{"id":10979,"date":"2025-09-03T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=10979"},"modified":"2025-09-04T16:47:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T15:47:33","slug":"early-cork-series-saturday-shows-on-radio-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/early-cork-series-saturday-shows-on-radio-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Cork series: Saturday shows on Radio City"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4592\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-10979-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/19801101_R_City_Cork_var_LOD.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/19801101_R_City_Cork_var_LOD.mp3\">https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/19801101_R_City_Cork_var_LOD.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\/19801101_R_City_Cork_var_LOD.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=10979-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/19801101_R_City_Cork_var_LOD.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"19801101_R_City_Cork_var_LOD.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"963\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/00000000_John_Ashford_LOD-1024x963.jpg\" alt=\"Early Cork series: Saturday shows on Radio City\" class=\"wp-image-10980\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/00000000_John_Ashford_LOD-1024x963.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/00000000_John_Ashford_LOD-300x282.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/00000000_John_Ashford_LOD-768x722.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/00000000_John_Ashford_LOD-rotated.jpg 1072w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">John Ashford (John Buckley, RIP) at Radio City (courtesy Lilian O&#8217;Donoghue). <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>This recording of Cork pirate Radio City was made on a Saturday in the winter of 1980 and gives a flavour of weekend programmes at the station. Kicking off is Ed Harris with the end of his Saturday breakfast show, who is followed by John Ashford (John Buckley, RIP) with <em>Morning Beat<\/em>. Next up are Pete Andrews (O\u2019Neill) and Karl Johnson (Dan Noonan) with horoscopes to wind up <em>Saturday Club<\/em> at 1300, followed by Noel Evans (Welch) with the <em>Saturday Sports Report<\/em>. The last section is of an unidentified DJ presenting disco music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The recording was made from 1512 kHz, announcing 199 metres on 1<sup>st<\/sup> November 1980 and is courtesy of Lilian O\u2019Donoghue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This recording of Cork pirate Radio City was made on a Saturday in the winter of 1980 and gives a flavour of weekend programmes at the station. Kicking off is Ed Harris with the end of his Saturday breakfast show, who is followed by John Ashford (John Buckley, RIP) with Morning Beat. Next up are &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/early-cork-series-saturday-shows-on-radio-city\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Early Cork series: Saturday shows on Radio City&#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":[15,152],"tags":[490,46,778,550,558,595,552,555,777],"class_list":["post-10979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airchecks","category-full-recordings","tag-490","tag-am","tag-dan-noonan","tag-early-cork-series","tag-ed-harris","tag-john-ashford","tag-noel-evans","tag-pete-oneill","tag-radio-city-cork"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Early Cork series: Saturday shows on Radio City - 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\/early-cork-series-saturday-shows-on-radio-city\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Early Cork series: Saturday shows on Radio City - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This recording of Cork pirate Radio City was made on a Saturday in the winter of 1980 and gives a flavour of weekend programmes at the station. 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