{"id":1096,"date":"2020-04-09T16:33:07","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T15:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=1096"},"modified":"2025-11-22T13:14:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T13:14:19","slug":"full-recording-magic-103-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/full-recording-magic-103-dublin\/","title":{"rendered":"Afternoon show on Magic 103"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5243\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1096-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Magic103-19-06-1985-1525pm-Mark-Weller-2.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Magic103-19-06-1985-1525pm-Mark-Weller-2.mp3\">http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Magic103-19-06-1985-1525pm-Mark-Weller-2.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\/Magic103-19-06-1985-1525pm-Mark-Weller-2.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=1096-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Magic103-19-06-1985-1525pm-Mark-Weller-2.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Magic103-19-06-1985-1525pm-Mark-Weller-2.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"170\" src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/ireland_dublin_magic_103_long_sticker-1024x170.jpg\" alt=\"Afternoon show on Magic 103\" class=\"wp-image-870\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/ireland_dublin_magic_103_long_sticker-1024x170.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/ireland_dublin_magic_103_long_sticker-300x50.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/ireland_dublin_magic_103_long_sticker-768x127.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/ireland_dublin_magic_103_long_sticker.jpg 1176w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Magic 103 car sticker, courtesy of DX Archive<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Magic 103 (103.5 FM and 1521 kHz AM) was one of the many short-lived sister stations of Radio Nova, and was on air from Leeson Street in Dublin for a few months in 1985. The station began broadcasting on <a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/aircheck-magic-103\/\">April 29th<\/a> and promised &#8216;easy listening and information for Dublin&#8217;. Presenters were journalists, most of whom were in dispute with station owner Chris Cary, and &#8216;ABC Network News&#8217; was shared between the two stations. Magic 103 was gone by September 22nd, as the Radio Nova empire began to unravel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This recording is of Mark Weller (Mark Costigan) from 3.25pm on 19 June 1985, featuring a studio discussion about stock car racing, including a forthcoming competition between teams from Radio Nova and Sunshine Radio! There&#8217;s also a comedy extract featuring iconic Nova voices such as Bob Gallico, John Clarke and Tony Allan. The 4pm news bulletin shared by both stations features international, Irish and British news. When the simulcast ends there is additional Irish news on Magic 103, evidence that Nova catered to a much larger broadcast area than just Dublin. Mark Costigan went on to work as a journalist for national independent station Radio Ireland\/Today FM in the 1990s and 2000s and was eventually appointed Head of Government Information Services.  <\/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>Magic 103 (103.5 FM and 1521 kHz AM) was one of the many short-lived sister stations of Radio Nova, and was on air from Leeson Street in Dublin for a few months in 1985. The station began broadcasting on April 29th and promised &#8216;easy listening and information for Dublin&#8217;. Presenters were journalists, most of whom &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/full-recording-magic-103-dublin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Afternoon show on Magic 103&#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":[488,167,153,172,540,545,26],"class_list":["post-1096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-full-recordings","tag-488","tag-bob-gallico","tag-dublin","tag-magic-103","tag-mark-costigan","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>Afternoon show on Magic 103 - 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\/full-recording-magic-103-dublin\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Afternoon show on Magic 103 - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Magic 103 (103.5 FM and 1521 kHz AM) was one of the many short-lived sister stations of Radio Nova, and was on air from Leeson Street in Dublin for a few months in 1985. 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