{"id":4309,"date":"2021-07-06T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=4309"},"modified":"2024-06-15T10:58:17","modified_gmt":"2024-06-15T09:58:17","slug":"ktok-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/ktok-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Border series: Weekend sounds on Donegal&#8217;s KTOK"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1853\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-4309-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/19880826_KTOK_959fm_Laura_Live_1934-2021_JB.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/19880826_KTOK_959fm_Laura_Live_1934-2021_JB.mp3\">https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/19880826_KTOK_959fm_Laura_Live_1934-2021_JB.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\/07\/19880826_KTOK_959fm_Laura_Live_1934-2021_JB.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=4309-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/19880826_KTOK_959fm_Laura_Live_1934-2021_JB.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"19880826_KTOK_959fm_Laura_Live_1934-2021_JB.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"664\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/ireland_donegal_ktok_1988_105-1024x664.jpg\" alt=\"Border series: Weekend sounds on Donegal&#039;s KTOK\" class=\"wp-image-4312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/ireland_donegal_ktok_1988_105-1024x664.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/ireland_donegal_ktok_1988_105-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/ireland_donegal_ktok_1988_105-768x498.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/ireland_donegal_ktok_1988_105-1536x996.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/ireland_donegal_ktok_1988_105.jpg 1665w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>KTOK studio in 1988 with Russ Padmore in the blue shirt (photo courtesy of DX Archive). <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>KTOK broadcast from Donegal Town from mid-1987 until the end of the 1988, one of many stations from a county that has long boasted a pirate tradition. It was set up by Russ Padmore who had come from North West Community Radio in Buncrana. KTOK was first noted on 1566 kHz on 24<sup>th<\/sup> May 1987 in the Anoraks UK <em>Weekly Report<\/em>. By July that year, FM frequencies on 96, 98 and 103 MHz were also logged. Russ Padmore closed down KTOK on New Year&#8217;s Eve 1988 when the Irish airwaves fell largely silent. He now works for the BBC.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"712\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/KTOK-landscape-1024x712.jpeg\" alt=\"Border series: Weekend sounds on Donegal&#039;s KTOK\" class=\"wp-image-4319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/KTOK-landscape-1024x712.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/KTOK-landscape-300x209.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/KTOK-landscape-768x534.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/KTOK-landscape-1536x1068.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/KTOK-landscape-2048x1424.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>KTOK flyer (courtesy of Ian Biggar). <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This recording was made from 95.9 FM (announcing 96FM for south Donegal, Sligo and Leitrim) on 26<sup>th<\/sup> August 1988 from 1934-2021 and features &#8216;Laura Live&#8217; (Laura Hughes) with Weekend Sounds. Another transmitter on 99 FM covered north Donegal. There are ads from across central and south Donegal and from Sligo Town. Thanks to John Breslin for the donation.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KTOK broadcast from Donegal Town from mid-1987 until the end of the 1988, one of many stations from a county that has long boasted a pirate tradition. It was set up by Russ Padmore who had come from North West Community Radio in Buncrana. KTOK was first noted on 1566 kHz on 24th May 1987 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/ktok-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Border series: Weekend sounds on Donegal&#8217;s KTOK&#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":[487,260,459,458],"class_list":["post-4309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-full-recordings","tag-487","tag-border","tag-donegal","tag-ktok"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Border series: Weekend sounds on Donegal&#039;s KTOK - 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\/ktok-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Border series: Weekend sounds on Donegal&#039;s KTOK - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"KTOK broadcast from Donegal Town from mid-1987 until the end of the 1988, one of many stations from a county that has long boasted a pirate tradition. 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