{"id":11041,"date":"2025-09-26T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=11041"},"modified":"2025-09-20T15:19:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T14:19:00","slug":"radio-nova-breakfast-show-as-heard-in-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/radio-nova-breakfast-show-as-heard-in-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Nova breakfast show as heard in Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4307\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-11041-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/19821008_Radio_Nova_Declan_Meehan_0648-0718_TI.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/19821008_Radio_Nova_Declan_Meehan_0648-0718_TI.mp3\">https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/19821008_Radio_Nova_Declan_Meehan_0648-0718_TI.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\/09\/19821008_Radio_Nova_Declan_Meehan_0648-0718_TI.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=11041-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/19821008_Radio_Nova_Declan_Meehan_0648-0718_TI.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"19821008_Radio_Nova_Declan_Meehan_0648-0718_TI.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Declan-Meehan-1983-raid.jpg\" alt=\"Radio Nova breakfast show as heard in Britain\" class=\"wp-image-4416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Declan-Meehan-1983-raid.jpg 720w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Declan-Meehan-1983-raid-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Declan-Meehan-1983-raid-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Declan-Meehan-1983-raid-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Declan Meehan at Nova during the raid of 1983 (courtesy Joe King). <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The big Dublin pirate Radio Nova made various attempts to break into the British market during its 5 years on air. This recording features part of the breakfast show presented by Declan Meehan and Bob Gallico (RIP) and was made by English radio enthusiast Leon Tipler, presumably at his home in Kidderminster near Birmingham. It includes plenty of fading as is typical for AM propagation at the time of day and year. Although the weather forecast includes northwest England and Nova attempted to gain listeners in that region, clearly the signal was not commercially viable further south at Tipler&#8217;s home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The recording was made from 819 kHz AM on 8<sup>th<\/sup> October 1982 between 0648-0718 and is from the Leon Tipler Collection, donated to us by Steve England.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big Dublin pirate Radio Nova made various attempts to break into the British market during its 5 years on air. This recording features part of the breakfast show presented by Declan Meehan and Bob Gallico (RIP) and was made by English radio enthusiast Leon Tipler, presumably at his home in Kidderminster near Birmingham. It &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/radio-nova-breakfast-show-as-heard-in-britain\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Radio Nova breakfast show as heard in Britain&#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":[498,46,167,145,153,89,342,10],"class_list":["post-11041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-full-recordings","tag-498","tag-am","tag-bob-gallico","tag-declan-meehan","tag-dublin","tag-dx","tag-leon-tipler","tag-radio-nova"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Radio Nova breakfast show as heard in Britain - 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\/radio-nova-breakfast-show-as-heard-in-britain\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Radio Nova breakfast show as heard in Britain - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The big Dublin pirate Radio Nova made various attempts to break into the British market during its 5 years on air. 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