I often am unable to attend matches and rely on live radio commentary. But this year it has disappeared - I can't find any live commentary of Charlton matches anywhere - last year it was on Radio Kent medium wave every week. Can anyone tell me if there is a regular radio commentary out there somewhere. Many thanks.
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Try the opposition club's local radio station (via the internet). Have a look at the other club's website for an indication as to who the local radio station might be or ask on here (someone will probably live in the area and know).
There was bad news for supporters in Kent last week when the BBC switched off its MW service, which regularly broadcasts audio commentaries of Charlton’s games.
BBC Radio Kent is one of four stations to have all stopped broadcasting regular programmes on medium wave as part of a national five-week trial, and is instead directing listeners to its FM frequency or digital radio.
The BBC, under pressure to make savings, will assess the reaction of listeners, but football fans are likely to be the biggest losers, with local BBC stations regularly using AM frequencies to provide extra coverage of clubs’ games.
The only place to be guaranteed live audio coverage of Charlton’s matches is the club’s subscription website, CAFC Player, which has now been improved so that supporters can pause and rewind the audio commentaries.
What’s more, season-ticket holders can get one month free when they sign up using the form that accompanied their season-ticket booklets.
CAFC Player is available from £37.99 per year and £4.49 per month, and more details are available via www.cafc.co.uk.
I think the claim for this to be saving money is really a weak excuse.
Good on CAFC to provide a radio service, but we do pay a licence fee, and this type of excuse could be used to justify most sport coverage. What about fans unable to come to home matches living in Kent.
Try using the excuse of no money on radio 3, and why have a national pop station Radio 1.
Nothing to do with Charlton, just excuses to me........
great.
that was your questioin .. my answer then is NO .. the licence fee would have to increase by a large amount to allow the BBC to compete with sky .. I would not be prepared to pay a sky fee and a larger licence fee .. AND, we are all sports fans on here, believe it or not, nationwide we are in a big minority .. most would not touch the idea of a bigger licence fee to pay for more sport with a bargepole
Sadly the BBC have been priced out of the market and there is really nothing they can do about it. When they do get sporting events they throw a lot of effort into them imo - when they did have exclusive rights to the F1 they did a very good job of it and their Olympic coverage was also good and pretty much wall to wall so I don't think it's fair to say its down their priorities, it's just their business model means they don't have a prayer of securing the rights any more, unless there is legislation to say it must be on terrestrial TV. In that scenario they're better off walking away from it and focussing their efforts on the stuff they can still compete with - they are, imho, still able to produce most of the best drama and documentaries made in the UK as well as a lot of the better comedy, and I'd still trust their news coverage over just about anyone else's, not to mention their generally excellent radio stations. They also give chances to a lot of new talent that wouldn't get the platform on some of the commercial stations. Personally i think that far more fulfils their public service remit than chasing over priced sport.
Tough on people whop don't want to pay for Sky, but the price of Ferraris is tough on most people who would like to own one.