Is it a lawnmower, Tone?
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Living in Burntwood, while I can get the FM version of WM, DAB is dodgy at best, the WM Black Country version, on DAB, is out of the question. Listening online or via smart speaker is a âno-noâ tooâŚall you get is the, âWe canât bring you this programme for contractual reasonsâ. Thanks BBC! Mind you, given the comments, it might not be a bad thing.
PS: I can get Radio Derby and Radio Leicester, FM and DAB, loud and clear.
If youâre name is Eddy,you get a hotline into the studio.
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I think the majority of our local commentators do a decent job of informing the public. Tom Marlow does a good job handling the Walsall games as does Rego for the Villla and Taylor for Wolves.
Rob Guerney calls the Albion games very professionally.
The guys that work for WM are local, have a vast knowledge of sport in our area, especially football, and most of them provide commentary on multiple sports such as cricket, speedway etc.
I have listened to other broadcasts from around the country, some are nowhere near the standard our commentators have attained.
Weâre fortunate to have theses guys around here, long may it continue.
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Agree with you re commentators from around the Country. Some of them are woeful. Listened to a game in Greater Manchester. It was between 2 teams that they actually cover. They supported one team and described the others as- Rochdale player. I could have done a better job.
Even though we are in L2 keeping up to date with Walsall FC is so easy. Nobody should be complaining.
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Well actually, we should be complaining.
I agree some of the standard around the country is woeful.
But that doesnât excuse that WM Sport appears to be at the behest of one manâs ego.
We have some excellent commentators in this region but they are surely stifled.
Even Mark Regan is absolutely fine on his own, as David says, but he soon gets led astray.
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Personally, I think they are a bunch of â â â â â .
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Unless your Vile/Scum or an Albion fan you have no chance of getting a decent say or hearing anything decent about your club.
Hows they always put us too the bottom and very rarely mention us is a joke tbh.
Midlands Radio not just who they choose
Thought this thread was bumped as they didnât actually cover the game last night on the normal FM frequency, was relegated to the DAB version. Pretty poor imo as theyâre usually good with the midweek games, listened to many over the years.
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Yes, that just shows where the BBCâs priorities lie.
You should have heard what passed for entertainment on FM instead.
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I must say when some of the Walsall fans call in I actually physically cringe âŚ
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âweem alright franksay, weve got a bostin point at um too them maccesfield, yo cor beat a dey darn good old wasull can ya ay bostin it is are franksayyyâ
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I stopped listening to WM years agoâŚyou get same people phoning in every night.
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Is it me or do the E & S take it as a fucking joke doing the Walsall reports , Liam Keen and Nathan Judah seem more interested talking about the late night and drinking that heâs been doing .
Strikes me WM and E&S donât really give a shit about us .
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Yeah both strike me as a bunch of â â â â â who donât really give a toss and would rather be somewhere else ⌠would rather have an actual supporter doing the analysis.
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That seems to happen on all the radio stations. Even more so on a Rugby League one that i sometimes listen to.
I think people do get too wound up over WM sometimes ,but I can agree on being baffled how Franksy has wormed his way up to senior roles in the BBC, an annoying self obsessed ogre. He even looks like a troll, a face for radio and all that.
If no one else is playing the coverage is decent as long as Franksy isnât on. Thereâs been some decent ish coverage of us recently, mainly because the the midlands clubs are very popular with TV though.
As for the Express and Star, Iâd imagine itâs extremely difficult to find enough things to write about, with Darrell Clarke being a mardy arse and the fact not a lot happens. Surprised they still bother
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I would imagine the listening figures for WM and other local stations are way down on, say, 20 years ago, or 40 years ago. So the pool of potential callers is far lower.
When it started, as Radio Birmingham, back in 1971 or 1972, iirc, we had the listening choice of that or Radios 1,2,3,4, and BRMB came along a year or two later. Plus there was Luxembourg in the evenings. Now thereâs about a zillion radio stations (most of which sound exactly the same) and thatâs before you start surfing the computer.
Local radio was great for a long time, but it isnât needed now, put the money somewhere else, as I said up the thread, Radio 4 and the World Service.
Incidentally, for those too young to remember life before Franksy, Radio Bârum/WM had some really talented sports broadcasters - Roger Moody, Nick Owen, Jim Rosenthal, they were the main anchors at different times. It hasnât always been this bad. 
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Hereâs a question and I normally put it down to this. How many actually call up as Walsall supporters to give their views on the match theyâve been too? Is it this reason that we donât get any coverage?
Is it because no one calls up or do they have callers, but choose to feature the other teams?
Another thing! Why put those callers on who have been listening to the WM coverage from their arm chair??