{"id":954,"date":"2019-11-06T21:22:17","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T21:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=954"},"modified":"2021-08-06T20:42:32","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T19:42:32","slug":"aircheck-remix-of-gay-byrne-show-announcing-legalisation-of-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/aircheck-remix-of-gay-byrne-show-announcing-legalisation-of-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Aircheck: remix of Gay Byrne Show announcing legalisation of radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_502\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-954-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Centre_Radio_Radio_Gaga_mix_a.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Centre_Radio_Radio_Gaga_mix_a.mp3\">http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Centre_Radio_Radio_Gaga_mix_a.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Centre_Radio_Radio_Gaga_mix_a.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=954-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Centre_Radio_Radio_Gaga_mix_a.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Centre_Radio_Radio_Gaga_mix_a.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This recording is a remix of the Gay Byrne Show on RT\u00c9 Radio 1 from 17 October 1988, the day that the newly-established Independent Radio and Television Commission published advertisements for the first independent radio licences designed to put the pirates off the air. Byrne seems dismissive of the initiative which would of course threaten his show&#8217;s dominance in the market, and appears to be imitating a folksy but clumsy pirate radio presenter.  His kitsch portrayal&nbsp;of an amateur local pirate is part of Byrne&#8217;s theatre of the mind and evokes stereotypical illegal broadcasters of an earlier era.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gay Byrne&#8217;s voice, remixed by Brian Greene with Queen&#8217;s Radio Gaga, was broadcast on Centre Radio in Bayside, Dublin 13 at the end of 1988 up to the closedown.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>RIP Gay. Your voice was part of the soundtrack of our youth during the pirate era. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This recording is a remix of the Gay Byrne Show on RT\u00c9 Radio 1 from 17 October 1988, the day that the newly-established Independent Radio and Television Commission published advertisements for the first independent radio licences designed to put the pirates off the air. Byrne seems dismissive of the initiative which would of course threaten &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/aircheck-remix-of-gay-byrne-show-announcing-legalisation-of-radio\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Aircheck: remix of Gay Byrne Show announcing legalisation of radio&#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":[15],"tags":[505,53,169,213],"class_list":["post-954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airchecks","tag-505","tag-centre-radio","tag-gay-byrne","tag-irtc"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Aircheck: remix of Gay Byrne Show announcing legalisation of radio - 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\/aircheck-remix-of-gay-byrne-show-announcing-legalisation-of-radio\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Aircheck: remix of Gay Byrne Show announcing legalisation of radio - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This recording is a remix of the Gay Byrne Show on RT\u00c9 Radio 1 from 17 October 1988, the day that the newly-established Independent Radio and Television Commission published advertisements for the first independent radio licences designed to put the pirates off the air. 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