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ABC Radio December 29th 1988

From December 29th 1988 this is programming from the final day of this Waterford giant before legislation enforced its - and all pirates - closure in December 1988.
Andy Ellis in the early days.
Photo: DXArchive

From December 29th 1988 this is programming from the final day of this Waterford giant before legislation enforced its – and all pirates – closure in December 1988.

We have Clive Derek from 11.07am. Then Kevin McCarthy and Dave Hunt bring us on a tour around the station’s studio location from midday.

11.07am – Clive Derek

Midday – Station Tour

1.35pm – Kevin McCarthy

With the station scheduled to switch off at 3pm, this is the final hour…

Closedown

Carlow Local Radio December 30th 1988

This is a very short snippet of Carlow Local Radio’s closedown from December 30th 1988. Scheduled to close at 3pm, the station overran a little and eventually ceased at 3.15pm.

Closedown

If you can help out with a longer version of this station’s closedown please get in touch or use the free service at wetransfer.com to send to recordings@radiowaves.fm

Radio Retro: archiving Irish radio broadcasts since 2002

If you have any old cassettes or digitised recordings that we can add here, please get in touch – radiowavesfm@radioanoraks.com or use wetransfer to the same address.

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