Interesting, this new City web-site may be further ahead than I thought with their embedded Tiger TV for the audio commentary. I phoned City's commercial department this morning (Canadian time) and was told they were all out of the office ( at the Open Day presumably), so I then called Viking. Talked to a senior staff member there, who was actually quite helpful and was as candid as he possibly could be. He thinks (although could not guarantee) that the audio could possibly be available on the new City web-site for the Villa game, if not then it's not far off from being launched. No info on how much the service will cost ( obviously he wouldn't know given that their role is the front-end of just providing the audio and video content). It's probably going to come out as a beta-test initially - presumably free until it's bedded down, and they've incorporated a section on billing methods available etc. Here's hoping anyway. I should probably post this snippet on the Tiger TV thread.
Tbf I've been to matches and then wondered if it was the same game on MOTD. Previously only those games being televised. As now most clubs are going to be streaming their games for overseas fans I'd expect there to be more available. Doesn't matter if we're not part of it, if our opponents are I'd be surprised if their stream wasn't getting copied through the same way TV feeds are now. Is Viking even available across the whole of the UK on DAB? The radios in our vans can't pick it up, and I've been through them in a few different places outside of your local area looking for stations when our usual ones aren't available.
I think you, and others, have whoosed yourselves. First point, comentary style: as I said, I don't listen. I do frequently lurk on the matchday thread and see the numerous complaints about Burnsey and Swan. Those comments are across the board and often called for change. That is why I mentioned it as serving as a potential positive for some. Your second point, DAB: I didn't mention current take up, I wrote about opportunity. When I consider the lengths to which supporters go for any form of stream or link then I could easily see some form of useage uplift - maybe not huge, but uplift nonetheless. Keep in mind the word opportunity, as it is what I wrote. Do you not believe that to get the commentary, supporters might just switch to DAB fot that? As a commercial switch mechanism they don't get much better once most fortnights. I only categorised Viking as an independent (small i) station, as in seperate from the BBC and dependent on commercials rather than licence monies. Finally, your community point: I was specific of what the community media lapdog would be involved in - commentaries and interviews to do with Hull City AFC and to that end I believe they tick the community box. I couldn't care less about any broader element as it isn't relevant. I think he has played many and that is why even flimsy arguments, such as this are given too much credence based on some fairly stunning assumptions. It may not end well, it wouldn't surprise me, but what does with the Allams and why that should mean no change should be made is totally beyond me.
No **** Sherlock, thanks for your Smart Arse answer. My question was were they ( the Viking commentaries) ran at the same time as the RH commentaries, or instead of them. Did supporters have choice. But nevermind.
did radio humberside pay the club for the commentray all these years? and how much do we reckon viking have paid for this season
£9.99, 3 arse kissing sessions for Ehab with each of the Sports team, and a performance related bonus fee of 15 Hull Tigers mentions for every goal we score.
When did rh do this? They're doing match commentary, are they doing anything else? It's just match commentary as far as I'm aware. Burns, in my opinion, was ****ing awful at it.
They won't know it, they'll just be playing on the Russia bit, but that Bond film they've played on the title of is the one that by the time it came to promoting the film they'd sent back all the prop guns they'd used during filming, so Sean Connery is left holding the air pistol version in all the merchandising pictures. Bit like Slutsky being left with loan replacements for all the players we've got rid of. (Flimsiest segue into giving that Bond fact I've ever made)
So people who want to listen to football commentary will stay with gardening or crotchet work instead of tuning in Viking? Well I never.
