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I remember the very first live broadcast back in 89. We had listened to the test transmission for a while and were excited to hear the new station start. It was the school summer holidays and id gone to work with my uncle in his truck and we were just leaving his depot so id imagine it was 6am when we heard the first live broadcast. I carried on listening for a few years later but the station started to decline towards the early/mid 90s and listener figures dropped year on year until the stations eventual demise. Such a shame because in the early years it was a fabulous station. A tribute station with the same name and jingles has just started up on DAB and online which is quite good.

What is that Microphone called Used in the Studio ?

i listened to Atlantic 252 back in the day, real radio that totally rocked, what a shame it has disappeared

What a gunk

What a joke this guy is

When I was at college in 1994 the van we used to travel around in had a really old radio in it that just had MW and LW. This is how I found out about this station . We used to listen to it in Derbyshire in the UK and it was good reception . I just looked online and it is 350 miles as the crow flies from where we are to the transmitter. Not sure what the reception was like at night time though as we never listened then .

Love 252 lw

What a fart

Dude clearly loved his job-I remember him well, may he RIP. 252 TX is now gone to radio heaven as well :(

the longwave giant

I wonder what studio speakers they used in the studio? They sound like boombox speakers, but I guess they have to be like that just to see how they would sound like on a regular radio long wave receiver. Still I miss listening to this station a long time ago while I was DXing in 2000 in Virginia Beach, VA and in the year 1994. I still listen ot the Tribute station online called Giant Radio.

RTE are closing the transmitters later on tonight on 252Khz.... the Legacy of Atlantic 252 will be no-more, and will sadly come to an end... R.I.P to the Legend of Clarkstown, County Meath :(

Today the 1st of April 2023, this transmitter is being used for Irish Rte1, 14th of April it's scheduled to be turned off as are many long and medium wave transmitters in the next few years. I live in the lake district so the only reliable stations when driving around here are radio 4 and Rte1, dab and fm just don't work for us around here so I'll be shedding a tear when theyre both gone...

Gary Wilkinson.The Pizza Man.....RIP my friend x💔

Who’s watching this video 23 years later…. 😮😮

What utter vacuous noise.

22nd January 1989

RIP Gary, you legend

RIP Gary Wilkinson. 28/10/2022. another Legend of the airwaves gone :(

RIP Gary. Sadly missed by the radio community, especially in the north east. Passed away on 26th October 2022 after a short illness.

R.I.P. Gary, Tracey is Heartbroken. We'll all miss you, especially Alfie.

Rest in peace Gary Wkinson

Rest In Peace Legend. Atlantic 252 was the best radio station with the best Presenters. Still missed

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This station in it's hay day could be received as far as Brazil, the station used to get letters and signal reports from a vast area. Shame the power today is only around 100 Kw day and 50-60 Kw night. I can't see this station last 5 more years as RTE have been trying to shut it down for a few years, then it will be demolished. The ld MW 567 Khz station is due to be demolished soon and it's mast removed. Sad time for radio but a lot of new cars today don't even have a MW receiver never mind LW, the Car companies themselves deciding what we receive or don't receive. It costs practically nothing to include LW/MW in any car radio so why omit it altogether ?

Its 2021, and even now i would happily accept these prizes and be over the moon if i won these fabulous prizes!

Even in summer 2021, looking back at this small clip wasn't the pizza man just brilliant, so much energy and fast fingers, I could watch this clip all day, radio today doesn't come close to back then, does any 1 know was the pizza man on the station for long.?,, #bringbackthe90,s #252 #thepizzaman. 🤙

A weekend for 4 in London and live within the M25.

Has a anyone noticed if someone says Showbiz please Jim, Jim always says Showbiz we'd like Showbiz we'd like.

Can't beat a bit of bully

Signal good at Skegness lincs but after 7pm used to decline when they reduced power, I now live on the Isle of Man and the frequency here is fantastic here any time of the day so you can imagine how good it was in the day

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Pity it was on lw , couldn't listen to it at night ,the quality was horrific

I think i listened to this exact show during the broadcast. The alton towers competition sounds familiar 🤔

Incredible tour, still want to go and visit the site at some point when I'm over that direction. I think RTE used it for a few years although its off-air now. Not sure how much is left.

22nd January 1989

1:00 Ok...anything that has all those corona rings around it...I'd be a bit worried sticking my head into there so close to it :-O Just saying...

My favorite Station ever in the 80s

Kat Orman.. now presenting mornings on BBC Oxford

My favorite radio station

Wow, I miss Atlantic 252, great station, music and presenters

I picked up this station in Antigonish, Nova Scotia Canada during the 1980's. The signal had to be separated from a lot of noise. Still quite an achievement. Today Atlantic 252 could operate with a very efficient Nautel transmitter. Nautel builds some very high power solid state transmitters. I remember the Atlantic 252 slogan, the station that reaches the beaches.

Holy crap - isn't modern radio BORING ? !

One of my favourite djs back in the day.

I liked her leather trousers!

This is where they switched off the LW transmitter after closedown at 7pm and fired it up around 5.50am with a test tone until programmes resumed at 6am.

email me?? Blimey - was a bit hopeful wasn't he!

A few saftey interlocks defeated there......

What a junk of a transmitter, £1100 a day to run, no wonder it didn't last.

I wonder what it would cost to assemble such an installation today? And that mast - amazing that it stands on such a small base.