Panthers weekly show on BBC Radio Nottingham

[ChrisE]

Hello all,

I am pleased to say BBC Radio Nottingham are introducing a weekly ice-hockey show each Friday night between 6.30 and 7 o'clock.

Panthers Powerplay will be part of the Radio Nottingham pre-match programme with half an hour dedicated to ice-hockey each week.

As the show title suggests we'll look ahead to the weekend action, as well as introducing new features with special guests each week. The show will run from now until the end of the season and this Friday, coach Mike Ellis will join myself and presenter Alan Clifford in the studio.

I can also confirm there'll be full match commentary from France on each of the Continental Cup games on the web at www.bbc.co.uk/nottingham

[Doughnut]

I'm gonna have to get a radio now!

Or will the show be available on the BBC website for a few days afterwards?

[MP]

Good work Chris!

Hockey fans have never been so well catered for.

[Simmo78]

Great news all round!

Something that the fans have been longing for and I'm sure it will be a success.

Well done to all involved for getting it up and running.

Look forward to listening in!

Simmo

[Deleted]

Absolutely great news. Well done Radio Nottingham and also to you Chris for what I am sure has been a great deal of lobbying behind the scenes.

[Higgy]

Some good news after all the bad news regarding photographs

[Lucy]

doughnut said:

I'm gonna have to get a radio now!

Or will the show be available on the BBC website for a few days afterwards?

All programmes are live on the web and I think you can go on their website and listen to old programmes too.

[texpef]

bloomin' fantastic news... WELL DONE Chris obviously alot of bartering and hard work behind the scenes has paid off for us panfers fans...

[matt44]

Just what we need to try to reach out for new fans. Maybe a few of the football fans who listen to the show will be tempted along.

[Rich]

Good news, good luck with it Elly

[cc77]

Excellent news Chris,especially the match comentaries ;D

Also as anyone else noticed how much more Panthers coverage there is on the tv
Well done to east midlands today, and to Central Tonight. You can never get enough of a good thing.

Well Done to everyone on promoting the team and sport, keep up the good work. ;D

[texpef]

ALL my emails paid off then eh chris.... Will it be a call in show or just interviews/views etc?

[jay87]

thing is Panthers are the third most successful sport team from Nottingham in recent years
last year the Nott CC won the Title 2005
Nottingham RC got promoted not sure was either 2004/2005 2005/2006
Then Panthers Challenge Cup 2004
Forest won promotion to the premership 1997/98
Notts County.

So IMHO that the most succesful teams should get more media coverage.

[KimThePanther]

Notts County won their Championship by 17 points and with six games to spare the very same season that Forest won promotion to the Premiership Jay.

Good news all round! Shame it couldn't have been an hour long like the programmes last season during the playoffs but all publicity is good publicity.

[ChrisE]

Hi all...

Just to confirm that Mike Ellis will be in the studio, and this week we will be joined by Ed Courtenay, Kim Ahroos and Marc Levers.

We will look back at a memorable Panthers/Belfast meeting of the past, in additon to looking forward to this weekends game.

The show will be very flexible, some weeks we will invite calls for a phone-in, and other times there'll special features but I want it to be your show too. So any ideas please let me know!

Chris

[Deleted]

Excellent, a big well done to all concerned for getting the Panthers a regular slot.

One idea as one of your guests this week is Kimmy , it led me on wouldn t it be great if you could somehow contact some old faces, fan favourites etc, from years gone by and eith invite them over or somehow record a interview with them, i think that would be a massive hit. ;D

[David]

I tuned into here just in time

[David]

That wasn't our Kim emailing in was it?

[KimThePanther]

It was! ;D

Didn't think they'd spend that much time discussing it.

[panthers8768]

good on ya kim

[glen]

have to say that was a good show i agree ian would be a great thing having some of the past players on the show mabey some one like garth premak ect

[Jonno]

Unfortunately I missed it. Is it possible to listen to the show online? Cheers

[panthers8768]

It should be jonno through bbc radio nottinghams web site

[BIG-BAD-TONE]

For those that are not going to France this is a godsend keep up the good work Chris

[sunbeam]

jay87 said:

thing is Panthers are the third most successful sport team from Nottingham in recent years
last year the Nott CC won the Title 2005
Nottingham RC got promoted not sure was either 2004/2005 2005/2006
Then Panthers Challenge Cup 2004
Forest won promotion to the premership 1997/98
Notts County.

So IMHO that the most succesful teams should get more media coverage.

So if Basford Boys do the double they should get more local coverage than Forest?

Radio Nott'm and the POST are extremely good to the Panthers and the Panthers are equally good to them.