{"id":10459,"date":"2025-01-24T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=10459"},"modified":"2025-01-24T07:56:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T07:56:48","slug":"wedding-package-class-fm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wedding-package-class-fm\/","title":{"rendered":"Wedding package giveaway on Class FM"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3536\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-10459-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/AI2232-B-192.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/AI2232-B-192.mp3\">https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/AI2232-B-192.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/AI2232-B-192.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=10459-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/AI2232-B-192.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"AI2232-B-192.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"771\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Class-FM-Wedding-Promotion-1988-771x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Wedding package giveaway on Class FM\" class=\"wp-image-10467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Class-FM-Wedding-Promotion-1988-771x1024.jpg 771w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Class-FM-Wedding-Promotion-1988-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Class-FM-Wedding-Promotion-1988-768x1020.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Class-FM-Wedding-Promotion-1988-1157x1536.jpg 1157w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Class-FM-Wedding-Promotion-1988-1543x2048.jpg 1543w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Class-FM-Wedding-Promotion-1988-scaled.jpg 1928w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Wedding promotion poster from 1988 (Anoraks Ireland Collection). <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Class 98.5 FM (formerly KLAS), was an easy-listening station broadcasting from Dublin from 1986-1988. Set up by the founder of Radio Carousel, Hugh Hardy (RIP), it was later sold to television aerials salesman John Maye. Based in the up-market Harcourt Street area for the last part of its existence, Class was popular with older listeners not catered for by the chart music played on many pirate stations. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"980\" height=\"655\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/ireland_dublin_class98_cutting_310788.jpg\" alt=\"Wedding package giveaway on Class FM\" class=\"wp-image-10461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/ireland_dublin_class98_cutting_310788.jpg 980w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/ireland_dublin_class98_cutting_310788-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/ireland_dublin_class98_cutting_310788-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Class 98.5 FM advert from 1988 (courtesy DX Archive). <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>This recording of Class was made in the station&#8217;s final month and begins with Bryan Lambert presenting an evening show sponsored by Clearvision. Music is a mixture of easy-listening and classical and there are news headlines at the top of the hour. News is followed by station owner John May to announce the winner of a wedding package worth \u00a32,000 sponsored by various Dublin businesses. The voice of Hugh Browne (RIP), who had previously broadcast on pirate radio in Cork, is among those heard on adverts and there is also a promo for a special classical music show in aid of the National Children&#8217;s Hospital, presented by Nella Allen. Nella had previously presented classical shows on Radio Leinster (1981-1983), which bore certain similarities to Class in its offering to listeners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The recording is from the Anoraks Ireland Collection and was made from 98.5 FM between 1747-1833 on Monday 5<sup>th<\/sup> December 1988.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Class 98.5 FM (formerly KLAS), was an easy-listening station broadcasting from Dublin from 1986-1988. 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Based in the up-market Harcourt Street area for the last part of its existence, Class was popular with older listeners &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wedding-package-class-fm\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wedding package giveaway on Class FM&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[152],"tags":[487,564,432,153,747,80],"class_list":["post-10459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-full-recordings","tag-487","tag-anoraks-ireland-collection","tag-bryan-lambert","tag-dublin","tag-john-may","tag-klas"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Wedding package giveaway on Class FM - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wedding-package-class-fm\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wedding package giveaway on Class FM - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Class 98.5 FM (formerly KLAS), was an easy-listening station broadcasting from Dublin from 1986-1988. 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