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Saturday 22nd October - Today FM Philip Egan presented Premier League Live, joined by Mark Lawrenson between 2-3pm Premier League AFC Bournemouth v Tottenham Hotspur - Adam Lindsay Arsenal v Middlesbrough - Ian Beach and Gary Breen (3pm commentary) Burnley v Everton - Alan Tolley Hull City v Stoke City - Roger Tames Leicester City v Crystal Palace - Peter Hood Swansea City v Watford - Ron Jones West Ham United v Sunderland - Russell Hargreaves Liverpool v West Bromwich Albion - Grahame Lloyd Rugby Union: European Rugby Champions Cup Pool 1 Munster v Glasgow Warriors - Ross Lindsay Newstalk 106-108FM Ger Gilroy presented Off The Ball alongside Nathan Murphy and Eoin Sheahan Premier League (as IRN) AFC Bournemouth v Tottenham Hotspur - Adam Lindsay Arsenal v Middlesbrough - Andrew Cheal Burnley v Everton - Adam Dury Hull City v Stoke City - Al Ross Leicester City v Crystal Palace - Clive Edwards Swansea City v Watford - Sam Fleet West Ham United v Sunderland - Guy Swindells Rugby Union: European Rugby Champions Cup Pool 1 Munster v Glasgow Warriors - Oisin Langan Some details I missed from the stations I posted information about yesterday... Quote:
Saturday 22nd October - talkSPORT
Adrian Durham presenting Matchday Live from the Emirates Stadium with Danny Gabbidon at the Liberty Stadium, followed by The Full Time Phone-In hosted by Danny Kelly with Stuart Pearce at Anfield Rugby Union: European Rugby Champions Cup Pool 4 Castres v Northampton Saints - Simon Ward Quote:
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Premier League Liverpool v West Bromwich Albion - TBA Bundesliga Bayern Munchen v Borrusia Monchengladbach - TBA Quote:
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Apologies if already answered but why do 5Live have the early game today.
Even Jonathan Overend seemed bemused why they had the commentary. Just said it would take a legal team to explain why...... |
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BBC Radio Manchester - Sunday 23rd October
Chelsea v Manchester United - Bill Rice - reports Manchester City v Southampton - Ian Cheeseman and Paul Lake - commentary |
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Manchester City v Southampton Peter Smith Chelsea v Manchester United Nigel Bidmead BBC Radio London Chelsea v Man Utd Aaron Paul (who was reporting on Millwall v Fleetwood yesterday for BBC Radio Lancashire) BBC Radio Solent Man City v Southampton Adam Blackmore and Dave Merrington (commentary on 96.1 and 103.8FM) |
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Apologies if already answered but why do 5Live have the early game today.
Even Jonathan Overend seemed bemused why they had the commentary. Just said it would take a legal team to explain why...... I don't think this situation helps anyone this season. Radio listeners are people of habit that like routine. It's become settled over the last few seasons as to which station will have which games. |
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BBC Radio Scotland Sportsound, 23/10/16
Presented by Richard Gordon from Hampden Park, with Tom English. Scottish League Cup Semi-Final Rangers v Celtic (2.15pm) - Liam McLeod, Billy Dodds and Pat Bonner (commentary) with Chris McLaughlin pitchside Scottish Premiership St Johnstone v Dundee (noon) - Paul Mitchell, Allan Preston and Willie Miller (commentary) with Brian McLaughlin pitchside |
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I can't explain it unless Southampton's Europa League involvement comes into it. I don't see how though.
I don't think this situation helps anyone this season. Radio listeners are people of habit that like routine. It's become settled over the last few seasons as to which station will have which games. Quote:
wish i could explain in a tweet. In short radio correspond with tv pkge numbers. Means we acquire a few sat 530 and sun 130.
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I don't think this situation helps anyone this season. Radio listeners are people of habit that like routine. It's become settled over the last few seasons as to which station will have which games.
Now, even those of us on here are stumped as to which games will end up on certain stations and why, so heaven help the casual listener. I happen to think that enabling Saturday 3pm rights holders (primarily 5 Live but potentially talkSPORT 2 as well these days) to broadcast non-UK televised matches moved from that timeslot to one on a Sunday afternoon due to the Europa League makes sense, as does allowing talkSPORT to do commentary on matches shuffled around on League Cup Final Sunday, but aside from that it's all become very confusing and difficult to follow. That in itself can't be a good thing. I suppose a potentially positive impact of these changes might be if commentaries on Bank Holidays are shared out a bit more evenly. I expect Radio 5 Live to retain control of the majority of the Bank Holiday picks, especially now they have rights to all midweek games, but there are instances where it would make sense to allow talkSPORT to cover matches outside of the 3pm timeslot during these matchrounds. For example, last season either during the Boxing Day and New Year's Day matchround there was at least two games kicking off at 5.30pm, yet neither were on talkSPORT and only one was on BBC National Radio. To me, it would make sense to allow talkSPORT to cover one of those matches in such circumstances. |
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Sunday 23rd October - talkSPORT
Jim Proudfoot presented Sunday Scoreboard alongside Perry Groves and Charlie Wyett from The Sun, followed by The Full Time Phone-In with Matt Smith and Chris Perry Premier League Manchester City v Southampton - Dom McGuinness Chelsea v Manchester United - Ian Abrahams Scottish League Cup Semi-Final Rangers v Celtic - Geoff Peters Cricket: First Test Match Bangladesh v England - Jon Norman American Football: NFL International Series New York Giants @ Los Angeles Rams (Twickenham) - Will Gavin Formula 1: United States Grand Prix Circuit of the Americas, Austin, Texas - Graham Courtney talkSPORT Live Premier League Manchester City v Southampton - John Anderson and Rufus Brevett Chelsea v Manchester United - Phil Blacker and Alan McLoughlin Bundesliga Red Bull Leipzig v SV Werder Bremen - Joe Shennan Schalke 04 v Mainz 05 - Kevin Hatchard talkSPORT 2 La Liga Live presented by Russell Hargreaves (3-5.05pm) and Dan Windle (7-10pm) La Liga Sevilla v Atletico Madrid - James Fielden and Matt Lawrence (3.15pm commentary) Real Madrid v Athletic Bilbao - Olly Wilson and Chris Perry (7.45pm commentary) talkSPORT 2 also took Will Gavin's updates from Twickenham on the NFL International Series. Earlier, Will presented Sportsday, which included their coverage of the Australian MotoGP (commentary came from their usual international TV feed team). Next weekend's La Liga commentaries will be Atletico Madrid v Malaga (5.30pm) and Barcelona v Granada (7.45pm) in a Saturday double header, plus Las Palmas v Celta Vigo in the late game on Sunday. talkSPORT 2's Saturday 3pm commentary from the Premier League is Manchester United v Burnley. Newstalk 106-108FM Joe Molloy presented Off The Ball alongside Richie McCormack Premier League Manchester City v Southampton - Peter Smith (as IRN) Chelsea v Manchester United - Nathan Murphy and Keith Andrews (4pm commentary) Rugby Union: European Rugby Champions Cup Pool 4 Montpellier Herault v Leinster - Dave McIntyre and Andrew Dunne (1pm commentary) |
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Apologies if already answered but why do 5Live have the early game today.
Even Jonathan Overend seemed bemused why they had the commentary. Just said it would take a legal team to explain why...... "No... I don't understand the contract either" |
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I agree it's all a bit odd and not something that was announced at the time the contracts were announced.
I understand when time slots changed due to European games, it seems as the stations now keep the game rather than the time slot but other random ones like yesterday must confuse the casual listeners. Be interesting to see what games they get at Xmas and also as TD said, some games fall into the usual TS time slots. |
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5Live & Sports Extra on Tuesday
Liverpool vs Spurs - Conor McNamara & Lawro Arsenal vs Reading - Ian Brown & Mark Schwarzer (Sports Extra) |
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5Live on Weds
Man Utd vs Man City - Alan Green and Chris Waddle West Ham vs Chelsea - Alistair Bruce-Ball and David Pleat (Sports Extra) |
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BBC Radio Manchester - Monday 24th October
Bury v Bolton Wanderers - Jack Dearden and John McGinlay - commentary |
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Premier League Manchester City v Southampton - John Anderson and Rufus Brevett but kudos for someone at the station for eventually getting in their ear and having them explain straight off why the goal had been ruled out, namely that under the new rule Aguero had attempted to head the ball in on its way to Stonesy.
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I agree it's all a bit odd and not something that was announced at the time the contracts were announced..
When the radio deals were announced there was a cap on the number TS could carry live (28 for each of the two time slots, 56 in total) so it makes sense they can't cover every Saturday 5:30pm game and every Sunday game pre-3:00pm as that would take them over their quota. I can only assume that if a game selected for live broadcast happens to be from a particular package, then it's a 5L game. My educated guess would be, these are the games TS can cover live: Sky - Package C has 28 games kicking off between 1.30pm and 2.15pm on Sundays BT - Package B has 28 games at tea-time on Saturdays (5.30pm) However if the games happen to come from these two packages, then it's a 5L game: BT - Package F has 14 games, a mix of midweek and Saturday games including three first picks Sky - Package G is a bundle of 14 games on Bank Holidays and other Sunday matches with two first picks So I would assume Man City v Leicester last Sunday came from Package G and this weekend's match between Palace and Liverpool is from Package F. Package A (Saturday lunch), Package D (Sunday 4:00pm) and Package E (MNF/FNF) have no impact. |
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Monday 24th October - 107.4 Tower FM
Paul Higgs presented Tower FM Sport from the studio League One Bury v Bolton Wanderers - Chris Price, Tony Kelly and Tom Pickup (7.45pm commentary, also on Wanderers Player) I listened to a bit of this commentary last night and thought Tower FM, which serves both Bolton and Bury, provided very fair and impartial coverage. While they only have a commentary deal to cover all Bolton matches, and indeed their broadcast was going out on the official Bolton Wanderers website, as they were playing another local club they had a three man commentary team, with Tom Pickup - who I believe is their regular Bury reporter on Saturday afternoons - providing the Shakers angle. I thought this compared well against other local commercial stations who only commentate on certain (usually bigger) clubs in their area when they cover derbies involving teams they don't have commentary rights to, for example how Free Radio 80s provided their usual Wolves-slanted coverage of their League One derbies against Walsall a few seasons back, and going back a bit further how the then-Gold Birmingham provided Albion-slanted coverage of West Brom v Wolves derbies in the days when Wolves were just outside their patch. It would be interesting to see how other UTV Radio-owned stations would handle such a situation, for example Signal 1 were Stoke City to face Port Vale or Crewe Alexandra or Pulse 2 should Bradford City find themselves up against Huddersfield Town. I hope they'd take a leaf out of Tower's book. By the way, welcome to the forum King_Betty. Interesting analysis of the Premier League's national radio rights, it got me thinking and you certainly have uncovered something regarding the reduced quotas talkSPORT have in their standalone timeslots under the new contract. In the previous seasons, talkSPORT had rights to 64 games across the two timeslots - so theoretically they are due to do eight fewer commentaries this season. However, now their Saturday 5.30pm package no longer includes Wednesday night matches, which accounted for five of their 65 Premier League commentaries last season. But even beyond those games (and sometimes the number of midweek matchrounds works out at fewer than five), they'd still have to lose a few live games at weekends that they would have been able to cover last season - assuming they have some say in the matter, perhaps they are getting them out of the way early on? Equally if Radio 5 Live have a say in the matter, perhaps they would prefer to take some games earlier in the season when they know their won't be a clash with other sports i.e. they would probably be less keen to pick up Saturday 5.30pm or Sunday pre-3pm games during February and March as they may clash with their Six Nations commentaries. |
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BBC Radio Scotland Sportsound, 25/10/16
Presented by Richard Gordon from New Douglas Park. Scottish Premiership Hamilton Accies v Aberdeen (7.45pm) - Rob Maclean, Derek Ferguson and Jimmy Nicholl (commentary) with Richard Wilson pitchside |
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Tuesday 25th October - talkSPORT
Mark Saggers presenting Kick Off: League Cup Special from Anfield with Stuart Pearce at the Emirates Stadium EFL Cup Fourth Round Arsenal v Reading - Ian Abrahams and Stuart Pearce Bristol City v Hull City - Laurence Mora Leeds United v Norwich City - Naz Premji Liverpool v Tottenham Hotspur - Simon Humphreys and Mark Saggers, with James Dodd producing Newcastle United v Preston North End - Graham Courtney |
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Liverpool vs Spurs - Conor McNamara & Lawro Arsenal vs Reading - Ian Brown & Mark Schwarzer (Sports Extra) Arsenal v Reading - Mike Williams Bristol City v Hull - Simon Mann Leeds v Norwich - Vicky Sparks Newcastle v Preston - Alistair Yeomans |
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BBC Newcastle - Tuesday October 25
Newcastle v Preston - Mick Lowes and John Anderson Studio: Simon Pryde |
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BBC Radio Manchester - Wed 26th October
Manchester United v Manchester City - Ian Cheeseman, Bill Rice, Fred Eyre and Danny Webber - commentary |
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Wednesday 26th October - talkSPORT
Mark Saggers presenting Kick Off: League Cup Special from Old Trafford alongside Danny Higginbotham EFL Cup Fourth Round Manchester United v Manchester City - Sam Matterface and Danny Higginbotham (8pm commentary), with Dom McGuinness at pitchside and James Dodd producing Southampton v Sunderland - Ian Danter West Ham United v Chelsea - Ian Abrahams Going back to last night, talkSPORT didn't take commentary on the penalty shootout at the end of Leeds United v Norwich City during The Sports Bar (as they have often done with League Cup shootouts in previous seasons), they just took an update from Naz Premji after it had concluded. talkSPORT Live EFL Cup Fourth Round Manchester United v Manchester City - Tom Rennie and Kit Symons |
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Man Utd vs Man City - Alan Green and Chris Waddle West Ham vs Chelsea - Alistair Bruce-Ball and David Pleat (Sports Extra) Mark Chapman hosting Southampton v Sunderland - Tony Husband West Ham v Chelsea - Jonathan Overend Great work King_Betty re the PL packages. It would seem to make sense from a numbers point of view, though I'm not quite sure why the need to change from previous deals. I can't find specific mention of number of matches for 5 Live slots, only a total of 144, which fits in with the theory. TV package A (28 matches), D (28), E(28), F (14) & G (14) gives 5 Live 112 matches, leaving 32 for Saturday's at 3pm which seems right to me. If this is the case, I doubt they have any say when they can use the 'extra' weekend matches, indeed I think Phil Wye said in one of his responses they were "allocated" certain matches. |
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BBC Radio Scotland Sportsound, 26/10/16
Presented by Richard Gordon on 810MW. All 7.45pm. Scottish Premiership Ross County v Celtic - Scott Davie and Pat Bonner (commentary) with Martin Dowden pitchside Dundee v Partick Thistle - Willie Miller (Paul Mitchell conducting post-match interviews) Kilmarnock v Hearts - Allan Preston (John Barnes) Motherwell v Inverness CT - Chick Young (Richard Wilson) |
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but kudos for someone at the station for eventually getting in their ear and having them explain straight off why the goal had been ruled out, namely that under the new rule Aguero had attempted to head the ball in on its way to Stonesy.