Internet Radio for Bundesliga?

[stammtisch]

Wondering if anyone knows if it is possible to listen to Bundesliga games online (auf Deutsch)? All I have seen is non-audio matchtrackers

If so, would appreciate if someone could post links

Thanks

[Dead Fingers]

Wondering if anyone knows if it is possible to listen to Bundesliga games online (auf Deutsch)? All I have seen is non-audio matchtrackers

If so, would appreciate if someone could post links

Thanks


http://www.bundesliga.de/
I think has some. Otherwise--most teams have their own "internet radio" service. Bayern has one for English and German. Some you have to pay--some you don't. I am not sure of a BBC or Skysports German equivilent.

[ollie]

You can check out this site. It has links to audio webcasts from various domestic leagues.
http://socceraudio.com/ (http://)

[Robert25]

Yeah most team sites i have found want you to pay. But the Bundesliga website gives you one or two free games and even lets you vote on which games it will be. They did that last year anyway.

Have fun!

[210597]

Until mid-2002, they broadcast every game live on bundesliga.de, and some even in English. Then they cut back on the service, in the old Bundesliga tradition of being willing to always save a dime now at the expense of a dollar later. Now it's the limited deal.

All of Schalke's games, Bundesliga, Cup and otherwise, with about 60 minutes of soccer and 30 of music, give or take a couple, are broadcast locally on Radio Emscher-Lippe. Listen in live on on www.rel-meinradio.de.

Aside from Schalke, I don't know that there is a regular broadcast schedule for the DFB Cup or the European competitions.

Also, it's a tradition in Germany that on every matchday, there's the Konferenz, where the broadcast rotates from stadium to stadium. It's the quintessential German soccer experience: Saturday, 15:30, turn on the radio (in the west, where I am, that's WDR2), listen to the soccer interrupted by music and news until shortly before five, then hunker down for the "Schlußkonferenz", the final whip around the seven Saturday stadiums, in the last 20 minutes of the game. Then watch the Sportschau with the highlights at 6. That's how it's been for decades. Don't be fooled by bundesliga.de: Their conference is utter crap, with two guys sitting in one stadium literally calling the games off of Premiere TV, an utterly joyless affair that would confirm any stereotype anyone ever had about boring Germans, and doesn't in any way measure up to the excitement of the real radio version.

So enjoy the real thing at www.wdr.de/radio/wdr2/ligalive/ every Saturday at 9:30 eastern.

Note: WDR2 will only give you the games of the Western German Radio region teams (Schalke, Leverkusen, Mönchengladbach, Dortmund, Bielefeld, Bochum) until the Schlußkonferenz. If you want other teams, here are your stations:

NDR2: Hannover, HSV, Werder Bremen, Rostock, Wolfsburg
RBB: Hertha BSC Berlin
Bayern 2: Nürnberg, Bayern
SWR1 RP (you might wanna double-check that, might be SWR3): Kaiserslautern, Mainz
SWR1 BW: Freiburg, Stuttgart

I'm not sure to what extent those networks cover soccer before the Schlußkonferenz, however.

[PileD]

NDR2, RBB and SWR1 have a Schlußkonferenz.
Bayern2 had one if they've now I don't know.

[jonam]

Borussia Dortmund have an own internet audio stream that airs every BVB match that is not on free-TV.

Go to

http://borussia-dortmund.lycos.de/?%9FZ%1B%E7%F4%9D#

and choose

either "Langsamer Zugang (Handy, Modem)" (Slow connection)
or "Schneller Zugang (ISDN, DSL)" (highspeed connection).

A new window will open and netradio will start. Of course German commentary only. :-/