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November 1st 2008 HERE'S AN ERI PROMO YOU'LL NEVER FORGET! This was sent by someone whose name I don't even know unfortunately. Perhaps he can email me and give me more information. To the best of my understanding this is Southcoast taking the piss out of ERI'S on-air promo "which station do you listen to?" (copied from Radio Nova's promos at the time). Don't play this in front of your kids! LISTEN HERE! Let us know what you think on our noticeboard!
UPDATE: Thanks for this message from Don Stevens!
G'day George, I was Station Manager at South Coast Radio at the time, reporting to Tom Joyce and the Board. I remember, very clearly, the day I was summoned to Tom's business in Cork and asked to explain a 'trailer' that was played which swore at ERI, he had received a complaint from ERI.
I assured Tom that no such promo existed, and it was clearly a ploy to encourage the Board to restrict our creativity.
Imagine my surprise, when upon my arrival at the station and I shared my experence with Keith York, he produced a NAB cart, played it, and I heard the promo. Yorkie felt it slipped into the 'on air' studio cart rack by mistake.
Needless to say, I made a copy, and Yorkie bulk erased the cart, so, George, it probably was aired more than once.
I still have the two versions of the jingle, plus the other 'private variants' of promos and jingles, they are killer.
Thanks for reminding me of a day when my bowels turned to water.
radioirish.com BROADCASTING "LIVE" FROM NEW YORK! Three ex-Radio Nova Broadcasters are on radio-irish.com! Sean McCarthy (Gary Hamill), Bob Gallico and Henry O'Donovan (George Long - thats me folks!)
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This is some video of Radio Nova in 1984.
Our thanks to John O'Flaherty for this footage.
It features a day in the life of Nova and many
appearances by Jason Maine.
BRING BACK RADIO NOVA Full video of "Bring Back Radio Nova" can be seen here.
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Nova's Newsteam, at least in part.
From left to right:
Dave Johnston (Andrew Hanlon), above him Mark Weller (Costigan), he's pointing at a picture of David Harvey, Bob Gallico sitting on the chair, Bernie Jameson, and George Long (thats me folks).
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In 2004 I did a series of short - light-hearted radio shows covering the radio industry
in Australia. This was broadcast on Media Beacon, a programme aired on Phantom FM in Dublin
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