Radio Nova:

Radio Nova was a pirate radio station broadcasting from Dublin, Ireland. Owned and operated by the UK pirate radio veteran Chris Cary, the station’s first broadcasts were during the summer of 1981 on 88.5 MHz FM and 819 kHz AM. Radio Nova has been created to deliver the best music on the radio. We have put together a unique radio station and brand that plays the most exciting music of all time! If you feel great when you hear a big guitar solo or love to dream you are on the stage with rock and roll superstars then Radio Nova is for you! We are the station for your inner self to come flooding out and we promise to give you a guitar-based mix of great songs from the last 40 years right through to today.

Prior to Nova’s arrival, Irish radio consisted of the government broadcaster RTÉ and a number of local AM pirate stations. Radio Nova was the first station in Ireland to utilise a high powered signal on FM. By 1982 Radio Nova was pulling in over 40% of the available audience around Dublin. In September 1982 Radio Nova introduced a new service called Kiss FM on 102.7 MHz – inspired by Los Angeles-based 102.7 KIIS-FM.

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Radio Nova