{"id":6932,"date":"2022-08-31T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=6932"},"modified":"2022-08-29T17:52:31","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T16:52:31","slug":"steve-marshall-and-richie-oshea-on-wls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/steve-marshall-and-richie-oshea-on-wls\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Marshall and Richie O&#8217;Shea on WLS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8471\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-6932-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/5105AI-A-192.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/5105AI-A-192.mp3\">https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/5105AI-A-192.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\/08\/5105AI-A-192.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=6932-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/5105AI-A-192.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"5105AI-A-192.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"712\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Letterhead-1024x712.jpeg\" alt=\"Steve Marshall and Richie O&#039;Shea on WLS\" class=\"wp-image-1790\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Letterhead-1024x712.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Letterhead-300x209.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Letterhead-768x534.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Letterhead.jpeg 1122w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>WLS letterhead from 1986 (courtesy Ian Biggar). <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This recording of Galway pirate WLS was made towards the end of the station&#8217;s life in June 1987. It begins with the end of Steve Marshall&#8217;s show and a promo for the Solid Gold Sunday programme with Don Stevens. The top-of-the-hour ident mentions &#8216;VHF stereo&#8217; only as AM had been discontinued at this time. Steve is followed by Richie O&#8217;Shea from midday who mentions a \u00a31,000 giveaway. Commercials include local businesses and agency adverts. The sound is tight with good music and slick jingles but WLS would be gone within the next few weeks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"902\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/5105AI-WLS-902x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Steve Marshall and Richie O&#039;Shea on WLS\" class=\"wp-image-6933\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/5105AI-WLS-902x1024.jpg 902w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/5105AI-WLS-264x300.jpg 264w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/5105AI-WLS-768x872.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/5105AI-WLS-1353x1536.jpg 1353w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/5105AI-WLS-1804x2048.jpg 1804w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Cassette label from Anoraks Ireland Collection. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Made on 4<sup>th<\/sup> June 1987, part 1 above runs from 1150-1238 and part 2 below from 1238-1326. The tape was recorded from 96.4 FM in stereo with excellent audio quality. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/5105AI-B-192.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption>Part 2 from 1238. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This recording is from the Anoraks Ireland Tapes Collection, donated to us by Paul Davidson.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This recording of Galway pirate WLS was made towards the end of the station&#8217;s life in June 1987. It begins with the end of Steve Marshall&#8217;s show and a promo for the Solid Gold Sunday programme with Don Stevens. The top-of-the-hour ident mentions &#8216;VHF stereo&#8217; only as AM had been discontinued at this time. Steve &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/steve-marshall-and-richie-oshea-on-wls\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Steve Marshall and Richie O&#8217;Shea on WLS&#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":[536,564,322,600,325,323],"class_list":["post-6932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-full-recordings","tag-536","tag-anoraks-ireland-collection","tag-galway","tag-richie-oshea","tag-steve-marshall","tag-wls"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Steve Marshall and Richie O&#039;Shea on WLS - 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\/steve-marshall-and-richie-oshea-on-wls\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Steve Marshall and Richie O&#039;Shea on WLS - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This recording of Galway pirate WLS was made towards the end of the station&#8217;s life in June 1987. 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