{"id":10753,"date":"2025-04-29T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=10753"},"modified":"2025-04-29T20:09:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T19:09:16","slug":"border-series-saturday-evening-show-on-radio-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/border-series-saturday-evening-show-on-radio-north\/","title":{"rendered":"Border series: Saturday evening show on Radio North"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9125\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-10753-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/8128AI-192.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/8128AI-192.mp3\">https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/8128AI-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\/04\/8128AI-192.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=10753-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/8128AI-192.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"8128AI-192.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"207\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ireland_carndonagh_radio_north_long_stickerb-1024x207.jpg\" alt=\"Border series: Saturday evening show on Radio North\" class=\"wp-image-3573\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ireland_carndonagh_radio_north_long_stickerb-1024x207.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ireland_carndonagh_radio_north_long_stickerb-300x61.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ireland_carndonagh_radio_north_long_stickerb-768x155.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ireland_carndonagh_radio_north_long_stickerb.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Radio North car sticker from c. 1990 (courtesy DX Archive). <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This recording of Donegal station Radio North is of a Saturday evening show from the autumn of 1990. DJ Neil Sweeney has plenty of inane chatter and plays pop\/chart music and oldies for the first half-hour, followed by a tribute to American country singer Marty Robbins. The feature includes recordings of WIL FM in Nashville. There are plenty of adverts from Donegal, Derry and Antrim and an advertising promo claims that Radio North has coverage of 5 counties. Syndicated news headlines from ITN in London are broadcast at 1730 and 1800 and a PO box number in Ballymoney, Co. Antrim, is given out as the station address.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was cut-throat competition between the Donegal pirates at this time, and Radio North was no doubt feeling the pressure from loss of advertising revenue to rival station North Atlantic Radio, set up by former Radio North DJs in November 1989. This recording was made from 98.8 FM on 22<sup>nd<\/sup> September 1990 between 1729-1850 and is from the Anoraks Ireland Collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This recording of Donegal station Radio North is of a Saturday evening show from the autumn of 1990. DJ Neil Sweeney has plenty of inane chatter and plays pop\/chart music and oldies for the first half-hour, followed by a tribute to American country singer Marty Robbins. The feature includes recordings of WIL FM in Nashville. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/border-series-saturday-evening-show-on-radio-north\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Border series: Saturday evening show on Radio North&#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":[630,564,260,282,459,69],"class_list":["post-10753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-full-recordings","tag-630","tag-anoraks-ireland-collection","tag-border","tag-country-music","tag-donegal","tag-radio-north"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Border series: Saturday evening show on Radio North - 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\/border-series-saturday-evening-show-on-radio-north\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Border series: Saturday evening show on Radio North - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This recording of Donegal station Radio North is of a Saturday evening show from the autumn of 1990. 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