{"id":8910,"date":"2023-09-08T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=8910"},"modified":"2023-09-09T13:42:29","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T12:42:29","slug":"community-radio-avalon-from-south-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/community-radio-avalon-from-south-dublin\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Radio Avalon from south Dublin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5279\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-8910-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/19851202_CR_Avalon_983FM_1116am_1432-1520_SK.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/19851202_CR_Avalon_983FM_1116am_1432-1520_SK.mp3\">https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/19851202_CR_Avalon_983FM_1116am_1432-1520_SK.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\/08\/19851202_CR_Avalon_983FM_1116am_1432-1520_SK.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=8910-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/19851202_CR_Avalon_983FM_1116am_1432-1520_SK.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"19851202_CR_Avalon_983FM_1116am_1432-1520_SK.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"544\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/pirate-dot-ie-red-logo.jpg\" alt=\"Community Radio Avalon from south Dublin\" class=\"wp-image-4287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/pirate-dot-ie-red-logo.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/pirate-dot-ie-red-logo-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Community Radio Avalon was another short-lived station broadcasting from the southside of Dublin in the mid-1980s. It is not listed in DX Archive logs from 1985 but is thought to have begun broadcasting from the D\u00fan Laoghaire area late that year. The Anoraks UK <em>Weekly Report<\/em> of 8<sup>th<\/sup> December 1985 reported that a Radio Avalon had been heard on 98.5 and announcing various AM frequencies before eventually appearing on 1116 kHz. Competition for AM space was fierce in the unregulated world of Dublin pirate radio and the <em>Weekly Report<\/em> of January 5<sup>th<\/sup> 1986 reported that both KISS FM and Radio Avalon were on the same AM frequency at different times and sometimes at the same time! There are references to Radio Avalon on FM only in early 1986 but on 23<sup>rd<\/sup> March, <em>Weekly Report<\/em> said it had closed down. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this recording there is only one link from DJ Robbie Keane and otherwise it consists of continuous music with generic station idents. The tape was made from 98.3 FM, announced as 98.5, from 1432-1520 on 2<sup>nd<\/sup> December 1985 and is from the Skywave Tapes Collection. Radio Skywave International was a 1980s shortwave station broadcasting from Baldoyle in northeast Dublin. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Community Radio Avalon was another short-lived station broadcasting from the southside of Dublin in the mid-1980s. It is not listed in DX Archive logs from 1985 but is thought to have begun broadcasting from the D\u00fan Laoghaire area late that year. The Anoraks UK Weekly Report of 8th December 1985 reported that a Radio Avalon &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/community-radio-avalon-from-south-dublin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Community Radio Avalon from south Dublin&#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":[488,671,153,545],"class_list":["post-8910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-full-recordings","tag-488","tag-community-radio-avalon","tag-dublin","tag-skywave-collection"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Community Radio Avalon from south Dublin - 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\/community-radio-avalon-from-south-dublin\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Community Radio Avalon from south Dublin - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Community Radio Avalon was another short-lived station broadcasting from the southside of Dublin in the mid-1980s. 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