{"id":972,"date":"2019-12-30T10:08:07","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T10:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=972"},"modified":"2019-12-30T10:10:12","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T10:10:12","slug":"panel-bray-local-broadcasting-blb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/panel-bray-local-broadcasting-blb\/","title":{"rendered":"Panel: Bray Local Broadcasting (BLB)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7105\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-972-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Mark-Quinn-BLB-group-edit.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Mark-Quinn-BLB-group-edit.mp3\">http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Mark-Quinn-BLB-group-edit.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\/12\/Mark-Quinn-BLB-group-edit.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=972-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Mark-Quinn-BLB-group-edit.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Mark-Quinn-BLB-group-edit.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"183\" src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/ireland_bray_blb_657_sticker.jpg\" alt=\"Panel: Bray Local Broadcasting (BLB)\" class=\"wp-image-970\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/ireland_bray_blb_657_sticker.jpg 750w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/ireland_bray_blb_657_sticker-300x73.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><figcaption>BLB car sticker (courtesy DX Archive)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Bray Local Broadcasting (BLB) was a pioneer in Irish community radio and spent almost ten years on air from 1979 to 1988. Based in the north Wicklow town, it focused on local speech content and specialist music in contrast with other stations broadcasting pop music.  BLB&#8217;s innovative approach inspired other stations in Ireland and it also attracted interest in community radio circles abroad. The station broadcast on AM (837 kHz and later 657) and FM and could be heard well beyond Bray in its later years.  You can read more about BLB <a href=\"http:\/\/dxarchive.com\/ireland_a_to_z_irish_pirates_blb.html\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This fascinating panel discussion features three founding members of BLB: Mark Quinn, Michael Gray and Doug Bel-Maguire. The interviewer is Eolann Aitken. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bray Local Broadcasting (BLB) was a pioneer in Irish community radio and spent almost ten years on air from 1979 to 1988. Based in the north Wicklow town, it focused on local speech content and specialist music in contrast with other stations broadcasting pop music. BLB&#8217;s innovative approach inspired other stations in Ireland and it &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/panel-bray-local-broadcasting-blb\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Panel: Bray Local Broadcasting (BLB)&#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":[109],"tags":[86,24,218,216,217,39],"class_list":["post-972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-panels","tag-blb","tag-community-radio","tag-doug-bel-maguire","tag-mark-quinn","tag-michael-gray","tag-southside-radio"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Panel: Bray Local Broadcasting (BLB) - 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\/panel-bray-local-broadcasting-blb\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Panel: Bray Local Broadcasting (BLB) - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Bray Local Broadcasting (BLB) was a pioneer in Irish community radio and spent almost ten years on air from 1979 to 1988. 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