{"id":750,"date":"2019-01-22T20:14:25","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T20:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=750"},"modified":"2021-08-06T20:51:03","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T19:51:03","slug":"airchecks-radio-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/airchecks-radio-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Airchecks: Radio West"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2321\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-750-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/West-Nat-R-3-TOTH-1988-AM.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/West-Nat-R-3-TOTH-1988-AM.mp3\">http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/West-Nat-R-3-TOTH-1988-AM.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\/West-Nat-R-3-TOTH-1988-AM.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=750-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/West-Nat-R-3-TOTH-1988-AM.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"West-Nat-R-3-TOTH-1988-AM.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"196\" src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/ireland_mullingar_west_3_notepaper_heading.jpg\" alt=\"Airchecks: Radio West\" class=\"wp-image-751\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/ireland_mullingar_west_3_notepaper_heading.jpg 700w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/ireland_mullingar_west_3_notepaper_heading-300x84.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption>Image courtesy of DX Archive<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Radio West was a popular station which began broadcasting from Mullingar in Co. Westmeath in 1982. On low power initially on 1071 kHz, it bought Radio Nova&#8217;s original 10 kW transmitter and moved to 765 and then 702 kHz where it remained until the end of 1988.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By  1988, it also had a series of low-power FM transmitters and was boasting that it could be heard in 23 of the 26 counties. It even re-branded itself as \u2018West National Radio 3\u2019 and perhaps saw itself as a contender for a national commercial station as the licensed era approached. West also had an AM relay on 711 kHz covering Co. Galway and this promo from 1988 is aimed at attracting Galway businesses to advertise. Its owner Se\u00e1n Coyne was involved in the licensed Galway station of the same name in the early 1990s. Radio West was eventually re-branded as Galway Bay FM. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/1988_Radio_West_Galway_ad_promo.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is the introduction to the 6pm news from 30th August 1988 including the end of an ad for Dunnes Stores, the top of the hour ident voiced by Derek Flood and the start of the news with Kevin Palmer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/19880830_Radio_West_news-1.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The end of the 6pm news of the same date including part of the mart report for Tullamore. Radio West took its rural audience seriously and had regular mart reports for farmers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/19880830_Radio_West_ads_mart_report-1.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>More airchecks from 1988 including ads and jingles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/19880830_Radio_West_ad_jingle-1.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/19880831_Radio_West_ads_Derek_Flood-1.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A jingle and news sting from 1987. 96.3 FM was just one of many FM frequencies used by Radio West. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Radio-West-news-sting-1987-edit.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A Tony Allan ident emphasising the &#8216;national&#8217; coverage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/West-more-1.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In this fascinating interview with engineer <a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/interview-gerry-oreilly-transmitter-man\/\">Gerry O&#8217;Reilly<\/a>, the Radio West 10 kW transmitter is discussed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radio West was a popular station which began broadcasting from Mullingar in Co. 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By 1988, it also had a series of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/airchecks-radio-west\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Airchecks: Radio West&#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":[15,16],"tags":[505,487,46,322,156,71],"class_list":["post-750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airchecks","category-jingles","tag-505","tag-487","tag-am","tag-galway","tag-midlands","tag-radio-west"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Airchecks: Radio West - 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-west\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Airchecks: Radio West - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Radio West was a popular station which began broadcasting from Mullingar in Co. 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