Live Wrexham commentaries broadcast to whole of North Wales
Press Release Issued by BBC Wales Press & Publicity
01 August 2005
BBC Wales has confirmed that live
commentary on Wrexham’s Coca Cola League, FA Cup and Carling Cup matches this
season will be broadcast across the whole of North Wales on FM by the English
language service BBC Radio Wales.
BBC Radio Wales inaugurated an exclusive system last season enabling football
supporters in Wales to here full live radio commentary from matches involving
their local Coca Cola League club. Listeners tuning into BBC Radio Wales on FM
in South East Wales automatically heard commentary from all matches involving
Cardiff City; those in West Wales, Swansea City; while those in the Wrexham area
were able to follow every minute of the Dragons’ season.
However, due to the way that BBC Radio Wales’s FM signal was routed around
Wales, listeners in North West Wales and on the North Wales coast heard
commentary from Swansea City’s matches.
Throughout this summer, BBC Wales engineers having been working to reroute the
signal, ensuring that live BBC Radio Wales commentary on all Wrexham’s matches
will be broadcast not only from the BBC’s Wrexham transmitter on 95.4FM but also
from the Llanddona transmitter that serves North West Wales and the North Wales
coast on 94.8FM.
It has required re-engineering the way the
transmitter is fed and a major project to re-programme computers in Cardiff. The
system will be tested later this week ready for the start of the new season.
The expansion of the area that can tune into live commentaries on Wrexham’s
matches is being promoted not only on BBC Radio Wales but also on BBC Wales
television to make sure that Wrexham fans across the whole of North Wales are
aware of the improvements to the service.
Each Saturday, BBC Radio Wales’s Sportstime programme will continue to carry a
rolling sports service – featuring the latest news from all of Wales’s big rugby
and football matches – will continue to be broadcast on BBC Radio Wales medium
wave and, as always, BBC Radio Cymru will broadcast a comprehensive sports
programme in the Welsh language featuring commentaries – including many of
Wrexham’s games – and reports from a variety of matches and events.
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