{"id":1145,"date":"2020-04-12T11:08:59","date_gmt":"2020-04-12T10:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=1145"},"modified":"2024-05-26T18:26:04","modified_gmt":"2024-05-26T17:26:04","slug":"full-recording-kiss-fm-dublin-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/full-recording-kiss-fm-dublin-1\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Summer sounds you want to hear&#8217;: KISS FM from Foley Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1147\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1145-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/SW_tape45_KissFM-635pm-24June1985.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/SW_tape45_KissFM-635pm-24June1985.mp3\">http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/SW_tape45_KissFM-635pm-24June1985.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\/SW_tape45_KissFM-635pm-24June1985.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=1145-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/SW_tape45_KissFM-635pm-24June1985.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"SW_tape45_KissFM-635pm-24June1985.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"530\" src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/fullsizeoutput_18b-1024x530.jpeg\" alt=\"&#039;Summer sounds you want to hear&#039;: KISS FM from Foley Street\" class=\"wp-image-1144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/fullsizeoutput_18b-1024x530.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/fullsizeoutput_18b-300x155.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/fullsizeoutput_18b-768x397.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">KISS FM compliments slip, courtesy of Ian Biggar. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>There were so many pirates called KISS FM that it&#8217;s hard to untangle all their stories. We&#8217;ve done our homework on this one but as ever we welcome corrections and additional information. The origins of this KISS FM were in Dublin Community Radio, which began in 1984. KISS started testing in May 1985 and eventually settled on 1116 kHz AM and 94.8 and 104.1 FM. The station was owned by two German businessmen based in Cavan and located in the impressive sounding &#8216;Kiss Broadcasting Centre&#8217; in Dublin 1. Well-known Dublin radio presenter <a aria-label=\"David Baker (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/interview-dave-baker-klas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">David Baker<\/a> was the manager but remembers how run-down Foley Street was at the time. Over St. Patrick&#8217;s weekend 1986, KISS organised a Disco Dance Marathon in the nearby North Star Hotel in aid of the Irish Association for Autistic Children with the help of the <a aria-label=\"Radio West (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/airchecks-radio-west\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Radio West<\/a> outside broadcast unit. Later that year the station introduced an easy listening format using former presenters from <a aria-label=\"Radio Leinster (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/full-recording-radio-leinster-dublin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Radio Leinster<\/a>. On 3<sup>rd<\/sup> October 1986, KISS was the first pirate to be raided for years when officials from the Department of Communications arrived in Foley Street complaining about interference. There&#8217;s a detailed account of the raid in Peter Mulryan&#8217;s book <em>Radio Radio<\/em> (1988). KISS never recovered and is not listed in an Anoraks Ireland report from November 1986.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We visited KISS in Foley Street in 1986 and remember a studio on a mezzanine level with a window in front of the DJ&#8217;s console looking down on an empty factory. This recording is from the 24th of June 1985 (6.35-7.20pm) and features continuous music with one announcement by an unidentified DJ that KISS had just returned to 105 FM. There are ads and professional jingles and the music sounds great after all those years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to David Baker for help with details and to Ian Biggar for the image. 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>There were so many pirates called KISS FM that it&#8217;s hard to untangle all their stories. We&#8217;ve done our homework on this one but as ever we welcome corrections and additional information. The origins of this KISS FM were in Dublin Community Radio, which began in 1984. KISS started testing in May 1985 and eventually &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/full-recording-kiss-fm-dublin-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8216;Summer sounds you want to hear&#8217;: KISS FM from Foley Street&#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":[488,27,153,242,545],"class_list":["post-1145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-full-recordings","tag-488","tag-david-baker","tag-dublin","tag-kiss-fm-dublin-1","tag-skywave-collection"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&#039;Summer sounds you want to hear&#039;: KISS FM from Foley Street - 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-kiss-fm-dublin-1\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"&#039;Summer sounds you want to hear&#039;: KISS FM from Foley Street - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"There were so many pirates called KISS FM that it&#8217;s hard to untangle all their stories. 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