{"id":3896,"date":"2021-04-14T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=3896"},"modified":"2021-04-25T20:05:46","modified_gmt":"2021-04-25T19:05:46","slug":"big-d-station-idents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/big-d-station-idents\/","title":{"rendered":"Big D station idents"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5165\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3896-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/19800000_Big_D_Bryan_Lambert_IDs_KM.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/19800000_Big_D_Bryan_Lambert_IDs_KM.mp3\">https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/19800000_Big_D_Bryan_Lambert_IDs_KM.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\/2021\/04\/19800000_Big_D_Bryan_Lambert_IDs_KM.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=3896-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/19800000_Big_D_Bryan_Lambert_IDs_KM.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"19800000_Big_D_Bryan_Lambert_IDs_KM.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"726\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/ireland_dublin_big_d_large_poster-1-726x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Big D station idents\" class=\"wp-image-3897\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/ireland_dublin_big_d_large_poster-1-726x1024.jpg 726w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/ireland_dublin_big_d_large_poster-1-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/ireland_dublin_big_d_large_poster-1-768x1083.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/ireland_dublin_big_d_large_poster-1-1089x1536.jpg 1089w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/ireland_dublin_big_d_large_poster-1-1453x2048.jpg 1453w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/ireland_dublin_big_d_large_poster-1-scaled.jpg 1816w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 726px) 100vw, 726px\" \/><figcaption>Big D poster from c. 1979 (courtesy of DX Archive). <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ve already covered the <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/early-radio-dublin-jingles-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fascinating story<\/a> of the first pirate jingles in Ireland, the American package used by Radio Dublin from the early 1970s. The jingles, made by a company called SPOT Productions in Texas, referred to &#8216;WDEE &#8211; The Big D&#8217; and at that time, Radio Dublin used the Big D tagline. It was probably the first of many cases of a station calling itself after whatever jingle package it could find.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, the infamous split in Radio Dublin led to a separate station calling itself Big D, which came on air in April 1978. The SPOT jingle package surfaced again and can be heard in this selection of idents for DJ Bryan Lambert, voiced by the legendary Tony Allan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We thank Kieran Murray for his donation of this recording. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve already covered the fascinating story of the first pirate jingles in Ireland, the American package used by Radio Dublin from the early 1970s. 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It was &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/big-d-station-idents\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Big D station idents&#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":[16],"tags":[490,35,153,9,26],"class_list":["post-3896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jingles","tag-490","tag-big-d","tag-dublin","tag-radio-dublin","tag-tony-allan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Big D station idents - 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\/big-d-station-idents\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Big D station idents - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We&#8217;ve already covered the fascinating story of the first pirate jingles in Ireland, the American package used by Radio Dublin from the early 1970s. 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