Irish Era of Pirate Radio Camera Tapes

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C30 -The first tape - 1st June 1982 Miles Johnston covered the evolution of irish commercial broadcasting, under a series "The Irish Era". edited to VHS at the time, until early 1990s. Made available to those who took part and to broadcast media in due course.
This was the most productive and exciting era of radio broadcasting since the off shore stations, focused on Britain in the 1960s. This became mixed with radio Caroline staff, after the Mi-Amigo ship sank. Many of those from the Caroline 1960s and 70s era came to Dublin.
Miles Johnston initially covered this on 35mm stills and cassette tape. His shows as a night time FM jock, went out on Big D Radio, then in 1982 in this video 'fly on the wall' format started.
This was of the DJs and staff of those radio stations, giving as it happened comment over treh main 1980 era.
This is the raw camera as it was shot, slightly cut, and recolourized up to HD 1440. Now made available , probably for the final time, while the tapes can still play 40 years later, in March 2025, 40 years after Miles, and his mate Jeff Camblin, aired with their own pirate, in Northern Ireland, Kiss FM102.7, in 1985. (As Miles worked for the BBC)

Feel free to download and re-use. Please give credit - Rish Era by Miles Johnston

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