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Him wrote:To suggest that less media coverage of the sport is not an issue is plainly ridiculous. Most people will only hear or see rugby league through the BBC, and most of that will be through local radio coverage. I'm not talking of die-hard fans but of regular people who don't follow a club but have at least a passing interest in rugby league and so watch the cup games on BBC. They retain that passing interest through local radio with reports, updates and live match coverage. If that is lost their passing interest will wane and so does the likelihood of them doing anything else with the sport.
When the regional editions of newspapers were scrapped I bet people said it would be no great loss to rugby league, yet it has been a disaster for RL. And no amount of League Express or League Weekly made up for that blow. This is something which RL should fight tooth and nail against.
Just pointing something out , the world is changing , non advertising media will diminish , that is just the way it is , the future of RL coverage will be Internet based , as has been put on here already , next season a Championship club will be running it's own Radio commentary for all its home games , and as many away fixtures as can be arranged , they will also be approaching other Championship clubs and encouraging and offering assistance for them to do the same if they so wish
Will I be complaining about the loss of BBC coverage ? , yes I suppose I will , but will it make any difference ? , probably not
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Father Ted wrote: Our friend Ray French address the All Party RL Parliamentary Committee and informed them in no uncertain terms what the BBC proposals would mean to local radio sport and Rugby League.
Did he quote their respective weights and which minor public school they'd attended?
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Coverage of sports without a commercial value is exactly what the BBC should be doing. Not chucking millions at something ITV or another channel could show for free.
That said, if anyone from Radio Leeds is reading this, I've stopped listening to your coverage and gone to Yorkshire Radio. I want commentary, not inane Facebook messages and tweets massaging the ego of the presenter. Even John Boyd was better!
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AdmiralHanson wrote:It was interesting to note on the day that the campaign was lauched by the RFL, in an attempt to protect local radio coverage of Rugby League, that our local BBC news magazine programme (Look North) could afford to fly a reporter and cameraman (and I assume perhaps other crew ?) across the Atlantic to interview (in person) Sir Alan Ayckbourn.
This is the same Sir Alan Ayckbourn who spends most of his time not more than 90 mins drive away from the BBC studios in Leeds, at his theatre in Scarborough.
- Why not record the interview BEFORE he jetted off to New York
- Why not do the interview by satellite / video link from the States
Was this a legitimate use of licence payers funding or yet another shameless waste of money by the BBC ? Maybe a Christmas shopping trip passing itself off as a news item, perhaps ?
I trust that if they have money to burn on such live junkets, which at this time of year must have run in to thousands (if not tens of thousands), all of which could have been better served by being spent on the game we love.
Andy Wilson on the ramifications for our game. 'The reports I've read suggest that BBC Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland won't have to make such savage cuts. So the people of Wales will presumably continue to enjoy excellent coverage of Glamorgan's cricket team and rugby union, whereas us northerners may lose coverage of Yorkshire, Lancashire and rugby league.'
AdmiralHanson wrote:It was interesting to note on the day that the campaign was lauched by the RFL, in an attempt to protect local radio coverage of Rugby League, that our local BBC news magazine programme (Look North) could afford to fly a reporter and cameraman (and I assume perhaps other crew ?) across the Atlantic to interview (in person) Sir Alan Ayckbourn.
This is the same Sir Alan Ayckbourn who spends most of his time not more than 90 mins drive away from the BBC studios in Leeds, at his theatre in Scarborough.
- Why not record the interview BEFORE he jetted off to New York
- Why not do the interview by satellite / video link from the States
Was this a legitimate use of licence payers funding or yet another shameless waste of money by the BBC ? Maybe a Christmas shopping trip passing itself off as a news item, perhaps ?
I trust that if they have money to burn on such live junkets, which at this time of year must have run in to thousands (if not tens of thousands), all of which could have been better served by being spent on the game we love.
Andy Wilson on the ramifications for our game. 'The reports I've read suggest that BBC Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland won't have to make such savage cuts. So the people of Wales will presumably continue to enjoy excellent coverage of Glamorgan's cricket team and rugby union, whereas us northerners may lose coverage of Yorkshire, Lancashire and rugby league.'
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Chris Dalton wrote:One answer could be internet radio. One site, rfl affiliated and well advertised, every club broadcasting their games.
I actually really like that idea Chris, but I can already guess what would happen - the BBC currently hold radio coverage rights for RL, and would insist upon maintaining their exclusivity, despite the fact that the local producers and schedulers have little to no interest in it.
Still ... we can but dream ...
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Paul Thexton wrote:
Chris Dalton wrote:One answer could be internet radio. One site, rfl affiliated and well advertised, every club broadcasting their games.
I actually really like that idea Chris, but I can already guess what would happen - the BBC currently hold radio coverage rights for RL, and would insist upon maintaining their exclusivity, despite the fact that the local producers and schedulers have little to no interest in it.
Still ... we can but dream ...
But are those rights only for live coverage and commentary? If so, a rugby league magazine programme would be feasible, wouldn't it?
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