too much feckin sports on the radio

astarte

I wonder if I am in a minority, but I listen to the radio for about an hour and a half in the mornings, on my way to work, currently flick between 2fm, today, I102-104, midlands and tipp fm, and I mean constantly flicking, seriously do we need this many sports bulletins? every half an hour (or more) in the mornings, its not like anything much will have happened from Monday night to tuesday morning..(or most other days for that matter)

is it just me??

that plus three current affairs programes running simultaneously in the late afternoon..more politics...and more fecking sport.

Trick of the Tail

You might be in a minority, but I bet its a large one.

And... Saturday afternoons there's no escape!

...unless you listen to a station with no news or sport - OR COMMERCIALS! Like Zenith Classic Rock!

(In the SE at weekends on 103.8FM and 1584 AM, and globally at www.zenithclassicrock.com).

A.

Poochie05

+1 for how sport takes over the airwaves on Saturday afternoon. It's a pain when you're driving somewhere and there's nothing to listen to on the journey.

Trick of the Tail

Friday eves after 6 is nearly as bad.

I'm a bloke, I have no interest in sport. I don't believe I'm the only similarly endowed man in the country.

So why does every station try to grab the sportist audience at the same time?

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decies

alinton wrote: »

Friday eves after 6 is nearly as bad.

I'm a bloke, I have no interest in sport. I don't believe I'm the only similarly endowed man in the country.

So why does every station try to grab the sportist audience at the same time?

A.

Real men love sport

LETS BE AVN IT

I think there should be more sports ! Maybe even a channel just for sports, if run well alot of people would listen!

ntlbell

I agree, I don't think there's enough sports.

OP Try radio one in the mornings.

I don't recall much sport on Q102 in the mornings but I wouldn't be a regular listener

Trick of the Tail

Oh yea, sure there's not enough sport on radio.

I agree there should be a dedicated sport channel for all saddos who practice tribalism and get turned on by other people's achievements, and really admire soccer players who get paid a million a week then cheat on their model wives.

Then sane people who are more interested in their own lives than other's can at least have the choice of not being forced to listen to sportist banalities all weekend.

*breathes out*.

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Reginald P. DuM

alinton wrote: »

Oh yea, sure there's not enough sport on radio.

I agree there should be a dedicated sport channel for all saddos who practice tribalism and get turned on by other people's achievements, and really admire soccer players who get paid a million a week then cheat on their model wives.

Then sane people who are more interested in their own lives than other's can at least have the choice of not being forced to listen to sportist banalities all weekend.

*breathes out*.

A.

OK you don't get sport, fine. Your not alone and it's entirely your own business. Find something else to to with your time when it's on, switch channel, expand your record collection. Coming onto here to moan about it is utterly pointless. Also labelling other people who hold a different viewpoint as saddo's is pretty ignorant I might add.

Fuzzy Clam

Reginald P. DuM wrote: »

OK you don't get sport, fine. Your not alone and it's entirely your own business. Find something else to to with your time when it's on, switch channel, expand your record collection. Coming onto here to moan about it is utterly pointless. Also labelling other people who hold a different viewpoint as saddo's is pretty ignorant I might add.

I guess the thread title went a bit over you head then? :rolleyes:

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I used to hate Q102 more than I do now, because on a Saturday afternoon they'd have absolutely no sports reports on their news bulletins.

I'd be in the car with my gf going somewhere and I'd be wanting the updates on the sport, but they used to only do News & Weather, did my head in tbh, and I'm glad they've changed it now.

I agree that in the mornings it can seem like overkill and be very repetitive, but what about people who only have a half hour travel time? They need to cater to as wide an audience as they can, otherwise people will turn off.

I probably shouldn't be posting in here, as I spend my days podcasting from Skysports, Radio Five, The Guardian Football show and Newstalk Off The Ball pieces.

Fuzzy Clam

Saturdays on the radio is ruined with the amount of sport on 2FM and Today. Stick it on Radio 1 or somewhere else. Isn't 2FM meant to be a music station anyway?

kmart6

Not enough sports in my opinion! I hate 30 second segments at the end of a news bulletin that just leave you guessing the reat of a certain situation!!

Fuzzy Clam

LETS BE AVN IT wrote: »

I think there should be more sports ! Maybe even a channel just for sports, if run well alot of people would listen!

Good idea but I guess the rights may be expensive.

ntlbell

alinton wrote: »

Oh yea, sure there's not enough sport on radio.

I agree there should be a dedicated sport channel for all saddos who practice tribalism and get turned on by other people's achievements, and really admire soccer players who get paid a million a week then cheat on their model wives.

Then sane people who are more interested in their own lives than other's can at least have the choice of not being forced to listen to sportist banalities all weekend.

*breathes out*.

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Lemon.fm

sharper

News Bulletins are generally extremely poor. Several stations appear to use exactly the same script/wire service so they read out exactly the same copy with the same quotes and play the same audio clips. There's really no station that will give a thorough analysis of the news, they simply declare whatever happened and then move on to covering the topic of the day which could be anything.

The repetitive sports segments really don't help. I find it difficult to believe anyone interested in sports is going to get their news from a short radio segment in the morning since there's likely no sports "news" since the previous day or maybe even in the past several days.

Of course TV news suffers from similar problems. On Sky News you get 20 minutes out of every hour devoted to sports and more if a sports news story bleeds over into regular news.

mike65

We need 5live for Ireland but on the proviso that no-one from Newstalks weekend sport shows gets near the gig!

ntlbell

mike65 wrote: »

We need 5live for Ireland but on the proviso that no-one from Newstalks weekend sport shows gets near the gig!

We don't have the talent for it.

I'll stick with 5live/talksport

LETS BE AVN IT

mike65 wrote: »

We need 5live for Ireland but on the proviso that no-one from Newstalks weekend sport shows gets near the gig!

I agree , the radio phone in show on live after 5 on today fm is very good if we could have something more like that throughout the day it would be great ,Imagine all the rugby , hurling , gaelic football and soccer fanatics that would love 2 talk about their passion and listen about it , the UK clearly have a big population but it would be amazing to have our own sports channel.

tunguska

Whats this about there being too much sport on the radio???? Not a chance. Sport is a microcosim for life. Has the OP ever played a sport in his/her life? I'd like to know because otherwise theyre talking about things they know nothing of. Sport teaches you so much and in my opinion the more sport there is on the old wireless the better. How can people moan about a couple of minutes at the top of every hour? Stop bitching, get your ass in gear and engage in some sport.

tipperaryboy

tunguska wrote: »

Whats this about there being too much sport on the radio???? Not a chance. Sport is a microcosim for life. Has the OP ever played a sport in his/her life? I'd like to know because otherwise theyre talking about things they know nothing of. Sport teaches you so much and in my opinion the more sport there is on the old wireless the better. How can people moan about a couple of minutes at the top of every hour? Stop bitching, get your ass in gear and engage in some sport.

Ok but i have to say to you previous poster that not everyone is as fanatic as sport as you are.There is extensive sports coverage on every station that is surely catering for every sports fan but it is not needed on every single station especially at the weekends when every station seems to have an afternoon music show with sports updates every half hour

tunguska

tipperaryboy wrote: »

Ok but i have to say to you previous poster that not everyone is as fanatic as sport as you are.There is extensive sports coverage on every station that is surely catering for every sports fan but it is not needed on every single station especially at the weekends when every station seems to have an afternoon music show with sports updates every half hour

Yeah my previous post did come across as a bit fanatical alright, have to admit that. But the problem I have, is with people moaning about sport when they never bothered to fully engage with sport in the first place, never gave it a proper chance. My own sister is a classic example. She always stated that she hated sport even though she never tried to play any sports. She'd see it on tv and say that she didnt like it. But years later (and a few babies later, when she'd gained a few pounds)she reluctantly tried a bit of cycling. Fully expecting to hate the sport she actually found that she loved it! And now not only does she cycle she has turned into a complete tri-athlon fanatic. Running a marathon this year aswell and now watches athletics on tv whenever its on.
I just think theres an us and them attitude that goes on over the sport issue. I think a lot of lads who say thay dont like sport maybe where given a hard time in school by those who did play sports, maybe there was a bit of bullying that went on. So I think the issue is not with sport but with the past and what went on around sport. And people fall into roles aswell, defining themselves as "arty" or "Indy" and non-sporty. As if the two were mutually exclusive. Just because you like art and music or fashion or the theatre it doesnt mean you're not naturally sporty. And just because you like sports it doesnt mean you cant like art. Theres too much role playing going on.
I think people should give sport a go and see what happens. Put your preconceptions and baggage from the past aside and try it out.

Cole

tunguska wrote: »

Whats this about there being too much sport on the radio???? Not a chance. Sport is a microcosim for life. Has the OP ever played a sport in his/her life? I'd like to know because otherwise theyre talking about things they know nothing of...Stop bitching, get your ass in gear and engage in some sport.

tunguska wrote: »

But the problem I have, is with people moaning about sport when they never bothered to fully engage with sport in the first place, never gave it a proper chance.

I think the op is more about the amount of sports coverage on the airwaves and I have to agree with this point.

I have played sport all my life and still train everyday...gym, cycle, run etc. I generally prefer to participate rather than spectate and I have found that the most ardent sports fans are often the least sporty/physically active individuals...armchair athletes. (that's not directed at you tunguska)
I find the weekend saturation and the mind numbing Off the Ball on Newstalk, is just too much. Am I the only one who notices how obviously physically inactive/unsporty an awful lot of our sports broadcasters are? It seems they prefer to micro analyse sporting facts rather than actually participate in any kind of sport.

I think a lot of supposed sports fanatics should "get their asses in gear and engage in some sport."

ntlbell

Cole wrote: »

I think the op is more about the amount of sports coverage on the airwaves and I have to agree with this point.

I have played sport all my life and still train everyday...gym, cycle, run etc. I generally prefer to participate rather than spectate and I have found that the most ardent sports fans are often the least sporty/physically active individuals...armchair athletes. (that's not directed at you tunguska)
I find the weekend saturation and the mind numbing Off the Ball on Newstalk, is just too much. Am I the only one who notices how obviously physically inactive/unsporty an awful lot of our sports broadcasters are? It seems they prefer to micro analyse sporting facts rather than actually participate in any kind of sport.

I think a lot of supposed sports fanatics should "get their asses in gear and engage in some sport."

I don't see how it's relevant at all.

It's a bit like moaning about people who enjoy reading but won't write a book

or listen to music but don't play in a band.

watching movies but won't act.

blah blah

and compltley pointlesss to the OP's topic.

Cole

ntlbell wrote: »

...and compltley pointlesss to the OP's topic.

I know, that's why I began with some of tunguskas quotes. I was addressing his comments...that the people who moan about the amount of sports coverage tend to be non sporty individuals.

Even those of us who play and follow sport find the coverage on radio too much.

Diabhal Beag

People tune in at different times. They will want to know the news and sports in case something big happened.

astarte

as the OP i think tunguska has a point about sometimes peoples distaste and distain for sports is due to how they label themselves and perhaps due to their past history. I did actually participate in sports when younger and I was in the pub watching the rubgy at the weekend, but mostly i am not interested in sports, I just find the endless repetitiveness of banalities on the radio, tedious.

Oh for a decent BBC R4 reception in the midwest!

Fergus

+10 for the OP.

I'd like to listen to current affairs, intelligent debate [ok maybe that's wishful thinking], etc, on the radio. But this is impossible in Ireland. Within 5-10 minutes in the morning/evening on any talk station, we are force fed yet another banal rehash of yesterday's GAA/soccer and yet more mind-numbingly dull discussion of who might win/lose the next match.

If only it was something like the US where there are sports channels for sports, and NPR for people who'd like something a bit more stimulating.

adamski8

Poochie05 wrote: »

+1 for how sport takes over the airwaves on Saturday afternoon. It's a pain when you're driving somewhere and there's nothing to listen to on the journey.

you have cd/tape players in cars to listen to music!

Bard

adamski8 wrote: »

you have cd/tape players in cars to listen to music!

This is a radio forum. We discuss radio here... please don't tell people "listen to your ipod"/"listen to your cd/tape/8-track/record player" or even "change the channel"... we've heard it a million times before and it's considered OFF TOPIC.

Thanks.

Fergus

adamski8 wrote: »

you have cd/tape players in cars to listen to music!

There's a lot more to radio than music and/or sport.

Bard

Fergus wrote: »

There's a lot more to radio than music and/or sport.

...and it IS possible for sport to be the focus of "intelligent debate" :P

Noffles

I don't mind the Sports really... what I do hate is the complete lack of anything remotely entertaining on, on a Sunday morning on any national radio station!! And why doesn't RTE 2 have a 24 hour service... lazy bastards!

adamski8

Bard wrote: »

This is a radio forum. We discuss radio here... please don't tell people "listen to your ipod"/"listen to your cd/tape/8-track/record player" or even "change the channel"... we've heard it a million times before and it's considered OFF TOPIC.

Thanks.

Ok fair enough, but i didnt mean it in the "change the channel" way.
But i guess it did amount to the same thing.

Fergus wrote: »

There's a lot more to radio than music and/or sport.

oh i know but i was really just referring to the complaining about being in your car and complaining that there wasn't music on.

but i was wrong to say that anyway

Poochie05

I wasn't complaining about there not being any music on - saying listen to a tape/CD or your iPod is a cop out. I think it is quite valid to complain about sport being on every station on a Saturday afternoon.

Yes, I do listen to podcasts and music on my iPod but wanting some 'Live' radio to help pass a journey as it is more varied is also valid, and apart from Lyric FM this is hard to find on a Saturday afternoon. And I personally don't find classical music very conducive to concentrating on the road.

It would be nice to have some of the weekend morning discussion type programmes in the afternoon on at least one station.

Lapin

I love sport but I agree it can be something of an overkill at the weekends.
However, I would probably be the first one to moan if there was less coverage than there is.

I don't understand the reason for Newstalks OB from Leopardstown last weekend. While they did well in covering the feature race, the remainder of the programme consisted of the usual interviews and discussions with the regular panels of hurlers and footballers previewing various games. But the constant noise in the background from the racecourse announcer and commentator was very annoying.

And another thing - I hope to God RTE Radio don't send a team of commentators over to Wales for live coverage of the Ryder Cup in a few weeks time.
All that whispering from the K Club four years ago nearly drove me round the twist.

mickydoomsux

Music stations shouldn't have news, sports or weather bulletins.

Fair enough having that kind of thing on a predominately talk station (Newstalk, Radio 1) but there really is a stupid amount of time devoted to it. Nearly half the entire schedule on Satudays and Sundays is taken up with it on some stations.

Seriously, most sports talk is utter garbage:

'I THINK THESE GUYS WILL WIN!!!!!!!!!!!'
..........
'THESE GUYS WON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'
Rinse.
Repeat.

Plus it's very limited coverage. No MMA or NFL stuff at all.

sealgaire

kmart6 wrote: »

Not enough sports in my opinion! I hate 30 second segments at the end of a news bulletin that just leave you guessing the reat of a certain situation!!

well, the 30 seconds info is really all the depth there is too any sport story. Very shallow subject to follow usually.

SpaceTime

I've largely given up on radio in the morning here.

It's like this : several channels of annoying DJs trying to be funny.
News
Depressing stories.

I actually find Irish mid morning radio fixated with miserable stories.

You're likely to hear 'So tell me John ... After you came out of hospital your entire head went septic, your wife divorced you having had an affair with your brother AND you lost your job ... And then they broke into your house..."