{"id":558,"date":"2019-01-05T13:05:05","date_gmt":"2019-01-05T13:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=558"},"modified":"2024-05-02T20:24:04","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T19:24:04","slug":"airchecks-radio-nova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/airchecks-radio-nova\/","title":{"rendered":"Airchecks: Radio Nova"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_912\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-558-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/1984_Radio_Nova_marathon_promo.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/1984_Radio_Nova_marathon_promo.mp3\">http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/1984_Radio_Nova_marathon_promo.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\/1984_Radio_Nova_marathon_promo.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=558-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/1984_Radio_Nova_marathon_promo.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"1984_Radio_Nova_marathon_promo.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"610\" height=\"308\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/ireland_dublin_nova_846_envelope.jpg\" alt=\"Airchecks: Radio Nova\" class=\"wp-image-2226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/ireland_dublin_nova_846_envelope.jpg 610w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/ireland_dublin_nova_846_envelope-300x151.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><figcaption>A Nova envelope from 1982 (courtesy of DX Archive). <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s plenty of Radio Nova material available online already and we don&#8217;t intend to compete with that. Here is a selection from our the Pirate.ie collection of airchecks of Radio Nova from 1984 to 1986. We also include two recordings from the Nova satellite service from the UK in 1988 which was relayed on FM in Dublin and used as an overnight service by some stations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/1985_Radio_Nova_holiday_giveaway.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption>A Radio Nova holiday giveaway from 1985. The presenter is Dave Harvey.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/1986_Radio_Nova_giveaway_TOTH_weather.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption>The famous Radio Nova \u00a310 giveaway from 1985. These two examples are followed by the top of the hour ident and a weather forecast from John O&#8217;Hara. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/1988_Radio_Nova_Rick_Dees_promo.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption>A promo for DJ Rick Dees of KIIS-FM in Los Angeles whose Weekly Top 40 was syndicated on Nova. This is from 1986. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/1988_Radio_Nova_satellite_Europe.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption>A Bill Mitchell ident for the Radio Nova satellite service from the UK, as relayed on 94.9 FM in Dublin in 1988.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/1988_Radio_Nova_satellite_TOTH.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption>A top of the hour jingle and the IRN service followed by an aircheck from the Radio Nova satellite service as relayed on 94.9 FM in Dublin in 1988. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Listen to interviews with former Nova presenter Tom Hardy (RIP) <a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/interview-tom-hardy-radio-nova\/\">here<\/a> and newsreader Bryan Dobson <a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/interview-bryan-dobson-southside-radio-radio-nova\/\">here<\/a>. You can hear historian Eddie Bohan describe the growth of Radio Nova <a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/interview-eddie-bohan-about-radio-nova\/\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s plenty of Radio Nova material available online already and we don&#8217;t intend to compete with that. Here is a selection from our the Pirate.ie collection of airchecks of Radio Nova from 1984 to 1986. We also include two recordings from the Nova satellite service from the UK in 1988 which was relayed on FM &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/airchecks-radio-nova\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Airchecks: Radio Nova&#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":[537,488,536,153,10,17],"class_list":["post-558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jingles","tag-537","tag-488","tag-536","tag-dublin","tag-radio-nova","tag-radio-nova-satellite"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Airchecks: Radio Nova - 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\/airchecks-radio-nova\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Airchecks: Radio Nova - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"There&#8217;s plenty of Radio Nova material available online already and we don&#8217;t intend to compete with that. 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