{"id":5235,"date":"2021-11-22T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=5235"},"modified":"2021-11-29T07:20:22","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T07:20:22","slug":"radio-west-anoraks-show-from-1986","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/radio-west-anoraks-show-from-1986\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio West Anoraks Show from 1986"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9633\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-5235-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/19860608_Radio_West_FRC_SK_765AM_1100-1230.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/19860608_Radio_West_FRC_SK_765AM_1100-1230.mp3\">https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/19860608_Radio_West_FRC_SK_765AM_1100-1230.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\/11\/19860608_Radio_West_FRC_SK_765AM_1100-1230.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=5235-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/19860608_Radio_West_FRC_SK_765AM_1100-1230.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"19860608_Radio_West_FRC_SK_765AM_1100-1230.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"445\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/ireland_mullingar_west_compliments_2-1024x445.jpg\" alt=\"Radio West Anoraks Show from 1986\" class=\"wp-image-5236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/ireland_mullingar_west_compliments_2-1024x445.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/ireland_mullingar_west_compliments_2-300x130.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/ireland_mullingar_west_compliments_2-768x333.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/ireland_mullingar_west_compliments_2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Radio West compliments slip from c. 1986 (courtesy DX Archive). <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Radio West broadcast from Mullingar from 1982 until the end of 1988 and achieved wide coverage after it began using the former Radio Nova 10kW transmitter on 765 kHz and later 702 kHz. It was popular with radio watchers because of the lively and often unpredictable Sunday morning Anoraks Show presented by station owner Shaun Coyne and others. A diet of radio gossip, colourful rumours and regular updates from anoraks throughout the country made the show essential listening each week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This edition of the Anoraks Show was recorded in Dublin from 765 kHz from 1100-1230 on 8<sup>th<\/sup> June 1986 and features Philip Hilton with Shaun Coyne. There&#8217;s a promise of link-ups with ABC in Waterford and WKLR in Cork but these don&#8217;t materialise and the presenters joke that these stations are blacklisted! The Anoraks Show is followed at midday by the first half hour of the traditional music programme C\u00e9il\u00ed L\u00e1r T\u00edre. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This recording is from the Skywave Tapes Collection. Skywave Radio International broadcast a shortwave station in the 1980s from Baldoyle in northeast Dublin.     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radio West broadcast from Mullingar from 1982 until the end of 1988 and achieved wide coverage after it began using the former Radio Nova 10kW transmitter on 765 kHz and later 702 kHz. 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