Posted by Greg Parke
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on October 15, 2008, 12:05 am, in reply to "Re: Hugh Hardy (Radio Carousel) Passes Away"
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Thanks for that David. I wasn’t fully sure what the arrangements were.
I’m thinking back to the times when I was a young lad looking into Radio Carousel’s studios in that famous glass dome in Navan Shopping Centre. The typical shopper had a full panoramic view of the whole station which I felt was pretty cool. Looking back…THAT WAS LOCAL RADIO - UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL unlike today.
I especially remember Carousel’s coverage of the hard winter snows in 1982 with even the local police on-air giving advice. People had no way to get to work or me to school but had Carousel keeping them updated. A man even knocked our door one night after his car was left balancing on top of a snow drift outside our house in the countryside. It was crazy; I remember looking at the way his car was left dangerously tilting on top of the thing. It was a hard winter but exciting as a kid and then hearing Jona Lewie trying to stop the Cavalry (1980) in the midst of it all added to the excitement.
I think all the Carousel stations around the North East of Ireland did a sterling job and let’s not forget HOW they networked shows in those days without any of what today has to offer.
Radio Nova news had the madness well covered too for Dublin.
Back at the studios, I had no idea I was looking at my future through the glass as Tina Anderson (Mid-Morning) and the likes did their gigs. I was a shy kid who sooo wanted to knock the door to their requests room hoping maybe…just maybe they’d show me around. I never did but at least I was inspired enough by what people like Chris Cary and Hugh Hardy did. It’s such a shame radio doesn’t have that same spark, energy, localness and so on anymore. But try telling the young of radio today…
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