my girl friend lives in the States, in Maryland, she is totally blind like myself and i am trying to find ways she can listen to five live sports coverage, bbc scotlands sports coverage, and talksports sports coverage, is their a way she can listen online to these stations?

Phone apps or computer online.

Sports coverage rights are very often restricted to a particular country by the sporting association that sells them.

I am guessing what you are really asking is how to get around geo-lock rights restrictions. That is illegal and can't be discussed here. Can only suggest you try and find out if there is a local rights holder in the US for the sports in question.

From her end, she needs to do some exploration of the BBC website and the BBC Radio iPlayer. This isn't a 5-minute task, as there are different web pages to read. She needs to find out the times that the BBC broadcasts sports and football programmes to her area, which she can hear by use of the BBC Radio iPlayer. Why can't we in the UK tell her ? Because owing to the broadcast rights that are agreed between the sports bodies and the BBC, different sporting fixtures are broadcast for UK listeners ( even on the World Service ) and overseas. So she needs to check it out from Maryland.

I say World Service as a BBC Scotland match if important enough will be broadcast on the other channels too.

There are sports and football programmes broadcast every day on the BBC World Service, and considerable coverage at weekends, so she will find good coverage online. The World Service also rents broadcasting time on facilities around the world, so it MIGHT be that they are broadcasting on an FM transmitter within range of your girlfriend. That's going to be more prevalent than the BBC Scotland broadcasts by themselves.

If all else fails, it is becoming commonplace to be able to listen to overseas programmes via a VPN ( Virtual Private Network ) where using the network is like a gateway that ends within the country of your choice - you have to pay to use it, of course. It all hinges around ending up with an IP address that is local to the country that you want to listen to "home" broadcasts from.

Also check out satellite broadcasting, as some European-based satellites which carry radio channels such as Talk Sport and BBC Scotland, might be receivable in the U.S.A.

Those are some basic ideas - hopefully other forum members more technically knowledgeable can add details specific to Maryland ?

is this a wind up ?

No, they won't be (they may not even be 'visible' that far west)

I live on Rhodes, Greece & have no problem listening radio 5 Live using BBC iplayer

There's a website I use to listen to American and Australian radio stations (they pretty much cover every country though, including the UK) called www.surfmusic.de.

Just posting that in case it's of some use.

Some Sports carried on Talksport are now only on Tunein Premium subscription in the US.
http://radiotoday.co.uk/2015/08/tunein-launches

thanks for all the help so far i really apreciate it

no it isn't!

I don't think listening to (or watching) content that is restricted by territory is illegal. Distributing the content outside the areas for which it's licensed would be a breach of copyright, though.

some sports are just not broadcast on line lucky here you get the full versions on freeview and DAB on BBC local channels but does not help if far away.

The BBC Radio Player App is now available in Offshore repositories, so can be downloaded from Itunes or Google Play without doing the trickery you needed to

Failing that Tunein also allows you to listen

As others have said the only problem with Radio 5 is that they do broadcast sports that are Geolocked, and you get the annoying "I'm sorry but the current programme"

VPN did used to let you get round that but the BBC have now blocked most VPN sites, if you still really want her to be able to access sports then running your own personal VPN server would allow her to connect via your system and would not be detectable by the BBC

The other way you could get around the streaming restrictions would be to listen to 5 live or Talksport via the various websdr receivers that are online!

If all else fails, register a credit card with 1899.com, dial her number in the USA via 08081 708 708 and play the radio commentary down the phone !

Primitive but effective, and it's only a 4p connection fee plus 1p per minute, so the two halves of 90-minute match would cost under a pound.

I have Avast internet security and an option that comes with that is a tool called 'Secureline' which provides 'military grade' security. You can choose your location, so for example if i want to listen to Geo blocked USA radio stations, I select Miami as my location, and you are home and dry!

What a helpful post ------ read the OP's original post .
It's not Radio Caroline they are trying to listen to as is your pet hate.

Hope you get it sorted carlmacar with all the helpful suggestions put forward.

Happy Christmas.
Regards

That link is more than a year old - talkSPORT's relationship with TuneIn came to an end during the summer, when the Premier League radio rights contracts started a new cycle at the end of last season. Sirius XM Radio now appears to have taken over from TuneIn as the home of talkSPORT's international Premier League commentary service in the United States, with their Bundesliga commentaries which were behind a TuneIn-paywall now available for free on the Bundesliga's official website.

This link has a comprehensive list of where talkSPORT is available internationally: http://talksport.com/radio/how-to-listen

You could do that via Skype for no fee, plug the audio out into the audio in

i have the Freeview HD version of one of these. http://www.vboxcomm.com/
(Basically Freeview box with an Ethernet port in it)

I have a friend in the USA who VPNs onto my home network and can stream anything from the box.