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BBC Radio 5 Live (formerly styled BBC Radio Five Live) is the BBC's radio
Radio

Radio is the transmission of signals, by modulation of electromagnetic radiation with frequency below those of visible light.Electromagnetic radiation radio propagation by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space....
 service providing live BBC News
BBC News

BBC News, formerly BBC News and Current Affairs, is the department within the BBC responsible for the corporation's news-gathering and production of news programmes on BBC television, radio and online....
, phone-ins, and sports commentaries. It is the principal radio station covering sport
Broadcasting of sports events

The broadcasting of sports events is the coverage of sports on television, radio and other broadcasting mediums. It usually involves one or more sports commentators describing the events as they happen....
 in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
, broadcasting virtually all major sports events staged in the UK or involving British competitors.

It is transmitted via analogue radio on 693 and 909 kHz AM in the medium wave band, frequencies that belonged to BBC Radio 2
BBC Radio 2

BBC Radio 2 is one of the BBC's national radio radio station and the List of most-listened-to radio programs in the United Kingdom. Much of its daytime playlist-based programming is best described as Adult contemporary music or Album-orientated rock, although the station is also noted for its specialist broadcasting of other musical genres....
 from 23 November 1978 to 26 August 1990 (before that they were used in some regions of the UK by the BBC Home Service
BBC Home Service

The BBC Home Service was a United Kingdom national radio station which broadcast from 1939 until 1967....
 and BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a domestic UK radio station that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history....
), and on digital radio in the United Kingdom
Digital radio in the United Kingdom

In the United Kingdom, the roll-out of digital radio is proceeding since test transmissions were started by the BBC in 1990. The UK currently has the world's biggest digital radio network, with 103 transmitters, with two national Digital Audio Broadcasting DAB ensemble and forty eight local and regional DAB ensembles broadcasting over 2...
 via DAB
Digital audio broadcasting

Digital Audio Broadcasting , also known as EUREKA, is a digital radio technology for broadcasting radio stations, used in several countries, particularly in the UK and Europe....
, digital satellite
Direct broadcast satellite

Direct broadcast satellite is a term used to refer to satellite television broadcasts intended for home reception, also referred to more broadly as direct-to-home signals....
 (Freesat
Freesat

Freesat is a United Kingdom free-to-air digital satellite television service which is a joint venture between the BBC and ITV plc. The service was marketed from 6 May 2008 and offers a satellite alternative to the Freeview service on digital terrestrial television, with a selection of channels available without subscription for users purcha...
 and Sky
Sky Digital (UK & Ireland)

Sky Digital is the brand name for British Sky Broadcasting's digital satellite television and satellite radio service, transmitted from SES Astra satellites located at Astra 28.2?E and Eutelsat's Eurobird 1 satellite at 28.5?E....
), IPTV
IPTV

IPTV is a system where a digital television service is delivered using Internet Protocol over a network infrastructure, which may include delivery by a broadband connection....
 and Freeview (digital terrestrial television
Digital terrestrial television

Digital Terrestrial Television is an implementation of digital technology to provide a greater number of channels and/or better quality of picture and sound using aerial broadcasts to a conventional Antenna instead of a satellite dish or cable connection....
).






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BBC Radio 5 Live (formerly styled BBC Radio Five Live) is the BBC's radio
Radio

Radio is the transmission of signals, by modulation of electromagnetic radiation with frequency below those of visible light.Electromagnetic radiation radio propagation by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space....
 service providing live BBC News
BBC News

BBC News, formerly BBC News and Current Affairs, is the department within the BBC responsible for the corporation's news-gathering and production of news programmes on BBC television, radio and online....
, phone-ins, and sports commentaries. It is the principal radio station covering sport
Broadcasting of sports events

The broadcasting of sports events is the coverage of sports on television, radio and other broadcasting mediums. It usually involves one or more sports commentators describing the events as they happen....
 in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
, broadcasting virtually all major sports events staged in the UK or involving British competitors.

It is transmitted via analogue radio on 693 and 909 kHz AM in the medium wave band, frequencies that belonged to BBC Radio 2
BBC Radio 2

BBC Radio 2 is one of the BBC's national radio radio station and the List of most-listened-to radio programs in the United Kingdom. Much of its daytime playlist-based programming is best described as Adult contemporary music or Album-orientated rock, although the station is also noted for its specialist broadcasting of other musical genres....
 from 23 November 1978 to 26 August 1990 (before that they were used in some regions of the UK by the BBC Home Service
BBC Home Service

The BBC Home Service was a United Kingdom national radio station which broadcast from 1939 until 1967....
 and BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a domestic UK radio station that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history....
), and on digital radio in the United Kingdom
Digital radio in the United Kingdom

In the United Kingdom, the roll-out of digital radio is proceeding since test transmissions were started by the BBC in 1990. The UK currently has the world's biggest digital radio network, with 103 transmitters, with two national Digital Audio Broadcasting DAB ensemble and forty eight local and regional DAB ensembles broadcasting over 2...
 via DAB
Digital audio broadcasting

Digital Audio Broadcasting , also known as EUREKA, is a digital radio technology for broadcasting radio stations, used in several countries, particularly in the UK and Europe....
, digital satellite
Direct broadcast satellite

Direct broadcast satellite is a term used to refer to satellite television broadcasts intended for home reception, also referred to more broadly as direct-to-home signals....
 (Freesat
Freesat

Freesat is a United Kingdom free-to-air digital satellite television service which is a joint venture between the BBC and ITV plc. The service was marketed from 6 May 2008 and offers a satellite alternative to the Freeview service on digital terrestrial television, with a selection of channels available without subscription for users purcha...
 and Sky
Sky Digital (UK & Ireland)

Sky Digital is the brand name for British Sky Broadcasting's digital satellite television and satellite radio service, transmitted from SES Astra satellites located at Astra 28.2?E and Eutelsat's Eurobird 1 satellite at 28.5?E....
), IPTV
IPTV

IPTV is a system where a digital television service is delivered using Internet Protocol over a network infrastructure, which may include delivery by a broadband connection....
 and Freeview (digital terrestrial television
Digital terrestrial television

Digital Terrestrial Television is an implementation of digital technology to provide a greater number of channels and/or better quality of picture and sound using aerial broadcasts to a conventional Antenna instead of a satellite dish or cable connection....
). It is also streamed online, however due to rights restrictions, coverage of some events, especially "live" sporting events, is not available online. Some content is available online but restricted to UK users, however the UK stream can be accessed overseas by using a proxy server.

The station broadcasts from the News Centre at BBC Television Centre
BBC Television Centre

BBC Television Centre in West London, sometimes abbreviated to TVC, TC or TV Centre, is the headquarters of BBC Television. The greater part of the BBC's television output comes from here, as well as, in more recent years, that of BBC Radio 5 Live and, since 1998, that of most of the corporation's national BBC News service....
 with a small office in Manchester and a team of its own reporters based around the UK. The station will be moving in 2011, as part of a larger shift of some BBC resources, to Salford
Salford

Salford lies at the heart of the City of Salford, a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, in North West England. Salford is located by a meander of the River Irwell, which forms its boundary with the city of Manchester to the east....
.

History


The success of Radio 4 News FM during the 1991 first Gulf War
Gulf War

"Persian Gulf War" and "First Gulf War" redirect here. For other uses, see Persian Gulf War .The Persian Gulf War was a United Nations-authorized military conflict between Iraq and a Coalition of Gulf War from 34 nations commissioned with expelling Iraqi forces from Kuwait after Iraq's Invasion of Kuwait of Kuwait in August 1990....
 led Liz Forgan
Liz Forgan

Dame Elizabeth "Liz" Anne Lucy Forgan, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire is an England journalist and executive for radio and television....
 to suggest in May 1993 the introduction of a combined news and sport network. Accordingly, the "old" Radio 5
BBC Radio 5 (former)

BBC Radio 5 was, for three years and eight months, a British Broadcasting Corporation radio network that carried sports, children's and educational programmes....
 closed down at midnight on Sunday 27 March 1994 and the new Radio 5 Live began its 24-hour service on the morning of Monday 28 March. The first voice on air was Jane Garvey
Jane Garvey (broadcaster)

Jane Garvey is a British people radio presenter, currently presenting BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour...
, who later went on to co-present the breakfast and drivetime shows with Peter Allen
Peter Allen (UK broadcaster)

Peter Edwin Allen is UK radio broadcaster, and the current co-presenter of BBC Radio Five Live's Drive programme....
. The launch was described by The Times
The Times

The Times is a daily national newspaper published in the United Kingdom since 1785 when it was known as The Daily Universal Register.The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of News International....
 as "slipp[ing] smoothly and confidently into a routine of informative banter" and The Scotsman as "professionalism at its slickest."

The tone of the channel, engaging and more relaxed than contemporary BBC output, was the key to the channel's success and would set the model for other BBC News services later in the decade. The first audiences were some four million, with a record audience of six and a quarter million.

Before the launch of digital broadcasting, the station (and Radio 5
BBC Radio 5 (former)

BBC Radio 5 was, for three years and eight months, a British Broadcasting Corporation radio network that carried sports, children's and educational programmes....
 before it) broadcast for several years on analogue satellite with near-FM quality.

Presenters that have now left the station include Susan Bookbinder, Jon Briggs
Jon Briggs

Jon Briggs?s work spans Radio, TV, Voice-Over, Training and Conferences. He started in radio in 1981 as tea boy and progressed to the breakfast show with BBC Radio Oxford at aged 19....
, Jon Champion
Jon Champion

Jon Champion is a freelance television Sportscaster who works for ITV Sport and Setanta Sports 1 & 2. His late father David Champion was the deputy headmaster of the independent school Bootham School, York....
, Adrian Chiles
Adrian Chiles

Adrian Chiles is a England television and radio presenter.His journalistic training and love of football have resulted in a career in two streams of broadcasting, fronting general and notably business programmes such as Working Lunch; and sports programmes like Match of the Day 2....
, Edwina Currie
Edwina Currie

Edwina Currie Jones n?e Cohen is a former British Member of Parliament. First elected as a Conservative Party MP in 1983, she was a Junior Health Minister for two years, before resigning in 1988 over the controversy over salmonella in eggs....
, Fi Glover
Fi Glover

Fiona "Fi" Glover is a BBC journalist and presenter, and the host of BBC Radio 4's Saturday Live . Her style is characterised by a mix of serious journalism and subtle satirical and sarcastic comment....
, Nick Hancock, Brian Hayes
Brian Hayes (broadcaster)

Brian Hayes is a radio presenter who is known in United Kingdom for his phone-in shows.The son of a miner, he left school aged 15 and worked as a clerk for a mining company before obtaining a job as a newsreader for a radio station in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia....
, Peter Heaton-Jones
Peter Heaton-Jones

Peter Heaton-Jones, , is a British/Australian journalist, broadcaster and political campaigner who has held senior positions in the media and politics in both the UK and Australia....
, Jane Hill
Jane Hill

Jane Hill is a British newsreader working for the BBC.She is one of the main presenters on BBC News , the corporation's 24-hour rolling news channel, and is a relief anchor for the BBC News at One, as well as regularly presenting BBC One weekend bulletins....
, Des Lynam
Des Lynam

Desmond Michael "Des" Lynam, Order of the British Empire is an Irish people presenter on British television and radio. He currently lives in the seaside town of Worthing, West Sussex....
, David Mellor
David Mellor

David John Mellor Queen's Counsel is a United Kingdom politician, barrister, broadcaster, journalist and football pundit, who has long been involved with the Conservative Party ....
, Louise Minchin
Louise Minchin

Louise M M Minchin is a United Kingdom journalist and presenter. She is currently a regular presenter on the BBC News , as well as being the main relief presenter for the BBC News at One and BBC Breakfast....
, Paddy O'Connell
Paddy O'Connell

Guy Patrick Bennett O'Connell , better known as Paddy O'Connell is a United Kingdom television and radio presenter of Irish descent, working mainly for the BBC....
, Jonathan Pearce
Jonathan Pearce

Jonathan Pearce , is a British football Sportscaster for the BBC.Known for his loud, exuberant commentaries, he has worked for both Radio Five Live and Match of the Day, as well as participating in other lower key sports programmes....
, Nick Robinson
Nick Robinson

Nicholas Anthony Robinson is an England journalist and political editor for the BBC. He was previously the Political Editor of ITV News from November 2002 until August 2005, and Chief Political Correspondent of BBC News before that....
, Sybil Ruscoe
Sybil Ruscoe

Sybil Ruscoe , is a radio and television presenterRuscoe began on the Express and Star newspaper in Wolverhampton. Then moved to Radio Wyvern in Worcester, Beacon Radio and BBC Radio Shropshire....
, Kate Silverton
Kate Silverton

Kate Silverton is an English people journalist, currently employed by the BBC....
, Bill Turnbull
Bill Turnbull

Bill Turnbull is an English people journalist and presenter, currently employed by the BBC and best known for presenting BBC Breakfast....
, and Sian Williams
Sian Williams

Sian Mary Williams is a BBC journalist and current affairs presenter.Presently on maternity leave from 5 February, 2009, since 2005, she has been co-anchor of BBC Breakfast on Mondays through Thursdays....
.

In 2005 the Radio Five Live Sporting Yearbook (ISBN 0-00-721598-3) was published.

The station won five Sony Awards, one gold and four silver, in 2005 and was nominated an additional six times. The lone gold award was in the News Story Award category for its coverage of the 2004 Asian tsunami
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake

The was an undersea earthquake that occurred at 00:58:53 Coordinated Universal Time on December 26, 2004, with an epicentre off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia....
.

BBC Radio 5 Live were Official Broadcasters of the FIFA World Cup 2006
2006 FIFA World Cup

The 2006 FIFA World Cup was the 18th instance of the FIFA World Cup, the Anniversary#Latin-derived numerical names international football world championship tournament....
 along with talkSPORT. Both stations will broadcast live Premier League commentaries from August 2007, with the 7 rights packages being shared 6 to 1 in favour of 5 Live.

A companion station, BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra, was launched as a digital-only service on 2 February 2002.

In August 2007, BBC Radio Five Live was renamed BBC Radio 5 Live and was given a new logo.

BBC breaking news policy

BBC policy for major breaking news events has a priority list. With domestic news, the correspondent first records a "generic minute" summary (for use by all stations and channels) and then priority is to report on Radio 5 Live, then on the BBC News Channel and onto any other programmes that are on air. For foreign news, first a "generic minute" is recorded, then reports are to World Service radio, then the reporter talks to any other programmes that are on air.

Sport on Five Live


BBC Radio 5 Live broadcasts an extremely wide range of sports and covers all the major sporting events, mostly under its flagship sports banner Five Live Sport They are:

  • Live Premier League, FA Cup
    FA Cup

    The Football Association Challenge Cup, commonly known as the FA Cup, is a Single-elimination tournament cup competition in Football in England, run by and named after The Football Association....
    , Football League Cup
    Football League Cup

    The Football League Cup, commonly known as the League Cup or Carling Cup, is an England football competition. Like the FA Cup, it is played on a knockout basis....
     matches, International Football Matches involving the Home Nations and SPL
    SPL

    SPL may refer to:...
     and Scottish Cup
    Scottish Cup

    The Scottish Football Association Challenge Cup, commonly known as the Scottish Cup, is the main national football cup competition of Scotland....
     matches.
  • The World Cup
    FIFA World Cup

    The FIFA World Cup, occasionally called the Football World Cup, but usually referred to simply as the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the List of men's national association football teams of the members of F?d?ration Internationale de Football Association , the sport's global govern...
  • The Olympic Games
    Olympic Games

    The Olympic Games are an international multi-sport event established for both summer and winter sports. There have been two generations of the Olympic Games; the first were the Ancient Olympic Games held at Olympia, Greece, Greece....
  • All Home Nations
    Home Nations

    Home Nations is a collective term often used in sports to refer to England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, which together form the United Kingdom....
     International football
    Football (soccer)

    Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players, and is widely considered to be the most popular sport in the world....
     matches.
  • Champions League
    UEFA Champions League

    The UEFA Champions League, which evolved from the European Champion Clubs' Cup, is a seasonal club Association football competition organised by UEFA since 1992 for the most successful football clubs in Europe....
     (with limitations for online broadcast) and Uefa Cup
    UEFA Cup

    The UEFA Cup is a association football competition for European club teams, organised by the UEFA. It is the second most important international competition for European football clubs, after the UEFA Champions League....
  • The Football League play-offs
    Football League Play-Offs

    The Football League play-offs are a series of football matches to determine a Promotion and relegation place within the English football league system....
  • The FIFA Club World Cup
    FIFA Club World Cup

    The FIFA Club World Cup, formerly known as the FIFA Club World Championship, is a Association football competition contested between the champion clubs from all six continental confederations, although, since 2007, the champions of Oceania Football Confederation must play a qualifying play-off against the champion club of the host count...
     (if English side is involved)
  • Men's Golf Majors
    Men's major golf championships

    The men's major golf championships, often referred to simply as "the majors", are the four most prestigious annual tournaments in professional golf....
     and the Ryder Cup
    Ryder Cup

    The Ryder Cup is a golf trophy, donated by Samuel Ryder, which is awarded biennially in an event called the "Ryder Cup Matches" between teams from Europe and the United States of America....
  • Wimbledon
    The Championships, Wimbledon

    The Championships, Wimbledon, or simply Wimbledon, is the oldest tennis tournament in the world and is widely considered the most prestigious....
    ,
  • Tennis Grand Slams, finals and matches that include players from the UK.
  • England
    England national rugby union team

    The England national rugby union team represents England in rugby union. They compete in the annual Six Nations Championship with France national rugby union team, Ireland national rugby union team, Scotland national rugby union team, Italy national rugby union team, and Wales national rugby union team....
     rugby union test matches
    Rugby union

    Rugby union is a competitive outdoor contact sport, played with an oval ball, by two teams of 15 players. It is one of the two main codes of rugby football, the other being rugby league....
  • The Autumn Internationals
  • Rugby World Cup
    Rugby World Cup

    The Rugby World Cup is the premier international rugby union competition. The event is organised by the sport's governing body, the International Rugby Board , and is contested by the List of international rugby union teams....
  • The British and Irish Lions
    British and Irish Lions

    The British and Irish Lions Combined rugby union sides from the then United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland toured in the Southern Hemisphere from 1888 onwards....
     Tours
  • Guinness Premiership
    Guinness Premiership

    The English Premiership is a professional league competition for rugby union football clubs in the top division of the English rugby system. There are, at present, twelve clubs in the Premiership....
    , Heineken Cup
    Heineken Cup

    The European Rugby Cup is an annual rugby union competition involving leading club, regional and provincial teams from six International Rugby Board nations in Europe: England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales....
     and EDF Energy Cup
    EDF Energy Cup

    The ?lectricit? de France Energy Cup is an England and Wales rugby union knock-out cup competition featuring the twelve Guinness Premiership clubs and four Welsh Regions....
  • The Challenge Cup
    Challenge Cup

    The Challenge Cup is a knockout cup competition for rugby league clubs across Europe. Originally it was contested only by British teams, but in recent years the entry has been expanded to allow teams from across Europe to take part....
  • The Super League Grand Final
    Super League Grand Final

    The Super League Grand Final is the last game of the Super League 's domestic season. The game is played between two teams who have qualified via a Super_League_#Structure, the teams who compete in these play-offs having been decided by the league positions after the end of the regular season's weekly rounds....
  • Formula One
    Formula One

    Formula One, abbreviated to F1, and currently officially referred as the FIA Formula One World Championship is the highest class of auto racing sanctioned by the F?d?ration Internationale de l'Automobile ....
  • The Grand National
  • The Cheltenham Festival
    Cheltenham Festival

    The Cheltenham Festival is the most prestigious meeting in the National Hunt racing calendar in the United Kingdom and has race prize money second only to the Grand National....
    , Royal Ascot and the King George
  • The Classics, the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe
    Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe

    The Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe is a Conditions races Flat racing Horse racing in France which is open to thoroughbreds aged three years or older....
     and the Melbourne Cup
    Melbourne Cup

    The Melbourne Cup is Australia's major annual thoroughbred horse race. Billed as The race that stops a nation, it is a race for three-year-olds and over, over a distance of 3,200 metres....
  • Boxing
    Boxing

    Boxing is a combat sport where two participants, generally of similar human weight, fight each other with their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee and is typically engaged in during a series of one to three-minute intervals called rounds....
  • World Athletics Championships
    IAAF World Championships in Athletics

    The World Championships in Athletics is an event organized by the International Association of Athletics Federations . Originally, it was organised every four years, but this changed in 1991, and it has since been organised biennially....
     and Commonwealth Games
    Commonwealth Games

    The Commonwealth Games is a multinational, multi-sport event. Held every four years, it involves the elite athletes of the Commonwealth of Nations....
  • ÅF Golden League Athletics, European Cup
    European Cup (athletics)

    The European Cup first took place in Stuttgart and Kassel , Germany in 1965. Initially the competition was a bi-annual event , however since 1993, it now takes place once every year....
    , Crystal Palace and other athletics meets.
  • National Football League
    National Football League

    The National Football League is the Major North American professional sports leagues American football Sports league in the United States. It is an unincorporated 501#501.28c.29.286.29 association controlled by its members....
    's Super Bowl
    Super Bowl

    In professional American football, the Super Bowl is the championship game of the National Football League . The game and its ancillary festivities constitute Super Bowl Sunday....
     and International Series
    NFL International Series

    Beginning with the 2005 NFL season, the National Football League has hosted Regular season American football games held outside the United States....


Premier League matches are available online only from IP addresses within the UK. Often UEFA Champions League
UEFA Champions League

The UEFA Champions League, which evolved from the European Champion Clubs' Cup, is a seasonal club Association football competition organised by UEFA since 1992 for the most successful football clubs in Europe....
 games are not broadcast live online at all due to rights restrictions imposed by UEFA. This is sometimes not the case for high-profile matches in the knockout stage involving English clubs playing at home, whereby domestic radio stations may bid for non-exclusive rights to all coverage.

Sport on Sports Extra

As Five Live cannot accommodate all of the sports which they have rights to broadcast, they split some of it with its sister station Sports Extra, including
  • Major League Baseball
    Major League Baseball

    Major League Baseball is the highest level of play in American professional baseball. Specifically, Major League Baseball refers to the organization that operates the National League and the American League, by means of a joint organizational structure that has developed gradually between them since 1903 ....
    's World Series
    World Series

    The World Series is the championship series of Major League Baseball, the culmination of the sport's playoff each October. Since the Series takes place in mid-autumn, sportswriters many years ago dubbed the event the Fall Classic, a usage reflected in the logo for the 2008 World Series; it is also sometimes known as the October Clas...
  • The Six Nations Championship
    Six Nations Championship

    The Six Nations Championship , known before 2000 as the Five Nations Championship, is an annual international rugby union competition involving six European sides: England national rugby union team, France national rugby union team, Ireland national rugby union team, Italy national rugby union team, Scotland national rugby union team an...
     (England matches on Five Live)
  • Cricket World Cup
    Cricket World Cup

    The Cricket World Cup is the premier international championship of men's One Day International cricket. The event is organised by the sport's governing body, the International Cricket Council , with preliminary qualification rounds leading up to a finals tournament which is held every four years....
  • The Super League and the Rugby League Tri-Nations
    Rugby League Tri-Nations

    The Rugby League Tri-Nations is a rugby league tournament involving the top three nations in the sport: Australia national rugby league team, New Zealand national rugby league team and Great Britain national rugby league team....
  • Friends Provident Trophy semi-finals and final and Twenty20
    Twenty20

    Twenty20 is a form of cricket, originally introduced in the United Kingdom for professional inter-county competition by the England and Wales Cricket Board , in 2003....
     Finals Day (The final being on 5 Live)
  • The World Twenty20 and the Twenty20 World Cup
  • ICC Champions Trophy
    ICC Champions Trophy

    The ICC Champions Trophy is a One Day International cricket tournament, second in importance only to the Cricket World Cup. It was inaugurated as the ICC Knock Out tournament in 1998 and has been played every two years since, changing its name to the Champions Trophy in 2002....
  • England
    English cricket team

    The England cricket team is the national cricket team which represents England and Wales. Since 1 January 1997 it has been governed by the England and Wales Cricket Board , having been previously governed by the Marylebone Cricket Club from 1903 until the end of 1996....
     cricket tests
    Test cricket

    Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. It has long been considered the ultimate test of playing ability between cricketing nations....
     and One Day Internationals
  • 'Grand Slam' Tennis tournaments
    Grand Slam (tennis)

    The four Grand Slam tournaments are the most important tennis events of the year in terms of world ranking points, tradition, prize-money awarded, and public attention....


Sports Extra will also typically offer full broadcasts of Premier League and Home Nations football if games overlap each other. Five Live carries the first-choice match in such cases.

Despite the fact that commercial stations (such as Sky Sports
Sky Sports

Sky Sports is the brand name for a group of sports-oriented television channels operated by the UK's main satellite television pay-TV company, BSkyB....
) have acquired the vast majority of sports television broadcasting rights in the UK, the BBC remains dominant in radio sport with BBC Radio 5 Live and its local radio stations. Its main commercial rival for radio sports rights is TalkSPORT
TalkSPORT

talkSPORT, owned by UTV Radio, is one of the United Kingdom's three terrestrial analogue Independent National Radio broadcasters, offering a commercial sports and talk radio service from London to the United Kingdom....
.

Current programmes and presenters


Regular shows as of January 2009:

  • Morning Reports
  • Wake up to Money, presented by and
  • Breakfast, with Nicky Campbell
    Nicky Campbell

    Nicholas Andrew Argyll Campbell is a Scotland radio and television presenter and journalist. He is known for his strong views and assertive style of presenting on programmes such as the consumer affairs programme Watchdog ....
     and Shelagh Fogarty
    Shelagh Fogarty

    Shelagh Fogarty, born January 13, 1966 in Liverpool, Lancashire, is radio and television presenter and journalist. She currently hosts the BBC Radio 5 Live breakfast show with Nicky Campbell....
     in the week and Matt Smith
    Matt Smith (broadcaster)

    Matt Smith is a British broadcaster, and currently one of ITV Sport's main presenters.He presents The Championship highlights programme every Sunday on ITV1, as well as hosting UEFA Cup and UEFA Champions League Live games and highlights....
     and at the weekend
  • The Victoria Derbyshire
    Victoria Derbyshire

    Victoria Derbyshire is a journalist and radio broadcaster who currently presents the mid-morning weekday programme on BBC Radio 5 Live between 10am and 1pm....
     Programme
  • The Simon Mayo Show
  • 5 Live Drive, with Peter Allen
    Peter Allen (UK broadcaster)

    Peter Edwin Allen is UK radio broadcaster, and the current co-presenter of BBC Radio Five Live's Drive programme....
     and Anita Anand
    Anita Anand

    Anita Anand is a British radio presenter and journalist born in London in the United Kingdom. Her parents were Hindus from the North West Frontier of Pakistan bordering on Afghanistan....
     ( is a regular stand-in presenter)
  • Five Live Sport, presented by Mark Saggers
    Mark Saggers

    Mark Leonard Saggers is a British journalist and radio presenter.Saggers began his broadcasting career at BBC Radio Cambridgeshire. His love of sport soon took him Radio Sport in 1989....
     from Monday-Thursday, Colin Murray
    Colin Murray

    Colin Murray is a BBC radio presenter and Five television presenter from the Ballybeen estate in Dundonald, east Belfast, Northern Ireland....
     on Friday, Mark Pougatch
    Mark Pougatch

    Mark Pougatch is a journalist working for the BBC....
     on Saturday and Eleanor Oldroyd
    Eleanor Oldroyd

    Eleanor Oldroyd is an England sports broadcaster with BBC Radio....
     on Sunday. Other presenters include , , John Inverdale
    John Inverdale

    John Inverdale , is an England radio and television broadcaster who works for the BBC, mainly covering sporting events....
     and Ian Dennis
    Ian Dennis

    Ian Dennis is a sports commentator for BBC Radio Five Live. He joined the station in 2002 and commentates principaly on football.Born in 1971 he spent much of his childhood in West Yorkshire where he attended Ilkley Grammar School....
  • Richard Bacon
    Richard Bacon

    Richard Bacon may refer to:* Richard Bacon , English Conservative politician, Member of Parliament for Norfolk South 2001-* Richard Bacon , English television and radio presenter...
  • Up All Night
    Up All Night (radio show)

    Up All Night is a programme broadcast on the national radio station BBC Radio Five Live in the United Kingdom and is on air between the hours of 1am and 5am every night....
     with Rhod Sharp
    Rhod Sharp

    Rhod Sharp is a Scotland-born broadcaster, best known as a presenter of Up All Night on BBC Radio Five Live....
     and Dotun Adebayo
    Dotun Adebayo

    Dotun Adebayo is a radio presenter who is best known for his work on Up All Night on the United Kingdom radio station BBC Radio 5 Live, as well as the obituary programme Brief Lives....
  • The Stephen Nolan
    Stephen Nolan

    Stephen Nolan, born Belfast in 1973, is a radio and television presenter for BBC Northern Ireland and BBC Radio Five Live. He was educated at Royal Belfast Academical Institution, and The Queen's University of Belfast where he studied French language and Business Studies....
     Show
  • The Eamonn Holmes
    Eamonn Holmes

    Eamonn Reginald Holmes is an Irish people television and radio presenter based in England. His prolific presenting across many programmes and channels in the United Kingdom and Ireland and hectic schedule was often parodied in the media to the extent that he was said to hold a monopoly....
     Show
  • Fighting Talk
    Fighting Talk

    Fighting Talk is a topical sports show broadcast on BBC Radio 5 Live during the English association football season. Its first series aired in October 2003, and was presented by Johnny Vaughan....
     with Colin Murray
    Colin Murray

    Colin Murray is a BBC radio presenter and Five television presenter from the Ballybeen estate in Dundonald, east Belfast, Northern Ireland....
  • 6-0-6
    6-0-6

    6-0-6 is a association football phone-in, broadcast on BBC Radio Five Live throughout the football season; when the programme started, it typically went on air at 6:06pm on a matchday ....
     with Alan Green, DJ Spoony
    DJ Spoony

    DJ Spoony is the stage name of Johnathan Joseph who is a British disk jockey, and former BBC Radio 1 presenter.Spoony's career started on London Underground ....
    , Danny Baker
    Danny Baker

    Danny Baker is an England comedian, journalist, screenwriter and presenter of radio presenter and television presenter....
    , Ray Stubbs
    Ray Stubbs

    Raymond Stubbs is a broadcaster and former footballer. He currently works for BBC Sport, presenting Final Score, as well as the coverage of snooker and darts....
    , Steve Claridge
    Steve Claridge

    Stephen Edward Claridge is an England football player, pundit and coach. He plays as a striker. He plays for Harrow Borough football club of the Isthmian League Premier Division, after being released by A.F.C....
     or Tim Lovejoy
    Tim Lovejoy

    Timothy Paul Lovejoy is a United Kingdom television presenter, most famous for hosting Saturday morning football programme Soccer AM alongside Helen Chamberlain for over a decade....
  • Weekend Breakfast with Rachel Burden
    Rachel Burden

    Rachel Mary Burden is a radio presenter for BBC Radio 5 Live....
     and Phil Williams
    Phil Williams (presenter)

    Phil Williams is a United Kingdom radio news reporter and presenter.A graduate of the BBC trainee reporters scheme, Williams soon joined the corporation's BBC Radio Manchester station as a newsreader and presenter....
  • The Donal MacIntyre
    Donal MacIntyre

    Donal MacIntyre , is an Irish people Investigative journalist journalist, specialising in hard hitting investigations, undercover operations and television exposes....
     Programme, Sunday from 7pm
  • Gabby Logan
    Gabby Logan

    Gabby Logan , is a Great Britain television presenter and former Wales international gymnast. She currently hosts programmes for BBC Sport, mainly focusing on Association football....
     on Sunday mornings
  • The Weekend News, with and
  • Prime Minister's Questions, Simon Mayo and
  • Sportsweek, with
  • Regular stand in presenters include , Nick Wallis and Tim Lovejoy
    Tim Lovejoy

    Timothy Paul Lovejoy is a United Kingdom television presenter, most famous for hosting Saturday morning football programme Soccer AM alongside Helen Chamberlain for over a decade....
  • Newsreaders include Rachael Hodges
    Rachael Hodges

    Rachael Hodges is a newsreader on the national BBC radio station Five Live. She presents the news and travel during the '5 Live Sport' and Richard Bacon programmes....
    , Justine Greene, Tom Sandars, Michaela Howard, Jason Kaye, Richard Foster
    Richard Foster

    Richard Foster may refer to:* R. F. Foster , card-game writer* Richard Foster , Democratic member of the Alaska House of Representatives* Richard Foster ...
    , Cory Allen, Sophie Benzing
    Sophie Benzing

    Sophie Benzing became a regular news presenter on BBC Radio 5 Live in the autumn of 2000 and was live on-air when news broke of the September 11, 2001 attacks in the US....


See also

  • List of BBC radio stations


External links

Note that Radio 5 Live operate International and UK feeds. International feeds aren't allowed to cover certain sports events because of local radio rights to those events.