{"id":8217,"date":"2023-04-07T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=8217"},"modified":"2024-03-24T00:07:46","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T00:07:46","slug":"radio-nova-on-good-friday-1985","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/radio-nova-on-good-friday-1985\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Nova on Good Friday 1985"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1291\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-8217-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/AI316-B-192.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/AI316-B-192.mp3\">https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/AI316-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\/2023\/03\/AI316-B-192.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=8217-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/AI316-B-192.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"AI316-B-192.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"712\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/ireland_dublin_nova_ad_rate_folder_october_1984_page-0001-712x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Radio Nova on Good Friday 1985\" class=\"wp-image-8218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/ireland_dublin_nova_ad_rate_folder_october_1984_page-0001-712x1024.jpg 712w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/ireland_dublin_nova_ad_rate_folder_october_1984_page-0001-208x300.jpg 208w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/ireland_dublin_nova_ad_rate_folder_october_1984_page-0001-768x1105.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/ireland_dublin_nova_ad_rate_folder_october_1984_page-0001-1067x1536.jpg 1067w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/ireland_dublin_nova_ad_rate_folder_october_1984_page-0001-1423x2048.jpg 1423w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/ireland_dublin_nova_ad_rate_folder_october_1984_page-0001-scaled.jpg 1779w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 712px) 100vw, 712px\" \/><figcaption>Nova flyer from 1984 with claimed coverage area (DX Archive). <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a recording of the popular breakfast show with John Clarke and Bob Gallico on Radio Nova from Good Friday 1985. There is no paper review given the holiday but the programme features the normal friendly banter between the hosts and Bob reads out a fan letter from a group of listeners. John gives a traffic report for the northwest of England but by contrast the streets of Dublin are quiet. Although Nova was still a leader in the Dublin radio market in early 1985, new Irish-owned station Q102 would soon make its presence felt and Chris Cary&#8217;s radio empire began to unravel by the autumn of that year. Nova closed suddenly on March 19<sup>th<\/sup> 1986. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"976\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/AI316-Nova.jpg\" alt=\"Radio Nova on Good Friday 1985\" class=\"wp-image-8226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/AI316-Nova.jpg 976w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/AI316-Nova-300x106.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/AI316-Nova-768x271.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Original cassette label lfrom Anoraks Ireland Collection. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The recording was made from 102.7 FM from 0703-0751 on 5<sup>th<\/sup> April 1985 and is from the Anoraks Ireland Tapes Collection, donated to us by Paul Davidson.     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a recording of the popular breakfast show with John Clarke and Bob Gallico on Radio Nova from Good Friday 1985. 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John gives &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/radio-nova-on-good-friday-1985\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Radio Nova on Good Friday 1985&#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":[488,564,167,153,704,183,10],"class_list":["post-8217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-full-recordings","tag-488","tag-anoraks-ireland-collection","tag-bob-gallico","tag-dublin","tag-good-friday","tag-john-clarke","tag-radio-nova"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Radio Nova on Good Friday 1985 - 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\/radio-nova-on-good-friday-1985\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Radio Nova on Good Friday 1985 - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This is a recording of the popular breakfast show with John Clarke and Bob Gallico on Radio Nova from Good Friday 1985. 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