{"id":5539,"date":"2022-01-22T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-22T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=5539"},"modified":"2022-01-22T14:09:31","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T14:09:31","slug":"ken-regis-on-cork-city-local-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/ken-regis-on-cork-city-local-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken Regis on Cork City Local Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3691\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-5539-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/19830424_CCLR_Ken_Regis_1700-1800_aircheck_KOS.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/19830424_CCLR_Ken_Regis_1700-1800_aircheck_KOS.mp3\">https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/19830424_CCLR_Ken_Regis_1700-1800_aircheck_KOS.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\/2022\/01\/19830424_CCLR_Ken_Regis_1700-1800_aircheck_KOS.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=5539-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/19830424_CCLR_Ken_Regis_1700-1800_aircheck_KOS.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"19830424_CCLR_Ken_Regis_1700-1800_aircheck_KOS.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Jill-St-Clair-Trish-Deeney-Ken-Regis-Rob-Richards-Eric-Hansen-John-Creedon-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Ken Regis on Cork City Local Radio\" class=\"wp-image-5540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Jill-St-Clair-Trish-Deeney-Ken-Regis-Rob-Richards-Eric-Hansen-John-Creedon-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Jill-St-Clair-Trish-Deeney-Ken-Regis-Rob-Richards-Eric-Hansen-John-Creedon-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Jill-St-Clair-Trish-Deeney-Ken-Regis-Rob-Richards-Eric-Hansen-John-Creedon-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Jill-St-Clair-Trish-Deeney-Ken-Regis-Rob-Richards-Eric-Hansen-John-Creedon-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Jill-St-Clair-Trish-Deeney-Ken-Regis-Rob-Richards-Eric-Hansen-John-Creedon.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>L-R: CCLR veterans Jill St Clair (Trish Deeney), Ken Regis (O&#8217;Sullivan), Rob Richards (Allen) &amp; Eric Hansen (John Creedon) in 2015 (courtesy Ken O&#8217;Sullivan). <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;re very grateful to Ken O&#8217;Sullivan for his donations of recordings of Cork City Local Radio (CCLR). The first recording was made on 24<sup>th<\/sup> April 1983 from 95.5 FM in stereo and features Ken Regis, as he was known on air, with a Sunday afternoon requests show. There&#8217;s also a pretty tough competition with a prize of a box of chocolates up for grabs. Some of the recording is airchecked and there&#8217;s a bit of wobble on the 40-year old cassette.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The recording below is of Ken Regis on 19<sup>th<\/sup> March 1983 from 1555 from 95.5 FM. It begins with adverts for local businesses around Cork and a generic sung jingle. There&#8217;s also a radio-related competition and interestingly, the show is being taped for a listener in Galway. Sound quality is fair due to the wobbly cassette. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/19830319_CCLR_KOS.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The final recording features Ken in the early evening of 22nd May 1983 and is again from 95.5 FM. There&#8217;s a reference to a petition to support local radio in Cork, a reflection of the raids on Dublin stations a few days previously. Adverts are a mixture of pre-records and live-reads and once again the tape is showing its age.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/19830522_CCLR_KOS.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re very grateful to Ken O&#8217;Sullivan for his donations of recordings of Cork City Local Radio (CCLR). The first recording was made on 24th April 1983 from 95.5 FM in stereo and features Ken Regis, as he was known on air, with a Sunday afternoon requests show. There&#8217;s also a pretty tough competition with a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/ken-regis-on-cork-city-local-radio\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ken Regis on Cork City Local Radio&#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":[501,353,151,550,95],"class_list":["post-5539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-full-recordings","tag-501","tag-cclr","tag-cork","tag-early-cork-series","tag-ken-osullivan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ken Regis on Cork City Local Radio - 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\/ken-regis-on-cork-city-local-radio\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ken Regis on Cork City Local Radio - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We&#8217;re very grateful to Ken O&#8217;Sullivan for his donations of recordings of Cork City Local Radio (CCLR). 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