While
A.R.D. were moving to Belvedere Place the focus of the Department
was largely on Radio Dublin, who now were in another world
with a number of jingles sung for the station by Northern
Irish group Chips.
The move by A.R.D. it seems did not take place until January
29th when the station left suburbia for town and Belvedere
Place to a building that housed Llewelyn Enterprises.
But
things were happening at Radio Dublin too and in one day a
staggering 24,217 calls were logged by the station - an article
from the time tells us!!
THE
RADIO DUBLIN SCHEDULE (JANUARY'78) "8am - 7pm weekdays
except Wednesdays when programmes run until midnight with
Marty Hale playing American Rock and Easy Listening from 8pm
to 10pm, and Dave Fanning playing English Rock from 10pm to
midnight. Weekends 8am Sat. - midnight Sun."
In
turn Don Moore operating Alternative Radio Dublin from his
house, went into a Phibsboro shop in late 1977 for he was
keen to bring advertising to the station. That shop (at no.
349 North Circular Road) brought another person into the frame
Bernard Llewelyn the owner of the TV rental shop "Anya
tv". In the remaining days of 1977 they met in a restaurant
at 101 Talbot Street in the centre of town, then known as
"The American Connection". Here they made a deal
bringing the businessman in to A.R.D. On the 5/1/78 the station
was registered as a business (ARD Advertising). A leading
Dublin nitespot at the time was Barbarella's down Fitzwilliam
Lane, a place they choose to announce the expansion of A.R.D.
with the launch of a "comphrensive new schedule".
This evening at Barbarella's happened on Monday 23rd January...And
so 1978 in Dublin was starting to develop.
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