{"id":5776,"date":"2022-02-25T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=5776"},"modified":"2024-04-02T14:45:46","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T13:45:46","slug":"telstar-community-radio-from-1986","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/telstar-community-radio-from-1986\/","title":{"rendered":"Northeast series: Telstar Community Radio from 1986"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4440\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-5776-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/869-A-192.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/869-A-192.mp3\">https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/869-A-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\/2022\/02\/869-A-192.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=5776-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/869-A-192.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"869-A-192.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"727\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Telstar-flyer-1981-727x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Northeast series: Telstar Community Radio from 1986\" class=\"wp-image-2878\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Telstar-flyer-1981-727x1024.jpg 727w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Telstar-flyer-1981-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Telstar-flyer-1981-768x1082.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Telstar-flyer-1981-1090x1536.jpg 1090w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Telstar-flyer-1981-1454x2048.jpg 1454w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Telstar-flyer-1981-scaled.jpg 1817w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 727px) 100vw, 727px\" \/><figcaption>Telstar flyer from the early days in 1981 (courtesy Ian Biggar). <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a recording of Louth station Telstar Community Radio from 1986, featuring Ray Stone on air. Telstar broadcast from in and around Dundalk from 1980-1988 and built up its own listenership and advertising base, despite the stiff competition from big stations such as Radio Carousel in Dundalk and Boyneside Radio in Drogheda. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/AI869-1024x700.jpg\" alt=\"Northeast series: Telstar Community Radio from 1986\" class=\"wp-image-5781\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/AI869-1024x700.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/AI869-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/AI869-768x525.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/AI869-rotated.jpg 1418w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Handwritten label from the Anoraks Ireland collection<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Ray Stone had originally been with Carousel but moved to Telstar and took on the manager role. He went on to local licensed station LMFM in 1989. In this recording from 88.5 FM on 30<sup>th<\/sup> April 1986, he multitasks as DJ and newsreader and is heard on many of the adverts. News  bulletins contain references to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine in the Soviet Union, which occurred a few days before. Part 1 above runs from 1046-1134 and part 2 below from 1134-1222. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/869-B-192.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption>Part 2 from 1134<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This recording is from the Anoraks Ireland Tapes Collection, donated to us by Paul Davidson. More material from this collection can be heard on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/radiowaves.fm\/ire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Radiowaves<\/a>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ibhof.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Irish Pirate Radio Archive<\/a>.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a recording of Louth station Telstar Community Radio from 1986, featuring Ray Stone on air. Telstar broadcast from in and around Dundalk from 1980-1988 and built up its own listenership and advertising base, despite the stiff competition from big stations such as Radio Carousel in Dundalk and Boyneside Radio in Drogheda. Ray Stone &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/telstar-community-radio-from-1986\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Northeast series: Telstar Community Radio from 1986&#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":[536,154,544,415,377],"class_list":["post-5776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-full-recordings","tag-536","tag-louth","tag-northeast-series","tag-ray-stone","tag-telstar-community-radio"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Northeast series: Telstar Community Radio from 1986 - 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\/telstar-community-radio-from-1986\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Northeast series: Telstar Community Radio from 1986 - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This is a recording of Louth station Telstar Community Radio from 1986, featuring Ray Stone on air. 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