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BBC Radio 5 Live (formerly styled BBC Radio Five Live) is the BBC's national radio service that specialises in live BBC News, phone-ins, and sports commentaries. It is the principal radio station covering sport in the United Kingdom, broadcasting virtually all major sports events staged in the UK or involving British competitors.
Radio 5 Live was launched in March 1994 as a repositioning of the original Radio 5, itself launched in August 1990.It is transmitted via analogue radio in AM on medium wave 693 and 909 kHz (990 kHz at Cardigan Bay) — frequencies originally used by BBC Radio 2 from 23 November 1978 to 26 August 1990 — and digitally via DAB, digital television (satellite, terrestrial and IPTV) and via an internet stream. Due to rights restrictions, coverage of some events (in particular live sport) is not available on-line or is restricted to UK addresses.
The station broadcasts from the News Centre at BBC Television Centre 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.
History
The success of Radio 4 News FM during the 1991 first Gulf War led Liz Forgan to suggest in May 1993 the introduction of a combined news and sport network. Accordingly, the "old" Radio 5 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, who later went on to co-present the breakfast and drivetime shows with Peter Allen. The launch was described by The Times 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 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 before it) broadcast for several years on analogue satellite with near-FM quality.
Among the key editorial staff involved in the design of programme formats and recruitment of staff for the new station were Sara Nathan, later editor of Channel 4 News, and Tim Luckhurst, later editor of The Scotsman newspaper and currently Professor of Journalism at the University of Kent.
Sport on 5 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 5 Live Sport They are:
- Live Premier League, Football League, FA Cup, Football League Cup matches, SPL, and Scottish Cup matches
- World Cup
- Olympic Games
- All Home Nations International football matches
- Champions League (with limitations for online broadcast) and UEFA Europa League
- FIFA Club World Cup (if British side is involved)
- Men's Golf Majors and the Ryder Cup
- England rugby union test matches
- The Autumn Internationals and Six Nations Championship
- Rugby World Cup
- British and Irish Lions Tours
- Aviva Premiership, Heineken Cup and EDF Energy Cup
- Super League
- Challenge Cup
- Rugby League Four Nations
- Formula One
- Grand National
- Cheltenham Festival, Royal Ascot and the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes
- The Classics, the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe and the Melbourne Cup
- Boxing
- World Athletics Championships, Commonwealth Games, Diamond League Athletics, European Cup, and other athletics meets
- Wimbledon Tennis Championships
- National Football League
- Major League Baseball
Most non-cricket broadcasts are available online only from IP addresses within the UK as both television and radio rights are typically sold on a country-by-country basis. Often UEFA Champions League games are not broadcast live online at all due to rights restrictions imposed by UEFA. This is sometimes not the case for matches in the knockout stage involving English clubs playing at home, whereby domestic radio stations may bid for non-exclusive rights to all coverage, including online broadcast.
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