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All-reggae radio format

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The single-genre reggae station: IRIE FM, on air from 1990 as the first all-reggae broadcaster, made the format real in Jamaica. Before it, reggae shared national airtime with everything else and much of the music never reached radio at all; after it, the question became which reggae radio would recognise.

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How distant AM signals, cautious island gatekeepers and pirate transmitters carried Jamaican records from Kingston's dances to London and New York.

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