Any one know if BFC have patched up their differences with Radio Sheff?

Couldn't possibly stand another season of Utd one week, Owls the next, on the radio commentaries.

 

They have not and wont make up

They say that Dearne FM and 1575 give the best coverage for Barnsley FC.
what a load of **** /poo

 

This coming season there will be no commentries from radio Sheff on our matches. While Sheff Unt, Sheff wed. Doncaster, are reaping the money for the commentry games . BarnsleyFC will be a distant team in the radio Sheff archives. Why? **** knows. Can Anyone in plain English explain why we are cut off from the best outside broadcasting radio station for sport in this country. Radio DearnFM what a load of crap.

 

If you ran a buisness

say a village pub,for example,and there was a group of customers that drank in one of the 3 pubs in the village every Saturday
night.
Now imagine that bunch of customers told you the only way they were drinking in your pub was if you charged a third of the
price for the same quality beerthe other 2 pubs served.
And even then they'd only come in every 5th or 6th Saturday night.
I think if that was me i'd be inclined to tell em to **** off.
But then again,all the above makes sense to me.
In my defence i have jet lag and have had a drink

 

Well you can't blame Mr Shephard now.

 

Not taking sides, buy the current sports team there are too bias,

I have been onDee Darr several times over the years, and I've noticed a definite shift in biasness towards other teams, in particular the Pikeys. A couple of seasons ago if you had a gripe or a snipe against another team, they would be as objective as they could and try to get you to qualify what you have said. Which is how it should be. Last couple of seasons more and more Pikeys fans have had a go at us, and very rarely have they been challenged by the radio team. You try and have a go at the Pikeys, particularly when Seth Bennetts on, they have none of it. Also, if any other Chairman had been as disrespecttful to other teams/fans as John Ryan has, I'm sure they would've pounced upon it. I think the best thing is for all Reds fans to Boycott the station, I'm sure they'll soon change their stance. I have been a regular listener/contributor but no longer. This, as I have said, is largely because of the current regime there, not because of the dispute with BFC.

 

Last summer they said they would be covering the Sheffield teams the vast majority of the time so the other teams were offered a lower contract than the season before. In my opinion we did exactly the right thing and when they came to cover the Chelsea game I would have told Paul Walker where to shove his microphone.

 

I've stopped listening to the rubbish

cant believe anyone is upset by our "disagreement" with them. They never have (except for when they had fallen out with the deedars) and never will give us fair representation under normal circumstances. To be honest it makes very little difference to BFC either. We got more good publicity with one cup run than radio dee dar would give us a a lifetime.

 

RE: I've stopped listening to the rubbish

I still can't believe the stance we take on this personally.

What the club need to realise imo is that the radio provides advertising, and instead of us paying for it like other businesses have to do (not on Radio Sheffield obviously), they pay us.

And what do we do - we say no, you're paying us far too little to advertise us on your station so you can **** off, we don't want any free advertising at that little a negative price, so we're gong to go and get our advertising on a poxy station that nobody listens to.

Of course they are going to pay more to the dee dah's - they cover them more than us. And why is that - because they have more fans, so to cover them more means more listeners for the radio station. I can't see how anybody can have a problem with that. It is a public service, so it has to appeal a larger slice of the public a larger percentage of the time than it does smaller slices of the public, by covering the bigger clubs more. That's just life - its how it is.

No doubt someone will suggest that listener numbers don't matter because they are BBC, but like every other organisation with costs, the BBC can't afford
to flog dead horses, so if the radio station was pulling no listeners when the BBC has a myriad of other things to spend money on then it would be in danger of being pulled.

Over the last few years the board have done a lot of good things for our football club, and made a lot of good decisions. But this was most certainly not one of them.

I'm seriously hoping that, in the aftermath of Gordon's departure in the summer, when PC was making noises about the club needing to be more business savvy, instead of sitting in their ivory tower complaining about how unfair it was that other people had more business acumen than we did, that one of the things on his radar was to resolve not to allow the club to turn down free money for free advertising for a minute longer.

(furious)

 

Go to the games then ...

 

I do, I do. But not the away games... can't afford! nt

 

...but regarding Donny Rovers, have you noticed on the radio...

that Sheff have always appeared to prioritise their sports news. Sheff U or Weds first, then BFC, then Roth, Donny and C/field depending on their positions in whatever division they are in.
Now Donny nearly always get the one-up on us, if we've any news about us on at all.
Very picky I know and quite pathetic, but something's still not right.

 

lol

advertising..eh? they rarely bleeding mention us when we were speaking to them.

Radio sheffield should give proportionate representation to its listeners irrespectective of how many "fans" clubs have. Do you think we as much coverage as the blunts / fowls when our attendances were comparable theirs? did we ****. Barnsley 226k/1 club, sheffield 550k/2 clubs

I think the board at BFC have realised how much of a piss take radio deedar's relationship with us has been and finally had the balls to do something about it.

I'm off out now so **** it and the deedars

 

exactly

 

"they rarely bleeding mention us when we were speaking to them"

That's absolute rubbish Spartacus. There was an interview with the manager, one of the back room staff or one of the players every Saturday, without fail, before the match commentary. Don't know about home games as I'm always at Oakwell, but for away matches there was a reporter at our games for every match giving reports. The manager or a player was always interviewed after a game. For about half the away games every season we had full match commentary. Periodically, throughout the season, there were interviews with the chairman. New signings were interviewed. Top scorers were interviewed. Goalkeepers who made penalty saves were interviewed. They probably tried to interview the club cat. Now we've lost all that and it's a massive shame.

 

Possibly an exaguration

but compared to the coverage given to the dee dars I think the sentiment remains correct.

How many times did we get full commentary from an away game? How many times did the sheffield clubs?
How many times did they broadcast sheffield clubs on all three frequencies when we were playing?
How many sports updates went by without a mention of BFC when even the lest trivial matter at bumhole lane or swillsbro' was reported?
How many Barnsley supporters get short shrift on phone ins when they are determined to spend shows discussing how good the deedar clubs are?
How many reds supporters are on their sports team?

Really do not understand if you listened to them how on earth you think we got a fair crack of the whip.

 

Yes but..........

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It's radio Sheffield, not Radio Barnsley. They don't owe us anything and they don't cover us as much as their own teams so why should we quibble over how much we get paid to receive whatever exposure we get? Why get the monk on with another city's radio station for putting us second to its own clubs? It's publicity and we get paid for it, as far as I can see it's a no brainer.</p>

 

it doesn't belong to the City of Sheffield... they are licensed to cover,,

to broadcast in South Yorks and parts of the North Midlands, no doubt funded by part of all of this area's License money, therefore we are entitled to as much coverage/publicity as any other team. My main gripe with them though is the poor quality of their football production, They no longer remain impartial and objective like they used to, say a couple of years ago. The sports team there are rather unprofessional at times.

 

As Tarntyke says

It just happens to be called radio sheffield. It is public service broadcasting for south yorkshire / north derbyshire

 

Given that Seth Bennett's a Donny fan.. hardy surprising .. also

The day they announced the sad news that Derek Dooley had died, a Donny, a regular caller, phoned up and made a joke about him.. They simply told him it was in bad taste, and let him continue to talk.. bet that wouldn't have happened if it was Reds fan. This guy also seems to get plenty of airtime everytime he calls as well. Lost count the number of times I've been cut short or not been able to answer back to their comments about my call.