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Have Your Say on the World Cup with
the 大象传媒 - See the match - then chat
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The referee has booked your favourite player, your team has lost a crucial match and a star player has shaved off his famous locks.
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Let off steam with World
Cup Have Your Say, the 大象传媒
radio and online forum giving football fans across the world an opportunity
to have a global rant on the FIFA World Cup everyday from Friday
9 June to Sunday 9 July, 0800 to 0830 GMT.
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World Cup Have Your Say will be the world's hub for football fans. It will give supporters across the globe opportunities to share their opinions on everything ranging from offside decisions and goal celebrations, team selections and refereeing to the best players and bad haircuts.
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The occasional big name will pop up to give their personal
view on the tournament and listeners itching to speak to them can
do so by:
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- SMS text message: +44 77 86 20
60 80
- telephone: +44 20
70 83 72 72
- email: worldhaveyoursay@bbc.co.uk
- visit the
online site bbcnews.com/worldhaveyoursay,
where visitors can also listen live.
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The 大象传媒 will also provide daily, international coverage of the World Cup in 33
languages including:
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- Burmese
- Chinese
- English for Africa and the Caribbean
- French
- Hausa
- Hindi
- Portuguese
- Spanish
- Swahili and
- Vietnamese
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大象传媒 Burmese will have a panel
discussion with special guests at four key stages throughout the tournament in
its Dawn Programme which broadcasts every Monday at 0000
GMT.
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大象传媒 Burmese presenter Thuyein Kyaw Zaw will be joined by former and current footballers and a football
mad celebrity to preview and analyse all the teams before the tournament begins,
before the quarter final matches, before the semi-final matches and before
the final of the World Cup.
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Dawn Programme will also profile each
team in the eight qualifying groups and give a special prize
of a radio to the listener who correctly predicts the teams reaching
the semi-finals and finals of the World Cup. Further information
can be found online at bbcburmese.com 听
大象传媒 Chinese sports producers Qingrong
He and Sun Chen will bring daily reports and stories from Germany - inside and outside the venues. Their reports will be heard on SW and in daily news bulletins to be broadcast through 大象传媒 partner stations Tianjin
Binhai Radio, Dalian Radio, Qingdao
Radio and Nanjing Radio.
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They will also be interviewed daily by 大象传媒 partner stations Chongqing
Radio in Sichuan Province, Guangdong
Radio in Guangzhou and Shanghai Sports
Radio which will also run a joint World Cup quiz with 大象传媒 Chinese.
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The top prize is a trip to London which includes a
city tour and tickets to a Premiership football match. 大象传媒 Chinese
interactive programme Have Your Say is the place for football fans
to discuss the magic of the games while visitors to bbcchina.com.cn can access special reports, pictures and audio from the tournament. 听
The 大象传媒's flagship English for Africa sports
programme Fast
Track will have dedicated reporters in Germany bringing the latest
news, exclusive features and player profiles on all five African teams participating
in the World Cup - Angola, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Togo and Tunisia. Their reports,
starting Friday 9 June will feature online at bbc.co.uk/africanfootball
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大象传媒 Caribbean correspondent in Port of Spain, Tony
Fraser, will follow the progress of the team from the smallest country to ever qualify for the World Cup, Trinidad and Tobago, in a weekly column at bbccaribbean.com
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Meanwhile, in Germany football mad Trinidadian Franka
Philip will bring the stories from fans or 'Trini posse' who have
travelled from the Caribbean and across the globe to support their
team in her own weekly column. Visitors to bbccaribbean.com can also
access features and team profiles. 听
Also reporting in English will be reporters Rebecca Kesby and Piers
Wisbey who will tour the World Cup venues in a camper van.
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Listeners,
unable to get to Germany, can live the experience through Rebecca and Piers
as they navigate their way to matches and camp out with fans, bringing
their stories to a global audience. They will also speak to the critics
and the beleaguered locals.
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Their travels and travails will feature in all major
news programmes and in a blog to be updated everyday at bbcnews.com/worldhaveyoursay 听
大象传媒 Afrique sports reporter Emmanuel
Coste will be in Germany bringing special reports and interviews with key players from the Ivory Coast and Togo teams.
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He will keep French speaking listeners up to date with
the latest news and share stories and emotions from fans on the football
roller-coaster as they watch their teams battle it out against the
best in the world. 听
Emmanuel will be supported by 大象传媒 Afrique staff back home in London who will ensure every angle of the tournament is covered from the first kick to when the Jules Rimet trophy is lifted by the winning team.
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大象传媒 Afrique will also bring coverage everyday in programmes
Matin at 0600
GMT, Midi at
1200 GMT, World
Cup Magazine at 1230 GMT, Soir at
1800 GMT and in Sport
Weekend broadcast every Saturday at 1830
GMT.
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Football fans can also enjoy features, profiles and
pictures on all qualifying teams taking part in the tournament
online at bbcafrique.com/mondial
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Tournament followers can have their
thoughts and opinions read out on air throughout the tournament
by sending an email to mondial@bbc.co.uk or by
leaving a message via telephone in London (+ 44 20 75 57 27 85),
Abidjan (+ 225 20 22 82 82) and 驰补辞耻苍诲茅 (+ 237
223 91 64). 听
大象传媒 Brasil journalists Diego
Toledo, Eric Camara and Marcelo
Crescenti will be in Germany everyday from the start of the tournament bringing the action, stories and interviews from fans and the Brazilian team. Their reports will also feature online at bbcbrasil.com
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大象传媒 Hausa sports producers Ahmed
Abba Abdullahi and Mohammed Ahmed will bring daily
coverage of the tournament with special focus on teams from Ghana, Togo and the
Ivory Coast. They will quench the thirst of all football
lovers with up-to- the-minute reports, analysis and interviews.
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In Ghana,
reporter Iddi Ali will stand shoulder-to-shoulder
with fans in Accra, bringing the emotion and passion as they
watch their team play. Reporter Shehu
Saulawa will be in the
other football hot spot in Africa, Nigeria. They may not be
in the tournament but they are passionate football lovers and
Shehu will bring their opinions on the games. 听
大象传媒 Hindi reporter Manak
Gupta is travelling to Germany to bring special reports on all 32 teams and their fans. 大象传媒 Hindi World Cup reports will be heard for six weeks on India's main national broadcaster All India Radio's Gold 106.4 FM and Rajdhani
666 MW.
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These reports will also be relayed by All India Radio's
65 other major stations at 0705 local time starting 31 May until
10 July.
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Mumbai based partner station GO
92.5 FM will also carry
大象传媒 Hindi's coverage of the tournament. Manak's reports will
be available in text and audio online at bbchindi.com and bbcnews.com 听
大象传媒 Spanish American service radio and online programme 大象传媒
Mundo will have sport producers Vladimir
Hernandez and Hector Riazuelo in Germany to bring special reports on air and online on the six Latin American teams taking part, including Spain.
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Its flagship programme 大象传媒 Mundo
HOY is sending presenter
Luis Fernando Restrepo to broadcast directly from the opening matches
and the final.
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大象传媒 Deportes, which broadcasts
three times daily, will provide a 10 minute round-up at the
end of each day. Listeners can also expect to hear daily reports
and stories, throughout the tournament, looking at the other side
of the World Cup. Special features, team profiles and audio of its
programmes are available online at bbcmundo.com 听
大象传媒 Swahili sports commentator Juma
Nkamia will be in Germany bringing special daily reports from the heart of Berlin. Juma will also visit other stadiums hosting matches throughout the month long championship to bring back stories from the fans.
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His reports will be heard in 大象传媒 Swahili's flagship
morning programme Amka na 大象传媒 which broadcasts for half an hour
at 0300 GMT (0600 EAT and 0500
CAT) and for another half hour at
0400 GMT (0700 EAT and 0600
CAT).
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Daily updates and analysis
will also be broadcast in 大象传媒 Swahili programmes Dira
ya Dunia at 1530
GMT (1830 EAT and 1730
CAT) and Leo Africa at 1745
GMT (2045
EAT and 1945 CAT). Further information can be found online
at bbcswahili.com 听
大象传媒 Vietnamese reporter Hong
Thanh will be in Germany for a week bringing the
excitement of the games for reports on air and online. Listeners
can also expect daily bulletins rounding up each match as well as stories
from around the tournament.
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bbcvietnamese.com is hosting
an online special where football
fans can talk about anything to do with the World Cup or football
in general such as match fixing and bribery which is said to be affecting
Vietnamese's national team, and why are millions of young Vietnamese,
including women, appearing to love European and Brazilian teams
more than their own?
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Visitors can also find out about the teams taking
part in the tournament, read features on young football talents
and enter competitions. 听 |
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