{"id":7963,"date":"2023-02-13T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=7963"},"modified":"2023-02-11T18:17:11","modified_gmt":"2023-02-11T18:17:11","slug":"evening-shows-on-ams-from-kilkenny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/evening-shows-on-ams-from-kilkenny\/","title":{"rendered":"Evening shows on AMS from Kilkenny"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_504\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-7963-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/8026AI-A-192.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/8026AI-A-192.mp3\">https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/8026AI-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\/2023\/02\/8026AI-A-192.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=7963-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/8026AI-A-192.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"8026AI-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=\"699\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/AMS-unident-1024x699.jpg\" alt=\"Evening shows on AMS from Kilkenny\" class=\"wp-image-7953\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/AMS-unident-1024x699.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/AMS-unident-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/AMS-unident-768x524.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/AMS-unident-1536x1048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/AMS-unident.jpg 1695w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Unidentified DJ in AMS studio, 1988 (Anoraks Ireland Collection). <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>AMS (Astra Media Services) was a Kilkenny station broadcasting from 18<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;October 1987 until 31<sup>st<\/sup>&nbsp;December 1988, when it closed down along with the vast majority of the Irish pirates. AMS broadcast from 0745-2400 daily, offering a mainstream service during the day with specialist programming at night. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This recording was made in November 1987, a few weeks after AMS was launched. In Part 1 above, Paul Madigan refers to the &#8216;new sound of Kilkenny&#8217; and presents his evening mix of chart music and oldies. There is a healthy number of adverts for local businesses, including several in the Arcade in High Street, where AMS was located. Part 2 below is of station manager S\u00e9ama\u00ed B. (S\u00e9amus Brennan), with the nightly Irish hour. In a reminder of the influence of religion in 1980s Ireland, he tells listeners that they can attend evening Mass in Kilkenny because of the holy day of obligation. Audio quality ranges from fair to poor, with distortion and hum at times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/8026AI-B-192.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption>Irish hour from 1900<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Part 1 runs from 1745-1833 and Part 2 from 1900-1946 on 2<sup>nd<\/sup> November 1987. The tape was recorded from 98.6 FM and is from the Anoraks Ireland Tapes Collection, donated to us by Paul Davidson. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMS (Astra Media Services) was a Kilkenny station broadcasting from 18th&nbsp;October 1987 until 31st&nbsp;December 1988, when it closed down along with the vast majority of the Irish pirates. AMS broadcast from 0745-2400 daily, offering a mainstream service during the day with specialist programming at night. This recording was made in November 1987, a few weeks &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/evening-shows-on-ams-from-kilkenny\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Evening shows on AMS from Kilkenny&#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":[505,633,564,347],"class_list":["post-7963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-full-recordings","tag-505","tag-ams","tag-anoraks-ireland-collection","tag-kilkenny"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Evening shows on AMS from Kilkenny - 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\/evening-shows-on-ams-from-kilkenny\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Evening shows on AMS from Kilkenny - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"AMS (Astra Media Services) was a Kilkenny station broadcasting from 18th&nbsp;October 1987 until 31st&nbsp;December 1988, when it closed down along with the vast majority of the Irish pirates. 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