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BBC Radio 4 Extra, formerly known as BBC 7 and BBC Radio 7, is a British digital radio station broadcasting comedy, drama, and children's programming nationally 24 hours a day. It is the principal broadcasting outlet for the BBC's archive of spoken-word entertainment. The station relaunched as BBC Radio 4 Extra on 2 April 2011 to bring the station closer to its sister station, BBC Radio 4.

The station was launched as BBC7 in December 2002 to enable the contents of the BBC Sound Archive to be broadcast. Since rebranding it also features extended versions of established programmes from Radio 4. The station was the second most listened to BBC digital radio station in the second quarter of 2010, with an audience of 949,000 and a 13.8% year-on-year rise in its audience.

The station can be heard worldwide on the Internet, across northern Europe via the Astra 2A satellite (including via Freesat and Sky), and in the UK on DAB digital radio, cable television (including Virgin Media), IPTV and Freeview digital terrestrial television.

History

The station, originally codenamed "Network Z", was launched by Paul Merton at 20:00 on 15 December 2002 in a simulcast with BBC Radio 4.

As a speech network, BBC 7—as it was initially branded to reflect the fact that the station was available on the internet, digital television, and DAB radio[4]—carried no news, with the exception of a weekday 16:55 bulletin aimed at younger listeners presented by the Newsround team. Until January 2010 each of the station's continuity announcers was associated with themed blocks of programming and were promoted as personalities and presenters in their own right; subsequently Radio 7 adopted a more traditional continuity format using one presenter to announce every programme throughout the day. As Radio 7, regular presenters included Penny Haslam, Helen Aitken, Kerry McCarthy, Wes Butters, Jim Lee, Joanna Pinnock, Alex Riley and Michaela Saunders.Because of the station's archive nature the station was scheduled, produced and researched by a team of 17 people, excluding presenters.
Former branding as BBC7 (2002) and BBC Radio 7 (2008). Both featured a smiling face motif. The latter was created by design company Fallon.

The station won the Sony Radio Academy Award for Station Sound in 2003, was nominated for the Promo Award in 2004, and in 2005 received a Silver for the Short-Form award, plus nominations in the Speech Award and Digital Terrestrial Station Of The Year Award.

On 4 October 2008, BBC 7 was renamed BBC Radio 7 bringing it in line with other BBC Radio branding.

In February 2010 Radio 7 was reported as one of the few digital radio stations to show consistent growth in its audience, winning an audience of 931,000 listeners, up 5.3% on the previous quarter and 9.5% year on year. The station's listening share saw 20.0% growth, year-on-year, in the 12 months to March 2010.