BBC Radio 5 live in Ireland.. how?

Ultimate Seduction · 06-02-2019 7:19pm #1

How can I listen to BBC radio 5 live on my phone? Every link I find to it is geo blocked. Must be available somewhere surely to god? I have it on the Sky box at home no bother

06-02-2019 7:27pm

The BBC radio iPlayer app is available to Ireland. You can also click on a link to any BBC radio station on http://www.radiofeeds.co.uk/iphone_player

jrmb · 06-02-2019 7:30pm

Ultimate Seduction wrote: »

How can I listen to BBC radio 5 live on my phone? Every link I find to it is geo blocked. Must be available somewhere surely to god? I have it on the Sky box at home no bother

The online feed is blocked when they don't have international radio rights to air an event. You should still be able to get it on Sky, Freesat, Virgin Media or medium wave.

Ultimate Seduction · 06-02-2019 8:32pm

jrmb wrote: »

The online feed is blocked when they don't have international radio rights to air an event. You should still be able to get it on Sky, Freesat, Virgin Media or medium wave.

Yeah thats it, it gets locked once the premier league matches start. I got a British VPN. Hope this works

06-02-2019 8:46pm

At least BBC Five Live have a disclaimer telling you that the sport is blocked for rights reasons, unlike talksport which just goes silent.

dxhound2005 · 06-02-2019 10:13pm

I don't know if it works on phones but you can control radio receivers online. You will hear the actual signal being received at the remote site. Quite a few in England. Medium wave frequencies are 693, 909 and 990 kHz. 990 is a low power transmitter in Wales. Wide AM mode.

https://sdr.hu/?q=england

turbocab · 06-02-2019 10:56pm

dxhound2005 wrote: »

I don't know if it works on phones but you can control radio receivers online. You will hear the actual signal being received at the remote site. Quite a few in England. Medium wave frequencies are 693, 909 and 990 kHz. 990 is a low power transmitter in Wales. Wide AM mode.

https://sdr.hu/?q=england

it can be heard quite well on east coast of Ireland on 909khz or 990khz and 693 khz as well

dxhound2005 · 06-02-2019 11:23pm

turbocab wrote: »

it can be heard quite well on east coast of Ireland on 909khz or 990khz and 693 khz as well

OP is asking how to listen on their phone.

SimonMaher · 06-02-2019 11:43pm

dxhound2005 wrote: »

OP is asking how to listen on their phone.

That SDR suggestion is a good one! Dxhound, do you find that the KiwiSDRs work on mobile? I've tried a couple of London ones just there which work great on PC - crystal clear 5 Live but the display gets mangled when I go mobile. Twente can manage mobile (auto detects) but no joy so far on the Kiwi ones.

Simon

dxhound2005 · 06-02-2019 11:59pm

On my phone I hear whatever signal is there, but I can't use the display to change frequency. Might work better on some other phones. The Twente receiver gives good reception of 5 Live.

http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/

bassy · 07-02-2019 12:01am

i use a free to air sat box to listen to bbc radio 5 live,talksports etc,was just listening to the city match tonite on it.

Losty Dublin · 07-02-2019 12:16am

Is TuneIn any use to you, OP?

Ultimate Seduction · 07-02-2019 1:45am

Losty Dublin wrote: »

Is TuneIn any use to you, OP?

No. Its Geo blocked even on tune in.

I downloaded an app called "open vpn" . set my VPN to united kingdom an now it works through tune in. Much simpler than I thought.

zell12 · 07-02-2019 11:38am

Loadsa websites out there
http://www.internetradiouk.com/#bbc-radio-5-live

logonmar · 01-09-2021 6:25pm

Has anyone found a way around listening to BBC Radio 5 Live

I keep getting the message re rights.

Have tried Tune In via Alexa, Radio Garden site and many others and had no success

When I changed my VPN to a UK address it made no difference either

Any suggestions on how I might once again listen to 5 Live?

Thanks

tinytobe · 01-09-2021 6:31pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117834156#Comment_117834156

Even with a UK VPN address you might have issues, as some addresses are also blocked. The addresses are updated regularly.

Some VPN, mostly those who you have to pay for, really seem to work.

I think that this Geo-blocking of Radio 5 is only recent. I am also surprised that it's also in Ireland. Normally Ireland is exempt from all this regulation.

603 and 909 on MW are a good choice. The signal even makes it to Germany.

kirk. · 01-09-2021 6:34pm

Seems to be blocked all the time now in the middle of the nite

Never was until recently

kirk. · 01-09-2021 6:39pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/109352593#Comment_109352593

What app is this

No sign of.it.on play store

mugsymugsy · 01-09-2021 6:40pm

Finding the same. Currently using a VPN and listening via bbc sounds app.

Hassle but only way it is working at the minute.

If you use a VPN it seems that tune in radio doesn't work

logonmar · 01-09-2021 7:06pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117834177#Comment_117834177

I pay for Cyberghost VPN and had no luck via that route either

galtee boy · 01-09-2021 7:41pm

Is talking about VPN's ok here on Boards ok ? They are legal, I think. I have My Expat Vpn for about a year now ( it's a subscription one ), always works for UK stuff, just tried Five Live now and playing perfectly, no geo blocking.

tinytobe · 01-09-2021 8:03pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117834468#Comment_117834468

There is nothing really illegal about geo blocking or paying a VPN service. ( Unless there is a board rule never ever to speak about VPN services ) You're just a paying customer. With a VPN you're just doing to comply, you're basically from an IT perspective "tunneling to the UK" and connecting from there to whatever you want to connect to. Or let's say in the end you're connecting directly to the UK, not via an Irish or other foreign IP address.

Some companies have to block certain IP addresses from connecting, the reasons for that might be different ones. And some companies are paying a service to block certain IP addresses from connecting, or blocking even certain IP addresses from connecting within that country. Thus even paying a VPN service might not solve the problem. Some are better than others.

I hope this explanation makes sense.