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DUBLIN COMMUNITY RADIO - 1981
963kHz

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IRISH PIRATES A / Z

Dublin Community Radio - 1981 visit

1981 story


"DCR was a small time station, which began life off channel on 968. They were now heard around town and even in Scotland on 963kHz. The frequency of course had delivered hours of listening pleasure to so many people, when Radio Caroline used the channel from the Mi Amigo.

It always made me wonder who suggested frequencies to the stations in Eire. Few people had any real idea about the band at that time. I know in latter years, Anoraks UK and associates including ourselves, were asked to suggest good spots on the dial for various stations.

DCR seemed to have splashed out and bought a substantial number of Tony Allen's famous long long type jingles. They announced as "Dublin's first independent local community broadcasting service", whatever that meant. They presumably did not see any of the other hobby pirates in the same light.

The address of 20 Lower Grand Canal Street, Dublin 2 was the studio address."

Not a whole lot more is really known about DCR, except that something in the old memory banks tells me that the station closed down when the students that ran the station went back to Uni or wherever, at the end of the summer.

 



The garden shed DCR studio

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