{"id":721,"date":"2019-01-17T09:27:07","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T09:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=721"},"modified":"2021-08-06T20:52:36","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T19:52:36","slug":"jingles-liberties-local-community-radio-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/jingles-liberties-local-community-radio-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Jingles: Liberties Local Community Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3367\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-721-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/1987_LLCR_Liberty_Superrock_jingles.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/1987_LLCR_Liberty_Superrock_jingles.mp3\">http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/1987_LLCR_Liberty_Superrock_jingles.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\/1987_LLCR_Liberty_Superrock_jingles.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=721-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/1987_LLCR_Liberty_Superrock_jingles.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"1987_LLCR_Liberty_Superrock_jingles.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"980\" height=\"243\" src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/ireland_dublin_llcr_sticker_white.jpg\" alt=\"Jingles: Liberties Local Community Radio\" class=\"wp-image-728\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/ireland_dublin_llcr_sticker_white.jpg 980w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/ireland_dublin_llcr_sticker_white-300x74.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/ireland_dublin_llcr_sticker_white-768x190.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Image courtesy of DX Archive<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Liberties Local Community Radio (LLCR) began broadcasting in April 1986 from Weaver Square in Dublin 8. It was run by Sammy Prendergast who was well known for installing aerials for pirate stations. LLCR broadcast on 1035 kHz AM using the old Capitol Radio rig which had been on 1017 kHz until shortly before then. It was also heard on 104 FM at a later stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although LLCR began by emphasising its community roots in the Liberties, it never sounded like long-standing community stations such as BLB and NDCR. There was a lot of chopping and changing in Weaver Square during its two years on air but the station had its followers nonetheless. One of its most popular programmes was a hip-hop show presented by Tony Christie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was a lot of variation in the station\u2019s name as these jingles and idents indicate, from LLCR to Liberties Radio to Liberty Radio. The station also announced Liberty 104 for a while and was known as Gold 104 in the second half of 1988. The poor-quality jingles for &#8216;Super Rock 104&#8217; seem to be from that period.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/1986_LLCR_TOTH_various-1.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption>Various LLCR jingles 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\/1987_Liberties_TOTH-1.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption>Top of the hour ident (1987) announcing Liberties Radio<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/1988_Liberty_TOTH-1.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption>Top of the hour ident (1988) announcing Liberty Radio<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You can hear an aircheck of Teena Gates reading news on Liberty 104 <a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/jingles-liberties-local-community-radio\/\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberties Local Community Radio (LLCR) began broadcasting in April 1986 from Weaver Square in Dublin 8. It was run by Sammy Prendergast who was well known for installing aerials for pirate stations. LLCR broadcast on 1035 kHz AM using the old Capitol Radio rig which had been on 1017 kHz until shortly before then. It &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/jingles-liberties-local-community-radio-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jingles: Liberties Local Community 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":[16],"tags":[536,505,487,153,4],"class_list":["post-721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jingles","tag-536","tag-505","tag-487","tag-dublin","tag-llcr"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Jingles: Liberties Local Community 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\/jingles-liberties-local-community-radio-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jingles: Liberties Local Community Radio - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Liberties Local Community Radio (LLCR) began broadcasting in April 1986 from Weaver Square in Dublin 8. 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