{"id":494,"date":"2019-01-04T22:13:11","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T22:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=494"},"modified":"2023-05-17T21:28:11","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T20:28:11","slug":"jingles-kits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/jingles-kits\/","title":{"rendered":"Jingle package of KITS in Monaghan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7303\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-494-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/KITSJINGLEMIX-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/KITSJINGLEMIX-1.mp3\">http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/KITSJINGLEMIX-1.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/KITSJINGLEMIX-1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=494-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/KITSJINGLEMIX-1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"KITSJINGLEMIX-1.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"213\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ireland_monaghan_kits_long_sticker-1024x213.jpg\" alt=\"Jingle package of KITS in Monaghan\" class=\"wp-image-3404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ireland_monaghan_kits_long_sticker-1024x213.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ireland_monaghan_kits_long_sticker-300x62.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ireland_monaghan_kits_long_sticker-768x159.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ireland_monaghan_kits_long_sticker.jpg 1098w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>KITS car sticker (courtesy of DX Archive). <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>KITS was one of the many &#8216;border blasters&#8217;, stations which popped up along the border during the 1980s and beamed their signals north in the search for advertising and listeners. KITS went on air towards the era of the pirate era on 19<sup>th<\/sup> December 1987 and broadcast from Monaghan town on 837 kHz AM and 101 FM. The station closed on 31<sup>st<\/sup> December 1988 in line with new broadcasting legislation.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although less powerful than its audacious neighbour KISS FM &#8211; which aimed unashamedly at the Belfast market &#8211; KITS had its own strong following on both sides of the border and marketed itself as &#8216;Ulster&#8217;s favourite music station&#8217;. Here is its jingle package from our own collection. Listen to an interview with Gareth O&#8217;Connor about KITS <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/interview-gareth-oconnor-kits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KITS was one of the many &#8216;border blasters&#8217;, stations which popped up along the border during the 1980s and beamed their signals north in the search for advertising and listeners. KITS went on air towards the era of the pirate era on 19th December 1987 and broadcast from Monaghan town on 837 kHz AM and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/jingles-kits\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jingle package of KITS in Monaghan&#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":[505,487,20,19,259],"class_list":["post-494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jingles","tag-505","tag-487","tag-kiss-fm-monaghan","tag-kits","tag-monaghan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Jingle package of KITS in Monaghan - 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\/jingles-kits\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jingle package of KITS in Monaghan - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"KITS was one of the many &#8216;border blasters&#8217;, stations which popped up along the border during the 1980s and beamed their signals north in the search for advertising and listeners. 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