ALMS front-runner Liz Halliday will be the special guest on Midweek Motorsport this Wednesday at 8pm UK time. Liz has just announced a full season of LMP 2 partnering former Champion Clint Field in the ALMS and will be adding the 24 Hours of Le Mans to her busy racing schedule.
Midweek Motorsport one of the live show and events covered by GlobeCast Radio. The station, launched in September 2004, is the only motorsport and automotive biased service in the UK. Broadcasting 24-hours and day, free-to-air to 11.5 million homes via Sky Digital channel 907 and across the world via the Internet at www.radiolemans.com the channel has quickly established itself as the home of motoring broadcasting for an English-speaking audience.
Liz will be joining Radio Le Mans and ALMS Radio regular John Hindhaugh who is the presenter of the show. "It's great to have Liz as a studio guest" said Hindhaugh. "Quite often we can only speak to the stars on the phone, having Liz in means we can take emails, text messages and even phone calls from our listeners."
John is encouraging fans to get their questions in early - email is the best way - studio@radiolemans.com or by telephoning from around 7pm UK time on the night +44 (0) 20 7753 3636. There will be prizes for some listeners!
Recent Midweek Motorsport guests have included F1 stars Mark Webber and Michael Schumacher, Head of Prodrive (and WRC rights holder) David Richards, ChampCar supremo Kevin Kalkovan and stars from the world of sportscars including Le Mans winners Tom Kristenson, Allan McNish and Guy Smith.
On average GlobeCast attracts a weekly satellite audience of around 100,000, however live event coverage can attract more than half of that in a single day.
Over 20,000 international listeners tune in live each week. These figures are boosted by the thousands of enthusiasts who use the ‘Podcast’ archive. Listeners can download programmes on demand to computers or MP3 players allowing them to hear their favourite station whist in the gym, the car, indeed wherever they are.
Like the satellite audience, Internet listener figures increase substantially during live event coverage. During the live broadcast of Le Mans 24 Hours 2005, throughout Saturday and Sunday there were an average of 63,000 individuals logged on to the live coverage at any given time. Globecast broadcast extensive coverage of every ALMS event. Practice, qualifying and the whole race is exclusively live. In addition the station covers every British Rally Championship round, the UK WRC event, Wales Rally GBand reports on a host of national and international motorsport.
Globecast is free to air on Sky Channel 907, available 24-7 via the Internet at www.radiolemans.com and live shows are archived for 'download-on-demand' by searching for 'Globecast' at www.iTunes.com and other podcasting sites such as www.podcast.net
