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There have now been a few amendments, in bold: Quote:
FIFA World Cup 2014 - BBC Radio 5 Live
Thursday 12 June Brazil v Croatia - John Murray and Chris Waddle Friday 13 June Mexico v Cameroon - Darren Fletcher and Robbie Savage Spain v Netherlands - Conor McNamara and Ally McCoist (UPDATED: Conor McNamara and Tony Pulis) Chile v Australia - Ian Brown (UPDATED: Ian Brown and John Hartson) Saturday 14 June Colombia v Greece - Jonathan Overend and Pat Nevin Uruguay v Costa Rica - Alistair Bruce-Ball and Brad Friedel England v Italy - Mike Ingham, Alan Green and Danny Mills Sunday 15 June Switzerland v Ecuador - Ian Brown France v Honduras - Conor McNamara and Pat Nevin Argentina v Bosnia-Hercegovina - John Murray and Chris Waddle Monday 16 June Germany v Portugal - Darren Fletcher and Ally McCoist (UPDATED: Darren Fletcher and Tony Pulis) Iran v Nigeria - Jonathan Overend and Pat Nevin (UPDATED: Jonathan Overend and Chris Waddle) Ghana v USA - Alistair Bruce-Ball and Jason Roberts Tuesday 17 June Belgium v Algeria - Conor McNamara and Danny Mills Brazil v Mexico - Alan Green and Brad Friedel Russia v South Korea - Ian Brown (UPDATED: Ian Brown and John Hartson) Wednesday 18 June Australia v Netherlands - Alistair Bruce-Ball and Robbie Savage Spain v Chile - John Murray and Ally McCoist (UPDATED: John Murray and Tony Pulis) Cameroon v Croatia - Ian Brown Thursday 19 June Colombia v Ivory Coast - Conor McNamara and Kevin Kilbane Uruguay v England - Mike Ingham, Alan Green and Chris Waddle Japan v Greece - no commentary on 5 live (10pm 606; 12am Up All Night) Friday 20 June Italy v Costa Rica - Darren Fletcher and Jason Roberts Switzerland v France - Simon Brotherton and Pat Nevin Honduras v Ecuador - ? (UPDATED: Ian Brown and John Hartson) |
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#2052 |
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I still find it a bit odd that there's no Japan/Greece commentary!
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Is McCoist not going now?
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Is McCoist not going now?
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Women's FA Cup Final
Alastair Bruce-Ball and Jen O'Neill Jenny Gow presented Good of 5Live to put this on with it being on BBC2 too, good coverage |
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I still find it a bit odd that there's no Japan/Greece commentary!
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Mike Ingham is in Miami with Ian Dennis (I'm guessing they are the 2 comms)
They had a tribute night last night for Mike with his final tournament coming up. Fully deserved. |
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It's Green, Ingham & Mills tonight
I'm surprised they have sent those 2 comms plus Ian Dennis to Miami, I tend to think it's 1 too many |
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It's Green, Ingham & Mills tonight
I'm surprised they have sent those 2 comms plus Ian Dennis to Miami, I tend to think it's 1 too many Alan Green Mike Ingham Danny Mills Ian Dennis Phil Wye Phil McNulty Gabby Logan ( Possibly for BBC TV) I know they have not got the rights, however this is a World Cup friendly, and she is the roving reporter for BBC TV. Others? Another interesting thought, the last Friendly for England is on the 7th, their first match at the WC is on the 14th, are the BBC going to fly al their staff back home from Miami, and than fly them out after a few days this time to Brazil? Will it be more cost effective keeping them in America, and flying from there? I have no ideas of the costs, so sorry if that is a stupid Question lol. |
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I doubt Gabby Logan is in Miami as BBC have no TV rights for these 2 games, there's a BBC News person there though.
They won't fly home, it's just not worth it |
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That might be another reason why they have got Ingham, Green, Mills and Ian Dennis there, maybe it is more cost effective in having all their England commentary personnel in 1 place, instead of leaving Ian Dennis out, and flying him out at a later date?
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I see there's a 5 Live programme late Saturday evening looking back on their coverage etc. of the 2002 World Cup. Should be interesting. Is this just a one-off or have there been any others?
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I doubt Gabby Logan is in Miami as BBC have no TV rights for these 2 games, there's a BBC News person there though.
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I see there's a 5 Live programme late Saturday evening looking back on their coverage etc. of the 2002 World Cup. Should be interesting. Is this just a one-off or have there been any others?
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It's Green, Ingham & Mills tonight
Will Perry presenting |
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Who is 5lives no1 summariser, Mills or Waddle?
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Gabby is actually in Rome at the moment as she's presenting the athletics on the Beeb tonight. Presumably she will fly from there to Brazil.
It's a repeat, not that I can remember when from. |
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BBC Radio 5 Live - 2013/2014
5 Live broadcast 223 commentaries Premier League 120 Football League 15 FA Cup 28 * League Cup 12 Community Shield 1 Champions League 30 Europa League 2 * Internationals 12 Scottish Cup 2 Womens FA Cup 1 *includes a match that started on Sports Extra and finished on 5 Live. So the same match isn't counted twice they won't appear in the Sports Extra stats. Those matches were commentated on by John Murray 63 Alan Green 57 Mike Ingham 49 Ian Dennis 39 Conor McNamara 31 Alistair Bruce-Ball 14 Ian Brown 7 Roddy Forsyth, Guy Mowbray, Steve Wilson 3 Steve Bower 2 John Motson, Jonathan Pearce, Dave Woods 1 The summarisers were Danny Mills 26 Kevin Kilbane 23 Steve Claridge 22 Chris Waddle 20 Pat Nevin 18 John Hartson 17 Robbie Savage 16 Mark Lawrenson 13 David Pleat 10 Clive Allen, Jimmy Armfield 9 Martin Keown 8 Nigel Spackman 6 Tony Pulis, Jason Roberts 4 Jim Beglin 3 Phil Brown, Kevin Keen, Craig Levein, Graham Taylor 2 Tim Flowers, Graeme Le Saux, Mark McGee, Alex McLeish, Jen O'Neil, Kevin Ratcliffe, Dean Saunders 1 -Dave Woods commentated on 5 Live's first match of the season and then didn't do another. -Steve Bower made his 5 Live commentary debut. -John Motson's single commentary was his lowest tally since he started doing matches for the station. -Simon Brotherton and Mike Sewell didn't commentate for 5 Live at all for the first time in many seasons. -51 of the 223 commentaries had the traditional 2 main commentators. Mike Ingham was involved of 43 of those, with his retirement it seems likely that an even greater majority of matches will have the single commentator next season. BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra 2013/2014 I have not tracked simulcasts of local coverage or the womens commentaries which are still ongoing as their season continues. 5 Live Sports Extra produced 27 commentaries of their own this season Premier League 9 Championship 4 FA Cup 6 League Cup 6 Under 21 Internationals 2 (1 of which I don't have the details for) The commentators were Ian Brown, Alistair Bruce-Ball 5 Jonathan Overend 4 Conor McNamara 3 John Acres, John Murray, Dave Woods 2 Steve Bower, Mike Sewell, Paul Walker 1 Summarisers Danny Higginbotham 5 Steve Claridge 3 John Hartson, Kevin Kilbane, Dean Saunders 2 Greg Abbot, Clive Allen, Jimmy Armfield, Mark Bright, Phil Brown, Kevin Gallacher, Dean Kiely, David Pleat, Nigel Spackman, Kit Symons, Graham Taylor, Chris Waddle 1 Despite doing some commentaries for Sports Extra Jonathan Overend has yet to do one for 5 Live, this means he will join Jonathan Pearce (2002) and Arlo White (2010) in doing his first 5 Live football commentary at a World Cup. |
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Thanks shaun, very interesting
So Mike only did 6 games on his own so his retirement IMO, simply means those games will become solo games Phil Wye said on Twitter a while back that the major finals & England games have had permission to have 2 commentators |
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Thanks Shaun, very interesting! Is there a link to the season befores stats? Shocking to see how far Lawro has fell down the pecking order!
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BBC Radio 5 Live - 2013/2014
5 Live broadcast 223 commentaries Premier League 120 Football League 15 FA Cup 28 * League Cup 12 Community Shield 1 Champions League 30 Europa League 2 * Internationals 12 Scottish Cup 2 Womens FA Cup 1 *includes a match that started on Sports Extra and finished on 5 Live. So the same match isn't counted twice they won't appear in the Sports Extra stats. Those matches were commentated on by John Murray 63 Alan Green 57 Mike Ingham 49 Ian Dennis 39 Conor McNamara 31 Alistair Bruce-Ball 14 Ian Brown 7 Roddy Forsyth, Guy Mowbray, Steve Wilson 3 Steve Bower 2 John Motson, Jonathan Pearce, Dave Woods 1 The summarisers were Danny Mills 26 Kevin Kilbane 23 Steve Claridge 22 Chris Waddle 20 Pat Nevin 18 John Hartson 17 Robbie Savage 16 Mark Lawrenson 13 David Pleat 10 Clive Allen, Jimmy Armfield 9 Martin Keown 8 Nigel Spackman 6 Tony Pulis, Jason Roberts 4 Jim Beglin 3 Phil Brown, Kevin Keen, Craig Levein, Graham Taylor 2 Tim Flowers, Graeme Le Saux, Mark McGee, Alex McLeish, Jen O'Neil, Kevin Ratcliffe, Dean Saunders 1 -Dave Woods commentated on 5 Live's first match of the season and then didn't do another. -Steve Bower made his 5 Live commentary debut. -John Motson's single commentary was his lowest tally since he started doing matches for the station. -Simon Brotherton and Mike Sewell didn't commentate for 5 Live at all for the first time in many seasons. -51 of the 223 commentaries had the traditional 2 main commentators. Mike Ingham was involved of 43 of those, with his retirement it seems likely that an even greater majority of matches will have the single commentator next season. BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra 2013/2014 I have not tracked simulcasts of local coverage or the womens commentaries which are still ongoing as their season continues. 5 Live Sports Extra produced 27 commentaries of their own this season Premier League 9 Championship 4 FA Cup 6 League Cup 6 Under 21 Internationals 2 (1 of which I don't have the details for) The commentators were Ian Brown, Alistair Bruce-Ball 5 Jonathan Overend 4 Conor McNamara 3 John Acres, John Murray, Dave Woods 2 Steve Bower, Mike Sewell, Paul Walker 1 Summarisers Danny Higginbotham 5 Steve Claridge 3 John Hartson, Kevin Kilbane, Dean Saunders 2 Greg Abbot, Clive Allen, Jimmy Armfield, Mark Bright, Phil Brown, Kevin Gallacher, Dean Kiely, David Pleat, Nigel Spackman, Kit Symons, Graham Taylor, Chris Waddle 1 Despite doing some commentaries for Sports Extra Jonathan Overend has yet to do one for 5 Live, this means he will join Jonathan Pearce (2002) and Arlo White (2010) in doing his first 5 Live football commentary at a World Cup. 2012 -2013 5 Live Sports Extra 2012 - 2013 51 commentaries (simulcasts of local coverage not included) Matches 8 Premier League 30 Football League 5 FA Cup 5 League Cup 2 Internationals 1 Community Shield Commentators 10 Ian Brown, Alistair Bruce-Ball 08 Mike Sewell 06 John Acres 04 David Oates 03 Adam Pope 02 Conor McNamara, Dave Woods, Paul Walker, Seth Bennett 01 Alastair Durden, Darren Fletcher, Jacqui Oatley, John Murray, Simon Brotherton Summarisers Clive Allen 1; Craig Burley 1; Danny Higginbotham 1; Dean Ashton 1; Dean Kiely 5; Dion Dublin 1; Jimmy Armfield 4; Keith Andrews 2; Kevin Gallacher 7; Kevin Kilbane 1; Kevin Radcliffe 1; Kit Symons 1; Leroy Rosenior 1; Mark Bowen 1; Mark Bright 6; Mark McGee 1; Matt Jackson 1; Michael Gray 1; Nigel Worthington 1; Pat Nevin 2; Paul Jewell 1; Phil Brown 1; Steve Claridge 4; Steve Froggatt 2; Steven Reid 2 & Tim Flowers 1 5 Live 2012 - 2013 232 commentaries Matches 115 Premier League 27 Football League 32 FA Cup 14 League Cup 19 Champions League 7 Europa League 15 Internationls 2 Scottish FA Cup 1 SPL Commentators 66 John Murray 58 Alan Green 45 Darren Fletcher 41 Mike Ingham 34 Ian Dennis 32 Conor McNamara 10 Alistair Bruce-Ball 06 Simon Brotherton 05 Ian Brown, John Motson 03 Roddy Forsyth 02 Dave Woods 01 Mike Sewell, Jonathan Pearce Summarisers Chris Coleman 3, Clive Allen 3, Craig Brown 2; Craig Burley 8; Craig Levein 2; Danny Mills 24; David Moyes 1; David Pleat 16; Dean Ashton 1; Dean Kiely 3; Dion Dublin 3; Graeme Le Saux 12; Graham Taylor 13; Jan Molby 1; Jason Roberts 1; Jimmy Armfield 7; Joe Jordan 2; John Hartson 2; Kevin Gallacher 3; Kevin Kilbane 14; Mark Bowen 2; Mark Bright 4; Mark Lawrenson 14; Martin Keown 8; Mick McCarthy 2; Nigel Spackman 6; Nigel Worthington 1; Pat Nevin 18; Paul Jewell 2; Peter Reid 1; Phil Brown 12; Robbie Savage 21; Steve Claridge 17 & Steve McLaren 4. Due to the overlap with the last internationals of the season I've included the 2 commentaries from the Under 21 tournament in the stats. There were 3 Saturday 3pm PL commentaries in the Autumn that started on Sports Extra and ended on 5 Live. The match, the summariser and the 5 Live commentator are included in the 5 Live stats but the Sports Extra commentator is listed in that section. |
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I've been on holiday for the past week, so managed to miss all of the final full week of pre-World Cup friendlies as they occurred live, but with thanks to talkSPORT Listen Again I can tell you how they covered both of England's matches in Miami - it was basically the team that had been trailed, with Mark Saggers hosting the first game from London and the second one (which went under the Matchday Live banner and had a 105 minute build-up from 8pm) from the station's base in Rio. Here are the details:
Wednesday 4th June - talkSPORT Mark Saggers presented Kick Off: International Special from London with Stan Collymore at SunLife Stadium, Miami, Florida International Friendly Ecuador v England - Jim Proudfoot and Stan Collymore (8pm BST commentary), with Ian Danter at pitchside and Laurie Palacio producing Tennis: French Open Stade Roland Garros - Lisa O'Sullivan There were no reports on either the Netherlands v Wales or the late night Chile v Northern Ireland friendlies, or on Bristol v London Welsh in the second leg of the rugby union Championship Play-Off Final for that matter (they had carried updates on the first leg a week earlier). They also didn't carry updates on Costa Rica v Republic of Ireland in the early hours of Saturday morning. I doubt they'll have a reporter covering Eire v Portugal on Wednesday morning. Saturday 7th June - talkSPORT Mark Saggers presented Matchday Live from Rio de Janeiro alongside Tim Vickery with Stan Collymore at SunLife Stadium, Miami, Florida International Friendly England v Honduras - Jim Proudfoot and Stan Collymore (9.45pm BST commentary), with Ian Danter at pitchside and Laurie Palacio producing Earlier in the day: - Rugby Union: International Match New Zealand v England - Russell Hargreaves Horse Racing: The Derby Meeting Epsom Downs - Rupert Bell (commentary on the Coronation Cup and The Derby plus The Oaks on Friday) Tennis: French Open Women's and Men's Singles Finals Maria Sharapova v Simona Halep (Saturday) and Rafael Nadal v Novak Djokovic (Sunday) - Kate Partridge Lisa O'Sullivan reported on the French Open for most days of the first two weeks of the tournament, before Kate Partridge took over from Friday's Men's Semi-Finals onwards. Guy Swindells reported on Tuesday's final cricket ODI between England and Sri Lanka, while talkSPORT didn't carry updates on Sunday's Canadian Grand Prix in the F1 with the second half of the race conflicting with a pre-recorded My Sporting Life World Cup Special presented by Ray Stubbs. Ray also anchored Saturday Scoreboard between 2-6pm on the 7th, with Up The League host Geoff Peters deservedly getting the chance to present Sunday Scoreboard in the same timeslot the following day. Finally, Richard Keys and Andy Gray presented their last Friday night Kick Off of the season on the 6th before heading off on their annual summer break from the station. They'll be back in August. Must add my thanks to Shaun for the excellent Radio 5 Live commentary statistics he has posted, I always find them interesting reading. Great work in compiling them Shaun. As this post may well be one of, if not the, last post(s) in this thread, I should add in a link to the 2014 World Cup Radio Coverage thread, which can be found here: http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1961091 |
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I think that's this season covered off now!
Great thread and I'd like to thank all contributors
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They also didn't carry updates on Costa Rica v Republic of Ireland in the early hours of Saturday morning. I doubt they'll have a reporter covering Eire v Portugal on Wednesday morning.
Wednesday 11th June - talkSPORT (early hours) Mike Graham presented Extra Time alongside Russell Hargreaves International Friendly Republic of Ireland v Portugal - David Brady In addition, Dave Luddy has been reporting on the AEGON Championships tennis from the Queen's Club during the daytime this week. Not sure why talkSPORT carried updates on Uruguay v Northern Ireland two weeks ago and Republic of Ireland v Portugal this morning, but none of the friendlies involving the Celtic nations last week. Fair play to talkSPORT for covering this friendly though, as I don't think any of the Irish stations that cover football - RTE Radio, Today FM, Newstalk or one of UTV Radio's local stations in the Republic - will have carried live updates on the game given that it was played in New Jersey and took place overnight. RTP's Antena stations in Portugal did however have commentary on the match, with an on-site commentary team to boot going by what I heard of their coverage through TuneIn. |
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Looks like the season isn't quite over...
BBC Radio Scotland, 14/6/14 Liam McLeod presenting Sportsound on 810MW. FIFA Women's World Cup qualifier Scotland v Sweden (5.05pm) - Paul Mitchell and Julie Fleeting (commentary) with Jane Lewis pitchside |
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Looks like the season isn't quite over...
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