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Rick Dees with the Weekly Top 40 on Radio Nova

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Rick Dees with the Weekly Top 40 on Radio Nova
Rick Dees in 1986 at KIIS-FM. By Larry Bessel, Los Angeles Times – https://digital.library.ucla.edu/catalog/ark:/21198/zz0002w1c0, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=130241684

The American DJ Rick Dees was a familiar voice to Irish radio listeners in the 1980s thanks to the syndication of his Weekly Top 40 show on Radio Nova in Dublin. Dees worked at KIIS-FM in Los Angeles, a station that strongly influenced the original format of Radio Nova, and the Weekly Top 40 was launched in 1983 with an initial syndication on 18 stations. It continues to be produced and has since aired on over 200 stations around the world.

This recording of the Weekly Top 40 is from the Anoraks Ireland Collection. It was made on Saturday 1st December 1984 from Radio Nova on 102.75 FM between 1157-1235 and 1240-1328. The familiar high-level agency adverts generated by Nova are heard in commercial breaks. ABC Network News is read on the hour by David Johnson (Andrew Hanlon), who went on to a career in licensed independent media in Ireland.