BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra
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| Broadcast area | United Kingdom - Nationally via Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) |
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| Slogan | More live sport. Pure live sport. Five Live Sports Extra |
| Frequency | DAB: 12B Freeview: 706 Freesat: 706 Sky: 0144 Virgin Media: 908 Tiscali TV: 607 UPC Ireland: 928 Live Stream Real/WM |
| First air date | February 2002 |
| Format | Sport |
| Audience share | 0.4% (September 2009, [1]) |
| Owner | BBC |
BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra is an additional digital radio service provided by the BBC via DAB Digital Radio and the digital satellite, digital terrestrial, IPTV and digital cable television services in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. It is not available via analogue radio. It is also streamed online; however due to rights restrictions coverage of some events is not available online.
It is used to provide an additional sports commentary service alongside the main radio channel BBC Radio 5 Live.
It has transmitted coverage of Major League Baseball's World Series since 2004. It is also the digital radio home for Test Match Special, which provides full commentary without the shipping forecast included on the Radio 4 long wave coverage.
Each year during Wimbledon the station provides extra court commentary for the first week of the tournament. In addition, the station provides live coverage of the non-final rounds of the other Grand Slam tournaments.
Starting 2009, it now also broadcasts one of the NFL late games on Sunday evening with coverage taken from Westwood One.
[edit] History
Broadcasts began at 2.30pm on 2 February 2002. Juliette Ferrington introduced the first programme – commentary of Manchester United against Sunderland.
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