Stan I'm sorry I listen via tiger player not IPlayer as I posted. Just watching the first half from Saturday.
as anyone in radio knows the two components of communicating a message effectively are reach and frequency. If the reach is low then the message can be boosted by frequency (ie the number of repetitions)
me too! but OLM has a point there was a match this season I missed due to "technical issues" & one when i needed to update flash player..
Nothing is perfect, but a couple of seasons ago the match link failed. I emailed tigerplayer and they stated that they had made a mistake, by the time I logged back on it was up. There is also a delay button for if you miss part of the match. It is really crap. once on I dont know how to turn it off. Highlight this week has to be Roseniors interview. What a good bloke! Well spoken and modest, very refreshing. I loved the bit about his Nan.
They say it's on the radio but they put us on AM, unfortunately my digital radio picks up exactly that- digital radio and FM. They should have us on DAB and the other teams with a couple of hundred fans on AM. I'd like to complain about this really, most people with new radios dont have AM.
That's the issue I suppose, most people don't have new radios. Ideally we need the tigers on FM, but that's what the south bankers will also say.
maybe the south bank teams should be put on Radio lincolnshire and all the professional teams in east yorkshire put on an east yorks station should it exist - there is a wide and obvious boundary called the Humber , i dont see why radio has to straddle this in a pointless way , especially as Hull has more in common with Liverpool than Scunthorpe
Actually DMD, BBC WS is now taken from the licence fee. This was done as part of the freeze on the licence fee etc This is Jeremy 'I love Murdoch' Hunt's legacy as the DCMS secretary of state. The freeze works out in real terms to be a 20% cut across the BBC over 3 years.
I had a conversation with Burnsy about this, he basically just said it was above his pay grade, but that Radio Humberside was Radio Humberside before there was actually a region called Humberside and North Lincolnshire gets signal from a transmitter in areas not covered by Radio Lincolnshire. He also said that it was a bit of a thankless task having to report on three different teams, all of which were unhappy with the coverage that they got. I can see his point, but you'd think that East Yorkshire was big enough to warrant it's own station and expanding coverage in Lincolnshire would not be that big a deal.
Our county is a bit of a basket case really , i guess The southbank was added to the Radio catchment to make the Big City Geographically central . i imagine the people of Brid feel for more in tune with those in Scarborough than those a similar distance away in Beverley/Hull , same with the Pocklington folk looking towards York more than Hull and the Goole with Doncaster . . As i say , thats my take on it.
You may well be right, it's not something I've kept a close eye on but I didn't think that kicked in until 2014? I thought it was still the Foreign and Commonwealth Office?
Technically that's true, but the savings/cuts (£255m) have to be made per annum between 2011-14 in order to take on the new 'debt' when it arrives, if that makes sense! I think from memory the FO used to pay out around 12-15% of its income to fund it. This is relevant to the main point because BBC LR - the poorest funded part of the corporation is having to take a 20% cut across the board to help pay for it. When I was involved with making programmes for WS years ago there wasn't much 'fat on the bone' even with the FO paying for it. One of my graduates now working there as a studio manager says they are selling stuff off left, right and centre. Bizarrely they now charge other BBC depts for using their facilities. Completely bonkers...
Is that budget just for the World Service, or does that include BBC World too, or is that just subscription?
No just the World Service. The actual budget for the WS is £300m per annum the BBC used to make up the difference (roughly 45-50M) from the FO money. BBC World is an odd one as it is funded differently as you suggested but editorially is a sub section of BBC News 24.
the biggest crime is that we still fund ridiculous rolling unfettered 24 hours news. 24 hour 'news' is the main reason there is so much crap journalism around. far too much space to fill nowadays
Remarkably, I couldn't agree with you more Mussie. I noted how quickly the Savile thing became all about the journos talking to and about each other rather than the victims. Pathetic... Incidentally, on the Today prog (R4) this morning on the 8.27 sports news section they were talking about Mancini chucking his toys out of the pram, and on the back of it Joe Royle was talking about how it used to be with the journos travelling with the team etc. It wasn't a misty eyed 'good old days' stuff, it was just about how the trust developed between players and journos. Royle noted that since editors had become desperate for news to fill 24 hour coverage etc they have consequently ratcheted up the requirement for stories - and (hinted) usually the more salacious ones. Given their angle on Mancini, a great dollop of irony floated over the sports presenter's head!!
