Bollocks to all your comments...why wern't they at the Willows giving match commentry of the only unbeaten League side.Beats me that one.!!! but all your comments are correct as Jim Jafrezi's has stated, as of course whilst Salford is a city it is of course in the greater Manchester Conurbation so sadly it gives them a wide berth.

Apologies, I should have said 30 miles away, I forgot it was at Widnes

correct.



like it or not, the coverage of GMR includes Warrington and pretty much all of Cheshire before you get to Staffs and Shropshire.



on the subject, the BBC have been considering pulling much of the funding from local radio. what we get now is pretty good i think and could be much much less...

The BBC should give the coverage to the team playing away or not on tv. we get better coverage than clubs in the championship. Lookat Leigh yesterday, they are in France, Wigan on TV but the coverage was Wigan, unless the games wereon at different times.

BBC Merseyside, they are built around the Mersey so ideal.

Maybe the BBC looks at the listening figures, which actually shows a much higher listening figures to a match played by two teams at the top, than a nothing game at the bottom end of the league. I agree with a comment on this post, which said we cannot have it both ways, we keep telling everyone, we are in Salford not Manchester, maybe Salford radio should cover!

they were at the willows we got the last few minutes of the game after Warrington had finished, all Salford got was a made up event from T Hunte, Boyle's try, you could not make it up, only he did

B P : Stockport is closer to the Mersey than Warrington ! I would be disappointed if Stockportians had to tune to Merseyside to listen to their game.



Enjoy the local radio while you can: any more cuts and we'll depend on 5 Live.

I get the impression that Jack Dearden doesn't warm to Salford as a club, he seems to relish stirring things up and talking about us being in crisis. I think it dates back to the beginning of the Superleague era in the mid 90's and his Oldham roots.

I was talking about the Mersey splitting the town of Warrington in two, it was very close to Wilderspool

I actually tried this when I was at Salford City radio in the early days before a certain councillor got rid of the original group who set it up, and we did reports from a few away games Warrington and Catalan ( in Perpignan i was the only English reporter there) the station has the capacity to do outside broadcasts but i don't think they have people there who are interested in Rugby League, than there is the question of cost, i paid my own travel to the away games, plus would they give two hours on a Friday to a live match?

To put this in perspective, I think BBC Manchester give pretty good coverage on Super League , less so the lower league teams. let's face without the Sunday Phone in & Thursday broadcast there be little else.



BBC Manchester , was formerly known as GMR which is a truer reflection of their remitt to deliver a local radio service to the greater manchester area so that would include Wigan Warrington Saints etc. their 1-2 hr magazine program usually shares guests on an equitable basis from the areas 4 SL teams. and each week they usually have at least a pre recorded interview or phone call from a 'Saford ' guest.



BBC local radio's ' contract ' to to deliver a mainly spoken word service with emphasis on local matters , with Rugby League as a NW area sport . BBC schedulling should not be affected by viewing figures like independent's it's a public service. so it matter's not about whether their more Wire' Wigan fans.



I've never attributed any of the people as being overly negative or baised despite their obvious leanings to Leigh/Oldham etc.

A bit of journalistic license was apparant in the ' Club in Crisis ' episode , but that was as much fuelled by the end is nigh callers on a regular basis on the sunday phone in's .

also by the fact that they have had the ' next year will be better ' story from Salford on numerous occassions over the years . and things weren't going to plan.

I expect Mr Parish will be on their show before his jetlag has lapsed ..