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Old 27-09-2014, 08:19
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Yes, really sad to hear that the Birmingham Mail have made Brian Halford redundant. A regrettable decision but as a Walsall supporter who reads that newspaper from time to time I can't say it comes as a massive surprise. On top of being their cricket correspondent Brian was also their Saddlers reporter and it has been noticeable that the amount of column inches the Mail devotes to my club has gotten progressively fewer over the past 12-15 months. I guess they will just take agency/syndicated copy for Warwickshire and Walsall news and match reports once Brian bows out, with Walsall v Bristol City a week tomorrow being his final game for the newspaper. You might be interested to know that the Birmingham Mail's West Bromwich Albion reporter Chris Lepkowski has also left his post this week.

Hopefully Brian (and Chris for that matter) will continue his sports reporting career on a freelance basis, at least in the short to medium term. We often talk on here about BBC Local Radio commentators who wouldn't sound out of place broadcasting on national radio - with many getting the chance to do just that through Radio 5 Live Sports Extra's County Championship and Football League coverage - and I think we can apply those sentiments to Brian Halford as a written journalist. I've long thought that he's a fantastic writer and for my money his copy wouldn't look out of place on the cricket pages of the national broadsheets, indeed if the national press need a well qualified freelancer on the county cricket circuit next season they could do a lot worse than to call upon Brian - that way, we might hear him back on BBC Radio's county cricket commentaries as well.

Changing tack, on Thursday BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra interrupted their coverage of Lancashire v Middlesex to broadcast the closing stages of Hampshire's Division Two championship clinching match at Glamorgan with two wickets remaining in the home team's second innings. Kevan James, Lizzy Ammon and Edward Bevan were on commentary duty. Upon 5LSE's return to Old Trafford, the veteran former Sky Sports darts commentator John Gwynne was in the middle of an entertaining guest stint alongside David Townsend in the BBC Local Radio commentary box (this was at around 3pm if anyone wants to dig it out on the iPlayer). I know I'm repeating what I said on here the other week Connor, but many thanks for compiling all the details of BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra and BBC Local Radio's county cricket coverage throughout the summer. Your contributions are much appreciated.
I would 100% agree your comments on Brian, I have a book that he wrote back in 2012 about Warwickshire on this day. It was very good and Brian most have put a lot of work in.

I did read that next year the Birmingham Mail will only have a reporter on the so called "big matches".
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Old 29-09-2014, 21:11
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Friday 12th September

Rugby Union: Premiership
Harlequins v Saracens - Russell Hargreaves

Saturday 13th September

Rugby Union: Premiership
Bath v London Welsh - Ian Williams

Friday 19th September

Rugby Union: Premiership
Gloucester v Exeter Chiefs - Simon Ward

Saturday 20th September

Rugby Union: Premiership
London Irish v Saracens - Tom Macleod

Sunday 21st September

Formula 1: Singapore Grand Prix
Marina Bay Street Circuit - Graham Courtney

Friday 26th September

Rugby Union: Premiership
London Welsh v Gloucester - Russell Hargreaves

Friday 26th to Sunday 28th September

Golf: The 40th Ryder Cup
Europe v USA - Rupert Bell and Bob Bubka

In addition to having quarter-hourly updates with Rupert and Bob from the course, talkSPORT broadcast four programmes from Gleneagles. Alan Brazil and Ray Houghton hosted Friday morning's Alan Brazil Sports Breakfast from Perthshire, with Georgie Bingham conducting interviews and then presenting her end of both Saturday and Sunday morning's Weekend Sports Breakfast from there (her co-host Micky Quinn was in London as usual). It was a double shift for Georgie on Sunday, as she also hosted The 2014 Ryder Cup Special between 4-6pm.
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Old 30-09-2014, 17:11
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Interesting to see BBC Radio Five Live Sports Extra will have live commentary of the NRL Grand Final on Sunday morning at 09:10.
They must be taking a stream from Triple M who are broadcasting it live in Australia, although this is a commercial station which may prove tricky for the BBC.
I don't believe ABC Grandstand or ABC local radio are broadcasting it.
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Old 30-09-2014, 18:10
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Interesting to see BBC Radio Five Live Sports Extra will have live commentary of the NRL Grand Final on Sunday morning at 09:10.
They must be taking a stream from Triple M who are broadcasting it live in Australia, although this is a commercial station which may prove tricky for the BBC.
I don't believe ABC Grandstand or ABC local radio are broadcasting it.
If they are going to simulcast a commercial radio commentary, I imagine they'll handle this in a similar way to how they managed their Major League Baseball and NFL commentaries towards the end of their run - they had studio continuity and would fade out the commentators' commercial "reads" by inserting 5/10 second audio bumpers. That being said, they only began doing this when one listener alerted OFCOM to the US advertising on 5 Live Baseball and seeing as this is a one-off, perhaps they'll just simulcast the commentary without such dropouts and hope no-one complains? Good to see that BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra will be broadcasting this game anyway.

Having mentioned 5 Live Baseball above, this brings me nicely onto asking if anyone has heard anything about Radio 5 Live Sports Extra's coverage plans (or lack thereof) for the Major League Baseball Playoffs and the 2014 World Series? Josh Chetwynd indicated that 5LSE would be broadcasting on-site commentary on the Fall Classic when it was confirmed that they would be ending their weekly regular season MLB coverage back in the winter.
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Old 30-09-2014, 20:06
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Old 30-09-2014, 20:14
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If they are going to simulcast a commercial radio commentary, I imagine they'll handle this in a similar way to how they managed their Major League Baseball and NFL commentaries towards the end of their run - they had studio continuity and would fade out the commentators' commercial "reads" by inserting 5/10 second audio bumpers. That being said, they only began doing this when one listener alerted OFCOM to the US advertising on 5 Live Baseball and seeing as this is a one-off, perhaps they'll just simulcast the commentary without such dropouts and hope no-one complains? Good to see that BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra will be broadcasting this game anyway.

Having mentioned 5 Live Baseball above, this brings me nicely onto asking if anyone has heard anything about Radio 5 Live Sports Extra's coverage plans (or lack thereof) for the Major League Baseball Playoffs and the 2014 World Series? Josh Chetwynd indicated that 5LSE would be broadcasting on-site commentary on the Fall Classic when it was confirmed that they would be ending their weekly regular season MLB coverage back in the winter.
Josh C wrote on the MLB on 5 Live Facebook page a few weeks ago that it looked unlikely there would be any coverage. Shame.
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Old 01-10-2014, 08:30
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Josh C wrote on the MLB on 5 Live Facebook page a few weeks ago that it looked unlikely there would be any coverage. Shame.
Disappointing to hear that. Thanks for posting the information though Shaun, I haven't checked the MLB on 5 Live Facebook page for quite some time now so hadn't seen Josh's message.
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Old 01-10-2014, 21:21
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Interesting to see BBC Radio Five Live Sports Extra will have live commentary of the NRL Grand Final on Sunday morning at 09:10.
They must be taking a stream from Triple M who are broadcasting it live in Australia, although this is a commercial station which may prove tricky for the BBC.
I don't believe ABC Grandstand or ABC local radio are broadcasting it.
The ABC cover every NRL match and I'm pretty sure it'll be the ABC commentary they will take.
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Old 02-10-2014, 00:45
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The ABC cover every NRL match and I'm pretty sure it'll be the ABC commentary they will take.
Yep, the BBC website now says it will be ABC commentary. But the only ABC coverage I could find is a Roy and HG special on ABC NewsRadio.
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Old 02-10-2014, 12:52
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Yep, the BBC website now says it will be ABC commentary. But the only ABC coverage I could find is a Roy and HG special on ABC NewsRadio.
The Commentaries are all on the "ABC Grandstand" stream on the tune in app.

2GB in Sydney will also be covering the final as are Triple M as stated.
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Old 02-10-2014, 15:55
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Thanks AR1983. ABC have since updated their website with the live commentary you mentioned.
However, so have the BBC. They have removed the bit about it coming from ABC. Probably still is though.
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Old 17-10-2014, 12:56
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Praise for Jim Maxwell
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Old 31-10-2014, 00:30
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Major League Baseball Postseason 2014, Team Radio Networks in the USA

American League

Kansas City Royals - Denny Matthews and Ryan Lefebvre (KCSP)
Baltimore Orioles - Joe Angel and Fred Manfra (WBAL)
Detroit Tigers - Dan Dickerson and Jim Price (WXYT)
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim - Terry Smith and Mark Langston (KLAA)
Oakland Athletics - Ken Korach, Vince Cotroneo and Ray Fosse (KGMZ)

National League

San Francisco Giants - Jon Miller, Dave Flemming, Duane Kuiper and Mike Krukow (KNBR)
St. Louis Cardinals - Mike Shannon and John Rooney (KMOX)
Los Angeles Dodgers - Vin Scully, Charley Steiner and Rick Monday (KLAC)
Washington Nationals - Charlie Slowes and Dave Jageler (WJFK)
Pittsburgh Pirates - Greg Brown, Tim Neverett and Steve Blass (KDKA)

Dave Flemming missed commentating on a handful of the San Francisco Giants' earlier postseason matches as he was covering Detroit leg of the Tigers-Orioles ALDS nationally for ESPN Radio.
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Old 31-10-2014, 00:33
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Major League Baseball Postseason 2014, ESPN Radio (USA)

American League Wild Card Game

Oakland Athletics @ Kansas City Royals - Jon Sciambi and Chris Singleton, with Pedro Gomez as field reporter

National League Wild Card Game

San Francisco Giants @ Pittsburgh Pirates - Dave O'Brien and Aaron Boone, with Buster Olney (as ESPN TV) as field reporter

American League Division Series

Detroit Tigers v Baltimore Orioles - Chris Berman (Games 1-2), Dave Flemming (Game 3) and Rick Sutcliffe, with TJ Quinn as field reporter*

Kansas City Royals v Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim - Jon Sciambi and Chris Singleton, with Pedro Gomez as field reporter

National League Division Series

San Francisco Giants v Washington Nationals - Dave O'Brien and John Kruk, with Tim Kurkjian as field reporter

St. Louis Cardinals v Los Angeles Dodgers - Dan Shulman and Aaron Boone, with Peter Pascarelli as Baseball Insider and Buster Olney as field reporter

American League Championship Series

Kansas City Royals v Baltimore Orioles - Jon Sciambi and Chris Singleton, with Tim Kurkjian as field reporter

National League Championship Series

San Francisco Giants v St. Louis Cardinals - Dan Shulman and Aaron Boone, with Peter Pascarelli as Baseball Insider and Buster Olney as field reporter

World Series

San Francisco Giants v Kansas City Royals - Dan Shulman and Aaron Boone, with Peter Pascarelli as Baseball Insider and Jon Sciambi (Games 1-7) and Chris Singleton (Game 7 only) as field reporters

ESPN Radio's Baseball Tonight pregame, ingame and postgame presenters from their Bristol, Connecticut studios during the postseason were Marc Kestecher, Kevin Winter, John Brickley and John Ryder.

Studio presentation for the World Series was split between Marc Kestecher (Games 1-2) and Kevin Winter (Games 3-7), with Jon Sciambi, Chris Singleton and Peter Pascarelli providing pre and postgame presentation from the field at Kauffman Stadium and AT&T Park.

*Had the Tigers-Orioles series gone to Games 4 and 5, Flemming would have had the call on G4 in Detroit while Berman would have returned for G5 in Baltimore. Berman couldn't do the weekend leg of the series due to his ESPN TV NFL commitments, hence Flemming being drafted in from the Giants' postseason coverage on KNBR.
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Old 26-05-2015, 16:22
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BBC TMS: England v. New Zealand - The 1st Test

Commentators: Jonathan Agnew, Henry Blofeld, Bryan Waddle and Ed Smith

Summarisers: Geoffrey Boycott, Michael Vaughan, Phil Tufnell and Jeremy Coney

Scorer: Andrew Samson

Seems like Malcolm Ashton remains demoted, his twitter handle now reads 'TMS ODI scorer'
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Old 26-05-2015, 20:45
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Sorry to be a pain thelastword, while I don't want to appear rude I think I should point out that this is last year's thread. The current one is here: http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=2006738
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Old 27-05-2015, 00:17
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Sorry to be a pain thelastword, while I don't want to appear rude I think I should point out that this is last year's thread. The current one is here: http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=2006738
Sorry the Dif, you are absolutely right (obviously wasnt concentrating!)
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