{"id":1086,"date":"2020-04-05T19:01:21","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T18:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=1086"},"modified":"2026-02-22T16:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T16:26:08","slug":"aircheck-abc-radio-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/aircheck-abc-radio-dublin\/","title":{"rendered":"Various airchecks of ABC Radio (Dublin)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7373\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1086-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/19850518_ABC_jingles.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/19850518_ABC_jingles.mp3\">http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/19850518_ABC_jingles.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/19850518_ABC_jingles.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=1086-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/19850518_ABC_jingles.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"19850518_ABC_jingles.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Studio-edited-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Various airchecks of ABC Radio (Dublin)\" class=\"wp-image-1092\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Studio-edited-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Studio-edited-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Studio-edited-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Studio-edited-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Studio-edited-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Studio-edited.jpg 1491w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A photo of the studio courtesy of abcradio-dublin.com &#8211; location unknown. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>ABC Radio was one of the smaller Dublin stations in the early 1980s, on air from November 1st 1981 until the end of May 1984. It was an offshoot of Radio Dublin Channel 2 and began broadcasting from the Ivy Rooms Hotel (now the Gate Hotel) on Parnell Street. The frequency was 1386 kHz (announced as 1385 or 217 metres) but there were problems with another pirate on the same frequency. In April 1982, ABC moved to 963 kHz (312 metres) but was again jammed by another pirate operator, causing a further move to 981 kHz although 963 continued to be announced. ABC was one of only two stations to remain on air following the raids on Radio Nova and Sunshine Radio in May 1983 when it began 24-hour broadcasting in response to listener demand. Anoraks UK reported that it was raided itself in June 1983 due to a harmonic signal in the marine band. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was a tribute site at <em>www.abcradio-dublin.com<\/em> but it has been offline since 2022. Recordings of the station are not widely available so we&#8217;re glad to bring you a selection of station IDs and promos from 1981-3. Sound quality isn&#8217;t great, reflecting poor AM transmitters and old cassettes, but the IDs feature the voice of Tony Allan and the aircheck includes Radio Nova&#8217;s news bulletin which was being rebroadcast by ABC for a while &#8211; a pirate pirating news from another pirate! ABC closed in May 1984 following an unsuccessful move to the disused State Cinema in Phibsboro. The station merged with another small station Westside Radio to become Radio Annabel, which also broadcast from the Ivy Rooms Hotel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This recording is from the Skywave Tapes Collection. Skywave Radio International broadcast a shortwave station in the 1980s from Baldoyle in northeast Dublin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC Radio was one of the smaller Dublin stations in the early 1980s, on air from November 1st 1981 until the end of May 1984. It was an offshoot of Radio Dublin Channel 2 and began broadcasting from the Ivy Rooms Hotel (now the Gate Hotel) on Parnell Street. The frequency was 1386 kHz (announced &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/aircheck-abc-radio-dublin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Various airchecks of ABC Radio (Dublin)&#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":[15,16],"tags":[486,498,501,236,153,545,26],"class_list":["post-1086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airchecks","category-jingles","tag-486","tag-498","tag-501","tag-abc-dublin","tag-dublin","tag-skywave-collection","tag-tony-allan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Various airchecks of ABC Radio (Dublin) - 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\/aircheck-abc-radio-dublin\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Various airchecks of ABC Radio (Dublin) - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"ABC Radio was one of the smaller Dublin stations in the early 1980s, on air from November 1st 1981 until the end of May 1984. 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