Georgie Bingham presenting Sunday Exclusive from Wembley Stadium, followed by Call Collymore from Wembley Stadium
Capital One Cup Final
Bradford City v Swansea City - Sam Matterface and Stan Collymore (4pm commentary), with Ian Abrahams at pitchside, Mike Bovill and Matt Holland on Wembley Way and Carl Ralley producing
Premier League
Manchester City v Chelsea - Nigel Adderley and Ray Parlour (1.30pm commentary), with Robbie Fowler providing "expert comment", Dom McGuinness at pitchside and James Dodd producing
Newcastle United v Southampton - Graham Courtney
Championship
Wolverhampton Wanderers v Cardiff City - Dave Rowe
Rugby Union: Six Nations
Scotland v Ireland - Stuart Cameron
talkSPORT Live
Capital One Cup Final
Bradford City v Swansea City - Alex Crook and Matt Lawrence
Premier League
Manchester City v Chelsea - Richard Connelly and Paul McVeigh (featured 1.30pm commentary on international radio stations)
Newcastle United v Southampton - Adam Bridge
BBC Radio Five Live Fulham v Stoke Darren Fletcher and Nigel Spackman (commentary) Arsenal v Villa Jonathan Legard Norwich v Everton Russell Fuller QPR v Man Utd John Murray and Graham Le Saux (commentary) Reading v Wigan Jonathan Overend WBA v Sunderland Pat Murphy Bolton v Hull Alistair Yeomans Blackpool v Leicester Gary Flintoff Sheff Wed v Crystal Palace ? Watford v Derby Jacqui Oatley Swindon v Preston Steve May Hearts v Inverness CT Ian Turner R/U: England v France Alistair Eykyn, Ian Robertson, Matt Dawson and Paul Grayson (commentary) R/L: Bradford v St Helens Dave Woods
I don't think the above list is necessarily complete.
Simon Davies hosting from (the new) Wembley stadium, with commentary from Rob Phillips, Ian Walsh and Leighton James. Gareth Blainey is pitchside reporter.
On 'Swansea at Wembley' before hand, you had Mal Pope and Owen Money interviewing fans and people from BBC Radio Leeds (Wes Butters and ?), with Jason Phelps interviewing pople who will be watching the game at a pub somewhere in Jackland
Eleri Siôn hosting from Wembley stadium, with commentary from John Hardy, Iwan Roberts and Owain Tudor Jones. Gareth Blainey is pitchside reporter.
On a special 'Ar Y Marc' before it, Dylan Jones hosted from a bus near Olympic Way, with Dylan Llewellyn, Ywain Gwynedd and Glyn Griffiths. One fan interviewed spoke uncannily like 'Janice' from Friends, despite being from deepest darkest Carmarthenshire.
Swansea Sound - Antony O'Connell IRN News - Richard Newman
The same two will be doing commentary (on SE FM only) of Wolverhampton Wanders V Cardiff City* / Cardiff* / Cardiff Dragons* / Cardiff Redbirds* (*delete as appropriate) tomorrow.
Celtic v Dundee (12.45pm) - Rob Maclean, Murdo MacLeod and Billy Dodds (commentary) Dundee Utd v Celtic (4.30pm) - Scott Davie and Craig Paterson (commentary) with Jim Spence pitchside
Billy Dodds joined Richard Gordon in the studio at Pacific Quay for the second game.
I think the cliche been used to describe Robbie Savage in the past is 'love him or hate him'. I'm actually somewhat in the middle. I think he's a reasonable enough pundit but nowhere near the top of 5 Live's list. I've hence been somewhat surprised and disappointed to see him getting Real Madrid V Manchester United and the League Cup final in recent weeks. The likes of Armfield, Taylor, Burley and Nevin are all somewhat better in my opinion, not to mention a few others.
I'd be interessted to know why Talksport don't use Andy Gray for any of their domestic coverage. I know he's done UEFA games before (including Euro 2012) but I don't think he's done any Premier League commentaries, etc. I know he generally works every weekday so can understand him not being given low-profile matches like Southampton V Fulham or whatever. But I'd have thought on a day such as this when there are 2 clearly strong matches it would make sense to have Gray on one and Collymore and the other.
BBC Radio Leeds FM*, and official Bradford City website host: Gareth Jones commentator: Dave Fletcher summariser: John Hendrie reporters: Adam Pope and Katherine Hannah
The Pulse** host and commentator:Tim Thornton summariser: Ian Ormondroyd
*The rugby league and the first hour of Connections was on all other platforms. Yorkshire Brass was only on Radio York.
**The pulse could have done with an additional reporter to get postmatch reaction. The postmatch coverage was poor.
Joe Molloy presented Newstalk Sport Sunday alongside Reggie Corrigan, with Ger Gilroy taking the reigns after the commentary
Premier League
Manchester City v Chelsea - Dave McIntyre and Kevin Kilbane (1.30pm commentary)
Newcastle United v Southampton - Al Ross (as IRN)
Capital One Cup Final
Bradford City v Swansea City - Richard Newman (as IRN)
Rugby Union: Six Nations
Scotland v Ireland - Cian Murtagh, with Reggie Corrigan providing studio analysis
Newstalk just took IRN's updates on the Capital One Cup Final, leaving their programme pretty blank after 4pm. This has been the case on League Cup Final day for a few seasons now. If I was running Newstalk Sport, I'd see if I could get one-off commentary rights to just the final of the League Cup, something talkSPORT did for a number of years before extending their commentary access to the competition this season.
Free Radio 80s
Tom Ross presented The Goalzone from Molineux
Championship
Wolverhampton Wanderers v Cardiff City - Tom Ross and Matt Murray (2pm commentary in the Black Country and Shropshire), with Steve Hermon conducting post-match interviews
I can relate Ambassador's question about BBC Radio Newcastle to local radio in the West Midlands:
Both BBC WM and Free Radio 80s cover five teams from their patch, so have similar scheduling conflicts. As BRMB, Beacon Radio, Mercia and Gold prior to the rebrand last season, the now Free Radio stations used to split between FM and AM, with the home teams on FM and away teams on AM. This season, the divide has changed to an AM/DAB split - so if Villa are at home and Blues are away, the former will be on Free Radio 80s DAB platform in Birmingham with the latter commentary going out on 1152AM in the Second City.
BBC WM's situation is a fair bit different. They only have the one analogue frequency - 95.6FM - so prior to the arrival of DAB they didn't have much room for manoeuvre. However, WM is covered by two DAB multiplexes, those serving Birmingham and Wolverhampton. Thus there are occasions when they'll do three game splits - say Aston Villa on FM, West Brom on DAB in Birmingham and Wolves on DAB in Wolverhampton. Other times they'll do a two way split, but with the DAB multiplex that isn't the home region of the team selected for DAB coverage (say the Birmingham MUX when Wolves are on the Wolverhampton MUX) taking the FM coverage as it usually would.
Are Newcastle and Sunderland covered by different DAB multiplexes? If so, then if FM and/or AM coverage was to disappear, a similar solution to the one BBC WM uses could be the answer.
Both BBC WM and Free Radio 80s cover five teams from their patch, so have similar scheduling conflicts. As BRMB, Beacon Radio, Mercia and Gold prior to the rebrand last season, the now Free Radio stations used to split between FM and AM, with the home teams on FM and away teams on AM. This season, the divide has changed to an AM/DAB split - so if Villa are at home and Blues are away, the former will be on Free Radio 80s DAB platform in Birmingham with the latter commentary going out on 1152AM in the Second City.
BBC WM's situation is a fair bit different. They only have the one analogue frequency - 95.6FM - so prior to the arrival of DAB they didn't have much room for manoeuvre. However, WM is covered by two DAB multiplexes, those serving Birmingham and Wolverhampton. Thus there are occasions when they'll do three game splits - say Aston Villa on FM, West Brom on DAB in Birmingham and Wolves on DAB in Wolverhampton. Other times they'll do a two way split, but with the DAB multiplex that isn't the home region of the team selected for DAB coverage (say the Birmingham MUX when Wolves are on the Wolverhampton MUX) taking the FM coverage as it usually would.
Are Newcastle and Sunderland covered by different DAB multiplexes? If so, then if FM and/or AM coverage was to disappear, a similar solution to the one BBC WM uses could be the answer.
I know it is going back a bit but I remember in the early days of local radio commentary in the Manchester area, when 2nd half-only commentary was normal, Piccadilly Sport used to be on 1152 AM only, and often United and City played at the same time, and the away team would almost certainly get the commentary. But if both were away at the same time, they used to switch between the two games every few mins. I'm pretty sure that Oldham Athletic used to get a few comentaries as they were having a good time in Div2 - whereas other local sides were relatively poor then - Bolton and Wigan were playing at the same level as Bury, Rochdale, Stockport etc, so didn't justify commentaries normally.
Doesn't matter much now anyway as Man United don't get any local commentary on radio anyway!
For those contributors to/readers of this thread mulling over what newspaper they should pick up today, may I recommend The Times. With it being the 20th anniversary of Bobby Moore's death this week, Jonathan Pearce has written a long article in today's Times about his memories of working with Bobby on Capital Radio during the late 1980s and early 1990s, with them working together right up until the week of Bobby's untimely death.
I'm pleased to say Jonathan Pearce's tribute to Bobby Moore has been reproduced on the BBC Sport website. Good on The Times for agreeing to this, JP's memories of working with Bobby deserve a wider audience than to be limited to Thursday's print copy of the newspaper and then behind their online paywall. It's well worth a read: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21554794
Are Newcastle and Sunderland covered by different DAB multiplexes? If so, then if FM and/or AM coverage was to disappear, a similar solution to the one BBC WM uses could be the answer.
In 2010 the BBC carried out a trial in Northern Ireland where they split their 128k allocation into two 64k streams to allow both the Radio Ulster & Radio Foyle programming to be broadcast in mono. The response was generally positive as most listeners preferred to have both stations rather than just the one in stereo.
In time the BBC will probably replicate this on all of the local multiplexes, so there could be Radio Newcastle & Radio Newcastle Extra, with both labels pointing at the one 128k stream when the extra station is off-air.
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I'll try and use iPlayer later if not
Presented by John Sinclair from Bloomfield Road (14:00-18:00) and Charles Dagnall from Welford Road (18:00-22:30)
Championship
Blackpool v Leicester City - Jason Bourne and Alan Young (15:00 commentary)
Conference North
Hinckley United v Workington - Andy Gibbs
Premiership Rugby
Leicester Tigers v Saracens - Bleddyn Jones and Steve Johnson (20:00 commentary)
Six Nations
England v France - Russell Hargreaves
Georgie Bingham presenting Sunday Exclusive from Wembley Stadium, followed by Call Collymore from Wembley Stadium
Capital One Cup Final
Bradford City v Swansea City - Sam Matterface and Stan Collymore (4pm commentary), with Ian Abrahams at pitchside, Mike Bovill and Matt Holland on Wembley Way and Carl Ralley producing
Premier League
Manchester City v Chelsea - Nigel Adderley and Ray Parlour (1.30pm commentary), with Robbie Fowler providing "expert comment", Dom McGuinness at pitchside and James Dodd producing
Newcastle United v Southampton - Graham Courtney
Championship
Wolverhampton Wanderers v Cardiff City - Dave Rowe
Rugby Union: Six Nations
Scotland v Ireland - Stuart Cameron
talkSPORT Live
Capital One Cup Final
Bradford City v Swansea City - Alex Crook and Matt Lawrence
Premier League
Manchester City v Chelsea - Richard Connelly and Paul McVeigh (featured 1.30pm commentary on international radio stations)
Newcastle United v Southampton - Adam Bridge
Fulham v Stoke Darren Fletcher and Nigel Spackman (commentary)
Arsenal v Villa Jonathan Legard
Norwich v Everton Russell Fuller
QPR v Man Utd John Murray and Graham Le Saux (commentary)
Reading v Wigan Jonathan Overend
WBA v Sunderland Pat Murphy
Bolton v Hull Alistair Yeomans
Blackpool v Leicester Gary Flintoff
Sheff Wed v Crystal Palace ?
Watford v Derby Jacqui Oatley
Swindon v Preston Steve May
Hearts v Inverness CT Ian Turner
R/U: England v France Alistair Eykyn, Ian Robertson, Matt Dawson and Paul Grayson (commentary)
R/L: Bradford v St Helens Dave Woods
I don't think the above list is necessarily complete.
I wouldn't be surprised if it was Peter Slater at Sheff Weds given his location
BBC Radio Wales
Simon Davies hosting from (the new) Wembley stadium, with commentary from Rob Phillips, Ian Walsh and Leighton James. Gareth Blainey is pitchside reporter.
On 'Swansea at Wembley' before hand, you had Mal Pope and Owen Money interviewing fans and people from BBC Radio Leeds (Wes Butters and ?), with Jason Phelps interviewing pople who will be watching the game at a pub somewhere in Jackland
BBC Radio Wales commentary photo (left to right:- Mal Pope, Rob Phillips, John Hardy, Leighton James and Gareth Blainey)
BBC Radio Cymru
Eleri Siôn hosting from Wembley stadium, with commentary from John Hardy, Iwan Roberts and Owain Tudor Jones. Gareth Blainey is pitchside reporter.
On a special 'Ar Y Marc' before it, Dylan Jones hosted from a bus near Olympic Way, with Dylan Llewellyn, Ywain Gwynedd and Glyn Griffiths. One fan interviewed spoke uncannily like 'Janice' from Friends, despite being from deepest darkest Carmarthenshire.
Swansea Sound - Antony O'Connell
IRN News - Richard Newman
Owain Llyr for Radio Cymru
BBC WM
Championship
Richard Wilford and Mark Regan: Wolves v Cardiff
BBC WM Sport was presented by Mark Regan
Richard Gordon presenting Sportsound on 810MW.
Celtic v Dundee (12.45pm) - Rob Maclean, Murdo MacLeod and Billy Dodds (commentary)
Dundee Utd v Celtic (4.30pm) - Scott Davie and Craig Paterson (commentary) with Jim Spence pitchside
Billy Dodds joined Richard Gordon in the studio at Pacific Quay for the second game.
Darren Fletcher was at Wolves/Cardiff
Not sure who was at the 2 PL games
I'd be interessted to know why Talksport don't use Andy Gray for any of their domestic coverage. I know he's done UEFA games before (including Euro 2012) but I don't think he's done any Premier League commentaries, etc. I know he generally works every weekday so can understand him not being given low-profile matches like Southampton V Fulham or whatever. But I'd have thought on a day such as this when there are 2 clearly strong matches it would make sense to have Gray on one and Collymore and the other.
Man City v Chelsea - John Murray + Phil Brown
Newcastle v Southampton - Alistair Yeomans
Celtic v Dundee - Roddy Forsyth
Wolves v Cardiff - Mike Sewell + Dean Kiely for Sports Extra.
Ian Payne presented from Wembley with Paul Jewell
In the increasingly rare event they both play at the same time
Home team gets AM and DAB
Away gets FM.
If FM/AM went, how would they air both games?
Have a second DAB channel?
host: Gareth Jones
commentator: Dave Fletcher
summariser: John Hendrie
reporters: Adam Pope and Katherine Hannah
The Pulse**
host and commentator: Tim Thornton
summariser: Ian Ormondroyd
*The rugby league and the first hour of Connections was on all other platforms. Yorkshire Brass was only on Radio York.
**The pulse could have done with an additional reporter to get postmatch reaction. The postmatch coverage was poor.
Joe Molloy presented Newstalk Sport Sunday alongside Reggie Corrigan, with Ger Gilroy taking the reigns after the commentary
Premier League
Manchester City v Chelsea - Dave McIntyre and Kevin Kilbane (1.30pm commentary)
Newcastle United v Southampton - Al Ross (as IRN)
Capital One Cup Final
Bradford City v Swansea City - Richard Newman (as IRN)
Rugby Union: Six Nations
Scotland v Ireland - Cian Murtagh, with Reggie Corrigan providing studio analysis
Newstalk just took IRN's updates on the Capital One Cup Final, leaving their programme pretty blank after 4pm. This has been the case on League Cup Final day for a few seasons now. If I was running Newstalk Sport, I'd see if I could get one-off commentary rights to just the final of the League Cup, something talkSPORT did for a number of years before extending their commentary access to the competition this season.
Free Radio 80s
Tom Ross presented The Goalzone from Molineux
Championship
Wolverhampton Wanderers v Cardiff City - Tom Ross and Matt Murray (2pm commentary in the Black Country and Shropshire), with Steve Hermon conducting post-match interviews
I can relate Ambassador's question about BBC Radio Newcastle to local radio in the West Midlands:
Both BBC WM and Free Radio 80s cover five teams from their patch, so have similar scheduling conflicts. As BRMB, Beacon Radio, Mercia and Gold prior to the rebrand last season, the now Free Radio stations used to split between FM and AM, with the home teams on FM and away teams on AM. This season, the divide has changed to an AM/DAB split - so if Villa are at home and Blues are away, the former will be on Free Radio 80s DAB platform in Birmingham with the latter commentary going out on 1152AM in the Second City.
BBC WM's situation is a fair bit different. They only have the one analogue frequency - 95.6FM - so prior to the arrival of DAB they didn't have much room for manoeuvre. However, WM is covered by two DAB multiplexes, those serving Birmingham and Wolverhampton. Thus there are occasions when they'll do three game splits - say Aston Villa on FM, West Brom on DAB in Birmingham and Wolves on DAB in Wolverhampton. Other times they'll do a two way split, but with the DAB multiplex that isn't the home region of the team selected for DAB coverage (say the Birmingham MUX when Wolves are on the Wolverhampton MUX) taking the FM coverage as it usually would.
Are Newcastle and Sunderland covered by different DAB multiplexes? If so, then if FM and/or AM coverage was to disappear, a similar solution to the one BBC WM uses could be the answer.
I know it is going back a bit but I remember in the early days of local radio commentary in the Manchester area, when 2nd half-only commentary was normal, Piccadilly Sport used to be on 1152 AM only, and often United and City played at the same time, and the away team would almost certainly get the commentary. But if both were away at the same time, they used to switch between the two games every few mins. I'm pretty sure that Oldham Athletic used to get a few comentaries as they were having a good time in Div2 - whereas other local sides were relatively poor then - Bolton and Wigan were playing at the same level as Bury, Rochdale, Stockport etc, so didn't justify commentaries normally.
Doesn't matter much now anyway as Man United don't get any local commentary on radio anyway!
Mark Chapman presenting 5Live sport from Upton Park.
West Ham V Tottenham: Darren Fletcher, John Motson and Steve Claridge (commentary)
I'm pleased to say Jonathan Pearce's tribute to Bobby Moore has been reproduced on the BBC Sport website. Good on The Times for agreeing to this, JP's memories of working with Bobby deserve a wider audience than to be limited to Thursday's print copy of the newspaper and then behind their online paywall. It's well worth a read: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21554794
Mark Saggers presenting Kick Off: Monday Night Feist Night alongside Stan Collymore
Premier League
West Ham United v Tottenham Hotspur - Ian Abrahams
talkSPORT Live
Premier League
West Ham United v Tottenham Hotspur - Kevin Hatchard and Jason Euell
In 2010 the BBC carried out a trial in Northern Ireland where they split their 128k allocation into two 64k streams to allow both the Radio Ulster & Radio Foyle programming to be broadcast in mono. The response was generally positive as most listeners preferred to have both stations rather than just the one in stereo.
In time the BBC will probably replicate this on all of the local multiplexes, so there could be Radio Newcastle & Radio Newcastle Extra, with both labels pointing at the one 128k stream when the extra station is off-air.
West Ham v Tottenham Andy Rowley and Bradley Allen (commentary) with Jamie Hill
Studio Jamie Reid
Hands up those who believe the Old Firm teams have too much dominance over Scottish Football?
Dundee Utd were, of course, playing Hibernian.