate radio station was Saor Raidi Chonamara Free Radio Connemara which first came on the air during Oireachtas na Gaeilge as a direct response to the Irish government s inaction over Irish language broadcasting. In the months after the closedown of Kiss only three pirates remained on air in Dublin Coast FM Club FM Dance and DLR. In Waterford saw its own dedicated Metal and Rock station appear on MHz the station was called MetalHertz FM and ran every weekend until voluntarily coming off air in to explore the possibility of securing a temporary broadcast license unfortunately the cost involved in such a venture was deemed impossible at the time for those involved so the station was put to rest. I Radio I has been hugely successful with young listeners. The high end of the FM band was favoured by church broadcasters using the domestic FM band as this was mostly unused for legal stations outside Dublin and Cork. The station immediately announced it was closing earlier than planned due to unforeseen circumstances. It was marked at the time as being the first commercial pirate station to operate since the super pirates of the s. Longtime presenters such as Jack Hyland Ritchie McCormack and Ritche Ryan lost their jobs
County Sound Radio moved to Galway City early in and broadcast live hours per day until December when the then Minister for Communications Ray Burke introduced new legislation aimed at suppressing pirate stations . Kevin and Mike Mulkerrins were new voices on the air along with Bob Houston Keith Finnegan and Shane Martin. It was the longest operating of the major stations. Subsequently its studio and transmission facilities were leased to a new licensed station the then Radio South in allowing this new station to come on air relatively quickly. Shortly afterwards the IRTC decided that the Southeast was to be chosen as a pilot for a youth regional licence which subsequently was awarded to Beat. The station had an incredibly clear signal on m MW due to its k transmitter which was imported from the United States and set up by Ex Radio Nordsee DJ and Engineer Robin Adcroft Banks. The hardline stance has also been extended to other pirate heartlands such as Cork Limerick and the border counties. Greg Browne Kfm Immedia UK SPIN currently RT Pulse RT fm and flying for Ryanair as a pilot. The marathon broadcast over the following Christmas of at least hours was history in the making leading the way into really a new world of. Another well remembered pirate station in County Cork was Community Radio Youghal CRY whose existence like NCLR in Mallow was ironically inspired by a stint in the town of RTs mobile community radio station which provided temporary community radio services during visits to dozens of towns nationwide in the s. After Eamonn Cooke took over Radio Dublin had ever increasing ambitions. Kiss FM was unique amongst the pirates of the time in that it was heavily formatted and operated twentyfour hours per day. After a few months WLR suffered a raid by the authorities on the November but quickly returned to the airwaves
Twiggs was the first radio station to broadcast Live bands onair in Galway City. Listeners would have to purchase scanners or other special receivers capable of receiving MHz. TV would include RT News and Sports Brian Dobson Anna Cassin Brian Jennings and Eamonn Falvey and TVs Aidan Cooney also on Q Martin King also on Today FM and Andrew OHanlon. Stations nowadays are usually FM based. Early in kollázs Kiss returned to a new frequency of in which they were broadcasting since. Claims by the consortium backed by Bob Geldof Hot Press owner Niall Stokes and businessman Dermot Hanrahan that Phantoms application benefited from their years of illegal broadcasting and a claimed infringement with its temporary licences were rejected. to tears of Pulse FM who had returned onto the airwaves. Limerick has had an amount of pirate radio stations over the yearsPulse FM began life as a garden shedbased radio Pipa jel station as with others in this list. Phantom subsequently won the competition for an Alternative Music licence in November but due to legal challenges from one of the losing consortia Zed FMscrollside FM it only went on air at the end of October with its new licence. Many of the present day stars of Irish broadcasting are proud to acknowledge their early days as part of the teams jófogás ingatlan to come out of Sunshine and Nova
Kiss fm went off air from and returned in the summer of on lower power. Over the valutacentrum course of its eightmonth existence the stations signals were jammed repeatedly by FM one of the then only two licensed commercial operators for the Dublin area and its various mountain transmitter sites were raided by the Department of Communications. Its main rival was South Coast Radio featuring Peter Madison as the first voice on air. Today Ireland has few pirate stations. A significant increase in the number of legal FM radio stations in Northern Ireland and increased crossborder monster high játékok cooperation between COMREG and the UKs OFCOM has led to this increased action towards the Border BlastersMost of the Radio City presenters went to national and local licensed radio stations. DCR ran from a music store called Ben ONeills which is still in existence. The marathon broadcast over the following Christmas of at least hours was history in the making leading the way into really a new world of
However Pulse was driven strongly by commercial forces from the beginning. These critics point out that while a mechanism has been put in place to remove pirates within a week little has been done to free up the procedures for starting a licensed radio station. copy GmbHStorm is a breakaway from Kiss Dundalk by one of the original shareholders of Kiss launching in and still on air to this present day as an online internet radio dance station with a similar radio format to the old Nitetime programming from pm to am Kiss of. Part of the reason for the change was pressure from the licensed radio community which felt that pirate operators were taking their listeners and that a level playing field needed to be restored. The closedown night of NCCR in Mallow on December was struck by tragedy when local farmer and former presenter and shareholder of the station Pat OConnor who was participating in an interview collapsed and died suddenly during a commercial break
Its headquarters are now in Casla Co. WKLR West Cork Local Radio founded in initially intended for the West Cork area but towards the end of the stations life had extended its transmission to cover Cork city and much of the rest of Co. The original transmitter was the original Power equipment. These villanyborotva critics point out that while a mechanism has been put in place to remove pirates within a week little has been done to free up the procedures for starting a unicredit.hu licensed radio station. It was called Radio Now providing Underground music from many of the Horogkötés Underground of Cork. Its main rival was South Coast Radio featuring Peter Madison as the first voice on air. Some of these stations subsequently moved across the border and broadcast into Northern Ireland from the Republic. Ex UK Pirate DJs were hired form the UK to get the station off the ground and were later replaced by Irish DJs when it grew in popularity and moved nearer Cork City to its Sunny Bank studio complex near Whites Cross. John Gaynor Peter Martin Rob Richards Aka Rob Allan Pete Young Bob Wilson aka Derry Ocallaghan of FM and others
Radio Milinda started Broadcasting early in. Pulse FM formed a consortium to Varázslók a waverly helyből apply for the new tarr kft Youth Music station licence offered by the IRTC. It was the longest operating of the major stations. They had DJs like Jim Lockhart aka Neil Prendiville. The station got its name from its owners MR P Miss Ken D and some Djs from Dublins Power FM. It was the first pirate radio station to be raided and prosecuted in the republic of Ireland
ABC Radio moved to a new studio in Waterford City in. On the station Open Genre music broadcast to a radius of between km of the city of Waterford. The brainchild of Shane Martin and owners of Twiggs nightclub where he worked as a nightclub DJ in Salthill Galway. Some exPhantom presenters from the pirate era have been involved with.