{"id":4854,"date":"2021-09-22T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=4854"},"modified":"2024-06-15T10:57:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-15T09:57:00","slug":"westside-radio-from-sligo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/westside-radio-from-sligo\/","title":{"rendered":"Border series: Westside Radio from Sligo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7071\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-4854-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/19880829_Westside_Radio_976fm_Des_McAleer_2028-2115_JB.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/19880829_Westside_Radio_976fm_Des_McAleer_2028-2115_JB.mp3\">https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/19880829_Westside_Radio_976fm_Des_McAleer_2028-2115_JB.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\/2021\/09\/19880829_Westside_Radio_976fm_Des_McAleer_2028-2115_JB.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=4854-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/19880829_Westside_Radio_976fm_Des_McAleer_2028-2115_JB.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"19880829_Westside_Radio_976fm_Des_McAleer_2028-2115_JB.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"570\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Westside-Ad-AUK.jpg\" alt=\"Border series: Westside Radio from Sligo\" class=\"wp-image-4855\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Westside-Ad-AUK.jpg 570w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Westside-Ad-AUK-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><figcaption>Westside Radio ad from Anoraks UK Weekly Report, February 1987<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Westside Radio began broadcasting from Sligo on 97.5 MHz FM on 15<sup>th<\/sup> November 1986, playing mostly country and western music. The <em>Weekly Report<\/em> of Anoraks UK on 7<sup>th<\/sup> December reported that the audio was quite loud and sometimes distorted. An advert in <em>Weekly Report<\/em> in February 1987 (pictured) claimed that Westside was Sligo\u2019s \u2018first ever country music, folk and traditional and easy listening radio station\u2019. Subsequent reports by Anoraks UK referred to plenty of requests and adverts, so the format appeared to be working locally. By April 1987, the station had changed its name to Westside Community Radio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In February 1987, a West Coast Radio from Sligo was reported to be testing on 1143 kHz AM and 103.5 FM. This was a shortlived station but there must have been confusion between the similar names when both were on air.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This recording of Westside Radio was made from 97.6 FM from 2028-2202 (part 2 below) on 29<sup>th<\/sup> August 1988 and features a chart music show with Des McAleer who adds \u2018Power 97.5 FM\u2019 to the station ID. Clearly Westside had moved beyond its original easy listening format by this late stage in its existence, at least in its evening shows. The station was listed in an Anoraks UK log on 5<sup>th<\/sup> July 1988 and Power 97 is mentioned in a report from Sligo on 24<sup>th<\/sup> September, suggesting that it may have changed its name by that time. We thank John Breslin for this donation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/19880829_Westside_Radio_976fm_Des_McAleer_2115-2202_JB.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption>Part 2 of the recording (2115-2202). <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Westside Radio began broadcasting from Sligo on 97.5 MHz FM on 15th November 1986, playing mostly country and western music. The Weekly Report of Anoraks UK on 7th December reported that the audio was quite loud and sometimes distorted. An advert in Weekly Report in February 1987 (pictured) claimed that Westside was Sligo\u2019s \u2018first ever &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/westside-radio-from-sligo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Border series: Westside Radio from Sligo&#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":[487,260,315,549],"class_list":["post-4854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-full-recordings","tag-487","tag-border","tag-sligo","tag-westside-radio-sligo"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Border series: Westside Radio from Sligo - 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\/westside-radio-from-sligo\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Border series: Westside Radio from Sligo - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Westside Radio began broadcasting from Sligo on 97.5 MHz FM on 15th November 1986, playing mostly country and western music. 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