Originally Posted by 4-4-2:
“Details of talkSPORT's schedule/presenter changes:”
Thanks very much for posting that. talkSPORT have been trailing the headline details about Mike Tindall and Ray Wilkins on their news bulletins this afternoon.
Off-topic for this thread, but I'm wondering if Tindall's introduction on Monday's edition of Colin Murray & Friends - meaning Brian Moore won't be returning to that morning's show following his sabbatical from it in the spring in order to cover for Andrew McKenna on Sunday night rugby union show Full Contact ahead of the World Cup - indicates that Moore will be going full-time on Full Contact (with or without Macca) when it returns in September. The show's audience has had a massive increase since he took over as host (up 87% year-on-year!) so this makes a lot of sense.
I'm really pleased to hear that Stuart Pearce will continue to pop up on talkSPORT when his Nottingham Forest commitments allow it during the new season. He was outstanding as a co-commentator and a pundit during the second half of last season and particularly during the World Cup and it would have been a shame if his managerial ambitions had completely curtailed his media work. I wonder when his managerial duties will allow him to co-commentate on games - I'm thinking perhaps during FA Cup weekends, when they'll be lots of commentaries and he can maybe cover Sunday games in the Midlands when Forest have played on the Saturday, or later on in the competition if Forest have a free weekend in the event of them going out.
Originally Posted by 4-4-2:
“A little challenge... can we try and name every single commentary team for tomorrow's Championship commentaries on BBC Local Radio?”
I'll go one further - I think it would be nice if between us we managed to post details of a typical afternoon/evening of live football coverage on each of the BBC and commercial local radio stations that cover Premier League, Football League and SPFL clubs in England, Scotland and Wales at least once per station between now and May. I've not kept tabs on how we've done in that much detail but I think we've come fairly close to doing this in previous seasons, but there are some stations and areas of the country that we don't hear a great deal about on here.
On this note, I've signed up for my club Walsall's Saddlers Player highlights video/news video/live audio commentary service that the Perform Group provides to almost every club in the Football League (and a few in the Premier League and Conference Premier I believe) for the first time ever, initially for the first month of the season - I'm trialling it out before deciding whether to sign up for the rest of 2014/15. So I'll be listening to a fair few games through that which I otherwise wouldn't be able to hear, so hopefully I'll be able to update a few of the stations that don't often get a mention on here.
