{"id":10595,"date":"2025-03-30T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=10595"},"modified":"2025-02-20T19:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T19:23:11","slug":"sunday-afternoon-on-bray-local-broadcasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/sunday-afternoon-on-bray-local-broadcasting\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday afternoon on Bray Local Broadcasting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1275\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-10595-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/8132AI-BLB-192.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/8132AI-BLB-192.mp3\">https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/8132AI-BLB-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\/02\/8132AI-BLB-192.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=10595-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/8132AI-BLB-192.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"8132AI-BLB-192.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"183\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/ireland_bray_blb_657_sticker.jpg\" alt=\"Sunday afternoon on Bray Local Broadcasting\" class=\"wp-image-970\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/ireland_bray_blb_657_sticker.jpg 750w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/ireland_bray_blb_657_sticker-300x73.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">BLB car sticker after the frequency change to 97.8 (courtesy DX Archive). <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Bray Local Broadcasting (BLB), was one of the leading community radio stations in the country during the pirate era of the 1970s-1980s, and was a founding member of the National Association for Community Broadcasting that lobbied for the licensing of non-commerical local radio. It broadcast from Bray in north Co. Wicklow for the best part of a decade from 1979-1988. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a short airchecked recording from 1983 of the Sunday <em>Disco Mix<\/em> show with an unidentified DJ, interspersed with adverts for small businesses in Bray. It is followed by Louis O\u2019Rourke with <em>At Your Service<\/em>, a programme for Civil Defence, Red Cross and the Order of Malta, an example of the type of community material championed by BLB. The tape was made by Kieran Murray between 1730-1800 on Sunday 1<sup>st<\/sup> May 1983 and is from the Anoraks Ireland Collection. 96.3 FM is noted on the inlay card, but BLB broadcast on 96.7 at the time, as well as 657 kHz AM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bray Local Broadcasting (BLB), was one of the leading community radio stations in the country during the pirate era of the 1970s-1980s, and was a founding member of the National Association for Community Broadcasting that lobbied for the licensing of non-commerical local radio. It broadcast from Bray in north Co. Wicklow for the best part &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/sunday-afternoon-on-bray-local-broadcasting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sunday afternoon on Bray Local Broadcasting&#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":[15],"tags":[501,564,86,24,395],"class_list":["post-10595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airchecks","tag-501","tag-anoraks-ireland-collection","tag-blb","tag-community-radio","tag-wicklow"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sunday afternoon on Bray Local Broadcasting - 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\/sunday-afternoon-on-bray-local-broadcasting\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sunday afternoon on Bray Local Broadcasting - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Bray Local Broadcasting (BLB), was one of the leading community radio stations in the country during the pirate era of the 1970s-1980s, and was a founding member of the National Association for Community Broadcasting that lobbied for the licensing of non-commerical local radio. 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