Joined: Jan 30 2004 Posts: 2100 Location: Walking in a Woodsy Wonderland
Post match yesterday I was sickened by Gollum Lloyd wittering on about rovers and playing pre-recorded interviews with them in an effort to get as much about them on air as he can. They are now a second tier team so don't deserve the priority coverage - it's like giving City less coverage than Grimsby !!
Well, this season I have had enough; after all it is US who pay for this station.
There are a few easy questions, but I sent the complaint below. Hopefully a few others might do something similar and let Gollum know we won't stand for his tripe any more ? The Radio Humberside sports team are led by a presenter called Gwilym Lloyd who is a supporter of the lesser of the two rugby teams in the city. This team gets more than 50% of the match day coverage, not through splitting match-day commentary but by more subtle means, such as longer post-match discussions and interviews and presentation of a number of pre-recorded articles about this lesser club.
Using soccer as an example, it is as if Leyton Orient got more coverage in London than Arsenal !
There are a number of soccer teams in the area, but the priority is (quite rightly) given to Hull City as the premier team. However because of the bias of Gwilym Lloyd when putting together the rugby coverage, hull kingston rovers (the lesser team) get more coverage than Hull FC (the senior and higher team, with twice as many fans).
The proof is there - all you have to do is listen to the show broadcast on Sunday afternoon and count the minutes devoted to each team. I calculated it at 61% coverage of the lesser team.
As a public service, funded by the licence payer, I would expect local radio to be accountable and represent the size and status of each club rather than just talking about Gwilym Lloyd's favourites.
Could you please investigate this issue for me ?
Thanks
Post match yesterday I was sickened by Gollum Lloyd wittering on about rovers and playing pre-recorded interviews with them in an effort to get as much about them on air as he can. They are now a second tier team so don't deserve the priority coverage - it's like giving City less coverage than Grimsby !!
Well, this season I have had enough; after all it is US who pay for this station.
There are a few easy questions, but I sent the complaint below. Hopefully a few others might do something similar and let Gollum know we won't stand for his tripe any more ? The Radio Humberside sports team are led by a presenter called Gwilym Lloyd who is a supporter of the lesser of the two rugby teams in the city. This team gets more than 50% of the match day coverage, not through splitting match-day commentary but by more subtle means, such as longer post-match discussions and interviews and presentation of a number of pre-recorded articles about this lesser club.
Using soccer as an example, it is as if Leyton Orient got more coverage in London than Arsenal !
There are a number of soccer teams in the area, but the priority is (quite rightly) given to Hull City as the premier team. However because of the bias of Gwilym Lloyd when putting together the rugby coverage, hull kingston rovers (the lesser team) get more coverage than Hull FC (the senior and higher team, with twice as many fans).
The proof is there - all you have to do is listen to the show broadcast on Sunday afternoon and count the minutes devoted to each team. I calculated it at 61% coverage of the lesser team.
As a public service, funded by the licence payer, I would expect local radio to be accountable and represent the size and status of each club rather than just talking about Gwilym Lloyd's favourites.
Who is the new commentator? Ex rovers player, surely they could get an ex Hull FC player to commentate on the FC matches (there's plenty about) and vice-versa.
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moxi1 wrote:They do interviews with past players of both teams most weeks for the last half hour of the show. Get that chip of your shoulder.
I thought the interview with Newton was great, and really interesting to hear his views with regards to licensing, some of which I agreed with. Didn't hear much of the other coverage other than the post match interviews so can't comment on the balance in the build up etc.
Soul Boy wrote:Who is the new commentator? Ex rovers player, surely they could get an ex Hull FC player to commentate on the FC matches (there's plenty about) and vice-versa.
That's what I was thinking. The summariser is Chris Charles. Anybody is better than Nick "you know" Pinkney.
Joined: Jan 30 2004 Posts: 2100 Location: Walking in a Woodsy Wonderland
moxi1 wrote:They do interviews with past players of both teams most weeks for the last half hour of the show. Get that chip of your shoulder.
Like I say, I listened to it. Far more for rovers.
You should construct an argument rather than saying nonsense about chips on shoulders. If you were a City fan would you be happy if they had equal coverage with North Ferriby ? Radio Leeds doesn't give equal coverage between Hunslet and Rhinos.
TrevLovesJanice wrote:Like I say, I listened to it. Far more for rovers.
You should construct an argument rather than saying nonsense about chips on shoulders. If you were a City fan would you be happy if they had equal coverage with North Ferriby ? Radio Leeds doesn't give equal coverage between Hunslet and Rhinos.
Even faithful one up top there has said it was an interesting interview in which Newton talked a lot about the game as a whole. If you want to be pedantic, FC were on FM frequency, whilst Rovers were on 1485AM, should I send an email to the Beeb over that? No, because it would be a nonsense argument, leave it be mate, far worse things going on in the world.
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