Ocean FM

**sligoman** · 05/06/2005, 5:12 PM

Can this be made a sticky please

To all Sligo Exiles,

I'm sure most people know this by now but Ocean Fm broadcasts Sligo Rovers home games(the whole game, live) and gives updates for all the away games. You can listen live on their website here:

http://www.oceanfm.ie/onair/index.php# (Click the listen live icon on the left-hand side of the screen)

Just thought it was a good idea to let Sligo Rovers fans, who cant make it to the match for whatever reason, know that they can still hear the whole game live,

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**ali2005** · 05/06/2005, 9:59 PM

Yeah i heard it once. There very boring

**gustavo** · 05/06/2005, 11:06 PM

boring or not i dont think the lads abroad will care . fair play sligoman for bringing it up . ill post about it in the mods forum to ask one of them to do that

**Rory H** · 06/06/2005, 10:15 AM

Originally Posted by ali2005

Yeah i heard it once. There very boring

it is incredibly dull.....good service though and commentry is funny sometimes

**gustavo** · 06/06/2005, 10:56 AM

jim has an awful habit of talking over the main commentator all the time!

**LondonRover** · 06/06/2005, 12:20 PM

Originally Posted by gustavo

boring or not i dont think the lads abroad will care . fair play sligoman for bringing it up .

Definitely - better than nothing. Safe to say that the League of Ireland First Division doesn't get much coverage on the BBC over here lol!

Now I just need a computer I can actually bloody listen to it on - no speakers at home

**garykelly** · 20/07/2005, 9:45 AM

Ocean FM are unable to broadcast home matches because of the lack of Broadband in the Business Park in Collooney. For the thousands Bit of Red fans living away from Sligo this is such a loss and I suggest everyone that can should contact Eircom to complain. We appear to have the biggest communications companies in the world operating out of Ireland but in a thriving business community in Collooney the service is non existent.
Good luck with your work.
Up the reds,

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Not sure if it's the case of not having broadband that is stopping Ocean covering home games, but no harm giving this a go so all our exiles can hear home games, if broadband is the factor

This link brings you to a form that can be filled and sent to eircom to complain about this. I suppose the more complaints received the better.

http://www.eircom.ie/cgi-bin/bvsm/bv...ceiedffndffg.0

**sligoman** · 20/07/2005, 1:02 PM

I e-mailed them a few weeks ago and they said that the online broadcast is coming from the Donegal studio because there is no broadband in the Sligo one at the moment. When they get broadband installed in Sligo then they will have to seperate live feeds available online-one from Donegal and one from Sligo.

**TopOfTheLeague** · 24/07/2005, 9:27 PM

the commentator is pure dry and boring but it'll jst have to do for when i cant make it to the games..

**sligoman** · 25/07/2005, 5:55 PM

Originally Posted by garykelly

http://www.eircom.ie/cgi-bin/bvsm/bv...ceiedffndffg.0

That link says that your session has expired. Any chance you could tell me the e-mail address Gary? and then I'll e-mail them too

. Also, did you get an e-mail back from them yet?

**garykelly** · 25/07/2005, 10:34 PM

whoops sorry. just goto contact eircom and goto complaints. its on eircom.ie

**Rory H** · 29/07/2005, 11:32 AM

the commentary on ocean yesterday was suprisingly good..maybe cos the game was quality but i thought it was excellent...maloney and o dwyer knew what they were taking about,they got excited when rovers went forward[at one stage maloney squealed like a girl] and when one said "gerry carr scores at both ends,that doesnt happen very often" they didnt even laugh...

much better than 20min updates!

**roversforever** · 29/07/2005, 10:29 PM

fair play to ocean fm,commentary was pretty good last night.can we have more of the same for away games please,instead of the updates!

**nephin** · 05/08/2005, 2:54 PM

Does anybody know if Ocean FM are broadcasting any of tonights match?

**Ash** · 05/08/2005, 3:07 PM

Is Ocean FM the new name for NWR?

**nephin** · 05/08/2005, 3:16 PM

Originally Posted by Ash

Is Ocean FM the new name for NWR?

Yeah it is.

**sligoman** · 05/08/2005, 11:46 PM

Originally Posted by Ash

Is Ocean FM the new name for NWR?

Well it's a completely different radio station Ash. NWR doesn't exist anymore and Ocean FM have got the licence to broadcast in the NW now.

**gustavo** · 08/08/2005, 12:03 PM

yeah and they are practically the same as NWR i thought they might have modernised the programming schedule a bit but no !

**Rory H** · 26/09/2005, 10:28 AM

why can ocean provide commentary for 2 away games[cork and dublin city,3-1 both times,damn ocean!] and then when a game like,say cobh away comes around we only get ****ty updates...