From 1983, this is a recording of Sunshine Radio’s return to the airwaves. The Dublin station had remained off the air following the raid on them on May 19th but they finally returned on June 12th.
The first recording starts at 11.45am with the build-up to the station’s return, and then David Lyons is on from midday…
From 3pm Eugene Higgins celebrates the return…
This Radio Retro recording is presented by kind courtesy of DX Archive
A full morning’s recording from April 26th 1984 – an eventful day in the history of Sunshine Radio.
Following weeks of an RTÉ jamming campaign on the station’s FM frequencies, the day before this broadcast a jammer was turned on to the MW frequency. It didn’t last long as the semi-state broadcaster managed to jam their own stations as well.
However, this was a whole new day…which starts at 6.50am with David Lyons at the mic.
From 9am Robbie Dale oversees some dramatic developments.
With the situation now very desperate Andy Rua takes to the air at midday.
This is Sunshine 101 FM from their Hot Hits period in July 1988.
Dave Johnson: “The music programming was spot on. A few of these tunes weren’t in the UK Top 40 so they were true imports. Am sure I was listening that day! “
This is ‘The Final Show’ from Dublin superpirate Sunshine Radio. Newly introduced legislation required all unlicensed stations to vacate the airwaves at the end of 1988 or face huge fines and possible imprisonment.
Robbie Robinson / Dale
Sunshine Radio scheduled their switch off for 6pm on December 30th and ran an all day special show looking back at the history of the station, year by year, from its launch in September 1980. Paul Kavanagh was in the studio all day and many others came and went. The main presenters were:- Dusty Rhodes from 9am; Mark Byrne from Midday; Nails Mahoney and Justin McKenna from 4pm
The full day is included here and there are a couple of ways to listen – either by picking an hour (year) or in two large blocks.
9am-3pm
3pm – Closedown
Listen hour by hour…
08:45 Nails Mahoney
09:00 The Final Show 1980
10:00 The Final Show 1981
11:00 The Final Show 1982
12:00 The Final Show 1983
13:00 The Final Show 1984
14:00 The Final Show 1985
15:00 The Final Show 1986
16:00 The Final Show 1987
17:00 The Final Show 1988
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