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Euro 2012 Coverage (inc. BBC, talkSPORT and Absolute Radio)
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bwfcol
11-06-2012
It's Mark Pougatch with Graham Taylor on 5Live

Mike Ingham, Alan Green & Chris Waddle on comms

Alan presents 606 afterwards

Darren Fletcher and Jan Molby on Sweden vs Ukraine
4-4-2
11-06-2012
The last few days of Euro 2012 on talkSPORT...

Thursday 28th June
01:00
Extra Time with Mike Graham
06:00 The Alan Brazil Sports Breakfast
10:00 Richard Keys & Andy Gray: Live from Poland
13:00 Hawksbee & Jacobs
16:00 Euro 2012 Drive Time with Adrian Durham & Darren Gough
19:00 Euro 2012 Live with Mark Saggers - live commentary of the second semi final
22:00 Call Collymore
23:00 Euro 2012 Sports Bar with Andy Goldstein

Friday 29th June
01:00
Extra Time with Mike Graham
06:00 The Alan Brazil Sports Breakfast
10:00 Richard Keys & Andy Gray: Live from Poland
13:00 Hawksbee & Jacobs
16:00 Euro 2012 Drive Time with Adrian Durham & Darren Gough
19:00 Euro 2012 Kick-Off with Danny Kelly
22:00 Euro 2012 Sports Bar with Andy Goldstein

Saturday 30th June
01:00
Extra Time with Matt Forde
06:00 Fisherman’s Blues with Keith Arthur
08:00 The Weekend Sports Breakfast with Mark Saggers & Micky Quinn
12:00 Euro 2012 Football First with Ian Danter
16:00 Euro 2012 Press Pass with Des Kelly
18:00 The Transfer Tavern with Georgie Bingham
20:00 Howzat with Ronnie Irani
22:00 Euro 2012 Sports Bar with Sam Delaney

Sunday 1st July
01:00
Extra Time
06:00 Fisherman’s Blues with Keith Arthur
08:00 The Weekend Sports Breakfast with Mark Saggers & Micky Quinn
12:00 Euro 2012 Football First with Ian Danter
16:00 Euro 2012 Press Pass with Des Kelly
18:00 Euro 2012 Final Live with Mark Saggers - live commentary from Sam Matterface and Stan Collymore
22:00 Call Collymore
23:00 Euro 2012 Sports Bar with Andy Goldstein
jimmylad
11-06-2012
Thoroughly enjoyed talkSPORT's commentary from Sam and Stan, even if it was several seconds ahead of my tv pictures.
wns_195
11-06-2012
I had ITV on Freeview with a portable analogue radio in headphones. Absolute Radio was only about a second ahead of ITV, so if you want to listen to a radio commentary while watching the TV, Absolute Radio is the best option. Absolute Radio is about a second behind on DAB. I wonder if their delay is due to the summariser watching on TV?
MarkBeales
11-06-2012
Alan Green spouting his usual anti England anti Hodgson venom, but woe betide anyone who criticises his beloved Gerrard. I'm counting down the days till this imbecile retires!
swansea steve
11-06-2012
Originally Posted by wns_195:
“I had ITV on Freeview with a portable analogue radio in headphones. Absolute Radio was only about a second ahead of ITV, so if you want to listen to a radio commentary while watching the TV, Absolute Radio is the best option. Absolute Radio is about a second behind on DAB. I wonder if their delay is due to the summariser watching on TV?”

I suspect that is the case.
enjoyed Absolute's commentary and must admit i couldn't tell Tony was watching in London.
Rus Williams didn't seem to be involved in their coverage after all with Ian Wright hoasting (and talking over anyone else) at half time.
bwfcol
11-06-2012
Next set of 5Live comms are below

Tuesday
Greece v Czech Republic: Alistair Bruce-Ball & Danny Mills.
Poland v Russia - John Murray & Pat Nevin.

Wednesday
Denmark v Portugal: Darren Fletcher & Jan Molby.
Holland v Germany: Alan Green & Chris Waddle.

Thursday
Italy v Croatia: Alistair Bruce - Ball & Pat Nevin.
Spain v Ireland: Conor McNamara, John Murray & Kevin Kilbane.

Friday
Ukraine v France: Darren Fletched & Jan Molby.
Sweden v England: Mike Ingham Alan Green, Chris Waddle & Graham Taylor.
The Difference
11-06-2012
Originally Posted by 4-4-2:
“Absolute Radio

Russ Williams presenting Euro 2012 Rock & Roll Football Live with Ian Wright and Perry Groves.

Euro 2012: Group D
France v England - Jim Proudfoot and Tony Dorigo (17:00 commentary)”

Originally Posted by The Difference:
“Ian Wright and Ian Stone are presenting on Absolute Radio right now, they are scheduled to be doing so right up until 5pm although presumably Russ and Perry will come in at least five minutes prior to kick-off.”

Originally Posted by swansea steve:
“I suspect that is the case.
enjoyed Absolute's commentary and must admit i couldn't tell Tony was watching in London.
Rus Williams didn't seem to be involved in their coverage after all with Ian Wright hoasting (and talking over anyone else) at half time.”

Indeed I tuned in at full-time and it appeared as if Ian Wright and Ian Stone were the studio presenting team. I presume Russ and Perry are presenting the Rock 'N' Roll Football show scheduled for 7-10pm.

Surprised that Tony Dorigo is doing his leg of their commentary games off-tube, must admit I could tell this was the case both last night and today from the sound mix but it's not as if they are actively disguising it. I wonder if they'll fly him out for the quarter-finals onwards or if it's a budget/space in the press box issue.

Currently listening to my third Ian Danter commentary in as many days - he's having a great tournament so far, demonstrating his knowledge of the teams he's covering but not without humour and style. Micky Quinn has been surprisingly good so far as well, he seems to have done a bit of homework and generally isn't mangling the Ukrainian names!
swansea steve
11-06-2012
Originally Posted by The Difference:
“Indeed I tuned in at full-time and it appeared as if Ian Wright and Ian Stone were the studio presenting team. I presume Russ and Perry are presenting the Rock 'N' Roll Football show scheduled for 7-10pm.

Surprised that Tony Dorigo is doing his leg of their commentary games off-tube, must admit I could tell this was the case both last night and today from the sound mix but it's not as if they are actively disguising it. I wonder if they'll fly him out for the quarter-finals onwards or if it's a budget/space in the press box issue.

Currently listening to my third Ian Danter commentary in as many days - he's having a great tournament so far, demonstrating his knowledge of the teams he's covering but not without humour and style. Micky Quinn has been surprisingly good so far as well, he seems to have done a bit of homework and generally isn't mangling the Ukrainian names!”

that is correct Diff, I tuned in to Absolute at half time and Rus Williams and Perry Groves were chattering away.
I mainly listened to Darren Fletcher and Jan Molby on the last game but tuned in to TS for 20 minutes or so, and enjoyed Danter and Quinny. Its a shame for Ian that he isn't out there really.
4-4-2
12-06-2012
From the Daily Mail:

Quote:
“Ticket trouble hits talkSPORT chief

By Charles Sale


Euro 2012 radio rights holders talkSPORT have suffered an unfortunate start to the tournament with their head of outside broadcasts rushing home after being accused of a ticket scam.

Programme controller Matt Smith, who organised the station’s match coverage, is being chased by a Ukraine-based businessman who had allegedly paid €1,000 in advance for six tickets for the England-Sweden game in Kiev on Friday.

Gary Cook, the angry businessman in question, has tweeted: ‘Where’s Matt Smith, where’s my tickets, I gave him money for them.’ Another message read: ‘Talksport radio reporter cheated me over 6 tickets for euros. Matt Smith not supplied tickets, nor money back. Now avoids me.’

Smith, who is also understood to have health problems, disappeared after Cook also tweeted that he knew where talkSPORT were based in Kiev after viewing a behind-the-scenes YouTube clip of their tournament preparations. The tweet said: ‘Thank you for showing us your office. Now I can find Matt Smith and my tickets.’

Programme director Moz Dee, who was entertaining clients for lunch in Donetsk before the England game, said: ‘I will be talking to Matt as soon as possible but the tickets issue is a private matter between the two of them.’

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/art...#ixzz1xY4S5IuH”

Shrewn
12-06-2012
Originally Posted by MarkBeales:
“Alan Green spouting his usual anti England anti Hodgson venom, but woe betide anyone who criticises his beloved Gerrard. I'm counting down the days till this imbecile retires!”

761 days i believe!
The Difference
12-06-2012
Sad and worrying news about Villa Matt. I hope things are not as bad as they appear, that he can resolve the matter privately and perhaps even return to the tournament for the latter stages of it. He's a great guy by all accounts so hopefully he can sort things out.

In terms of talkSPORT's production staff, with Matt returning home James Dodd, who is a producer on Drive Time and was part of their Eurodrive Road Trip crew last week, has flown out to Ukraine, produced the game from Donetsk yesterday and will be Sam and Stan's producer on live games from now on. Dodd first tweeted about the switch on Saturday (in contrast Villa Matt seems to have had his Twitter hacked and hasn't tweeted for a few weeks).

Although talkSPORT seem to have a much smaller team in Ukraine compared to the one they have in Poland, along with the on-air staff they also have Dennie Morris (who had the honour of being Mike Parry's producer in South Africa) who has worked on Mark Saggers' broadcasts from their Kiev studio and Chris Mendes who is working on things for talkSPORT.co.uk.
The Difference
12-06-2012
Tuesday 12th June - talkSPORT

Euro 2012 Live with Adrian Durham and Darren Gough from Warsaw (4-7pm), then Richard Keys from the National Stadium, Warsaw (7-10pm)

UEFA Euro 2012 Group A
Greece v Czech Republic - Ian Danter and Micky Quinn (5pm commentary)
Poland v Russia - John Roder and Andy Gray (7.45pm commentary)
Mark F
12-06-2012
Originally Posted by Shrewn:
“761 days i believe! ”

Cannot wait...then the taxpayer might get a commentator who actually does his job rather than use his big ego (its probably larger than some of the players!) to talk about what he thinks.
wns_195
12-06-2012
I was listening to 5 Live before the first of today's matches and they didn't spend a lot of time at the ground, but most of the studio content was about the European Championships or other sport. I don't know whether this will be the norm on days England aren't playing.
bwfcol
12-06-2012
Green really is the ultimate marmite commentator, I'm a huge fan and really enjoy listening to him.
The Difference
12-06-2012
Originally Posted by The Difference:
“Tuesday 12th June - talkSPORT

Euro 2012 Live with Adrian Durham and Darren Gough from Warsaw (4-7pm), then Richard Keys from the National Stadium, Warsaw (7-10pm)

UEFA Euro 2012 Group A
Greece v Czech Republic - Ian Danter and Micky Quinn (5pm commentary)
Poland v Russia - John Roder and Andy Gray (7.45pm commentary)”

Turns out it's actually Mark Saggers presenting the second leg of tonight's Euro 2012 Live from talkSPORT's Kiev studio, contrary to how Hawksbee & Jacobs had trailed the programme earlier. Everything else is as stated though.

talkSPORT have been covering the violence outside of the National Stadium in Warsaw, with Durham and Gough (the latter reporting via phone from the affected streets by half-time in Greece v Czech Republic) covering it during the first game and Ian Abrahams outside the ground prior to the second fixture.
Mark F
12-06-2012
He'd be fine on loca radio for somebody like Liverpool (as he is clearly a fan) because you can be more open to having opinons on such stations.
sparkie70
12-06-2012
Originally Posted by bwfcol:
“Green really is the ultimate marmite commentator, I'm a huge fan and really enjoy listening to him.”

Although I don't always agree with him I do enjoy his commentaries, I might be wrong but I seemed to recall him doing an England game i think with Brazil with Screensport some 20 years ago.
The Difference
13-06-2012
Wednesday 13th June - talkSPORT

Euro 2012 Live with Adrian Durham and Darren Gough from Warsaw (4-7pm), then Mark Saggers from Kiev (7-10pm)

UEFA Euro 2012 Group B
Denmark v Portugal - Nigel Pearson and Alvin Martin (5pm commentary)
Netherlands v Germany - Sam Matterface and Stan Collymore (7.45pm commentary)

Tennis: AEGON Championships
Queen's Club - Dave Luddy

It was mentioned by Andy Gray prior to his commentary on Poland v Russia last night that Jon Norman (talkSPORT's county cricket correspondent and the producer of the Keys & Gray show) was producing their coverage from the National Stadium. He only flew out to Warsaw on Monday morning which is why Liam Fisher was the on-site producer for Roder and Gray's first two commentary games. James Dodd is producing this evening's game in Kharkiv; he, Sam and Stan have travelled there from Donetsk rather than from talkSPORT's base in Kiev which is where Saggers is.
swansea steve
13-06-2012
Originally Posted by The Difference:
“Wednesday 13th June - talkSPORT

Euro 2012 Live with Adrian Durham and Darren Gough from Warsaw (4-7pm), then Mark Saggers from Kiev (7-10pm)

UEFA Euro 2012 Group B
Denmark v Portugal - Nigel Pearson and Alvin Martin (5pm commentary)
Netherlands v Germany - Sam Matterface and Stan Collymore (7.45pm commentary)

Tennis: AEGON Championships
Queen's Club - Dave Luddy

It was mentioned by Andy Gray prior to his commentary on Poland v Russia last night that Jon Norman (talkSPORT's county cricket correspondent and the producer of the Keys & Gray show) was producing their coverage from the National Stadium. He only flew out to Warsaw on Monday morning which is why Liam Fisher was the on-site producer for Roder and Gray's first two commentary games. James Dodd is producing this evening's game in Kharkiv; he, Sam and Stan have travelled there from Donetsk rather than from talkSPORT's base in Kiev which is where Saggers is.”

Hi Difference. do we know if Pearson and Martin are on-site yet?
The Difference
13-06-2012
Originally Posted by swansea steve:
“Hi Difference. do we know if Pearson and Martin are on-site yet?”

I don't know for sure but I would assume not, as Nigel was at the Dudley Heathens speedway meeting last night so I doubt that he's turned around that quickly.

Nigel has stated that he is due to commentate on five games in five days starting with this one. He previously tweeted that he's down to do seven commentaries, so I'm guessing he'll be doing Ukraine v France on Tuesday after Ian Danter does Croatia v Spain on Monday.

We know Roder is doing nine games, Pearson seven and Danter five; so I'd assume Matterface will do ten commentaries including the final to bring us up to the 31 match total. Both the Matterface/Collymore and Roder/Gray pairings should get two quarter-finals and a semi-final each.
wns_195
13-06-2012
5 Live's commentators regularly mention that all their commentaries are from the stadiums.
SouthCity
13-06-2012
Originally Posted by wns_195:
“5 Live's commentators regularly mention that all their commentaries are from the stadiums.”

Darren Fletcher mentioned about three times during the first half that all of their matches are from "inside the stadiums". so they seem to be stepping this up.

Unfortunately he then went on to name-check the wrong sponsor of the Queen's Club tennis. I'm sure Stella Artois were delighted at the free plug, maybe not Aegon though.
swansea steve
13-06-2012
Originally Posted by SouthCity:
“Darren Fletcher mentioned about three times during the first half that all of their matches are from "inside the stadiums". so they seem to be stepping this up.

Unfortunately he then went on to name-check the wrong sponsor of the Queen's Club tennis. I'm sure Stella Artois were delighted at the free plug, maybe not Aegon though. ”

ha ha oops Darren! I mentioned the 'inside the stadium' comments back on the first day of the tournament so it isn't anything new.
now, I'm probably going to get the difference coming down on me like a tone of bricks for this but I hope he'll have seen from previous posts that I'm pretty supportive of TS generally.
I'm disapointed that it looks like TS will be doing pretty much half the group games off-tube. like other posters I didn't have an issue with one or two games being done off tube but by my calculations half the group games will be done by Pearson/Danter from London. for me, half is too many and I can see why 5live are taking delight in pointing it out now.
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