Coast FM but it’s Shortwave

from the logs of Glenn Hauser worldofradio.com

** IRELAND. 6205, Coast FM; 0326 pop/rock music playing hide-and-seek with my atrocious noise floor; its fairly rare to pull in Europirates here on the “Third Coast”; very poor; 9 August. (Robins MI)

6205, Coast FM (Euro-pirate relays Coast FM in Tenerife, Canary Islands) 2044 English pop music program; fair/good via KwiSDR Hooksiel, Germany; was heard fairly well a week before at a DXpedition in central Ohio around 0000; August 6 (Andy Robins, Kalamazoo, Michigan. Icom R-75 with active mini-whip; Tecsun PL-880 and PL-660 with 45′ PAR EF-SWL end-fed wire or 25′ Sangean reel, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD)

send us more details on this and other SW Irish Pirates in the 49 meter band (or any other bands) to reception@radio.ie

Dublin Podcast Festival

Want to see what is lined up for next months Dublin Podcast Festival? Details + tickets. Dublin Podcast Festival

BRIAN REED ON CREATING S-TOWN
WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE
MY DAD WROTE A PORNO
CRIMINAL / THE MEMORY PALACE
SCROOBIUS PIP – DISTRACTION PIECES
AN IRISHMAN ABROAD FEAT RODDY DOYLE / PERSONALITY BINGO
THE BIG INTERVIEW
LIVE with Graham Hunter: Ireland World Cup Qualifiers focus with very special guests.
TRUTH & MOVIES
A Little White Lies Podcast (and Screening) with James Richardson
FASCINATED WITH GEAROID FARRELLY
ALISON SPITTLE / JUVENALIA
DUBLAND / REVIEWABLES
MASTERCLASS – The ultimate guide to creating a successful podcast with Ben Green, Senior Producer at the Guardian

Tests hiding in plain sight

c2009 Maryrose Lyons on the RTE’s The Business programme. cue point 22:21

Audio File #1

now using TIME​JUMP – DEEP LINKS FOR PODCASTS. TimeJump seemlessly adds deep linking capabilities to HTML5 audio and video podcasts. It works quietly behind-the-scenes to add a standardized API to your episode pages.

The older way of doing this was with qued.tv

Vincent Hanley Comin’atcha

Last April 17th (Easter Monday) Tipp FM and Clare FM broadcast a documentary about the Fab Vinny.

If you are too young to remember when MTV played music videos all day long, you will be too young to remember when Vincent Hanley sent a weekly music video show back to Ireland for broadcast on RTE TV. It was called MT USA (Music Television USA) and it was light years ahead of the grey scale TV we had in Ireland at the time. So the bright lights of NYC and OUR Fab Vinny and the videos we could hardly see elsewhere were an oasis in an 1980s Ireland media desert.

Full Radio Documentary via FanningSessions on Mixcloud

MARINE BROADCASTING OFFENCES ACT (1967)

LIVE BLOGGING this weekend…….
50th ANNIVERSARY MARINE OFFENCES ACT (1967)

Monday 14th August

Tune in here

August 14th 1967: With the Marine Broadcasting Offences Act coming into force at midnight Radio London (Big L) closes down at 3.00pm after broadcasting its “Their Final Hour” programme. But a defiant Radio Caroline vows to continue.


East Point Radio marks 50th anniversary of the Marine Offences Act from Just Talking on Vimeo.


Monday 14th August 2017 on RTI, Radio Tatras International from Radio Tatras on Vimeo.

ABC (Australia) National News Report 13.08.17 – UK Pirate Radio

240p screen grab of BBC Breakfast this morning

Total geeky radio stuff. GB5RC station ‘radio caroline’ QSO on 80 meters yesterday.

Radio Caroline memories: part 1 from Isle of Man TV

Radio Caroline memories: part 2 from Isle of Man TV

Sunday 13th August

After 7.00am Monday Watch Johnnie Walker on BBC Breakfast

7.20am Monday – Tony Blackburn on Radio 4 Today Programme.

09.00 Monday – BBC Radio Leeds Stephanie Hirst will be playing an hour of 60s pirate radio classics on vinyl

10pm Sunday – 1am Monday and 6am – 4pm Monday Pirate BBC Essex on Air from light ship and Ross Revenge.

ABC: Radio Caroline: Golden age of British pirate radio remembered, 50 years on

BBC: The final days of the pop pirates

I think Tony Benn knew that the musicians sailed out the the ships with their records.

Saturday 12th August

50 years since the UK Government stamped down on radio pirates – and Manx Radio’s celebrating by commandeering Radio Caroline’s “MV Ross Revenge”.

Legislation to stop the practice sparked a constitutional row between Tynwald and Whitehall, and for four years, Radio Caroline North operated just off Ramsey. more…

Radio Caroline is on 1KW 1350KHz in Milan Italy.

Caroline North starts 10.30am tune in 1368KHz if you’re near the Irish Sea.

MARINE BROADCASTING OFFENCES ACT (1967)

John Kelly’s Mystery Train returns to radio

The JK Ensemble is no more. Just after 2pm John Kelly announced that today was the last of his John Kelly Ensemble programmes. From September 4th the old iconic show with the very identifiable name returns.

Mystery Train ran on RTE from 2000-2006. Previous Kelly has broadcast with the BBC, The Eclectic Ballroom on Today FM and continues (TBC) his Radio Clash show on RTÉ 2XM.

Reaction has been warm judging by the replies. Welcome back old friend of a show. Train departs platform 3 September 4th 7pm on Lyric FM.

Hear the last John Kelly Ensemble on the RTÉ Radio Player.

Wireless Flirt

If this site had a blog roll the first link would be to Wireless Flirt. It is the supporting blog to a great radio show on Flirt FM. It is presented by (disclaimer: my good friend) John Walsh who is clearly passionate about all things radio. John produces and presents a monthly 1 hour radio show all about radio on Galway’s students station Flirt FM.

Currently Flirt FM is on summer holidays (yes some radio stations get a break) but Wireless Flirt is busy making future programmes.

A good sampler of the first year of programmes from Wireless Flirt was broadcast on Community Radio Day on Flirt FM.

Along with the blog each episode is archived on the programmes Mixcloud account for playback on demand.

John’s newscaster delivery is ideal for a radio show about radio, I can confirm he sounded just the same at 15 years of age! when he started on 80’s station Big Beat Radio.

Beyond the radio show the blog also exposes John’s writing skills. For example his article A Cure-head trapped in tranquillity: memories of KLAS 98.5 FM is a classic example of passionate writing of a subject close to his heart.

Year 2 of Wireless Flirt is about to kick off. Keep 3pm on the first Monday clear in your diary or wait anxiously like me for the podcast to drop within 6 to 24 hours after the broadcast.