{"id":10598,"date":"2025-03-23T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=10598"},"modified":"2025-03-29T09:15:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T09:15:21","slug":"sunday-afternoon-on-wicklow-community-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/sunday-afternoon-on-wicklow-community-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday afternoon on Wicklow Community Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3004\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-10598-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/8132AI-WCR-192.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/8132AI-WCR-192.mp3\">https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/8132AI-WCR-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-WCR-192.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=10598-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/8132AI-WCR-192.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"8132AI-WCR-192.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"233\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ireland_wicklow_wcr_heading-1024x233.jpg\" alt=\"Sunday afternoon on Wicklow Community Radio\" class=\"wp-image-10599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ireland_wicklow_wcr_heading-1024x233.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ireland_wicklow_wcr_heading-300x68.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ireland_wicklow_wcr_heading-768x175.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ireland_wicklow_wcr_heading-1536x350.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ireland_wicklow_wcr_heading-2048x467.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">WCR sticker (courtesy DX Archive). <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Wicklow Community Radio (WCR) began broadcasting from Wicklow Town in mid-1982, emerging from a network of temporary community stations set up by the Community Broadcasting Cooperative in Dublin in the early 1980s. It relaunched as Wicklow Local Community Broadcasting (WLCB) in summer 1985, which was more commercially-oriented despite the name. A final change in July 1987 rebranded the station as Viking 105, and it continued as such until the end of 1988.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is an airchecked recording of WCR from 1983. It begins with the end of the <em>WCR Top 30 Show<\/em> with David Byrne and is followed by Victor Ryan with <em>Sounds Easy<\/em>. There are plenty of adverts for businesses around Wicklow and reference to the Maytime festival in Newtownmountkennedy. WCR broadcast on 1512 kHz AM at the time, and station liners feature that frequency. The DJ (and marketing material above) also refers to 198.4 metres, which was unusual as metres were often rounded up or down, sometimes quite generously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The recording was made by Kieran Murray between 1630-1730 from 1512 kHz on Sunday 1<sup>st<\/sup> May 1983 and is from the Anoraks Ireland Collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wicklow Community Radio (WCR) began broadcasting from Wicklow Town in mid-1982, emerging from a network of temporary community stations set up by the Community Broadcasting Cooperative in Dublin in the early 1980s. It relaunched as Wicklow Local Community Broadcasting (WLCB) in summer 1985, which was more commercially-oriented despite the name. 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