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City Gaol
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On opening night,
a three hour concert of Irish music featuring various local artists, and
a relay of the Bells of Shandon, was broadcast.
During the next 3 years 6CK became responsible for weekly Sunday Night concerts broadcast nationally by 2RN The Station Director, Sean Neeson (who ironically, had formerly "served time" in the Gaol) and his wife, Geraldine (an accomplished pianist) were also responsible for broadcasting some of the earliest plays on radio - beginning in January 1928.
Owing to lack of Government
financial support, 6CK was closed down as a regular programme making
unit in Sept. 1930, but it continued to provide programme contributions
and individual series over the next 25 years.
In the 1950s the Cork Station
moved from the former Cork City Gaol to new studios on Union
Quay.
Tel
:00353-21-4305022
Fax:00353-21-4307230
e-Mail:corkgaol@indigo.ie