{"id":3179,"date":"2020-12-12T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-12T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=3179"},"modified":"2021-08-06T17:04:41","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T16:04:41","slug":"peter-madison-and-tony-allan-on-sunshine-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/peter-madison-and-tony-allan-on-sunshine-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Madison and Tony Allan on Sunshine Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2316\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3179-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/19801019_Sunshine_Radio_1442-1500_Peter_Madison_1500-1525_Tony_Allan_IB.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/19801019_Sunshine_Radio_1442-1500_Peter_Madison_1500-1525_Tony_Allan_IB.mp3\">https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/19801019_Sunshine_Radio_1442-1500_Peter_Madison_1500-1525_Tony_Allan_IB.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\/2020\/12\/19801019_Sunshine_Radio_1442-1500_Peter_Madison_1500-1525_Tony_Allan_IB.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=3179-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/19801019_Sunshine_Radio_1442-1500_Peter_Madison_1500-1525_Tony_Allan_IB.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"19801019_Sunshine_Radio_1442-1500_Peter_Madison_1500-1525_Tony_Allan_IB.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1013\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/early-sticker-1013x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Peter Madison and Tony Allan on Sunshine Radio\" class=\"wp-image-3158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/early-sticker-1013x1024.jpeg 1013w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/early-sticker-297x300.jpeg 297w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/early-sticker-768x777.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/early-sticker-1519x1536.jpeg 1519w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/early-sticker-2025x2048.jpeg 2025w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/early-sticker-100x100.jpeg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Early Sunshine sticker (courtesy of Ian Biggar). <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sunshine Radio was the first Dublin station to earn the label of &#8216;super-pirate&#8217; when it launched in September 1980. With massive investment, professional equipment and a powerful transmitter, it shook up the Dublin radio market and the pirate scene would never be the same again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"459\" height=\"311\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ireland_dublin_nova_madison_1183.jpg\" alt=\"Peter Madison and Tony Allan on Sunshine Radio\" class=\"wp-image-2659\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ireland_dublin_nova_madison_1183.jpg 459w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ireland_dublin_nova_madison_1183-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" \/><figcaption>Peter Madison on Radio Nova (photo courtesy of DX Archive). <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Peter Madison (RIP) was another talented broadcaster who joined Sunshine in the early days and would later broadcast on other pirates such as Boyneside Radio and Radio Nova. He is heard here at the end of his shift from 1442-1500 on Sunday 19<sup>th<\/sup> October 1980 and is then followed by another broadcasting giant, Tony Allan (RIP) from 1500-1525. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"978\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/early-studio-978x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Peter Madison and Tony Allan on Sunshine Radio\" class=\"wp-image-3159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/early-studio-978x1024.jpg 978w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/early-studio-287x300.jpg 287w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/early-studio-768x804.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/early-studio-1468x1536.jpg 1468w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/early-studio.jpg 1952w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>The original Sunshine studio in 1981 (photo courtesy of Ian Biggar). <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The short recording below is of Peter Madison a few days earlier, 16<sup>th<\/sup> October 1980, from 1206-1227. Quality is poor due to electrical interference but Peter can be heard telling listeners that he has cycled 10 miles to the studio in Portmarnock! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/19801016-1206-1227-PeterMadison.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>These recordings from 531 kHz AM were made in Ayrshire, Scotland by Ken Baird. We thank Ian Biggar for sharing them with us.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunshine Radio was the first Dublin station to earn the label of &#8216;super-pirate&#8217; when it launched in September 1980. With massive investment, professional equipment and a powerful transmitter, it shook up the Dublin radio market and the pirate scene would never be the same again. Peter Madison (RIP) was another talented broadcaster who joined Sunshine &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/peter-madison-and-tony-allan-on-sunshine-radio\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Peter Madison and Tony Allan on Sunshine 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":[490,46,153,89,306,47,26],"class_list":["post-3179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-full-recordings","tag-490","tag-am","tag-dublin","tag-dx","tag-peter-madison","tag-sunshine-radio","tag-tony-allan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Peter Madison and Tony Allan on Sunshine 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\/peter-madison-and-tony-allan-on-sunshine-radio\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Peter Madison and Tony Allan on Sunshine Radio - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sunshine Radio was the first Dublin station to earn the label of &#8216;super-pirate&#8217; when it launched in September 1980. 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