23 September 2005

Dead Air

Why is there no national radio coverage of A-League matches? Live streaming on Radio2 seems to have dried up since the opening week, which means fans are bound to Foxtel for their fix of all the live interstate action. There has to be free national delivery platform made available to A-League desperados, if only as an aural alternative to the Foxtel commentary team!

Sydney and Queensland fans have it even worse, hit by a total blackout when it comes to radio coverage of A-League matches.

Clubs of the A-League and Football Federation Australia please don't bind us to our televisions, nor our country's monopolist Pay TV service. I've heard of people listening to the live stream via the Internet from Singapore! How are diehard fans like those expected to follow their teams when radio is consigned to the technological scrapheap?

5 comments:

Ambrose said...

On the other hand Melbourne has SEN amd Southern FM which is pretty good considering/

katsuben said...

Totally! And we have crazyass, overly excited commentators who think Piorkowski is pronounced 'Kowalski'! Pretty funny, really, but I hope they get their act together as the season continues. I'll be listening tonight...

Anonymous said...

Life FM (www.life.on.net) stream every Adelaide United match every week.

katsuben said...

Thanks for confirming that, Adam. The live streaming situation has considerably improved in the past six weeks or so. Just about every match can be heard on radio nationally now, which is fantastic. Strangely, Sydney and Queensland have yet to secure a permanent broadcaster, however, resulting in an over-reliance on Radio2 (www.radio2.com.au).

Anonymous said...

great site mate..couldn7t agree with u more.i live in Japan and miss it all!! ABC Newcatle does live audio streams of Jets matches
online.