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| Broadcast area | United Kingdom - National |
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| Slogan | On digital and online, this is BBC Radio 5 Live
The UK's home of live News and live Sport This is BBC Radio 5 Live. News, sport and entertainment BBC Radio 5 Live. Now we're talking. |
| Frequency | MW: 693 kHz, 909 kHz, and on selected BBC Local Radio stations' frequencies overnight. DAB: 12B Freeview: 705 Freesat: 705 Sky: 0105 Virgin Media: 905 Tiscali TV: 606 UPC Ireland: 911 Live Stream Real/WM |
| First air date | 28 March 1994 |
| Format | News and sport |
| Language | English |
| Audience share | 4.9% (September 2009, [1]) |
| Owner | BBC, BBC Radio |
| Website | BBC Radio 5 Live |
BBC Radio 5 Live (formerly styled BBC Radio Five Live) is the BBC's 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 BBC Radio 5, which was launched in August 1990. It is transmitted via analogue radio on 693 and 909 kHz AM in the medium wave band, frequencies that belonged to BBC Radio 2 from 23 November 1978 to 26 August 1990 (before that they were used in some regions of the UK by the BBC Home Service and BBC Radio 4), and on digital radio in the United Kingdom via DAB, digital satellite (Freesat and Sky), IPTV and Freeview (digital terrestrial television). 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.
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.
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History
The success of Radio 4 News FM during the 1991 first Gulf War led Liz Forgan to suggest in May 1993[1] 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"[2] and The Scotsman as "professionalism at its slickest."[3]
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 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.[4]
Presenters that have now left the station include Susan Bookbinder, Jon Briggs, Jon Champion, Adrian Chiles, Edwina Currie, Fi Glover, Nick Hancock, Brian Hayes, Peter Heaton-Jones, Jane Hill, Des Lynam, David Mellor, Louise Minchin, Paddy O'Connell, Jonathan Pearce, Nick Robinson, Sybil Ruscoe, Kate Silverton, Bill Turnbull, Sian Williams, Eamonn Holmes and Mark Saggers
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.
BBC Radio 5 Live were Official Broadcasters of the FIFA World Cup 2006 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[5] 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 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.
- The World Cup
- The Olympic Games
- All Home Nations International football matches.
- Champions League (with limitations for online broadcast) and UEFA Europa League
- The FIFA Club World Cup (if English 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
- The British and Irish Lions Tours
- Guinness Premiership, Heineken Cup and EDF Energy Cup
- The Challenge Cup
- The engage Super League and the Rugby League Tri-Nations
- Formula One
- The Grand National
- The 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, ÅF Golden League Athletics, European Cup, and other athletics meets.
- Wimbledon Tennis Championships
- National Football League
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.[6]
Sport on Sports Extra
As 5 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:
- Cricket World Cup, ICC Champions Trophy, and Twenty20 World Cup
- England cricket tests and One Day Internationals
- Friends Provident Trophy semi-finals and final and Twenty20 Cup
- 'Grand Slam' Tennis tournaments
- Action from any other competition broadcast on Five Live
Sports Extra typically emphasizes 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) 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.
Current programmes and presenters
Regular shows as of June 2009:
- Morning Reports, presented by the station's overnight newsreader
- Wake up to Money, presented by Mickey Clark and Andrew Verity
- Breakfast, with Nicky Campbell and Shelagh Fogarty
- The Victoria Derbyshire Programme
- The Simon Mayo Show
- 5 Live Drive, with Peter Allen and Anita Anand (Rachel Burden is a regular stand-in presenter)
- 5 Live Sport, presented by Arlo White on Monday, Eleanor Oldroyd on Thursday, Colin Murray on Friday and Sunday and Mark Pougatch on Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday. Other presenters include Russell Fuller and Dan Walker
- Richard Bacon
- Up All Night with Rhod Sharp and Dotun Adebayo
- The Stephen Nolan Show - Nolan
- The Gethin Jones Show
- The Danny Baker Show
- Fighting Talk with Colin Murray
- 6-0-6 with Alan Green, DJ Spoony, Gabriele Marcotti or Tim Lovejoy, with stand-ins including Mark Chapman, and Steve Claridge
- Weekend Breakfast with Rachel Burden and Phil Williams
- The Donal MacIntyre Programme, Sunday from 7:30 pm
- Gabby Logan on Sunday mornings - Logan
- The Weekend News, with Dalya Raphael and John Pienaar
- Prime Minister's Questions, Victoria Derbyshire and John Pienaar
- Sportsweek, with Garry Richardson
- Newsreaders include Rachael Hodges, Justine Greene, Tom Sandars, Michaela Howard, Jason Kaye, Richard Foster, Cory Allen, Darren McKenzie, Kate Williams, Tom Green, Theopi Skarlatos, Tamsin Curnow, Faye Ruscoe, Lucy Clark
See also
References
- ^ "BBC - Press Office - Jenny Abramsky Oxford lecture two". 3 April 2007. http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/speeches/stories/abramsky_oxford2.shtml.
- ^ Frean, Alexandra (1994-03-29). "Radio's new voice greets the dawn". The Times (Times Newspapers).
- ^ McAlpine, Joan (1994-03-29). "Alive and kicking". The Scotsman (The Scotsman Publications).
- ^ http://www.kent.ac.uk/journalism/staff.html
- ^ "http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/assets/files/pdf/review_report_research/impartiality_business/f2_news_submission.txt". http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/assets/files/pdf/review_report_research/impartiality_business/f2_news_submission.txt. Retrieved 2007-06-19.
- ^ http://www.uefa.com/multimediafiles/download/regulations/uefa/others/70/22/60/702260_download.pdf
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