{"id":1442,"date":"2021-12-26T20:36:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-26T20:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=1442"},"modified":"2023-11-14T19:55:56","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T19:55:56","slug":"hugh-hardy-klas-98","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/hugh-hardy-klas-98\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugh Hardy on KLAS 98"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1984\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1442-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/1986_12_26_klas_98.5_1637-1722_hardy.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/1986_12_26_klas_98.5_1637-1722_hardy.mp3\">http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/1986_12_26_klas_98.5_1637-1722_hardy.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\/05\/1986_12_26_klas_98.5_1637-1722_hardy.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=1442-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/1986_12_26_klas_98.5_1637-1722_hardy.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"1986_12_26_klas_98.5_1637-1722_hardy.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"714\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ireland_dublin_klas_1987_56-1024x714.jpg\" alt=\"Hugh Hardy on KLAS 98\" class=\"wp-image-7448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ireland_dublin_klas_1987_56-1024x714.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ireland_dublin_klas_1987_56-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ireland_dublin_klas_1987_56-768x536.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ireland_dublin_klas_1987_56.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>The late Hugh Hardy in the KLAS studios in Sutton in 1987 (courtesy DX Archive). <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>KLAS 98 (later Class) was an easy listening station which broadcast to Dublin from November 1986 until the closedowns of December 1988. It was set up by the founder of the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/tags\/radio-carousel\/\" target=\"_blank\">Radio Carousel<\/a> network, Hugh Hardy, and based first at a garage behind his home in Sutton in northeast Dublin. News bulletins from KLAS and overnight programming were relayed on occasion from Dublin to the Carousel stations in Navan and Dundalk. After Hardy stepped back in early 1988, KLAS moved to Dame Street in the city centre and was managed by David Baker. It then moved to Harcourt Street where it was taken over by television aerial salesman John J. May and relaunched as Class 98. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"664\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/8073AI-1024x664.jpg\" alt=\"Hugh Hardy on KLAS 98\" class=\"wp-image-7456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/8073AI-1024x664.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/8073AI-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/8073AI-768x498.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/8073AI-rotated.jpg 1184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Original cassette label from Anoraks Ireland Collection. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This recording from 98.5 FM is of Hugh Hardy presenting on St. Stephen&#8217;s Day, 26<sup>th<\/sup> December 1986. News on the hour is read by a very young John Walsh, co-founder of Pirate.ie and the voice of the late Bob Gallico is heard on an advert. There are no time checks or references to St. Stephen&#8217;s Day in the links so this show could have been recorded for one of the automated 8-hour VHS tapes used by KLAS overnight. John Walsh has written his memories of KLAS <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/wirelessflirt.wordpress.com\/2017\/02\/16\/a-cure-head-trapped-in-tranquillity-memories-of-klas-98-5-fm\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Part 1 of the recording above runs from 1637-1725 and Part 2 below from 1740-1828. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/8073AI-A-192.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption>Part 2 from 1740.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The recording is from the Anoraks Ireland Tapes Collection, donated to us by Paul Davidson.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KLAS 98 (later Class) was an easy listening station which broadcast to Dublin from November 1986 until the closedowns of December 1988. It was set up by the founder of the Radio Carousel network, Hugh Hardy, and based first at a garage behind his home in Sutton in northeast Dublin. News bulletins from KLAS and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/hugh-hardy-klas-98\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hugh Hardy on KLAS 98&#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":[536,564,153,81,45,80,681],"class_list":["post-1442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-full-recordings","tag-536","tag-anoraks-ireland-collection","tag-dublin","tag-hugh-hardy","tag-john-walsh","tag-klas","tag-st-stephens-day"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Hugh Hardy on KLAS 98 - 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\/hugh-hardy-klas-98\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hugh Hardy on KLAS 98 - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"KLAS 98 (later Class) was an easy listening station which broadcast to Dublin from November 1986 until the closedowns of December 1988. 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