{"id":19,"date":"2018-12-22T15:30:13","date_gmt":"2018-12-22T15:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=19"},"modified":"2019-01-05T15:51:33","modified_gmt":"2019-01-05T15:51:33","slug":"interview-karl-tsigdinos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/interview-karl-tsigdinos\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Karl Tsigdinos (ARD and others)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6583\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-19-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Karl-Tsigdinos.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Karl-Tsigdinos.mp3\">http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Karl-Tsigdinos.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\/2018\/12\/Karl-Tsigdinos.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=19-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Karl-Tsigdinos.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Karl-Tsigdinos.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On October 20th 2018 over 100 radio anoraks gathered in the Ballsbridge Hotel Dublin. The purpose was to meet and record oral history of the pirate radio era.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Karl Tsigdinos worked on the pirates from the mid seventies to early eighties going on to work with Radio Ireland \/ Today FM, Dublin City FM and RTE Gold. In this interview he explains how Hotpress (where he worked as a journalist) had a radio show that travelled around between Big D, Radio Dublin and ARD in the late seventies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"574\" height=\"336\" src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/karl-Tsigdinis2.png\" alt=\"Interview: Karl Tsigdinos (ARD and others)\" class=\"wp-image-92\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/karl-Tsigdinis2.png 574w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/karl-Tsigdinis2-300x176.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 574px) 100vw, 574px\" \/><figcaption>Karl Tsigdinos (Picture via Christmas FM)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 20th 2018 over 100 radio anoraks gathered in the Ballsbridge Hotel Dublin. 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