{"id":10901,"date":"2025-08-11T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=10901"},"modified":"2025-08-11T07:00:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T06:00:36","slug":"border-series-saturday-morning-radio-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/border-series-saturday-morning-radio-north\/","title":{"rendered":"Border series: Saturday morning on Donegal&#8217;s Radio North"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2711\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-10901-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/19991002-1005-1056-DonnaReeves.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/19991002-1005-1056-DonnaReeves.mp3\">https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/19991002-1005-1056-DonnaReeves.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\/08\/19991002-1005-1056-DonnaReeves.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=10901-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/19991002-1005-1056-DonnaReeves.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"19991002-1005-1056-DonnaReeves.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"864\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Pirate.ie-loudspeaker-square.jpg\" alt=\"Border series: Saturday morning on Donegal&#039;s Radio North\" class=\"wp-image-10712\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Pirate.ie-loudspeaker-square.jpg 864w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Pirate.ie-loudspeaker-square-288x300.jpg 288w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Pirate.ie-loudspeaker-square-768x800.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Donegal pirate Radio North relaunched in 1999 with a new format of mostly American country music, calling itself &#8216;the new Radio North&#8217;. The station focused on FM and ran a parallel religious service Gospel 846 for part of the day on AM. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This recording of a Saturday morning show from autumn that year features presenter Donna Reeves, although the emphasis is on the music with only short links and a tighter station formatting. The voice of station manager Paul Barnett (RIP) is heard on station idents and adverts. As usual there are long commercial breaks featuring small businesses from Donegal, Antrim and Derry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tape was made on 2<sup>nd<\/sup> October 1999 between 1005-1056 from 846 kHz AM and is courtesy of Ian Biggar. Presumably Gospel 846 was not on the air at the time, with Radio North broadcasting on both AM and FM. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Donegal pirate Radio North relaunched in 1999 with a new format of mostly American country music, calling itself &#8216;the new Radio North&#8217;. 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This recording of a Saturday morning show from autumn that year features &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/border-series-saturday-morning-radio-north\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Border series: Saturday morning on Donegal&#8217;s 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":[641,46,282,459,69],"class_list":["post-10901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-full-recordings","tag-641","tag-am","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 morning on Donegal&#039;s 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-morning-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 morning on Donegal&#039;s Radio North - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Donegal pirate Radio North relaunched in 1999 with a new format of mostly American country music, calling itself &#8216;the new Radio North&#8217;. 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