{"id":9331,"date":"2024-01-10T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=9331"},"modified":"2024-01-06T15:46:05","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T15:46:05","slug":"northeast-series-friday-night-on-telstar-community-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/northeast-series-friday-night-on-telstar-community-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Northeast series: Friday night on Telstar Community Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5201\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-9331-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/8088AI-192.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/8088AI-192.mp3\">https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/8088AI-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\/2024\/01\/8088AI-192.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=9331-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/8088AI-192.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"8088AI-192.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"819\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Telstar-logo-1024x819.jpg\" alt=\"Northeast series: Friday night on Telstar Community Radio\" class=\"wp-image-5762\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Telstar-logo-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Telstar-logo-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Telstar-logo-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Telstar-logo-1536x1229.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Telstar-logo.jpg 1565w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Telstar logo (courtesy Ian Biggar). <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Telstar Community Radio broadcast from in and around the Dundalk area between 1980 and 1988. Despite stiff competition from bigger local stations Radio Carousel and Boyneside Radio, it built up and maintained its own audience. The station was first located in Dundalk, moving south to the village of Blackrock in 1982 before returning to Dundalk in 1986. The main frequencies used for most of its existence were 1197 kHz AM and 88.5 FM. Telstar closed down along with other pirates at midnight on New Year&#8217;s Eve 1988. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This recording is of part of Dave Ritchie&#8217;s Friday night show, including chart hits and some oldies, along with adverts for mostly Dundalk-based businesses. There are news headlines on the hour and some notices, including mention of a local gig by British pop star Howard Jones. The tape was recorded from 88.5 FM on 13<sup>th<\/sup> March 1987 from 1830-2006. Another station is heard briefly at about the half-way point, possibly an earlier recording on the same cassette. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> The tape was made originally by John Gartlan and is from the Anoraks Ireland Collection, donated to us by Paul Davidson. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telstar Community Radio broadcast from in and around the Dundalk area between 1980 and 1988. Despite stiff competition from bigger local stations Radio Carousel and Boyneside Radio, it built up and maintained its own audience. The station was first located in Dundalk, moving south to the village of Blackrock in 1982 before returning to Dundalk &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/northeast-series-friday-night-on-telstar-community-radio\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Northeast series: Friday night on Telstar Community 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":[505,564,154,544,377],"class_list":["post-9331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-full-recordings","tag-505","tag-anoraks-ireland-collection","tag-louth","tag-northeast-series","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: Friday night on Telstar Community 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\/northeast-series-friday-night-on-telstar-community-radio\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Northeast series: Friday night on Telstar Community Radio - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Telstar Community Radio broadcast from in and around the Dundalk area between 1980 and 1988. 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