Ian Hart-less BBC Phone is utter TRIPE

[Brighton Breezy]

The new guy doing it knows absolutely NOTHING about football.

"I don't think Jakey has had a fair crack of the whip."

"All these loan players demoralise the local lads who don't get a game."

What a SPOON.

If Robinson et al were BETTER we wouldn't need loan players and I think people would be more demoralised if we played Robinson et al and lost 4v0 every week.

Clearly he wasn't at the Leicester game to see Eddie 'Evil loan player' Johnson notch two crackers.

The tone was set with the first caller yesterday. FA Cup first round. 3v3. Hawkins own goal. Small crowd. Murray leaving? Poor substitutions? Shit defending? Kuipers vs Sullivan? What does the first caller ring for? To wish Micky Adams happy birthday. Not only that but the new guy then chats to her for five minutes about NOTHING. Harty would have got RID within seconds.

Clearly nobody is ringing in anymore.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

The bleedin' obvious thing is for the impressive Radio Reverb to take up the slack. They could take comments on the game just finished via email, text and voicemail and run from 5pm Saturdays or 10pm weekdays, for maybe 30 minutes initially or an hour if they got somebody planned to fill the occasional inevitable silence or maybe just play some music to break things up as they do now. The phone-in in its current format is probably dead in the water on SCR now.

 

[BensGrandad]

I must agree it is now rubbish on the last 3 shows I have rung in to be told ' Oh the infamouse Brian from Haywards Heath we will ring you back very shortly' but that call hasnt come yet.

Yesterday it was Mike Ward (TV critic of The Star) doing it perhaps the caller should have asked about Corrie and then he may have got an informed answer.

Dont think Radio Reverb could do it as thery dont cover a wide enough area but Southern FM could.

 

[Deleted User X18H]

I spent the entire match yesterday with Ian Hart and not only is he a thoroughly nice bloke every person we passed or Harty spoke to implored they wanted him back on radio AND NOW

Never have the vindictive actions of so few spoilt the enjoyment of so many!!

 

[Brighton Breezy]

Dont think Radio Reverb could do it as thery dont cover a wide enough area but Southern FM could.

In fairness the way they must be losing listeners I think I could reach more people standing in Preston Park with a loud speaker.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Dont think Radio Reverb could do it as thery dont cover a wide enough area

Um, via TINTERNET?

 

[BensGrandad]

Unfortunately you will not convince the complainant that it was his/her fault.

 

[BensGrandad]

Um, via TINTERNET?

SCR only have the listeners because it follows commentary of the game without that neither Southern FM or Radio Reverb would have sufficient listeners.

 

[Brighton Breezy]

I agree. I think people listen to the phone in on the way home in the car or because they have been listening to the commentary at home.

Having it without the commentary or later on wouldn't work. You might as well just come on here to discuss it.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

SCR only have the listeners because it follows commentary of the game without that neither Southern FM or Radio Reverb would have sufficient listeners.

Well, many BBC shows are made by independent companies nowadays. Maybe SCR could maybe pay Radio Reverb a nominal sum to run the phone-in on their behalf? I'm sure that it could be made to work to the benefit of both parties - not to mention the benefit of the Albion fans.

 

[NMH]

Well, many BBC shows are made by independent companies nowadays. Maybe SCR could maybe pay Radio Reverb a nominal sum to run the phone-in on their behalf? I'm sure that it could be made to work to the benefit of both parties - not to mention the benefit of the Albion fans.

But why would they?
Yes, I agree it's now utterly shite, but that's because of the BBC's decision over a show on their own books. Putting it on another station as sub-contractors won't appeal to their quality-control any more than when they have it from their own station.

Harty was the incumbent chat-jockey so they made him the goat. It remains that all he said was "lick windows" in a flippant remark that we KNOW wasn't intended to implicate disablement.

If Harty went to another local station completely, like 'Juice' for instance, then the BBC would have to take the hit when listeners turned their channels.

Juice should do it - there'd be an interest in an Albion hour for them, and LOADS of people would keep their radio dials on them for other times.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

But why would they?
Yes, I agree it's now utterly shite, but that's because of the BBC's decision over a show on their own books. Putting it on another station as sub-contractors won't appeal to their quality-control any more than when they have it from their own station.

Harty was the incumbent chat-jockey so they made him the goat. It remains that all he said was "lick windows" in a flippant remark that we KNOW wasn't intended to implicate disablement.

If Harty went to another local station completely, like 'Juice' for instance, then the BBC would have to take the hit when listeners turned their channels.

Juice should do it - there'd be an interest in an Albion hour for them, and LOADS of people would keep their radio dials on them for other times.

Good points, well made.

SCR do a decent enough match commentary. IMHO we take it for granted that it will always be there. If I was a commercial broadcaster in this area I'd certainly be looking at nicking a major audience off the BBC. Reckon nobody much cares who broadcasts the game so long as it is broadcast SOMEWHERE. And if it went to a commercial station, they'd have a major new stream of listeners to sell stuff to. PLUS we'd never ever have to suffer breathless 'Theres Been Another Goal At Crawley' type interruptions ever again.

It's a no-brainer really.

 

[NMH]

Well then, here's Juice's contact info page;

Brightons Juice 107.2 | Juice 107.2 // Radio made in Brighton

Phone:
01273 386107
Email:
info@juicebrighton.com
Managing Director - ryan@juicebrighton.com

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Well then, here's Juice's contact info page;

Brightons Juice 107.2 | Juice 107.2 // Radio made in Brighton

Phone:
01273 386107
Email:
info@juicebrighton.com
Managing Director - ryan@juicebrighton.com

f*** 'em. If they're not smart enough to work it out for themselves

 

[Brighton Breezy]

If only there was a decent pirate radio station in Sussex. Not only could they do a proper phone in but we might get a station which played proper music as well.

 

[Nemesis]

Let's thank the complainants once again for their efforts-you really have f***ed up The Albion match experience for a lot of people. Well Done!

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

If only there was a decent pirate radio station in Sussex. Not only could they do a proper phone in but we might get a station which played proper music as well.

Hey Richie - you're an Albion/football/media type, yeah? You've been given enough ideas in this thread alone to set yourself up as Brighton's answer to Richard Branson. Get IN there - before somebody else does. It's a definite GLARING gap in the market

 

[clippedgull]

Let's thank the complainants once again for their efforts-you really have f***ed up The Albion match experience for a lot of people. Well Done!

Thought there were only 2 complaints out of 40,000 listeners?

 

[BensGrandad]

Do the BBC have any broadcasting rights to the commentary of games.

 

[Nemesis]

Thought there were only 2 complaints out of 40,000 listeners?

Exactly-nice of them wasn't it?