WELSH sports minister Alun Pugh was last night urged to intervene in the campaign to secure BBC radio commentary for Wrexham fans across North Wales.
Supporters not served by BBC Radio Wales's VHF transmitter in Wrexham are denied live match coverage of their favourite team and often offered a Swansea City match instead.
Wrexham fan David Banks of Rhuddlan has been campaigning for the BBC to invest in its transmission system so Dragons' supporters do not lose out.
"Only supporters living in the confines of the Wrexham VHF area, supplied by Radio Wales' north east transmitter,, can now tune in to this new commentary service that has been made available this season," he said.
"Those listeners living further north of the town than Hope village, comprising almost the whole of Flintshire, the North Wales coast and north west Wales, now have to put up with commentary on Swansea City matches that are broadcast via Radio Wales' north west transmitter."
Unhappy at the responses to questions posed to BBC Wales's head of sport Nigel Walker, Mr Banks has now raised the issue with North Wales MPs and AMs. He asked why Wrexham's matches could not be broadcast on 657AM medium wave, received in a large part of North Wales.
Wrexham AM John Marek said: "It is nonsense for people in north east Wales to have to listen to a Swansea City match."
A BBC Wales spokesman said yesterday: "Our transmitter network was built up over decades and the signal to the north west originates from Swansea.
"The transmitter in the Wrexham area doesn't have the power of others.
"It would mean having to re-route our entire transmission system at a cost of thousands of pounds which we can't expect in the foreseeable future."
