Match Commentary in Belfast

Hampshire Royal · by **Hampshire Royal** » 26 Aug 2007 11:22

I'm not able to get the match commentaries in Belfast and am condemned to listen to the Official Site commentary. What's the problem with this? I'm guessing it's because I'm outside the BBCRB area, but I can't for the life of me see why this should be so.

I suppose it's out of the question that you can change it, but I'll ask anyway!

Ollie · by **Ollie** » 26 Aug 2007 13:35

Well, yes, Belfast is outside our transmission area! By a considerable distance. But I'm assuming you mean listening online, and the problem there is we don't have the rights to broadcast match commentaries online. It's the same for every Premier League club (and all the Football League ones).

Sorry about that but there's nothing we can do to change it - it's all governed by contracts between the BBC and the relevant leagues.

Hampshire Royal · by **Hampshire Royal** » 26 Aug 2007 15:12

Thanks for that Ollie, but I'm sure I've listened to online commentary on BBCRB before, but maybe that was in the Championship.

I wonder why the Premier League is so worried about not broadcasting commentaries online with the Beeb when i can get commentaries on the Official Site.

Oh well

Ollie · by **Ollie** » 26 Aug 2007 18:20

Well, that's precisely why the Premier League are worried. The clubs want you to use the official site's commentary, the World packages, etc etc, because of revenues and advertising.

Forbury Lion · by **Forbury Lion** » 26 Aug 2007 18:34

My advice is to ask someone in Reading to stream the radio commentary straignt to you using skype or something.

Barry the bird boggler · by **Barry the bird boggler** » 27 Aug 2007 08:11

Now if only BBC local radio stations could get a natiowide DAB channel assigned we'd have a solution....!

Royal With Cheese · by **Royal With Cheese** » 27 Aug 2007 11:49

Hampshire Royal wrote:I'm not able to get the match commentaries in Belfast and am condemned to listen to the Official Site commentary. What's the problem with this? I'm guessing it's because I'm outside the BBCRB area, but I can't for the life of me see why this should be so.

I suppose it's out of the question that you can change it, but I'll ask anyway!

Was that you I saw walking down Great Victoria Street in last year's home top a couple of weeks ago then?

Hampshire Royal · by **Hampshire Royal** » 27 Aug 2007 21:19

It have been. If it was a fat middle aged git, then it probably was. I've got a flat in South Belfast (Primrose Hill). What about you?

Royal With Cheese · by **Royal With Cheese** » 27 Aug 2007 23:12

Hampshire Royal wrote:It have been. If it was a fat middle aged git, then it probably was. I've got a flat in South Belfast (Primrose Hill). What about you?

Anyway, no it was a young bloke. I thought he was a student.
Are you here long?
We'll have to meet up sometime. I work in Carryduff, South Belfast (LOL!)

Hampshire Royal · by **Hampshire Royal** » 27 Aug 2007 23:48

That's amazing. You mean there are at least three Reading fans in Belfast????

I'm here until the end of Novemeber (maybe longer). What do you do in Carryduff. What IS there to do in Carryduff?????

Royal Soupanoodle · by **Royal Soupanoodle** » 28 Aug 2007 00:00

Can you get DAB radio in Belfast - If so Radio Berks will be on there - believe it or not it's the only way I can receive it in Ascot - Berkshire!!!!!

Ollie · by **Ollie** » 28 Aug 2007 00:11

Royal Soupanoodle wrote:Can you get DAB radio in Belfast - If so Radio Berks will be on there

Alas, no, it won't be. Just like FM and AM, DAB works using regional transmitters/multiplexes.

So unless you live in or near Berkshire, you're not going to be able to find BBC Radio Berkshire on your DAB radio.

g · by g » 28 Aug 2007 00:32

Ollie I love you

Rawlie19 · by **Rawlie19** » 28 Aug 2007 00:42

The official site is SHITE! I couldn't find my arial for my radio (I know, dark ages. I have a digital, but I left it at work) so I started listening to the Reading World commentary (seeing as I paid for it)... Well I couldn't believe it. There appeared to be 3 people commentating, but they just kept talking over each other as if the other people weren't there... and then they'd all stop, and all you could here were people talking in the background (which I think were other broadcasters commentating on the game that the World mikes were picking up... although it was very quiet so I couldn't tell what they were saying). There were big big BIG chunks of silence going on throughout the first 5 or 10 minutes coverage. That was when I decided to destroy the tidy cabling I had going on with my TV and used the arial from that to hook up my radio and get the BBC Berks coverage. Now there are bits of the BBCRB coverage that annoy me, like when they are just having a laugh with each other and not commentating on the game (even though they say that that means there isn't anything going on on the pitch so I'm not missing anything, I know that this is untrue as they are normally doing stuff it's just that it's not always all that interesting to commentate on... I digress...), but at least they are still TALKING and you don't think that maybe the connection has dropped out. Anyway. Sorry for not listening to you for the whole game... I was actually trying to get footage of the game over the tinternet but even the site I had to pay $7 for a years coverage was shocking and didn't have anything (I'm disgusted by that too but that's another story)

Royal With Cheese · by **Royal With Cheese** » 28 Aug 2007 16:21

Hampshire Royal wrote:That's amazing. You mean there are at least three Reading fans in Belfast????

I'm here until the end of Novemeber (maybe longer). What do you do in Carryduff. What IS there to do in Carryduff?????

I work there. End of. Even the pub closed down to be replaced with houses.

I, however, don't live there. We'll have to meet up.

weybridgewanderer · by **weybridgewanderer** » 03 Sep 2007 13:32

Ollie wrote:
Royal Soupanoodle wrote:Can you get DAB radio in Belfast - If so Radio Berks will be on there
Alas, no, it won't be. Just like FM and AM, DAB works using regional transmitters/multiplexes.

So unless you live in or near Berkshire, you're not going to be able to find BBC Radio Berkshire on your DAB radio.

Ollie,

Any idea why the BBC broadcast Radio Scotland on SKY digital but not BBC Berks?

Also, why do we get Clyde 1 FM (scottish commercial station) on DAB off the Crystal Palace transmitter but not BBC Berks?

Ollie · by **Ollie** » 03 Sep 2007 14:42

I can't speak for the BBC in any official capacity about this, but one imagines there are more Scottish people living in the rest of the UK keen to hear BBC Radio Scotland, than there are people from Berkshire living in the rest of the UK keen to hear BBC Radio Berkshire. None of the English local radio stations are available on Sky to my knowledge, with the possible exception of (the far bigger) BBC London 94.9.

As for Clyde 1 FM, I assume they've bought the rights to broadcast from that transmitter, but obviously don't know any details as it's a commercial station.

Royal With Cheese · by **Royal With Cheese** » 03 Sep 2007 17:37

Ollie wrote:I can't speak for the BBC in any official capacity about this, but one imagines there are more Scottish people living in the rest of the UK keen to hear BBC Radio Scotland, than there are people from Berkshire living in the rest of the UK keen to hear BBC Radio Berkshire. None of the English local radio stations are available on Sky to my knowledge, with the possible exception of (the far bigger) BBC London 94.9.

As for Clyde 1 FM, I assume they've bought the rights to broadcast from that transmitter, but obviously don't know any details as it's a commercial station.

Probably something to do with the way they're funded.

Probably not unique enough.

Forbury Lion · by **Forbury Lion** » 03 Sep 2007 19:15

A spokesman for the BBC wrote:I can't speak for the BBC in any official capacity about this

Forget BBC Berkshire, Get a big petition sent to the Irish radio stations and get then to broadcast Reading commentary, with the number or Irish Internationals at the club the stations in Eire may be interested, if not those in Northern Ireland. If this is so you may be able to pick up their coverage north of the border or just travel over the border and get in coverage.

Royal With Cheese · by **Royal With Cheese** » 03 Sep 2007 20:51

Forbury Lion wrote:
A spokesman for the BBC wrote:I can't speak for the BBC in any official capacity about this
Forget BBC Berkshire, Get a big petition sent to the Irish radio stations and get then to broadcast Reading commentary, with the number or Irish Internationals at the club the stations in Eire may be interested, if not those in Northern Ireland. If this is so you may be able to pick up their coverage north of the border or just travel over the border and get in coverage.

you can get both republic TV and radio in the North. I can see the Divis tower from my garden.