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{{Use Irish English|date=April 2014}}
{{Infobox radio station
| name = 6CK
| city = [[Cork (city)|Cork]]
| country =Ireland
| languages = English, [[Irish language|Irish]]
| airdate = 25 April [[1927 in radio|1927]]
| last_airdate = September [[1930 in radio|1930]]
|power=1 kW or 1.5 kW<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bwwqAENj6vgC&dq=%221000%22+6ck+cork&pg=PA20|title=Radio Service Bulletin|date=24 November 1929|publisher=The Bureau|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://fleischmanndiaries.ucc.ie/portfolio/april-1927-sunday-24-april-24-was-fleischmann-seniors-47th-birthday-maybe-that-was-the-occasion-for-the-outing-to-dunmanway/|title=Fleischmann Diaries | April, 1927, Sunday 24|website=fleischmanndiaries.ucc.ie}}</ref>
| owner = [[Department of Posts & Telegraphs]]
| coordinates = {{coord|51.899472|-8.4993865|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
| frequency = 749 kHz, 1337 kHz}}
'''6CK''' was the first official [[radio station]] in [[Cork (city)|Cork]], [[Ireland]] and formed part of the national radio service of the [[Irish Free State]]. The station was set up in 1927 as an expansion of [[2RN]], the national station established in [[Dublin]] the previous year. It aired on [[medium wave]], initially on the 400-metre band (749 kHz); on 15 January 1929 it switched to 222 metres (1350 kHz) and on 10 June of that year switched to 224 metres (1337 kHz).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/cork-radio-call-sign-6ck-went-air-ireland-25-april-1927-bill-holohan|title=Cork Radio, call sign, 6CK, went on the air in Ireland on 25 April 1927, 94 years ago this very evening, broadcasting from Sundays Well Goal Cork.|website=www.linkedin.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ys-K-gEyldkC&dq=6CK+cork&pg=PA30|title=Radio Markets of the World, 1930|first=Lawrence Dearborn|last=Batson|date=24 November 1930|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vo8HAQAAMAAJ&q=brussels|title=Irish Radio Data: 1926-1980|first=Alacoque|last=Kealy|date=24 November 1981|publisher=Audience Research Department, Radio Telefís Éireann|via=Google Books}}</ref>

6CK operated primarily as a local relay for 2RN as the signal from that station was too weak to be heard in Cork without much difficulty. However the station also had its own programmes and made a significant input to the national service. The station was initiated by [[J. J. Walsh]] who was [[Minister for Posts and Telegraphs]] of the Irish Free State and was responsible for broadcasting, having launched the first station, 2RN, the previous year. Walsh had been a local [[Teachta Dála|TD]] for [[Cork Borough (Dáil constituency)|Cork Borough]] and this may have influenced his decision to set up a second station in Cork.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3-z4AwAAQBAJ&dq=%22j+j+walsh%22+cork+radio&pg=PT181|title=Freedom to Achieve Freedom: The Irish Free State 1922–1932|first=Donal P.|last=Corcoran|date=13 September 2013|publisher=Gill & Macmillan Ltd|isbn=9780717157730 |via=Google Books}}</ref>

The station operated as 6CK for just under three years when, in September 1930,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rte.ie//archives/2017/0425/870123-cork-radio-station-6ck/|title=Cork Radio Station 6CK|website=RTÉ Archives}}</ref> it was subsumed into the national network which later became "Radio Éireann" and eventually [[Raidió Teilifís Éireann]] (RTÉ). However the studios continued to produce a considerable amount of material for the national service and the transmitter continued as a local relay for many years.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=onRUEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22relay%22+6ck+cork&pg=PA339|title=A History of Irish Modernism|first1=Gregory|last1=Castle|first2=Patrick|last2=Bixby|date=24 January 2019|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9781107176720 |via=Google Books}}</ref>

The studios of 6CK were in a section of the old [[Cork City Gaol]] in [[Sundays Well]]. The prison had only been recently vacated, having been used as an overflow prison for political prisoners at the end of the Irish War of Independence.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.imperialhotelcork.com/Cork_City_Gaol.html|title=Cork City Gaol|website=www.imperialhotelcork.com}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[RTÉ Radio Cork]]

==External links==
* {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20200915163909/http://radiowaves.fm/ire/database/cork-licensed/6ck-cork-licensed/ 6CK page at Radiowaves.FM]}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}
* Information from an audio recording of a programme "60 Years of Radio in Cork" first broadcast on [[RTÉ]] in 1987.
** {{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=21wiAQAAIAAJ&q=60+Years+of+Radio+in+Cork+1987|title=RTÉ 100 Years: Ireland in the 20th Century|first=Nuala Ní|last=Dhomhnaill|date=24 November 2001|publisher=TownHouse|isbn=9781860591426 |via=Google Books}}

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[[Category:Radio stations in Ireland]]
[[Category:Defunct radio stations in the Republic of Ireland]]
[[Category:1927 establishments in Ireland]]
[[Category:1930 disestablishments in Ireland]]
[[Category:Culture in Cork (city)]]

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