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Loading ...Apna Karachi Radio Station (FM 107) is most certainly going to cover the World Cup, and I think they have a website too (I’ll have to look up favorites folder though, and its too late in the night right now, so I’ll do for you tomorrow)…but there’s another problem, half of the commentary will be in Urdu.
Online radio stations covering the World Cup
By Will last year, mid-February Leave a comment on this post
Adrian pleads:
This may have been addressed previously, however I have noticed that there is
no mention of world cup coverage on the BBC, have TMS lost the radio rights ?
And, if so, who has them in the UK, Talk Sport (lord’elp us!)Before the last Ashes series you were kind enough to post my suggested thread
asking if anyone knew of non UK radio stations that broadcast commentary on the
net; any chance of doing the same again. I am a huge fan of All India Radio’s
coverage, stemming from an enjoyable couple of months there last year, and
recommend it wholeheartedly.
BBC’s TMS site says their next coverage will be the World Cup but, as yet, their schedule hasn’t been published. So if you know of any online radio stations covering it, leave a comment and rock on.
52 Responses to “Online radio stations covering the World Cup”
February 20th, 2007 at 10.07 pm
February 20th, 2007 at 10.08 pm
TMS definitely has the rights to the uk broadcast (huzzah), plus an hour-long tv highlights package on the BBC every night (I think). The official broadcasters for other parts of the world are (thank Google):
* In India, All India Radio (AIR) will provide live commentary to over a billion listeners. It is a government-owned radio station with the maximum reach.
* Bangladesh TV has bagged the broadcast rights for Bangladesh. It is also a national channel, which will allow millions of Bangladeshi fans to listen to live feed during the World Cup.
* Freschia has bagged the broadcast rights for Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
* The Caribbean region will be covered by Caribbean Media Corporation. However, Dutch Antilles, Puerto Rico and USVI will not be able to receive live feed from this broadcaster.
* South African Broadcasting Corporation will broadcast live commentary throughout Africa. This includes South Africa, Zimbabwe and Kenya, who are playing in the World Cup, as well as other nations keen on acceding to the world of cricket.
* In Canada, Central America and the Dutch Antilles, EchoStar Satellite LLC will provide live coverage of all the games.
* BBC Radio has won the rights to broadcast live feed of the matches in England and Ireland.
I think that ABC radio has the rights to the TMS commentary, so they’re broadcasting that as a live feed. For TV it’s probably Fox or Channel 9.
Dunno about other online sources.
February 20th, 2007 at 10.10 pm
(Incidentally, the bullets above are a copy-and-paste job, don’t blame me if it’s dodgy!)
February 20th, 2007 at 10.37 pm
I know Fox Sports has the TV rights in Australia, and they are advitising coverage of “Every Ball” “Every Run” etc.
As for Radio I think Jesses post says that ABC are going to be broadcasting TMS from the BBC??? Is that right???
If so you could get TMS from either the BBC website (Britan) or the ABC website (Australia).
February 20th, 2007 at 10.50 pm
Elliott - I heard that Jim Maxwell was joining TMS for the world cup and ABC would broadcast the feed. That could easily be a Chinese whisper.
February 21st, 2007 at 6.34 am
ACA have made the TV broadcast schedule in Australia available at their website. Fre-to-air Channel 9 is showing some matches from the Super 8’s on, the 3 Fox stations have all the rest between them.
March 7th, 2007 at 10.26 pm
would love to hear some of the world cup games, i am living in Cincinnati Ohio, any ideas what online radio stations I can get english broadcasting of the games
thanks
March 7th, 2007 at 10.52 pm
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March 13th, 2007 at 2.55 pm
I was trying some of the old Ashes links posted a couple of months earlier. It looks like this one works as well for the World Cup(at least in Germany listening to West Indies vs. Pakistan):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/sol/newsid_6160000/newsid_6162500/6162564.stm?bw=nb&mp=wm
March 13th, 2007 at 4.38 pm
I am living in Chiang Mai ,Thailand. Any chance of picking up anyradio commentary online.
March 13th, 2007 at 5.20 pm
Hi, do not know where my previous post has gone but I can listen to a long wave BBC broadcast via
http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/sol/newsid_6160000/newsid_6162500/6162564.stm?bw=nb&mp=wm
At least it works vor WI vs Pakistan listening in Germany.
March 13th, 2007 at 10.06 pm
thanks Tobi, nice one, just started listening to first game thanks again
March 14th, 2007 at 8.37 am
I’m living in france, anyone know of an online service I can listen to live streaming???? It’s killing me that I can’t find a site!!
March 16th, 2007 at 12.30 pm
It’s remarkable that in this day and age that there is no International online audio coverage of the World Cup. The BBC TMS coverage is only available in the UK and apart from that nothing.
I’d love to listen right now to NZ v England but there’s no way here in Australia unless you have Pay TV.
March 16th, 2007 at 1.24 pm
Jordan: have you tried the bbc link above? Takes a bit of fiddling about but should be ok.
Brett: Don’t know if it works for Australia but the Kiwis are putting up a Radio broadcast for their games: http://www.radiosport.co.nz It’s free and it has decent commentary. Unfortunately you have to live with ads.
Otherwise I agree: it is remarkable that there is no International online coverage. How do you want to promote this game in other parts of the world if you cannot even listen to it?
March 16th, 2007 at 2.13 pm
Even in India we have radio broadcasts of the world cup. It is pretty strange not to have one in Australia.
March 16th, 2007 at 2.42 pm
hey brett try this site it works for me in Cincinnati, takes a bit of time to connect but am listening to NZ v England right now
March 16th, 2007 at 3.10 pm
well to listen to NZ games (and maybe some later crunch games) anywhere in the world there is this, which appears to be the TMS team and some extras
http://www.radiosport.co.nz/ListenLive/
For some selected games (very poor off a TV commentary) anywhere in the world there is (don’t know why it still has the ASHES tag)
http://stanjames.teamtalk.com/StanJames/Ashes_Popup
i’d suggest cutting and pasting these directly into realplayer, much easier than in a browser
i’d be interested in how you guys listen to BBC radio4 LW WITHOUT using a proxy outside the UK (i always get the NOT IN UK error)
March 16th, 2007 at 3.19 pm
Bryan - you are leaving me hanging here! Also how does the Kiwi radio station work? I click on listen live and a little pop up appears but no sound? 57-3 ugh.
March 16th, 2007 at 6.42 pm
Am I the only one on the East coast of the US searching for how to listen to the WC cricket ?
March 16th, 2007 at 6.49 pm
Do you have $200 spare mate? I HIGHLY recommend Willow.tv, I’m watching every single match live.
March 16th, 2007 at 7.01 pm
TVM. I’ll give it a try. Can you watch it day(s) later ? got the 6Nations to watch tomorrow and sunday
March 16th, 2007 at 7.11 pm
Yes you can. Live, full replays, highlights replays or interactive scorecard where you click the scorecard to see the action pertaining to the link.
ie. Click the 4’s column for a batsman to see all his 4’s. Pretty slick. Make sure you have broadband in place.
March 16th, 2007 at 7.12 pm
Cute dogs BTW.
March 16th, 2007 at 7.32 pm
getting too exciting listening on ’stanjames..’ - bought the willow package.
Thanks again
March 16th, 2007 at 7.36 pm
I know you’ll love it. The one drawback - not able to stream multiple games at once. One kicks the other off. I switch between games at will though.
Browser Back, Back, Click link for other game. Boom.
March 16th, 2007 at 7.51 pm
I’m in Norway and listening to the Eng/NZ match on BBC through the link supplied by Tobi (cheers) even though it says ‘this coverage is available to UK users only. This wasn’t possible during the Ashes, so I feel blessed—You’ve got to press ‘play’ as it won’t open automatically.
If that doesn’t work for you, try a slightly drab but reliable commentary on tiscali, who also have an ok world cup website (just click on the link to the left-’listen to live games’ to open the player: http://www.tiscali.co.uk/events/2007/cricketworldcup/
March 17th, 2007 at 9.20 am
Thanks guys, tiscali seems to work but bbc still says ‘only in the uk’ I’m a bit of a tech tragic so cutting and paste to real player is a bit advanced for me at the moment. I’ll get there eventually
March 18th, 2007 at 10.39 am
I can’t believe it! Used the link provided (thanks tobi) and finaly worked bbc sport (live commentry only), Tiscali and stan james and all are broadcasting bloody England v Canada. If anyone has info for the Important game ie. Aust v Netherlands your imput would be enormously appreciated..
March 18th, 2007 at 11.14 am
hmmmm…first how do you know it works? the games haven’t even started yet, unless you are talking about listening to yesterday’s games, in which case, second, pls can someone explain, exactly with browser type, operating system, versions, etc…how they managed to get the BBC link to work outside the uk (without a proxy)? (and not “i just fiddled with it for a while”)
please, please….PLEASE! (sorry for sounding so grumpy but it is Sunday and England are 1 and 0)
March 18th, 2007 at 11.37 am
I know it works as I could listen to the games last night and when I’ve been on the sites today they’re addvetising the england game.
If you use the link that tobi had on the 13 march it should bring up a different bbc window, then what i had managed to find anyway. In that window it will say;
‘Live commentry only’ hit that comment and a few seconds later it should talk to you. goodluck
March 18th, 2007 at 11.43 am
porto,
don’t get discourged just yet, audio only started last night when the game did
March 18th, 2007 at 1.37 pm
working?????
March 18th, 2007 at 2.01 pm
Only the Tescali site works, the BBC feed still says UK listners only. Doesn’t matter as I don’t think anybody is covering Australia v Neth.
March 18th, 2007 at 2.29 pm
brett, bbc was working for me up until 5 mins ago????? dropped out!
March 18th, 2007 at 2.35 pm
brett, i’m outside the the uk and bbc link tobi gave above is back working if you’re interested? it’s only england but it’s better commentry then tescali
March 18th, 2007 at 3.57 pm
well, tescali works fine, however, the bbc link opens and i can click on “audio commentary” but nothing happens…it doesn’t matter which browser i use (firefox or safari…IE doesn’t let me click on anything)…i’ve tried waiting for more than 10mins, and even tried in RealPlayer itself…nothing =( frustrating! at least tescali works
March 18th, 2007 at 4.59 pm
interesting point, i listened to Eng v NZ without prob yesterday, but today i could not get Eng v Can, however after 15 mins I tried the Tiscali link and that worked, but almost immediatly after the bbc started working so it seems to be a gliche thing with the bbc link as to wether it works straight away or not
March 19th, 2007 at 3.07 pm
Any link for live audio for India vs Bermuda match?
March 19th, 2007 at 3.09 pm
Agree with Bryan. It’s strange. I listend to the BBC today and than had a look if the Kiwis a broadcasting a game today (they are not). After that I could not log onto the BBC again. Waited fifteen minutes and it worked…
As Jordan pointed out correctly you always have to hit the “Related - Live Audio commentary only” link. Sometimes it also helps to launch the stand alone player.
March 19th, 2007 at 7.22 pm
hurrah!
after 2 hours, yes two hours, of trying i finally got the bbc link to work
i got no joy from the web link but by cutting and pasting the “open in stand alone player” link (http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/live/live_sportsextra.asx) directly into windows media player and trying again and again (for 20-30 minutes, about 10 paste and retries) it finally worked…the power of patience!
now…do you think i should just leave it connected for the next 4 or 5 weeks?
hurrah!
March 24th, 2007 at 4.50 pm
Hi guy’s, anyone listening to a feed that is actually playing the game between Aust and SA??????
All my options seems to be Eng and Kenya
March 24th, 2007 at 8.23 pm
Hey there Jordan…i have been listening to this game all night. Click on this link and see if you can get the game
http://www.radiosport.co.nz
March 24th, 2007 at 9.11 pm
Have skyped my brother in the UK - who has Radio 5 on live.
Better than nothing
March 26th, 2007 at 10.44 am
Thanks cameronb.
Not that I’m complaining but seems strange to listen to Aust play on the ABC via a purpose built kiwi cricket site???? A pity cricket Aust couldn’t use a little forward thinking and set one up!!!
April 4th, 2007 at 2.52 pm
Hi all,
just to let you know, I’m in Japan, and pasted the BBC feed http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/live/live_sportsextra.asx
into Windows Media Player a few times, but it didn’t work. I tried Real Player, and as soon as I did this, Media Player came alive, I don’t know if the two things happening at once were related though.
I’m on a Mac also, and I thought that might cause a problem. So I’m now listening to England-Sri Lanka,
good luck.
April 15th, 2007 at 9.09 pm
I am listening to the Ireland vs Bangladesh game NOW on Radio 4 LW via the web site http://www.radiofeeds.co.uk Click on the UK stream link R4 LW. Come on Ireland! (sorry, Bangladesh!)
This site worked last week for an England game, but then did NOT work for the England v Bangladesh game.
It is SHOCKING that the BBC (and I guess ABC in Australia) do not allow an “international” tournament (with half empty cricket grounds!) to be broadcast on-line “outside the UK”! Do they want to help cricket grow as a sport or not?
So what if you are a UK TV license fee payer who lives abroad? You pay for the BBC, then they deny you rights to their services because you are outside the UK - IT’S DAYLIGHT ROBBERY!
There is a campaign on the 10 Downing Street website to allow non-UK users access to BBC services:
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/BBC-4-Expats/
Check it out and SIGN it! All it involves is entering your passport number - simple really, as the technology is there!
I am told there is a way of getting the UK stream for BBC Radio Five Live by entering a “random proxy address” into Windows Media Player or Real Player so that the BBC does not detect you are abroad.
Is there anyone out there with enough IT knowledge (like a true cricket fan in Silicon Valley, Karnataka, India!!) who can actually do this???
PLEASE HELP! Keep sport free!
April 16th, 2007 at 5.20 pm
I just tried the link above that Tobi posted http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/sol/newsid_6160000/newsid_6162500/6162564.stm?bw=nb&mp=wm and I’m now finally listening to the Australia/Sri Lanka match from The Netherlands. Thank you Tobi wish I’d found this post earlier 
April 17th, 2007 at 2.46 pm
England vs South Africa (live radio broadcast outside the UK) on:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/sol/newsid_6160000/newsid_6162500/6162564.stm?bw=nb&mp=wm
The above web site is fantastic. Thank you Tobi!
If it doesn’t work, keep clicking it. I had to wait about 10 minutes to get it to work, but it does work!
The UK feed of BBC R4 LW on http://www.radiofeeds.co.uk is giving you the same old BBC rhetoric - ‘due to broadcasting restrictions, blah blah blah….’
BBC - YOU SPOIL SPORTS! YOU ARE KILLING CRICKET!
May 16th, 2007 at 2.50 pm
Does anyone have any ideas for listening to TMS from abroad for the West Indies Tests?
May 17th, 2007 at 11.33 am
the above link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/live/live_sportsextra.asx
works fine for the eng vs west indies test
paste it directly into windows media player, you might have to try 5 or 6 times, over 5 or 10 mins, but once up it stays up
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