Never to the dark side Posted October 6, 2011 Posted October 6, 2011 as part of the BBC cuts Also between midday and 4pm monday to friday there will be a Bristol,Gloucestershire,Wiltshire and Zumerzet joint local radio station between 7m and close of play it will be an England station only station
redlandrebel Posted October 6, 2011 Posted October 6, 2011 as part of the BBC cuts Also between midday and 4pm monday to friday there will be a Bristol,Gloucestershire,Wiltshire and Zumerzet joint local radio station. Does that mean Bath, City, Cheltenham, Sags, Swindon, Yeovil, will all be vying for air time at 15.00 Saturday afternoons? Great
Fodbarmyarmy Posted October 6, 2011 Posted October 6, 2011 as part of the BBC cuts Also between midday and 4pm monday to friday there will be a Bristol,Gloucestershire,Wiltshire and Zumerzet joint local radio station between 7m and close of play it will be an England station only station Yeah...but to be fair Jon we will get more period costume dramas and high paid celebrity fayre such as Strictly come camel toe out of it! (Better not mean NO COMMS at all )
Guest Posted October 6, 2011 Posted October 6, 2011 Some quite serious cutbacks by the BEEB, looks like biased home commentary for our away games
Cider Queen Posted October 6, 2011 Posted October 6, 2011 Does this mean no commentary at all or does it mean we'll use the local commentators at the away ground? It be a shame of we dont get any at all.
Riaz Posted October 6, 2011 Posted October 6, 2011 Some quite serious cutbacks by the BEEB, looks like biased home commentary for our away games Ah, not if you subscribe to Player.
Cider Queen Posted October 6, 2011 Posted October 6, 2011 Ah, not if you subscribe to Player. I do, but have trouble listening whilst in the garden or in the car! It's fine if your sat in doors using the lappy.
Guest Posted October 6, 2011 Posted October 6, 2011 Ah, not if you subscribe to Player. They use RB for away games and just stream it over the net don't they? The implications of this are that there will be no RB Commentators at away games.
Guest Posted October 6, 2011 Posted October 6, 2011 Does this mean no commentary at all or does it mean we'll use the local commentators at the away ground? It be a shame of we dont get any at all. Just local ones, so when we are at home the away teams local radio station will just use the RB commentary etc etc
JohnM Posted October 6, 2011 Posted October 6, 2011 Ah, not if you subscribe to Player. I thought Player just used the BBC commentary team under contract. That's all I've ever heard on it. The only advantage with Player is when they go "off around the grounds" the City commentary keeps going.
Riaz Posted October 6, 2011 Posted October 6, 2011 They use RB for away games and just stream it over the net don't they? The implications of this are that there will be no RB Commentators at away games. Well the club cant expect us to listen to other team's radio station. If they do, then I'd probabaly unsubscribe.
slartibartfast Posted October 6, 2011 Posted October 6, 2011 Well at least the end of the jollys. That nob Clinton Rodgers has been swanning around in the Mojave Desert looking at army training, WTF is THAT all about? Very local I'm sure! If that sort of waste ends, then good job!
Guest Posted October 6, 2011 Posted October 6, 2011 Well the club cant expect us to listen to other team's radio station. If they do, then I'd probabaly unsubscribe. That'll surely be the case unless they do it themselves.
WhistleHappy Posted October 6, 2011 Posted October 6, 2011 England only (ie National Radio Broacasts) after 7pm ..... Will exceptions be made for Coverage of Midweek Evening Games?? Thats the biggest issue surely... will BBC continue to provide regional football coverage for evening games? Bloody well hope so !!!
Red-Robbo Posted October 6, 2011 Posted October 6, 2011 I'm not sure it will. Online coverage of non-PL has already been cut to farcical levels. Medium Wave frequencies for local radio will be phased out too, so that's one less channel for R Bristol to use.
Roger Red Hat Posted October 6, 2011 Posted October 6, 2011 will it mean the end of Yabbo? It's the beginning of the end for the beeb.
Red-Robbo Posted October 6, 2011 Posted October 6, 2011 will it mean the end of Yabbo? I've always said Yabbo is good enough to work nationally. I doubt you'll have heard the last of him. Many moons ago I worked with him. Just his emails about biscuits were a work of understated comic genius!
slartibartfast Posted October 6, 2011 Posted October 6, 2011 I've always said Yabbo is good enough to work nationally. I doubt you'll have heard the last of him. Many moons ago I worked with him. Just his emails about biscuits were a work of understated comic genius! No they weren't, he is total shite and a gash head !
myol'man Posted October 6, 2011 Posted October 6, 2011 What about the 20p phone in? blah blah blah Gas are going up blah blah blah Yeovil are a massive club blah blah blah I love you Geoffrey
Guest Rowley Birkin Posted October 6, 2011 Posted October 6, 2011 Good news then, we might hear a proper summary of the game. We lose 5-0 and City were unlucky according to them, talk about biased, who else has their press officer commenting on the game ?!!!!!!!!
Red-Robbo Posted October 6, 2011 Posted October 6, 2011 No they weren't, he is total shite and a gash head ! We'll beg to differ then. I'm not sure SY has much interest in football TBH. Typical gashead in that respect then I'd imagine that Clint's visit to the Mojave Desert was paid for by the MoD.
slartibartfast Posted October 6, 2011 Posted October 6, 2011 We'll beg to differ then. I'm not sure SY has much interest in football TBH. Typical gashead in that respect then I'd imagine that Clint's visit to the Mojave Desert was paid for by the MoD. Fair enough, each to his own. I just find him purile, not funny. When he first came on, on Sat mornings before the footy (cica 95) he always used to chat on about the gash, how he loved them and didn't like City, I used to eff and blind at the tosser when driving down the gate!
TRL Posted October 6, 2011 Posted October 6, 2011 Fair enough, each to his own. I just find him purile, not funny. When he first came on, on Sat mornings before the footy (cica 95) he always used to chat on about the gash, how he loved them and didn't like City, I used to eff and blind at the tosser when driving down the gate! I'm with you. Yabbo has no comedy factor. Get him and jed pitman on the same radio show and then bomb the studio. Happy days. Well a little harsh, so maybe just get them both off the airways.
Economou Posted October 6, 2011 Posted October 6, 2011 15% cut to sport budget, local radio budgets cut, wrong priorities imo, why don't they just ditch BBC 3 ?
Frenchay Red Posted October 6, 2011 Posted October 6, 2011 Can't help wondering if these cuts are going to be done out of spite to make a point. The likes of Paxman and other high profile Beeb figures are reportedly on big money deals, and many news presenters and reporters are earning almost as much as some of our players! Also why does it take two presenters at certain times of the day to read the news, yet at other times one can manage? Seems they are making cuts at the wrong end of the service. TV production must be much more costly than local radio. Mind you it has been more than I can take just recently to listen for very long to our away games
Fiale Posted October 6, 2011 Posted October 6, 2011 BBC going for market share over public service yet again I see. Sale popular programmes like Eastenders for some cash and save production costs. Flog Radio 1 etc and do more local, niche and education. The BBC should not be in the business of chasing viewers, but catering to those that the mainstream media do not.
Barrs Court Red Posted October 6, 2011 Posted October 6, 2011 Well yeah, why not ditch BBC 3. Or the not needed BBC news 24.....oh go one better and ditch the lot and scrap the licence fee. As an aside, I've always been surprised that the BBC dont put in more effort to local radio considering how shit the commercial stations are, but the the cynic I me knows that that make the "brands" of radio 1 2 and 4 lose listeners.
WhistleHappy Posted October 6, 2011 Posted October 6, 2011 England only (ie National Radio Broacasts) after 7pm ..... Will exceptions be made for Coverage of Midweek Evening Games?? Thats the biggest issue surely... will BBC continue to provide regional football coverage for evening games? Bloody well hope so !!! ....the highlighted bit above is my major concern.. Does anyone (NTTDS perhaps) know for sure if midweek games will still get coverage (home/away regardless of who commentators are) or will national broadcasts after 7pm mean no live radio regional coverage of evening matches??
dazza247 Posted October 6, 2011 Posted October 6, 2011 This is really sad news in my opinion, if true. For my whole life I can remember following City away games I don't make on radio Bristol including Liverpool away in the FA Cup (when I was just a wee nipper). Always enjoyed the build up before the game, the interviews with travelling fans, the race back from places like Exeter to tune in to the radio. No matter what I'm doing on a Saturday, if not following City, I always make sure I have one ear on the football, no matter how poor the performance!! I've got BCFC world but as previous posters have remarked, who will provide the commentary? And it's not always possible to be within earshot of a computer. No idea if there's anyway of getting the BBC to rethink this decision, but worth a try.Saying that they still axed 606 etc etc
Red-Robbo Posted October 6, 2011 Posted October 6, 2011 ....the highlighted bit above is my major concern.. Does anyone (NTTDS perhaps) know for sure if midweek games will still get coverage (home/away regardless of who commentators are) or will national broadcasts after 7pm mean no live radio regional coverage of evening matches?? Ah. Just asked an old friend at the Beeb the answer to this and he says at the moment it's: "A proposal for an all-England programme between 7 and 10 in the evening for stations not broadcasting football commentaries." Note the highlighted word. FWIW I agree with Fiale's view on what the BBC should be concentrating on. Stuff you can't get (and wont get) supplied commercially.
Judge Roughneck Posted October 6, 2011 Posted October 6, 2011 The only advantage with Player is when they go "off around the grounds" the City commentary keeps going. Not always an advantage these days.
tpitman Posted October 6, 2011 Posted October 6, 2011 will it mean the end of Yabbo? Oh I do hope so!!
The Bard Posted October 6, 2011 Posted October 6, 2011 15% cut to sport budget, local radio budgets cut, wrong priorities imo, why don't they just ditch BBC 3 ? Because that's a channel full of dumbed down s***e watched by our youth, who for some reason have a disproportionate influence on scheduling. They are mirroring the way the government has made cuts - applying them across the board. At least 6 music will remain.
Kenn Loyal Posted October 6, 2011 Posted October 6, 2011 What about the 20p phone in? blah blah blah Gas are going up blah blah blah Yeovil are a massive club blah blah blah I love you Geoffrey Not the end for Kevin the saghead (you Know Geoff) from Bedminster.
Drew Peacock Posted October 7, 2011 Posted October 7, 2011 Some quite serious cutbacks by the BEEB, looks like biased home commentary for our away games As opposed to biased away commentary? Sounds like a sensible saving to me. Bring back Herbie Gillam.........
eric04 Posted October 7, 2011 Posted October 7, 2011 Probably means no interviews either for away games. It will be a very poor service.
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