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Talksport have a selection of regular presenters and commentators. Former professional sportsmen provide expert comment on a variety of the station's programmes.
Talksport have a selection of regular presenters and commentators. Former professional sportsmen provide expert comment on a variety of the station's programmes.


*[[Alan Brazil]]
*[[Alan Brazil]] (Weekdays 6am-10am)
* Jim White (Weekdays 10am-1pm)
* Paul Hawksbee (Weekdays 1pm-4pm)
* Andy Jacobs (Weekdays 1pm-4pm)
* Adrian Durham (Weekdays 4pm-7pm & Saturday 1pm-5pm)
* Darren Gough (Weekdays 4pm-7pm)
* Natalie Sawyer (Mon-Thurs 7pm-10pm & Sun 5pm-7pm)
* Danny Kelly (Fri 7pm-10pm, Sat 11am-1pm, Sun 9pm-12am)
* Mark Saggers (Sun 1pm-5pm)
* Andy Goldstein (Weeknights 10pm-1am)
* Jason Cundy (Mon-Thurs 10pm-1am)
* Mike Parry (Warm Up Sat 11am-1pm)
* Max Rushden (Warm Up Sat 11am-1pm)
* Georgie Bingham (Weekend Sports Breakfast Sat & Sun 7am-11am)
* Tony Cascarino (Weekend Sports Breakfast Sat & Sun 7am-11am)
* Tom Latchem (Talksport Extra Time)
* Adam Catterall (Talksport Extra Time & Fight Night)
* Ged Mills (Talksport Extra Time)
* Sam Matterface (Live match commentator & Cover presenter)
* Jim Proudfoot (Live match commentator & Cover presenter)
* Ally McCoist (Thurs-Fri 6am-10am)
* Ray Parlour (Sports Breakfast & Matchday Live)
* Dominic Cork (Sports Breakfast)
* David Seaman (Sports Breakfast)
* Micky Quinn (Sports Breakfast & Kick Off)
* Danny Murphy (Sports Breakfast & Kick Off)
* Simon Jordan (Sports Breakfast & Kick Off)
* Matt Holland (Sports Breakfast & Kick Off)
* Laura Woods (Sports Breakfast, Kick Off & Full Time Phone in)
* Bob Mills (Jim White)
* Mickey Gray (Jim White)
* Stuart Pearce (Jim White & Matchday Live)
* Nigel Botherway (Fisherman's Blues)
* John Motson (Live match commentary & Motson Meets)
* Sam Allardyce (Sports Breakfast)
* Luke Moore (Kick Off)
* Darren Lewis (Sports Bar)
* Ian Danter (Kick Off & Live Match Commentator)
* Nigel Pearson (Live Match Commentator)
* Gareth A. Davies (Fight Night)


===Former presenters===
===Former presenters===
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*[[George Galloway]]
*[[George Galloway]]
*[[Jon Gaunt]]
*[[Jon Gaunt]]
* Mike Graham
*[[Derek Hatton]]
*[[Derek Hatton]]
*[[Nicky Horne]]
*[[Nicky Horne]]

Revision as of 21:27, 19 May 2019

Talksport
Broadcast areaUnited Kingdom Global
FrequencyMW: 1053, 1071, 1089, 1107 kHz
DAB:
11D (England/Wales/N. Ireland)
12A (Scotland)
Freeview: 723
Sky: 0108
Virgin Media: 927
Programming
FormatSports commentary
Sports discussion
Sports phone-in
Sports news
Ownership
OwnerWireless Group
(News Corp)
Talksport 2
Talkradio
Virgin Radio UK
History
First air date
14 February 1995 (as Talk Radio UK)
17 January 2000 (as Talksport)
Links
Websitetalksport.com

Talksport (styled as talkSPORT), owned by Wireless Group, is a sports radio station and the Global Audio Partner of the Premier League.

Broadcast from London to the United Kingdom, Talksport is the only national radio station broadcasting sporting debates and commentaries 24 hours a day, having dropped 39 hours of non-sports content on 2 April 2012.

Its content includes live coverage of sports, exclusive interviews with the leading names in sport and entertainment, phone-ins and discussion.

Talksport, alongside sister station Talksport 2, is an official broadcaster for several sporting contests, including the Premier League.

In the United Kingdom, Talksport is available on 1053 kHz, 1071 kHz, 1089 kHz, and 1107 kHz, DAB, Sky, Virgin Media, Freeview, on mobile, and online at talksport.com. Talksport has been available on Freesat since April 2016.

Outside the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, Talksport broadcasts live commentary of every Premier League match around the world in multiple languages including English, Spanish and Mandarin.

On 25 June 2016, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp announced that it was acquiring the parent Wireless Group company for $296 million.[1]

Talk Radio era

The station was originally and officially launched as Talk Radio UK on 14 February 1995, with the original Talk Radio Breakfast Show. However the first live broadcast had been Caesar the Geezer's phone-in which aired the previous night. Other presenters on Talk Radio included Jeremy Beadle, Tommy Boyd, Anna Raeburn, Gary Newbon, Terry Christian, and Dale Winton. Also joining the line-up were Caesar the Geezer and Wild Al Kelly, dubbed as shock jocks.[citation needed]

A year later Talk Radio launched a new breakfast show presented by Paul Ross and Carol McGiffin. Former BBC Radio 1 DJ Simon Bates also joined the station along with James Whale, Ian Collins, and Mike Dickin.

Talk Radio made their first foray into the world of sports radio rights bidding, by purchasing the rights to broadcast the Football League from BBC Radio Five Live for the 1997–98 season. In addition, the station broadcast their first FIFA World Cup from France in 1998, with them bringing in the Sky Sports commentary team of Alan Parry and Andy Gray to commentate on the major matches. Dave Roberts covered additional games in France. Talk Radio also acquired up the rights to broadcast Manchester United's matches in the Champions League for the 1998–99 season.

Creation of Talksport

On 12 November 1998 TalkCo Holdings, whose chairman and chief Executive was former Sun Editor Kelvin MacKenzie, purchased Talk Radio.[2] This led to a mass clearout of presenters including Nick Abbot, Anna Raeburn, Tommy Boyd and Peter Deeley, with them putting in place a more sports oriented programming schedule, including The Sportszone with Alan Parry, Gary Newbon, Tony Lockwood, Tom Watt, and former Century Radio sports editor Dave Roberts presenting the weekend edition of The Sports Breakfast.

In late 1999, TalkCo, rebranded as The Wireless Group, announced a relaunch of Talk Radio to become the UK's first national commercial sports radio station called Talksport. The relaunch occurred at midnight on 17 January 2000 and was accompanied by the station moving from Oxford Street to a new studio in Hatfields on the South Bank of the River Thames. Now mainly dedicated to sport, the programming lineup was drastically altered, beginning with The Sports Breakfast show, a mid-morning motoring show called The Car Guys, with further sports programming in the afternoon and evening. Almost all the station's talk show presenters were axed at the time, including The Big Boys Breakfast with David Banks and Nick Ferrari, with only James Whale, Ian Collins, and Mike Dickin surviving. To complement their new format, Talksport purchased the rights to broadcast Manchester United, Arsenal and Newcastle in the UEFA Champions League, the FA Cup, England football internationals, UEFA Cup, England's winter cricket Tours to South Africa, Zimbabwe, Pakistan, and India, British and Irish Lions tours to South Africa and New Zealand, and rights to the Super League, Rugby League World Cup, and World Title Boxing Fights.

The new line-up involved a number of presenters and commentators. They included Alan Brazil, Mark Nicholas, Chris Cowdrey, Geoffrey Boycott, Mike Parry, Peter Shilton, Brian Moore, Brough Scott, Tom Watt, Gary Newbon, Ian Darke, Tony Banks, and Alvin Martin.

Notable presenters

Current presenters

Talksport have a selection of regular presenters and commentators. Former professional sportsmen provide expert comment on a variety of the station's programmes.

  • Alan Brazil (Weekdays 6am-10am)
  • Jim White (Weekdays 10am-1pm)
  • Paul Hawksbee (Weekdays 1pm-4pm)
  • Andy Jacobs (Weekdays 1pm-4pm)
  • Adrian Durham (Weekdays 4pm-7pm & Saturday 1pm-5pm)
  • Darren Gough (Weekdays 4pm-7pm)
  • Natalie Sawyer (Mon-Thurs 7pm-10pm & Sun 5pm-7pm)
  • Danny Kelly (Fri 7pm-10pm, Sat 11am-1pm, Sun 9pm-12am)
  • Mark Saggers (Sun 1pm-5pm)
  • Andy Goldstein (Weeknights 10pm-1am)
  • Jason Cundy (Mon-Thurs 10pm-1am)
  • Mike Parry (Warm Up Sat 11am-1pm)
  • Max Rushden (Warm Up Sat 11am-1pm)
  • Georgie Bingham (Weekend Sports Breakfast Sat & Sun 7am-11am)
  • Tony Cascarino (Weekend Sports Breakfast Sat & Sun 7am-11am)
  • Tom Latchem (Talksport Extra Time)
  • Adam Catterall (Talksport Extra Time & Fight Night)
  • Ged Mills (Talksport Extra Time)
  • Sam Matterface (Live match commentator & Cover presenter)
  • Jim Proudfoot (Live match commentator & Cover presenter)
  • Ally McCoist (Thurs-Fri 6am-10am)
  • Ray Parlour (Sports Breakfast & Matchday Live)
  • Dominic Cork (Sports Breakfast)
  • David Seaman (Sports Breakfast)
  • Micky Quinn (Sports Breakfast & Kick Off)
  • Danny Murphy (Sports Breakfast & Kick Off)
  • Simon Jordan (Sports Breakfast & Kick Off)
  • Matt Holland (Sports Breakfast & Kick Off)
  • Laura Woods (Sports Breakfast, Kick Off & Full Time Phone in)
  • Bob Mills (Jim White)
  • Mickey Gray (Jim White)
  • Stuart Pearce (Jim White & Matchday Live)
  • Nigel Botherway (Fisherman's Blues)
  • John Motson (Live match commentary & Motson Meets)
  • Sam Allardyce (Sports Breakfast)
  • Luke Moore (Kick Off)
  • Darren Lewis (Sports Bar)
  • Ian Danter (Kick Off & Live Match Commentator)
  • Nigel Pearson (Live Match Commentator)
  • Gareth A. Davies (Fight Night)

Former presenters

Live sports coverage

Talksport and Talksport 2 has exclusive and non-exclusive rights to various sports in the UK:[3]

Football
Rugby
Cricket
Horse racing
Boxing
Golf
US sport
Darts

Programming highlights

Station management

Scott Taunton was previously the Business Development Director at UTV, responsible for radio and new media. A native of Australia, he has been working in the UK for a decade and took over from Kelvin MacKenzie as Chief Executive of Talksport in July 2005.

Lee Clayton is head of Talksport, with Laurie Palacio as deputy head of Talksport. Mike Bovill is managing editor of Talksport 2.

Frequencies

In a number of areas, particularly in areas where the signal from the main 1089 and 1053 kHz transmitters overlap with each other, Talksport operates a number of filler transmitters on different frequencies:

  • 1071 kHz – Nottingham, Newcastle
  • 1107 kHz – Merseyside, West Sussex, South Kent, Torbay, The Wash, Hampshire

The 1089 and 1053 kHz frequencies were originally used by BBC Radio 1 between November 1978 and June 1994.

It is also transmitted across the UK digitally via DAB digital radio, Freeview, Sky, Virgin Media and Freesat. Talksport is also streamed online; however, due to rights restrictions on live coverage, some live sport commentaries are not available online.

Since August 2011, several shows on Talksport have been available on Sirius XM satellite radio in the US and Canada.[citation needed]

During the 2006 Football world championship TalkSport was available on Digital Radio DAB in some German cities.[25]

Audience

According to the RAJAR audience figures for Q3/2018, Talksport's audience is 2,959,000.[26] Talksport 2 has an audience of 329,000.[27]

Talksport 2

The new station launched on 15 March 2016 as part of a Sound Digital's successful bid for second national commercial DAB multiplex. The launch date coincided with the opening day of the 2016 Cheltenham Festival.

Talksport 2 is a 24-hour sports station which focuses on a broad range of live sporting action from the UK and around the world and includes rugby, cricket, tennis, golf, football and horse racing, plus US sport. On its first day, Talksport 2 broadcast commentary of India v New Zealand in the ICC World Twenty20, Atletico Madrid v PSV Eindhoven in the Champions League and Indian Wells Masters tennis.[28]

In its first two-years on-air, Talksport 2 acquired broadcast rights to Aviva Premiership, Super League, ATP World Tour Masters 1000, French Open, ICC World Twenty20, NatWest t20 Blast, Royal London One-Day Cup, Indian Premier League, WGC Match Play, La Liga, MotoGP, ICC Champions Trophy, Premier League, English Football League, Champions League and Europa League.

It has broadcast specialist programming dedicated to the Football League, La Liga, European football, horse racing rugby league, rugby union, boxing, cricket, tennis, NBA, US sport, and golf.[29]

From January 2019, Talksport 2 re-positioned as a rolling sports news and live sport station.

The winning bid also saw the return of Talkradio, as well as Virgin Radio.[30] Former Talksport chief executive Kelvin MacKenzie had proposed a rival sports station as part of Listen2Digital's opposing bid for the second national commercial DAB multiplex.[31]

Talksport International

Talksport is the global audio partner of the Premier League, which enables them to broadcast commentary of every Premier League match outside the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland in several languages including English, Spanish and Mandarin.[32]

Talksport International also broadcasts selected fixtures in the FA Cup, League Cup and provides commentaries for Amazon Music's Bundesliga coverage.[33]

Talksport South Africa

In April 2014, Talksport announced plans to launch South Africa’s first 24-hour sports radio station.[34]

The medium wave licence will broadcast to a potential audience of eight million people covering Gauteng province and taking in the commercial and administrative hubs of Johannesburg and Pretoria.

It is claimed Talksport 540AM will be modeled on its sister station in the UK to "deliver first class sports journalism, high quality debate and live match commentary to the South African audience."[34]

Other media

  • Soccer Bet was a short-lived 68-page weekly magazine which Talksport had hoped would appeal to football fans that enjoyed betting on games. It was designed in a smaller A5 format to make it easy for fans to carry and the launch was backed by a £500,000 promotional campaign. Soccer Bet lasted just two months before it was axed in October 2003 due to poor sales.[35]
  • Talksport TV launched in October 2004 platform broadcasting for six hours a day on the Sky Digital television platform aiming to catch listeners who've come home from work.[36] The service amounted to little more than the televisualisation of TalkSport's broadcasters and pundits presenting the station's Drive Time and Kick Off programmes. The channel closed in 2005 following the takeover of Talksport by UTV Radio.[37]
  • Talk Radio was set to return to the airwaves as a station on DAB digital radio in 2008 after Ofcom awarded a second DAB digital radio national commercial multiplex to the 4 Digital Group consortium led by Channel 4.[38] However, the station never launched after Channel 4 announced that it was abandoning its plans for digital radio stations[39]
  • Talksport Magazine launched in May 2008 as a weekly online-only digital publication to extend the station's brand beyond the radio.[40] The magazine was integrated into the newly relaunched Talksport website in 2010[41]
  • Sport was targeted at the affluent male and hand distributed in locations across the country including London mainline and tube stations. It was also available at many hotels, gyms and airports[42]

Books, DVDs, and games

  • Talksport Road Trip is a DVD including exclusive footage of the English team and a host of celebrity interviews at the 2006 World Cup released in 2006[43]
  • Talksport Legends & Anthems is a three-CD package, released in 2009, featuring 40 tracks by artists such as The Who, The Cure, The Killers, Stevie Wonder, Rod Stewart, and Elton John on two of the discs as well as a bonus CD with out-takes and highlights of Talksport[44]
  • Ten Years of Talksport is a book describing the station's history. Originally released in 2009, an updated version of the book including two new chapters was released in 2011
  • The Talksport Book of World Cup Banter – Released in 2010, this is a book of football facts about the FIFA World Cup[45]
  • The TalkSport Book of Cricket's Best Ever Sledges features contributions from Talksport presenters Darren Gough and Ronnie Irani among others, recounting 'sledging' (mind-games within cricket). Released in 2010[46]

Controversies

  • June 2000: Talksport caused a stir with the BBC after it was revealed Talksport had been broadcasting their live commentaries of matches at Euro 2000 from television monitors rather than from each of the stadia due to the lack of available broadcast rights.[47] Talksport's commentary team included Alan Parry, Jim Proudfoot, Mark Tompkins, Alvin Martin and Frank Stapleton.
  • April 2002: Tommy Boyd and his production team were sacked from Talksport after a call from someone who wanted to shoot the Royal Family went through on air. Boyd went on record that he did not share the views of the caller[48]
  • June 2002: Talksport broadcast unofficial coverage of the 2002 World Cup taking place in Japan and South Korea. The station flags up their inability to broadcast live from the stadia, with them taking out full page advertisements in national newspapers containing the tag line "It's unauthorised. It's unofficial. And it's brilliant." Jim Proudfoot and Alvin Martin are Talksport's main commentary team from their studios in London[49]
  • February 2003: Talksport received over 200 complaints for giving a platform to the controversial Muslim extremist cleric Abu Hamza. Hamza and his aides are invited into the station to contribute to a religious debate on The James Whale Show, alongside other Christian, Jewish, and Muslim delegates. On the night of the live broadcast, 24 February, a mass of protesters gather outside the station's London studios. Despite this, both Whale and head of programming Bill Ridley defended the station for having invited Hamza onto the programme.[7]
  • March 2004: Alan Brazil is fired by Talksport after his failure to show up to present The Sports Breakfast on Friday 19 March after spending three days at the Cheltenham Festival. Less than three weeks later, Brazil is reinstated to his role.[50]
  • May 2006: Alan Brazil is reportedly given three months notice by Talksport after bust-up with the station's management.[51] Less than two months later, Brazil and Talksport management held talks and the former Ipswich Town and Scotland footballer signed a new long-term contract with the station.[52]
  • June 2006: The Sports Breakfast presenter Alan Brazil got in trouble with Ofcom for referring to the Japanese as "the nips" during the World Cup in Germany[53]
  • August 2007: Mike Mendoza and Garry Bushell made derogatory comments about gay people, and the station was subsequently censured by regulator Ofcom.[54] Bushell left soon after, when his six-month contract expired.
  • May 2008: James Whale was dismissed by Talksport after twice urging listeners to vote for Boris Johnson in the 2008 London Mayoral Election.[55] The station was subsequently fined £20,000 by Ofcom in December 2008.
  • November 2008: Controversial presenter Jon Gaunt was fired for repeatedly calling a local councillor a "Nazi".[56] Gaunt has since sought legal action for unfair dismissal, but any potential case has yet to go to court.[57] His campaign was backed by Liberty activist Shami Chakrabarti, who had previously been one of Gaunt's pet hates.
  • November 2008: Rod Lucas was dropped by Talksport, and the company stated they had "no plans to use him in the immediate future" after the membership list of the BNP which was leaked on a Google blog named him as one of its members.[58] The station clarified that this wasn't a sacking as Lucas was only a temporary member of staff. The presenter himself claimed that his membership of the party was part of a covert research project.[59]
  • February 2011: Talksport hired former Sky Sports pundit and commentators Andy Gray and Richard Keys a fortnight after the pair were fired from Sky Sports for being at the centre of a sexism controversy.[60]
  • April 2017: Ofcom upheld complaints against Mike Parry and Mike Graham for comments made on their daytime show the previous December, in which they laughed while telling anecdotes about one of their former colleagues at the Daily Express who allegedly sexually harassed female co-workers. Talksport said in their statement that the two presenters were laughing at the lack of action against sexual harassment rather than the harassment itself.[61]

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