It definetly comes down to demand. Its always been the case in the memory of man. We are actually lucky they don't have rights to do Man Utd league games. They'll even drop the final quarter of Latics commentary to do Man City at 3pm again to more demand. To be fair also theirs no pure Manchester Super League side in action today. Anyway Online options aplenty - wigan.rlfans.com/fusion_pages/in ... page_id=55

It definetly comes down to demand. Its always been the case in the memory of man. We are actually lucky they don't have rights to do Man Utd league games. They'll even drop the final quarter of Latics commentary to do Man City at 3pm again to more demand. To be fair also theirs no pure Manchester Super League side in action today. Anyway Online options aplenty - wigan.rlfans.com/fusion_pages/in ... page_id=55

I understand demand etc, but it still brasses me right off !

How the hell did soccer, one of the worlds most tedious sports, EVER get such a grip ?

Cheers for the links Bilko.

Well thats a different argument. Think there are more tedious sports but compare to RL i agree.

Why don't they use split frequencies, DAB and Internet Streams like Radio Humberside so that alost all Football & RL games can be listned to live in some format?.

Radio Manchester doesn't have an AM frequency. DAB could be done I suppose but its not that common. They could do online, they have done at times in the past. But they also they share Warrington and Saints coverage with BBC Merseyside anyway. The Wire game was on BBC Merseyside and could be heard online there - so not worth Manchester doing it as well.

Why does it have to be Super League?
Leigh, Oldham, Swinton and Rochdale all played today.

Although they changed the name, they assured us that they would still cover Greater Manchester news and sport.

It's not really cost effective to do it for those teams being blunt. I wouldn't listen any of them online ahead of Super League alternatives. They did offer an online stream of an Oldham Play Off Match late last season though.

I would, how many do you think tune in to Wigan Latics games?

Latics wern't really the issue. They Kicked Off 1:30pm, it was Man City playing at 3pm. Had City not played Rugby League would have been covered as usual. I think they'd get far more listeners than Leigh, Rochdale, Oldham etc.

Aye. I don't like it myself but its always been the case and for me its not too much of a problem because you can listen all the games online.

More disruption next month. Be interesting to see if they go with commentary on the two Latics games.

Sunday, 5 April 2009
Everton v Wigan, 15:00 (Wigan RL at Barrow - Radio Cumbria will have commentary)

Sunday, 12 April 2009
Man City v Fulham, 16:00 (Actually this is Easter Sunday so no RL anyway)

Sunday, 26 April 2009
Blackburn v Wigan, 16:00 (Wigan RL at Wakefield)

Radio Manc should never have given up their mw frequency.
They used to have 1548mw but gave it up.
I've asked a couple of times if there's a possibility of taking it up again but there's no chance. Another station has it now apparently.
Merseyside has 1485mw and 95.8fm and split every time when there's Rugby League and Soccer on. 1485mw is always RL.
Today they had full match commentary on the Wire v HKR game until the final whistle then went over to Anfield for the remainder on the Liverpool game.

The BBC have public service obligations, they shouldn't just be chasing audience share (the soccer matches are all covered on Radio 5 anyway...). Disappointing really but not surprising.