BS: Listening to cricket on uk radio

Subject: BS: Listening to cricket on uk radio
From: GUEST,Helen
Date: 27 Dec 04 - 12:44 PM

Hi everyone

Hi folks,

My partner listens to cricket on the radio.
The one he usually uses has a horrible tinny sound, so I hope to buy him a radio with better reception & sound quality.

Am I right in thinking that cricket is mostly on long-wave ?


I'd risk a DAB radio if it could pick up long-wave as well, as DAB reception is an unknown quantity around here.

I've heard Sky has aquired the rights to show test matches, are any changes to radio coverage in the pipeline ?

Much thanks

Helen

Subject: RE: BS: Listening to cricket on uk radio
From: Leadfingers
Date: 27 Dec 04 - 01:37 PM

Helen , I believe there is a BBC Sport Channel on Digital . To check
if you CAN receive it in your patch (assuming you ARE in UK) log in to
http.www.bbc.co.uk/digitalradio and enter your post code .

Subject: RE: BS: Listening to cricket on uk radio
From: catspaw49
Date: 27 Dec 04 - 01:46 PM

Obviously the man needs treatment at the new wing of the Neil Young Center for the Terminally Screwed......the recently reopened James Taylor Catatonic Blandness Rehab Clinic. It can be argued that anyone watching Cricket even live has a serious problem and someone who actually would listen to this game on the radio may well be completely over the edge!

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Listening to cricket on uk radio
From: GUEST,Helen
Date: 27 Dec 04 - 03:09 PM

Subject: RE: BS: Listening to cricket on uk radio
From: GUEST,Helen
Date: 27 Dec 04 - 03:09 PM

Subject: RE: BS: Listening to cricket on uk radio
From: GUEST,Helen
Date: 27 Dec 04 - 03:16 PM

Oops X 2 - sorry

Thanks Leadfingers, the site indicates the channel probably can be received, I'll have a look at the station via PC to see what the coverage is like.

Hi Spaw, having listened to a few commentaries just to see what I have been successfully avoiding all these years, I suspect listening to cricket could push somebody over the edge.

Thanks guys

Helen

Subject: RE: BS: Listening to cricket on uk radio
From: GUEST,Peter from Essex
Date: 27 Dec 04 - 05:43 PM

Careful Helen, you'll be sending cakes to Aggers and Blowers before you know it.

Subject: RE: BS: Listening to cricket on uk radio
From: Pete Jennings
Date: 28 Dec 04 - 09:47 AM

Catatonic Blandness Rehab Clinic, indeed, Spaw. That's pretty rich coming from a land where grown men play rounders in a "world series" that only involves two countries. You ought to be thoroughly ashamed of yourself, my good man.

Pete the Englishman.

Subject: RE: BS: Listening to cricket on uk radio
From: Ooh-Aah2
Date: 28 Dec 04 - 04:28 PM

Anyone who thinks cricket is boring should have been keeping track of the latest test in SA (that's South Africa for any Americans reading). What a total cracker! A what a wierd pitch! What a titanic up and down struggle! I love short games like rugby and Australian rules football, but no game even comes close for real deep-reaching satisfaction to the extended, immersive, absorbing, mood-changing, saga of a really good 5-day test match.

Subject: RE: BS: Listening to cricket on uk radio
From: Bill D
Date: 28 Dec 04 - 07:28 PM

well, there IS a hot ...ummm..cold Curling match! Now that would make interesting radio!

"It's sliding...it's still sliding...now they're sweeping.....stopped sweeping....the stone reaches the target...it BUMPS!....one stone moved 3" left, one 8" right, and the missle comes to rest in the 3rd ring!"

Subject: RE: BS: Listening to cricket on uk radio
From: Ooh-Aah2
Date: 29 Dec 04 - 03:45 PM

England declare at 570 for 7 after being 139 all out on the first innings! WHAT a great game this is becoming!

Subject: RE: BS: Listening to cricket on uk radio
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Dec 04 - 06:24 PM

Test Match Special is indeed on long wave, and will continue for some years even after Sky pinch the TV coverage.
I think any nation that considers basketball a sport just doesn't have the necessary attention span for cricket.

Subject: RE: BS: Listening to cricket on uk radio
From: Hrothgar
Date: 30 Dec 04 - 03:27 AM

He probably won't want to listen when the Ashes series starts.

:-)