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Offline Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle

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Re: Radio WM
« Reply #765 on: September 01, 2014, 12:11:09 PM »
I do have a bit of sympathy with less on that one. He's from the seventies school of wacky, zany presenters and Hardeep has the image of being a bit of an eejit so Les was bound to do it light-heartedly. He should have had the ability by now to turn it round once he saw which way it was going but it wasn't really his fault when Hardeep decided he wanted to be taken seriously.

That Hardeep bloke is a prat. Fair play to Ross for not giving two hoots about him.

Sanjeev is the funny one in that family.

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Re: Radio WM
« Reply #766 on: September 01, 2014, 12:32:04 PM »
Les Ross was never one for interviews anyway. Talking to Millie on Ring and Sing was more his thing (older members of our community will understand this).

I was out and about for the first part of yesterdays game, Rob Gurney was on WM, sounding like a Coventry fan would at Villa Park.

Free 80's was bizarre, they obviously don't have the rights for full coverage so did updates in between Bon Jovi, Mr Mister and Owen Paul. It sounded very odd.


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Re: Radio WM
« Reply #767 on: September 01, 2014, 12:35:45 PM »
Les Ross was never one for interviews anyway. Talking to Millie on Ring and Sing was more his thing (older members of our community will understand this).

I was out and about for the first part of yesterdays game, Rob Gurney was on WM, sounding like a Coventry fan would at Villa Park.

Free 80's was bizarre, they obviously don't have the rights for full coverage so did updates in between Bon Jovi, Mr Mister and Owen Paul. It sounded very odd.



In fairness to Free Radio, unlike the BBC they don't have the taxpayers money to buy the rights to commentaries which i presume are extremely expensive.

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Re: Radio WM
« Reply #768 on: September 01, 2014, 12:37:14 PM »
Les Ross was never one for interviews anyway. Talking to Millie on Ring and Sing was more his thing (older members of our community will understand this).

I was out and about for the first part of yesterdays game, Rob Gurney was on WM, sounding like a Coventry fan would at Villa Park.

Free 80's was bizarre, they obviously don't have the rights for full coverage so did updates in between Bon Jovi, Mr Mister and Owen Paul. It sounded very odd.



In fairness to Free Radio, unlike the BBC they don't have the taxpayers money to buy the rights to commentaries which i presume are extremely expensive.

They've got a lot more money than BBC local radio have.

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Re: Radio WM
« Reply #769 on: September 01, 2014, 12:40:17 PM »
Les Ross was never one for interviews anyway. Talking to Millie on Ring and Sing was more his thing (older members of our community will understand this).

I was out and about for the first part of yesterdays game, Rob Gurney was on WM, sounding like a Coventry fan would at Villa Park.

Free 80's was bizarre, they obviously don't have the rights for full coverage so did updates in between Bon Jovi, Mr Mister and Owen Paul. It sounded very odd.



In fairness to Free Radio, unlike the BBC they don't have the taxpayers money to buy the rights to commentaries which i presume are extremely expensive.

They've got a lot more money than BBC local radio have.

Really? Mind you, there's advertising on there I suppose. Tom is getting a lot of stick off other supporters for his lack of commentaries. I think you can guess which ones.

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Re: Radio WM
« Reply #770 on: September 01, 2014, 10:17:54 PM »
No chance, a commercial station is run on a shoestring compared to a bbc station. Just look at their sports team and coverage of cricket, speedway let alone the football. TR for all his faults does a pretty good job, he is free's sport dept.

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Re: Radio WM
« Reply #771 on: September 01, 2014, 11:27:47 PM »
BBC local radio closes down at 7pm unless there's a football match on. They're skint.

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Re: Radio WM
« Reply #772 on: September 01, 2014, 11:31:38 PM »
No chance, a commercial station is run on a shoestring compared to a bbc station. Just look at their sports team and coverage of cricket, speedway let alone the football. TR for all his faults does a pretty good job, he is free's sport dept.

Look at the staff elsewhere. Commercial radio is based around Monday-Friday; weekends are the BBC's big time.

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Re: Radio WM
« Reply #773 on: September 01, 2014, 11:35:17 PM »
No chance, a commercial station is run on a shoestring compared to a bbc station. Just look at their sports team and coverage of cricket, speedway let alone the football. TR for all his faults does a pretty good job, he is free's sport dept.

I think it's the other way around to be honest. BBC WM is a shoestring operation. Just look at some of the utter fucking idiots they have to employ for starters. Who'd pay proper money for the likes of them?

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Re: Radio WM
« Reply #774 on: September 01, 2014, 11:38:47 PM »
No chance, a commercial station is run on a shoestring compared to a bbc station. Just look at their sports team and coverage of cricket, speedway let alone the football. TR for all his faults does a pretty good job, he is free's sport dept.

I think it's the other way around to be honest. BBC WM is a shoestring operation. Just look at some of the utter fucking idiots they have to employ for starters. Who'd pay proper money for the likes of them?

They have some bellend scouser on from 1pm talking shit all afternoon, usually about cars (he's an ex car salesman). It's so second rate it's untrue.

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Re: Radio WM
« Reply #775 on: September 01, 2014, 11:46:12 PM »
No chance, a commercial station is run on a shoestring compared to a bbc station. Just look at their sports team and coverage of cricket, speedway let alone the football. TR for all his faults does a pretty good job, he is free's sport dept.

I think it's the other way around to be honest. BBC WM is a shoestring operation. Just look at some of the utter fucking idiots they have to employ for starters. Who'd pay proper money for the likes of them?

They have some bellend scouser on from 1pm talking shit all afternoon, usually about cars (he's an ex car salesman). It's so second rate it's untrue.

Haven't listened to WM for an extended period for a while, but is "roving reporter" Richie Anderson still employed on matchdays? 

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Re: Radio WM
« Reply #776 on: September 01, 2014, 11:47:14 PM »
No chance, a commercial station is run on a shoestring compared to a bbc station. Just look at their sports team and coverage of cricket, speedway let alone the football. TR for all his faults does a pretty good job, he is free's sport dept.

I think it's the other way around to be honest. BBC WM is a shoestring operation. Just look at some of the utter fucking idiots they have to employ for starters. Who'd pay proper money for the likes of them?

They have some bellend scouser on from 1pm talking shit all afternoon, usually about cars (he's an ex car salesman). It's so second rate it's untrue.

Haven't listened to WM for an extended period for a while, but is "roving reporter" Richie Anderson still employed on matchdays? 

Is he the yam yam who sounds like a YTS trainee?

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Re: Radio WM
« Reply #777 on: September 01, 2014, 11:51:34 PM »
No chance, a commercial station is run on a shoestring compared to a bbc station. Just look at their sports team and coverage of cricket, speedway let alone the football. TR for all his faults does a pretty good job, he is free's sport dept.

I think it's the other way around to be honest. BBC WM is a shoestring operation. Just look at some of the utter fucking idiots they have to employ for starters. Who'd pay proper money for the likes of them?

They have some bellend scouser on from 1pm talking shit all afternoon, usually about cars (he's an ex car salesman). It's so second rate it's untrue.

Haven't listened to WM for an extended period for a while, but is "roving reporter" Richie Anderson still employed on matchdays? 

Is he the yam yam who sounds like a YTS trainee?

Yeah that's him.  He used to be outside the grounds on match days interviewing fans and answering the questions he was asking for them.  "Where's the problem with the team lads?  It's the midfield isn't it?".   

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Re: Radio WM
« Reply #778 on: September 02, 2014, 12:21:15 AM »
The last few posts have really made me laugh.

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Re: Radio WM
« Reply #779 on: September 02, 2014, 06:39:02 PM »
Les Ross was never one for interviews anyway. Talking to Millie on Ring and Sing was more his thing (older members of our community will understand this).

I was out and about for the first part of yesterdays game, Rob Gurney was on WM, sounding like a Coventry fan would at Villa Park.

Free 80's was bizarre, they obviously don't have the rights for full coverage so did updates in between Bon Jovi, Mr Mister and Owen Paul. It sounded very odd.



In fairness to Free Radio, unlike the BBC they don't have the taxpayers money to buy the rights to commentaries which i presume are extremely expensive.

When I first started seeing my now wife she had only ever been to one music gig. And that was Owen Paul. Now that is odd.

 


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