{"id":3268,"date":"2020-12-21T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=3268"},"modified":"2021-08-06T17:03:04","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T16:03:04","slug":"dublins-easy-listening-station-klas-98","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/dublins-easy-listening-station-klas-98\/","title":{"rendered":"Dublin&#8217;s easy listening station KLAS 98"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6503\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3268-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/19861221_KLAS_John_Walsh_1320_1400_aircheck.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/19861221_KLAS_John_Walsh_1320_1400_aircheck.mp3\">https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/19861221_KLAS_John_Walsh_1320_1400_aircheck.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\/19861221_KLAS_John_Walsh_1320_1400_aircheck.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=3268-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/19861221_KLAS_John_Walsh_1320_1400_aircheck.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"19861221_KLAS_John_Walsh_1320_1400_aircheck.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\/2020\/12\/touch_of_klas-1024x714.jpg\" alt=\"Dublin&#039;s easy listening station KLAS 98\" class=\"wp-image-3269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/touch_of_klas-1024x714.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/touch_of_klas-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/touch_of_klas-768x536.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/touch_of_klas-1536x1072.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/touch_of_klas.jpg 1551w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>KLAS logo from 1987 (courtesy of Eddie Bohan). <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>KLAS was Dublin&#8217;s easy listening station, broadcasting on 98.5 FM from November 1986 until December 31<sup>st<\/sup> 1988. It was set up by Hugh Hardy who owned the Radio Carousel network and broadcast from a time from a garage behind his home in Sutton in Dublin. The station was renamed as Class 98 and managed by John May in its final months on air from studios in Harcourt Street in the city centre. It applied unsuccessfully in 1989 for one of the two Dublin city licences. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the founders of Pirate.ie, John Walsh, was involved in KLAS while still at school. Here is an aircheck of his programme between 1320-1400 on 21<sup>st<\/sup> December 1986 which includes agency ads and an ad for the <em>Sunday World<\/em> voiced by John himself. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KLAS was Dublin&#8217;s easy listening station, broadcasting on 98.5 FM from November 1986 until December 31st 1988. It was set up by Hugh Hardy who owned the Radio Carousel network and broadcast from a time from a garage behind his home in Sutton in Dublin. The station was renamed as Class 98 and managed by &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/dublins-easy-listening-station-klas-98\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dublin&#8217;s easy listening station 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":[15],"tags":[536,153,81,45,80],"class_list":["post-3268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airchecks","tag-536","tag-dublin","tag-hugh-hardy","tag-john-walsh","tag-klas"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dublin&#039;s easy listening station 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\/dublins-easy-listening-station-klas-98\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dublin&#039;s easy listening station KLAS 98 - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"KLAS was Dublin&#8217;s easy listening station, broadcasting on 98.5 FM from November 1986 until December 31st 1988. 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