{"id":4798,"date":"2021-09-16T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=4798"},"modified":"2021-09-16T20:16:41","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T19:16:41","slug":"time-world-news-service-on-atlantic-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/time-world-news-service-on-atlantic-sound\/","title":{"rendered":"Time World News Service on Atlantic Sound"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3098\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-4798-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/19840300_Atlantic_Sound_TWNS_arms_control_Reagan_AR.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/19840300_Atlantic_Sound_TWNS_arms_control_Reagan_AR.mp3\">https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/19840300_Atlantic_Sound_TWNS_arms_control_Reagan_AR.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\/09\/19840300_Atlantic_Sound_TWNS_arms_control_Reagan_AR.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=4798-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/19840300_Atlantic_Sound_TWNS_arms_control_Reagan_AR.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"19840300_Atlantic_Sound_TWNS_arms_control_Reagan_AR.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"470\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Atlantic-sound-compliments-slip-1024x470.jpeg\" alt=\"Time World News Service on Atlantic Sound\" class=\"wp-image-4803\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Atlantic-sound-compliments-slip-1024x470.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Atlantic-sound-compliments-slip-300x138.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Atlantic-sound-compliments-slip-768x352.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Atlantic-sound-compliments-slip-1536x705.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Atlantic-sound-compliments-slip-2048x939.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Atlantic Sounds complements slip (courtesy of Ian Biggar). <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Time World News Service (TWNS) was set up in early 1984 in order to bring the work of <em>Time Magazine<\/em> to radio stations around the world. A letter from the publisher of Time on April 16<sup>th<\/sup> that year said that TNWS was &#8216;a new entry in radio journalism that will draw its material from the pages of TIME and its 87 correspondents and 32 news bureaus around the world&#8217;. TWNS was recorded in New York and broadcast in more than 100 US cities and 20 other countries including Ireland, where it was organised by the late Robbie Robinson of Sunshine Radio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"410\" height=\"546\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/atlantic-sound-night-poster-1983-alan-russell.jpg\" alt=\"Time World News Service on Atlantic Sound\" class=\"wp-image-4799\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/atlantic-sound-night-poster-1983-alan-russell.jpg 410w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/atlantic-sound-night-poster-1983-alan-russell-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\" \/><figcaption>Atlantic Sound poster from 1984 (courtesy Alan Russell). <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>One Irish pirate station to broadcast TWNS was Atlantic Sound in Galway, whose founder Alan Russell recalls that they received a special delivery\u00a0each month with the news features on cassettes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8216;From memory it cost \u00a340 per month &#8211; a pint of Guinness was \u00a31.37 back then and \u00a340 would have been an average weekly&nbsp;rent on a good flat or small house&#8217;, he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It seems that the service was less popular than expected and was phased out from the summer of 1984. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The recording above is an edition of TWNS about the arms race and below is another edition about film releases. Both date from March or April 1984, were broadcast on Atlantic Sound and are donated kindly by Alan Russell. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/19840300_Atlantic_Sound_TWNS_Spielberg_Movies_AR.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Time World News Service (TWNS) was set up in early 1984 in order to bring the work of Time Magazine to radio stations around the world. 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