{"id":9274,"date":"2024-01-02T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=9274"},"modified":"2024-01-01T14:35:25","modified_gmt":"2024-01-01T14:35:25","slug":"afternoon-drive-on-zee-103","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/afternoon-drive-on-zee-103\/","title":{"rendered":"Northeast series: Afternoon drive on Zee 103"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7508\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-9274-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/8082AI-B-192.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/8082AI-B-192.mp3\">https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/8082AI-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\/12\/8082AI-B-192.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=9274-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/8082AI-B-192.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"8082AI-B-192.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"987\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/zee-studio-via-paul-graham-987x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Northeast series: Afternoon drive on Zee 103\" class=\"wp-image-2958\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/zee-studio-via-paul-graham-987x1024.jpg 987w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/zee-studio-via-paul-graham-289x300.jpg 289w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/zee-studio-via-paul-graham-768x797.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/zee-studio-via-paul-graham-1481x1536.jpg 1481w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/zee-studio-via-paul-graham-1974x2048.jpg 1974w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Zee 103 studio (courtesy Paul Graham). <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Zee 103 (1986-1988) was a high-powered professional station beaming its signal into Northern Ireland from just south of the border at Omeath in Co. Louth. Launched in the winter of 1986, its origins were in KISS FM, a short-lived pirate station in Craigavon, Co. Armagh that was raided by the UK Department of Trade and Industry in 1985. The operation moved south of the border and led eventually to the launch of Zee 103 on November 11<sup>th<\/sup> 1986 from Ardaghy House, a renovated schoolhouse on an elevated site just 3km inside the Republic of Ireland. In line with new broadcasting legislation in the Republic, Zee 103 closed down at midnight on 31<sup>st<\/sup> December 1988 but was one of a handle of pirates to venture back onto the air briefly in January 1989. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"255\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/8082AI-Zee-1024x255.jpg\" alt=\"Northeast series: Afternoon drive on Zee 103\" class=\"wp-image-9280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/8082AI-Zee-1024x255.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/8082AI-Zee-300x75.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/8082AI-Zee-768x191.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/8082AI-Zee.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>This recording of Zee 103 from the summer of 1988 features Paul Maguire who is sitting in for Graham Marks on the afternoon drive programme. Music consists of chart hits and some oldies and all adverts come from businesses in the North. News headlines are read by Lorraine Duncan and similarly aimed at Northern listeners. The tape was made from 103.25 FM between 1622-1708 on 17<sup>th<\/sup> August 1988 and is from the Anoraks Ireland Collection, donated to us by Paul Davidson. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zee 103 (1986-1988) was a high-powered professional station beaming its signal into Northern Ireland from just south of the border at Omeath in Co. Louth. Launched in the winter of 1986, its origins were in KISS FM, a short-lived pirate station in Craigavon, Co. Armagh that was raided by the UK Department of Trade and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/afternoon-drive-on-zee-103\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Northeast series: Afternoon drive on Zee 103&#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":[487,564,154,544,159],"class_list":["post-9274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-full-recordings","tag-487","tag-anoraks-ireland-collection","tag-louth","tag-northeast-series","tag-zee-103"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Northeast series: Afternoon drive on Zee 103 - 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\/afternoon-drive-on-zee-103\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Northeast series: Afternoon drive on Zee 103 - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Zee 103 (1986-1988) was a high-powered professional station beaming its signal into Northern Ireland from just south of the border at Omeath in Co. 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