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Premier League
Manchester United v Birmingham - Peter Smith
Tottenham v Liverpool - Nigel Bidmead

Real Radio North East

Bolton v Sunderland.........Chris Cooper and Gary Rowell

BBC radio Newcastle

Bolton v Sunderland..........Nick Barnes and Gary Bennet

Peak FM, owned by UTV Radio, is broadcasting live commentary of all Chesterfield matches: http://www.peakfm.net/presenter.php?presenter=337

Sunday 16th August

BBC WM

Daz Hale presenting WM Sport from Old Trafford

Premier League
Manchester United v Birmingham City - Mike Taylor and Daz Hale


BRMB

Tom Ross hosting The Goal Zone from Old Trafford

Premier League
Manchester United v Birmingham City - Tom Ross and Jon McCarthy

5 Live

Manchester United v Birmingham - Alistair Bruce-Ball, Robbie Savage & Alan Green
Tottenham v Liverpool - Ian Dennis, Steve Claridge & David Oates

Bruce-Ball & Dennis swapping matches from those listed on the BBC press release.

BBC Radio Cambridgeshire are covering all Peterborough United's matches. This is Edwin Overland's 30th year in the job, making him the second longest BBC Local Radio Commentator. Look East did a feature recently http://="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/...d/8202288.stm". This was filmed at the Derby game. Alongside him is Bob Burrows, who summarises most matches. Posh legend Tommy Robson also shares the role, but has not appeared yet.

Posh coverage on 95.7FM or 1026AM and DAB digital.

Cambridge United on 96.0 FM and DAB digital - commentator Mark Johnson and Steve Line.

Histon games on 96.0FM or 1026AM if Cambridge United or Peterborough United are not playing - commentator Dave Remnant. Otherwise it is case of reports during Cambridge United commentary.

Anyone know who has been commentating longer than he has then?

BTW, Welcome to the thread.

BBC Radio Bristol / Somerset

Geoff Twentyman hosting

Somerset v Kent and Somerset v Sussex (Twenty20 finals day) (1566 MW and for Sussex match 95.5FM as well) - Alistair Durden and Mark Davis
Stockport County v Bristol Rovers - Richard Hoskin and Keith Brookman (94.9)
Colchester United v Yeovil Town - Pete Simpson and Chris Spittles (95.5)
Bristol City v Crystal Palace - Rob Scanlon and Adam Baker (1548MW)
Portishead v Brislington (FA Cup extra preliminary round) - Mike Kay

Thanks to a R. Scanlon of the BS3 area for the information.

That would be Nigel Johnson of BBC Radio Stoke.

He's commentated on over 1,500 Stoke City games for the station and is celebrating his 40th year covering the Potters.

Incidentally, he is the father of occasional Match of the Day commentator Roger Johnson.

A quick Google search tells me the following:

Mike Burrows (if it's the same one) spent last season commentating on MK Dons games for Horizon Radio.

In January, Horizon was rebranded Heart 103.3 by Global Radio. Much like SGR/Heart Ipswich, the station continued to cover Dons games until the end of last season but have discontinued their coverage this season, which I imagine made his job there untenable.

Also, an article on the West Bromwich Albion website lists him as "Beacon Radio's Mike Burrows" and says he will be providing commentary on all Baggies matches this season alongside Tony "Bomber" Brown.

However, in the article Bomber is pictured alongside Nathan Alleyne (who was Beacon's usual Albion commentator last season), and together they were Beacon's commentary team on Saturday's Baggies game at Nottingham Forest.

All I can find out about Joe Holt comes from an article published in March in the Birmingham Mail.

In this article the Mail's Birmingham City correspondent Colin Tattum writes about how he co-commentated on a Blues v Watford FA Youth Cup match for the club's website alongside Joe.

He is listed as "BRMB's Joe Holt".



Judging from the above linked articles, it wouldn't surprise me if Mike, Joe and Nathan Alleyne will be working on matches throughout the Orion Media Midlands network and that there will not be uniform commentators covering each of the clubs who feature on the network.

It appears as if the main voice of the Orion coverage, Tom Ross, will be doing commentary on all stand-alone games taking place on days when none of the other four clubs in the area are playing. So it would make sense if the other commentators cover numerous clubs as well.

With Villa involved in Europe this week, we might have to wait for a couple of weeks to see who Orion's fifth commentator is as we haven't yet reached a round of matches when all five clubs are playing on the same day.

This is a fantastic response from round the country this weekend. I took my other half to Prague for a significant birthday so missed the coverage totally.

I shall be around for the London and South-East (I hope) matches this weekend but will be in the Midlands for meetings during the following weekend.

BBC Radio Scotland

Dundee Utd v Hearts - Scott Davie, John Robertson and Allan Preston (commentary)

Hope you enjoyed your sojourn to Prague, Ian - as it happens I'm going away for a day or two myself (to nowhere quite that exotic I'm afraid!).

That means I might not be able to catch any of the BRMB, Beacon, Gold, Mercia or BBC WM coverage of the midweek football, and so won't be able to post details on here later in the week.

If anyone could listen out to Tuesday and Wednesday's coverage I'd appreciate it - although I should be back in town to hear how the Midland stations cover Aston Villa's trip to the Gerhard Hanappi Stadium to face Rapid Vienna on Thursday.

I'm particularly be interested to hear how the Orion Media stations cover the three (or four if they're still covering Walsall) game local programme tomorrow, given that there has been considerable changes to their coverage this season, and their commentary line-up is still taking shape.

According to tonight's Sports Bar, Tom Ross will present the networked part of their coverage from the DW Stadium and then do commentary on Wigan v Wolves with Robbie Dennison on Beacon 97.2, with Doncaster v Coventry commentary going out on Mercia and Posh v West Brom (presumably) airing on Gold 990.

So if someone could listen in and grab those details tomorrow night it would be ace.

I've just managed to get tickets for tonight's game between Plymouth Argyle and Cardiff City, so I'll be able to do BBC Radio Devon and Pirate FM.

BBC Radio Leicester

Championship
Sheffield United v Leicester - Charles Dagnall (presenter) with Ian Stringer and Jon Sinclair (commentary)

Conference North
Telford v Hinckley - Andy Gibb

Read my mind - the obvious question that ought to have been answered in the report.


So if Posh play the Potter's in the next few seasons there will be well over 70 years of broadcasting experience in the local radio boxes.

BBC Manchester
Wigan v Wolves: Ian Cheeseman & Paul Rowley (Commentary)
Millwall v Oldham: Andrew Hoares (Updates)
Stockport v Carlisle: Brian Clark (Updates)
Hereford v Bury: Steve Wyeth (Updates)
Macclesfield v Port Vale: Kallum Williams (Updates)
Rochdale v Cheltenham: Jack Dearden (Updates)

BBC Radio Lancashire - All Frequencies except 104.5FM
Barnsley v Preston: Andy Bayes & Alan Smart (Commentary)
Blackpool v Derby: Ian Chisnall (Updates)
Accrington v Northampton: Scott Reid (Updates)

BBC Radio Lancashire - 104.5FM
Barnet v Morecambe: Derek Quinn (Commentary)

BBC Radio Merseyside
Tranmere v MK Dons: Gary Flintoff (Updates)

Whilst on the subject of long serving commentators. I bet their isn't a commentator out there who has had the pleasure of reporting on a team rising from Non League to Premier League like Paul Rowley has done following Wigan.

Paul Rowley has been following Wigan Athletic for first Radio City then BBC Radio Manchester (or GMR as it was) most seasons since they were in the non league back in the mid 1970s. He's just been mentioning on air that he reported on Wigan's first game in the football league 31 days ago tomorrow. Never been a commentator though - his main job is political reporter for BBC Stations in the North West.

5 Live

Celtic v Arsenal - John Murray, Pat Nevin& Alan Green
Roddy Forsyth there as well

Sunderland v Chelsea - Arlo White (Host) & Darren Fletcher
(Conor McNamara & Kevin Gallacher commentating on Sports Extra)
Wigan v Wolves - Peter Slater

Ipswich v Crystal Palace - Jacqui Oatley
Scunthorpe v Middlesbrough - Alastair Yeomans
Sheff Utd v Leicester - Nigel Adderley

Tuesday 18th August: talkSPORT

Stan Collymore and Ray Houghton presenting Kick-Off: Tuesday Night Football.

Champions League Qualifying: Play-Off Round First Leg
Celtic v Arsenal - Tom Miller

Premier League
Sunderland v Chelsea - Graham Courtney
Wigan v Wolves - Simon Humphreys

Championship
Barnsley v Preston - Dominic McGuinness
Blackpool v Derby - Graham Beecroft
Bristol City v QPR - Dave Rowe
Nottingham Forest v Watford - Geoff Peters
Peterborough v West Brom - Kevin Lawrence
Scunthorpe v Middlesbrough - Grahame Lloyd
Sheffield United v Leicester - John Temple
Swansea v Reading - Roger Hughes

IRN

PREMIER LEAGUE
Sunderland v Chelsea: Steve Mackey
Wigan v Wolves: Peter Smith

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE QUALIFYING PLAY-OFF, 1st leg
Celtic v Arsenal: Sheelagh McLaren (from Radio Clyde)

BBC London

Celtic v Arsenal Mark Taylor
Sunderland v Chelsea Phil Parry and Clive Walker (FM commentary)
Bristol City v QPR Simon Watts
Ipswich v Crystal Palace Dave Victor
Nottingham Forest v Watford Simon Watts
Brentford v Norwich Billy Reeves
Millwall v Oldham Andrea Warth
Leyton Orient v Charlton Andy Rowley and ?Bradley Allen? (DAB commentary)
Barnet v Morecambe Barry Swain
AFC Wimbledon v Salisbury Emma Jones
Rushden and Diamonds v Hayes and Yeading Jamie Hill

BBC Radio Scotland

Richard Gordon presenting, with Jim Traynor and Pat Nevin.

Celtic v Arsenal - David Begg and Murdo MacLeod (commentary), with Chick Young (not quite*) pitchside.

*UEFA are a bit more strict than the SPL when it comes to radio reporters...

Paul Rowley also has reported in London locally as well.

BBC Radio Manchester also use Brian Clarke who commentated on Manchester City for Piccadilly in the Seventies.

Radio Clyde

Celtic v Arsenal Peter Martin, Andy Walker and Hugh Keevins (commentary)