{"id":8917,"date":"2023-08-28T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=8917"},"modified":"2025-09-04T20:25:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T19:25:02","slug":"concord-community-radio-prepares-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/concord-community-radio-prepares-for-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Concord Community Radio prepares for Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7325\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-8917-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/19831214_Concord_982fm_2125-2215_SK.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/19831214_Concord_982fm_2125-2215_SK.mp3\">https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/19831214_Concord_982fm_2125-2215_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\/19831214_Concord_982fm_2125-2215_SK.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=8917-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/19831214_Concord_982fm_2125-2215_SK.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"19831214_Concord_982fm_2125-2215_SK.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"735\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/ireland_dublin_concord_flyer-735x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Concord Community Radio prepares for Christmas\" class=\"wp-image-8916\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/ireland_dublin_concord_flyer-735x1024.jpg 735w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/ireland_dublin_concord_flyer-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/ireland_dublin_concord_flyer-768x1070.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/ireland_dublin_concord_flyer-1102x1536.jpg 1102w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/ireland_dublin_concord_flyer-1470x2048.jpg 1470w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/ireland_dublin_concord_flyer-scaled.jpg 1837w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 735px) 100vw, 735px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Early Concord flyer from 1982 (courtesy DX Archive). <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Concord Community Radio was the first iteration of community radio on the northside of Dublin city, a tradition that continues in licensed form to this day. Concord began broadcasting in March 1983 on 1332 kHz (220 metres) and later moved to 890 kHz (337 metres), which was slightly off-channel. In 1984, Concord became North Dublin Community Radio (NDCR) and continued on AM and FM until the end of 1988. It was one of the leading members of the National Association of Community Broadcasters that lobbied for licensed community radio and many of those involved went on to set up <a href=\"https:\/\/nearfm.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NEAR FM<\/a>, which began broadcasting on a fulltime basis in 1995. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First up in this recording is Gerry Lee with Christmas music and ballads in the easy listening style. He is followed by Boppin\u2019 Billy with the country and bluegrass show. The tape was made from 98.2 FM from 2125-2215 on 14<sup>th<\/sup> December 1983 and is from the Skywave Tapes Collection. Radio Skywave International was a 1980s shortwave station broadcasting from Baldoyle in northeast Dublin. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concord Community Radio was the first iteration of community radio on the northside of Dublin city, a tradition that continues in licensed form to this day. Concord began broadcasting in March 1983 on 1332 kHz (220 metres) and later moved to 890 kHz (337 metres), which was slightly off-channel. In 1984, Concord became North Dublin &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/concord-community-radio-prepares-for-christmas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Concord Community Radio prepares for Christmas&#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":[501,240,153,545],"class_list":["post-8917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-full-recordings","tag-501","tag-concord-community-radio","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>Concord Community Radio prepares for Christmas - 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\/concord-community-radio-prepares-for-christmas\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Concord Community Radio prepares for Christmas - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Concord Community Radio was the first iteration of community radio on the northside of Dublin city, a tradition that continues in licensed form to this day. 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