{"id":11458,"date":"2026-05-04T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=11458"},"modified":"2026-05-01T20:43:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T19:43:40","slug":"border-series-country-requests-on-misty-mountain-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/border-series-country-requests-on-misty-mountain-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Border series: Country requests on Misty Mountain Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4489\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-11458-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20070115-2056-2200-MistyMountainRadio_106.2FM.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20070115-2056-2200-MistyMountainRadio_106.2FM.mp3\">https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20070115-2056-2200-MistyMountainRadio_106.2FM.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\/2026\/05\/20070115-2056-2200-MistyMountainRadio_106.2FM.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=11458-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20070115-2056-2200-MistyMountainRadio_106.2FM.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"20070115-2056-2200-MistyMountainRadio_106.2FM.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter 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: Country requests on Misty Mountain Radio\" 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><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Misty Mountain Radio broadcast from the Cavan border region in the 2000s, specialising in show bands and country and Irish music. In this recording, DJ Mark Gregory has a CD to giveaway and there are requests from listeners around the county. The recording was made between from 106.2 FM between 2056-2200 on 15<sup>th<\/sup> January 2007. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to Ian Biggar for donating the tape, which was recorded originally by Brian Johnson. There is no known link between this station and the shortwave pirate Misty Mountain Radio that broadcast from the border region in the 1980s. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Misty Mountain Radio broadcast from the Cavan border region in the 2000s, specialising in show bands and country and Irish music. In this recording, DJ Mark Gregory has a CD to giveaway and there are requests from listeners around the county. The recording was made between from 106.2 FM between 2056-2200 on 15th January 2007. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/border-series-country-requests-on-misty-mountain-radio\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Border series: Country requests on Misty Mountain Radio&#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":[822,260,257,282,821],"class_list":["post-11458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-full-recordings","tag-822","tag-border","tag-cavan","tag-country-music","tag-misty-mountain-radio"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Border series: Country requests on Misty Mountain Radio - 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-country-requests-on-misty-mountain-radio\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Border series: Country requests on Misty Mountain Radio - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Misty Mountain Radio broadcast from the Cavan border region in the 2000s, specialising in show bands and country and Irish music. 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