{"id":2249,"date":"2020-07-10T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=2249"},"modified":"2021-08-06T17:36:51","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T16:36:51","slug":"full-recording-q102-dublin-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/full-recording-q102-dublin-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Full recording: Q102 (Dublin)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6062\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2249-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/19880517-1218-1340-JasonMaine.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/19880517-1218-1340-JasonMaine.mp3\">http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/19880517-1218-1340-JasonMaine.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\/07\/19880517-1218-1340-JasonMaine.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=2249-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/19880517-1218-1340-JasonMaine.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"19880517-1218-1340-JasonMaine.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"797\" height=\"448\" src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/q102-logo.jpg\" alt=\"Full recording: Q102 (Dublin)\" class=\"wp-image-2250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/q102-logo.jpg 797w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/q102-logo-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/q102-logo-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Q102 logo from Alan MacSimoin collection. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This recording of Dublin super-pirate Q102 from May 1988 was made just before it was relaunched as &#8216;Super Q 102&#8217;. The new format was the work of American radio consultant Bill Cunningham, who had transformed Sunshine Radio into &#8216;Sunshine Hot Hits 101&#8217; in 1986. Q102 had acquired the transmitters and equipment of <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/full-recording-energy-103-dublin\/\">Energy 103<\/a> the previous March and, along with Sunshine, was one of the two biggest players in the Dublin pirate radio market. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The recording is from 1218-1340 on the 17th of May 1988 and features Jason Maine, followed by the start of Greg Gaughran&#8217;s show. There are regular mysterious promos for the new &#8216;super sounds&#8217; format to be launched within hours, and a competition to win tickets to the Michael Jackson concert in Cork at the end of July. The recording also contains advertisements for the Mosney holiday centre north of Dublin (now a direct provision centre for asylum seekers), an event to choose Miss Ireland 1988 at Rumour&#8217;s Nightclub, regular promos for the Evening Herald small ads and a Tony Allan voiceover for Bewley&#8217;s coffee.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We thank Ian Biggar for his donation of this recording. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This recording of Dublin super-pirate Q102 from May 1988 was made just before it was relaunched as &#8216;Super Q 102&#8217;. The new format was the work of American radio consultant Bill Cunningham, who had transformed Sunshine Radio into &#8216;Sunshine Hot Hits 101&#8217; in 1986. Q102 had acquired the transmitters and equipment of Energy 103 the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/full-recording-q102-dublin-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Full recording: Q102 (Dublin)&#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":[487,153,12,313,201,31,47],"class_list":["post-2249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-full-recordings","tag-487","tag-dublin","tag-energy-103","tag-greg-gaughran","tag-jason-maine","tag-q102","tag-sunshine-radio"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Full recording: Q102 (Dublin) - 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-q102-dublin-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Full recording: Q102 (Dublin) - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This recording of Dublin super-pirate Q102 from May 1988 was made just before it was relaunched as &#8216;Super Q 102&#8217;. 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