{"id":9566,"date":"2024-03-15T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=9566"},"modified":"2024-03-09T23:54:36","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T23:54:36","slug":"saturday-morning-on-corks-eri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/saturday-morning-on-corks-eri\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday morning on Cork&#8217;s ERI"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8054\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-9566-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/19831126_ERI_1305_TI.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/19831126_ERI_1305_TI.mp3\">https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/19831126_ERI_1305_TI.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\/03\/19831126_ERI_1305_TI.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=9566-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/19831126_ERI_1305_TI.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"19831126_ERI_1305_TI.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"745\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/ERI-Info-Leaflet-1-1024x745.jpeg\" alt=\"Saturday morning on Cork&#039;s ERI\" class=\"wp-image-9567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/ERI-Info-Leaflet-1-1024x745.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/ERI-Info-Leaflet-1-300x218.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/ERI-Info-Leaflet-1-768x558.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/ERI-Info-Leaflet-1-1536x1117.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/ERI-Info-Leaflet-1-2048x1489.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Cover of undated ERI station leaflet (Anoraks Ireland collection).<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>ERI was one of Ireland&#8217;s most successful pirate stations, broadcasting from County Cork and  later Cork City between 1982 and 1988. After installing a 5kW AM transmitter on 1305 kHz (225 metres) in 1983, it gained dominance among listeners and advertisers in Munster. The station could also be heard further afield at night due to AM propagation, as in this recording made in Kidderminster in the English midlands in the winter of 1983. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It begins with the end of Mark Lawrence&#8217;s Saturday breakfast show, which is followed by news read by John O&#8217;Connor. Next up is the children&#8217;s programme <em>Junior Club<\/em>. Commercial breaks feature adverts for local  businesses and for brands and include the voice of John Blake (real name John Creedon), who would go on to become a well-known RT\u00c9 presenter. There is plenty of deep fading in the recording due to the distance from the AM transmitter. The tape was made on Saturday 26<sup>th<\/sup> November 1983 from 0845-0900 from 1305 kHz and is from the Leon Tipler Collection, donated to us by Steve England. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ERI was one of Ireland&#8217;s most successful pirate stations, broadcasting from County Cork and later Cork City between 1982 and 1988. After installing a 5kW AM transmitter on 1305 kHz (225 metres) in 1983, it gained dominance among listeners and advertisers in Munster. The station could also be heard further afield at night due to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/saturday-morning-on-corks-eri\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Saturday morning on Cork&#8217;s ERI&#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":[501,46,151,89,150,342],"class_list":["post-9566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-full-recordings","tag-501","tag-am","tag-cork","tag-dx","tag-eri","tag-leon-tipler"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Saturday morning on Cork&#039;s ERI - 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\/saturday-morning-on-corks-eri\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Saturday morning on Cork&#039;s ERI - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"ERI was one of Ireland&#8217;s most successful pirate stations, broadcasting from County Cork and later Cork City between 1982 and 1988. 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