{"id":9460,"date":"2025-01-12T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=9460"},"modified":"2025-01-18T15:24:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T15:24:13","slug":"denis-murray-on-liberty-104","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/denis-murray-on-liberty-104\/","title":{"rendered":"Denis Murray on Liberty 104"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1280\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-9460-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/AI2240-192.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/AI2240-192.mp3\">https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/AI2240-192.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\/2025\/01\/AI2240-192.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=9460-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/AI2240-192.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"AI2240-192.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"238\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/ireland_dublin_llcr_sticker-1024x238.jpg\" alt=\"Denis Murray on Liberty 104\" class=\"wp-image-9461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/ireland_dublin_llcr_sticker-1024x238.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/ireland_dublin_llcr_sticker-300x70.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/ireland_dublin_llcr_sticker-768x179.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/ireland_dublin_llcr_sticker.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Liberty 104 car sticker (courtesy DX Archive). <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>By 1988, Liberty 104 had attracted some high-profile Dublin broadcasters to its studios in the heart of the Liberties district and the station was gaining listeners. One experienced DJ who had previously been heard on Radio Nova and its offshoot KISS FM was Denis Murray, who in this recording presents a drivetime show. Music is a mixture of chart hits and classics and there is a listener competition based on identifying three songs. A promo for factory requests underlines how stations like Liberty 104 catered for this cohort of the population. Confusingly, Denis refers to 103 FM on a few occasions despite the 104 branding, although there was a lot of variation in the station name during its almost 3 years on air. News at the top of the hour is read by Michael Mahon, formerly of Energy 103.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"659\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/AI2240-1024x659.jpg\" alt=\"Denis Murray on Liberty 104\" class=\"wp-image-10429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/AI2240-1024x659.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/AI2240-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/AI2240-768x494.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/AI2240-rotated.jpg 1168w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"323\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/8098AI-1024x323.jpg\" alt=\"Denis Murray on Liberty 104\" class=\"wp-image-9463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/8098AI-1024x323.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/8098AI-300x95.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/8098AI-768x242.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/8098AI-rotated.jpg 1168w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Original cassette inlays from Anoraks Ireland Collection. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The recording above was made from 1548-1721 on Monday 4<sup>th<\/sup> April 1988 and is from the Anoraks Ireland Collection, donated to us by Paul Davidson. The final section below runs from 1723-1809. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/8098AI-192.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Final section from 1723-1809<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Audio quality is good to fair with some hiss. It was recorded from 103.5 FM. Liberty 104 also broadcast on 103.9 FM as well as 1035 kHz AM at this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By 1988, Liberty 104 had attracted some high-profile Dublin broadcasters to its studios in the heart of the Liberties district and the station was gaining listeners. One experienced DJ who had previously been heard on Radio Nova and its offshoot KISS FM was Denis Murray, who in this recording presents a drivetime show. Music is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/denis-murray-on-liberty-104\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Denis Murray on Liberty 104&#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":[487,564,318,153,4],"class_list":["post-9460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-full-recordings","tag-487","tag-anoraks-ireland-collection","tag-denis-murray","tag-dublin","tag-llcr"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Denis Murray on Liberty 104 - 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\/denis-murray-on-liberty-104\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Denis Murray on Liberty 104 - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By 1988, Liberty 104 had attracted some high-profile Dublin broadcasters to its studios in the heart of the Liberties district and the station was gaining listeners. 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