{"id":9269,"date":"2023-12-18T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=9269"},"modified":"2023-12-17T20:25:15","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T20:25:15","slug":"hits-and-requests-on-kits-from-monaghan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/hits-and-requests-on-kits-from-monaghan\/","title":{"rendered":"Hits and requests on KITS from Monaghan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3152\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-9269-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/8082AI-A-192.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/8082AI-A-192.mp3\">https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/8082AI-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\/12\/8082AI-A-192.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=9269-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/8082AI-A-192.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"8082AI-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=\"229\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Kits-Car-Sticker-Logo-1024x229.jpg\" alt=\"Hits and requests on KITS from Monaghan\" class=\"wp-image-9270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Kits-Car-Sticker-Logo-1024x229.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Kits-Car-Sticker-Logo-300x67.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Kits-Car-Sticker-Logo-768x172.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Kits-Car-Sticker-Logo-1536x344.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Kits-Car-Sticker-Logo-2048x459.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>KITS car sticker (Anoraks Ireland Collection). <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Monaghan has long been an important county for pirate radio, with various stations over the years taking advantage of proximity to the Northern market. One late arrival to the 1980s pirate scene was Hot Hits KITS from Monaghan Town, which began test tranmissions at the end of 1987. The Anoraks UK <em>Weekly Report<\/em> of 20<sup>th<\/sup> December noted non-stop music and idents on 100.9 FM and the following edition reported that live transmissions began during Christmas week. Professional PAMS jingles were to be produced and the station was described as one of Monaghan&#8217;s two &#8216;border blasters&#8217; along with KISS FM which was conducting tests at that time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"412\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/8082AI-KITS-1024x412.jpg\" alt=\"Hits and requests on KITS from Monaghan\" class=\"wp-image-9265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/8082AI-KITS-1024x412.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/8082AI-KITS-300x121.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/8082AI-KITS-768x309.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/8082AI-KITS.jpg 1168w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Original cassette label from Anoraks Ireland Collection. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In this evening show with Simon Dee, adverts and requests are heard from both sides of the border. The recording was made from 100.9 FM (announced as 101) on 27<sup>th<\/sup> April 1988 between 1812-1858. KITS also broadcast on 837 kHz AM and closed down permanently in the afternoon of 31<sup>st<\/sup> December 1988.  The tape is from the Anoraks Ireland Tapes Collection, donated to us by Paul Davidson. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monaghan has long been an important county for pirate radio, with various stations over the years taking advantage of proximity to the Northern market. One late arrival to the 1980s pirate scene was Hot Hits KITS from Monaghan Town, which began test tranmissions at the end of 1987. The Anoraks UK Weekly Report of 20th &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/hits-and-requests-on-kits-from-monaghan\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hits and requests on KITS from Monaghan&#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":[487,564,260,19,259],"class_list":["post-9269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-full-recordings","tag-487","tag-anoraks-ireland-collection","tag-border","tag-kits","tag-monaghan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Hits and requests on KITS from Monaghan - 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\/hits-and-requests-on-kits-from-monaghan\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hits and requests on KITS from Monaghan - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Monaghan has long been an important county for pirate radio, with various stations over the years taking advantage of proximity to the Northern market. 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