{"id":7481,"date":"2022-12-25T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-25T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=7481"},"modified":"2023-11-14T19:50:06","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T19:50:06","slug":"laois-community-radio-on-christmas-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/laois-community-radio-on-christmas-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Laois Community Radio on Christmas Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5829\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-7481-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/8058AI-B-192.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/8058AI-B-192.mp3\">https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/8058AI-B-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\/12\/8058AI-B-192.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=7481-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/8058AI-B-192.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"8058AI-B-192.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"685\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/LCR_1986_KB-1024x685.jpg\" alt=\"Laois Community Radio on Christmas Day\" class=\"wp-image-7485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/LCR_1986_KB-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/LCR_1986_KB-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/LCR_1986_KB-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/LCR_1986_KB-1536x1028.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/LCR_1986_KB.jpg 1614w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Laois Community Radio van from 1987 (courtesy Andy Carter). <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Laois Community Radio (LCR) broadcast from early 1982 for six years from the town of Mountrath, closing down on 31st December 1988 along with the vast majority of the other pirate stations. This recording was made on Christmas Day 1987 and features Jimmy Hayes with the Nashville Sound show. The music is country and bluegrass and there are Christmas requests and a promo urging listeners to support the businesses advertising on LCR. At the time, the station broadcast daily from 9am to 11pm on 1242 kHz and on 101.5 and 102 FM. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/8058AI-LCR-1024x247.jpg\" alt=\"Laois Community Radio on Christmas Day\" class=\"wp-image-7487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/8058AI-LCR-1024x247.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/8058AI-LCR-300x73.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/8058AI-LCR-768x186.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/8058AI-LCR.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Original label from Anoraks Ireland Collection. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The recording was made from one of LCR&#8217;s two FM frequencies from 1713-1800 (the times on the label are incorrect) on 25<sup>th<\/sup> December 1987. It is from the Anoraks Ireland Tapes Collection, donated by Paul Davidson. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laois Community Radio (LCR) broadcast from early 1982 for six years from the town of Mountrath, closing down on 31st December 1988 along with the vast majority of the other pirate stations. This recording was made on Christmas Day 1987 and features Jimmy Hayes with the Nashville Sound show. The music is country and bluegrass &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/laois-community-radio-on-christmas-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Laois Community Radio on Christmas Day&#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":[505,564,680,509,510],"class_list":["post-7481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-full-recordings","tag-505","tag-anoraks-ireland-collection","tag-christmas-day","tag-laois","tag-laois-community-radio"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Laois Community Radio on Christmas Day - 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\/laois-community-radio-on-christmas-day\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Laois Community Radio on Christmas Day - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Laois Community Radio (LCR) broadcast from early 1982 for six years from the town of Mountrath, closing down on 31st December 1988 along with the vast majority of the other pirate stations. 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