{"id":10502,"date":"2025-02-07T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=10502"},"modified":"2025-02-03T12:08:21","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T12:08:21","slug":"stuart-scott-on-eastside-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/stuart-scott-on-eastside-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuart Scott on Eastside Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4048\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-10502-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/AI1773-192.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/AI1773-192.mp3\">https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/AI1773-192.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/AI1773-192.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=10502-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/AI1773-192.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"AI1773-192.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"802\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Ian-Biggar-Ballycotton-July-82-IB-1024x802.jpg\" alt=\"Stuart Scott on Eastside Radio\" class=\"wp-image-3121\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Ian-Biggar-Ballycotton-July-82-IB-1024x802.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Ian-Biggar-Ballycotton-July-82-IB-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Ian-Biggar-Ballycotton-July-82-IB-768x601.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Ian-Biggar-Ballycotton-July-82-IB.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ian Biggar in the Ballycotton studio in 1982 (photo courtesy of Ian). <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Cork\u2019s most successful pirate station Radio ERI (1982-1988) began its life in early 1982 in the east Cork village of Ballycotton. It was known various as Cork Eastside Radio, Eastside Recording Ireland, Eastside Radio and then Eastside Radio Ireland, abbreviated to ERI. The station expanded its operations in 1983, moving to better studio facilities and installing a powerful 5kW AM transmitter on the edge of Cork city. It saw off competition from many other aspiring stations and remained dominant in the Cork market until its closure at the end of 1988.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This recording of Eastside Radio, as it was then known, was made a few months after the station began broadcasting, when it was still based in Ballycotton. Presenting the breakfast show is long-time supporter of Pirate.ie, Ian Biggar, known by his on-air name of Stuart Scott. Adverts are scarce for the time of day, perhaps reflecting the fact that the station was still establishing itself. News headlines are read by Ian on the half-hour, the new Top 40 is announced and he mentions that Eastside is to hold an outside broadcast later that day from the seaside town of Youghal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The recording is from the Anoraks Ireland Collection and was made from 102.2 FM from 0653-0827 on Monday 23<sup>rd<\/sup> August 1982. Eastside\/ERI also broadcast on 1305 kHz (announcing 225 metres) at this time and for most of its existence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cork\u2019s most successful pirate station Radio ERI (1982-1988) began its life in early 1982 in the east Cork village of Ballycotton. It was known various as Cork Eastside Radio, Eastside Recording Ireland, Eastside Radio and then Eastside Radio Ireland, abbreviated to ERI. The station expanded its operations in 1983, moving to better studio facilities and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/stuart-scott-on-eastside-radio\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stuart Scott on Eastside Radio&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[152],"tags":[498,564,151,150,163],"class_list":["post-10502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-full-recordings","tag-498","tag-anoraks-ireland-collection","tag-cork","tag-eri","tag-ian-biggar"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Stuart Scott on Eastside Radio - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/stuart-scott-on-eastside-radio\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Stuart Scott on Eastside Radio - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Cork\u2019s most successful pirate station Radio ERI (1982-1988) began its life in early 1982 in the east Cork village of Ballycotton. 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