Century Radio Archive

BennyLynch

I'm looking for archive from Century Radio - the short-lived Irish national station that existed between 1989 and 1991. Does anybody know if an archive exists? Irish radio aficionados/historians please help?

eiresandra

There are a few bits here.... http://aircheckdownloads.com/CenturyIreland.htm

AwaitYourReply

Century Radio station launched from Dublin, Ireland on September 4th, 1989

Century Radio launch day clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu30mgMMRkw

September 1989: two radio giants take to the Irish airwaves
https://wirelessflirt.wordpress.com/2016/09/04/september-1989-two-radio-giants-take-to-the-irish-airwaves/

Losty Dublin

I think Enda Caldwell may have some; try him or else Gerard Roe.

I've a longer demo cut of Jingles than that which is on on Airchecks, if you like.

Antenna

Recording on mixcloud of the station from 1990, nightime from about 10:47 PM for just over half an hour:

https://www.mixcloud.com/kevin-branigan/mark-byrne-on-century-radio-circa-1990-claire-mckeon-is-on-news-and-it-sounds-very-tight/

Seeing as it (currently) has no date that it was recorded, a challenge is can anyone put an exact (or at least approximate) date on the recording? (there is news that would help)



PS:

more Century Radio both uploaded and linked to by this user:
https://www.mixcloud.com/Catweazle78/

also
http://www.dxarchive.com/downloads_craigavon.html#century


They at one stage became 'Century 100', though for so much of the country outside 'the Pale' it was from 101.0 to 101.8 MHz , so this wasn't a good idea and then became 'Century FM'

AwaitYourReply

Antenna wrote: »

Recording on mixcloud of the station from 1990, nightime from about 10:47 PM for just over half an hour:

https://www.mixcloud.com/kevin-branigan/mark-byrne-on-century-radio-circa-1990-claire-mckeon-is-on-news-and-it-sounds-very-tight/

Seeing as it (currently) has no date that it was recorded, a challenge is can anyone put an exact (or at least approximate) date on the recording? (there is news that would help)



PS:

more Century Radio both uploaded and linked to by this user:
https://www.mixcloud.com/Catweazle78/

also
http://www.dxarchive.com/downloads_craigavon.html#century


They at one stage became 'Century 100', though for so much of the country outside 'the Pale' it was from 101.0 to 101.8 MHz , so this wasn't a good idea and then became 'Century FM'

Century Radio also had reception via 1143KHz AM Medium Wave between September 1989 until it's sudden closure in November 1991. The national commercial independent radio licence was not used again until "Radio Ireland" commenced broadcasting around March, 1997 if memory serves me right. Radio Ireland eventually became 100-102 TODAY FM by 1998.

bureau2009

Speaking of Century Radio..........anyone know what Claire McKeown went on to do?

Losty Dublin

bureau2009 wrote: »

Speaking of Century Radio..........anyone know what Claire McKeown went on to do?

She went to Rock 104 to do the same show for a few years. After that she presented shows on RTE TV some radio work for them as well. Last I heard she was doing the At Home Mum stuff whilst authoring some books, the sort of stuff you'd see in the Indo magazines at the weekend.

AwaitYourReply

bureau2009 wrote: »

Speaking of Century Radio..........anyone know what Claire McKeown went on to do?

I recall she did some work for RTÉ television for a period which is referenced in below article by journalist, John Boland here:

https://www.johnboland.ie/2009/11/28/miriam-and-sisters-didnt-do-it-for-me/

https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2004/0516/401564-charity252/

https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2004/0517/401566-charity252/

Claire has also worked for two Dublin local radio stations namely, FM104 and 98FM

Book author
http://www.obrien.ie/clare-mckeon

Howard100

Great links, thanks for the memories. I worked in Century many years ago.