{"id":10845,"date":"2025-07-11T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=10845"},"modified":"2025-07-03T15:07:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T14:07:55","slug":"sunday-afternoon-on-metro-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/sunday-afternoon-on-metro-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday afternoon on Metro Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2303\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-10845-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/8138AI-Metro-192.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/8138AI-Metro-192.mp3\">https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/8138AI-Metro-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\/07\/8138AI-Metro-192.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=10845-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/8138AI-Metro-192.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"8138AI-Metro-192.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1744752694231-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Sunday afternoon on Metro Radio\" class=\"wp-image-10771\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1744752694231-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1744752694231-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1744752694231-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1744752694231-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1744752694231-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1744752694231-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1744752694231.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Metro Radio was a small short-lived AM pirate station broadcasting from Clontarf on the northside of Dublin in 1983. Anoraks UK first logged it on 1557 kHz on 31<sup>st<\/sup> May but it does not appear consistently in listings and seems to have been an irregular or hobby rather than a full-time operator. The same frequency was also used by another irregular pirate, Diamond Radio, around this time and indeed Diamond reoccupied 1557 kHz in 1984 after the apparent demise of Metro Radio by the end of 1983.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This short airchecked recording is from the Anoraks Ireland Collection and was made from 1557 kHz, announcing 192 metres, between 1300-1500 on Sunday 16<sup>th<\/sup> October 1983. The DJ is John Young and only one advert is heard during the broadcast. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metro Radio was a small short-lived AM pirate station broadcasting from Clontarf on the northside of Dublin in 1983. Anoraks UK first logged it on 1557 kHz on 31st May but it does not appear consistently in listings and seems to have been an irregular or hobby rather than a full-time operator. The same frequency &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/sunday-afternoon-on-metro-radio\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sunday afternoon on Metro Radio&#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":[501,46,564,153,22,269],"class_list":["post-10845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airchecks","tag-501","tag-am","tag-anoraks-ireland-collection","tag-dublin","tag-hobby-station","tag-metro-radio"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sunday afternoon on Metro Radio - 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-metro-radio\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sunday afternoon on Metro Radio - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Metro Radio was a small short-lived AM pirate station broadcasting from Clontarf on the northside of Dublin in 1983. 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