6-0-6

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606 Football Phone-In

Genre	Phone-in
Running time	Saturdays 6.06pm, Sundays 6.00pm, Wednesdays 10.00pm
Country	United Kingdom
Languages	English
Home station	BBC Radio 5 Live previously BBC Radio 5
Recording studio	London, England
Air dates	1991 to Present
Audio format	FM, Digital radio and Digital TV
Website Official Website
Podcast Official Podcast

6-0-6 (pronounced six-oh-six) is a football phone-in, broadcast on BBC Radio Five Live throughout the football season; when the programme started, it typically went on air at 6:06pm on a matchday (when schedules allow). It covers topics relating to the current affairs of football in the United Kingdom. There are three shows most weeks, Saturday, Sunday and Wednesday,with a Tuesday show usually embedded for midweek cup and league matches each with a different presenter. These include Ray Stubbs who usually does Tuesdays, Manish Bhasin, DJ Spoony who usually does Sundays, Mark Lawrenson, Alan Green, who has normally commentated on a game the same day, Mark Bright and Tim Lovejoy who now presents on Wednesday. As well as listeners phoning in, a selection of texts and e-mails to the studio are read out.

6-0-6's current theme tune is initially "Everybody" by Martin Solveig, followed immediately by an arrangement of Bohemian Like You from The Dandy Warhols.

1 Background
2 6-0-6 Online Forum
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Background

Originally the programme was broadcast only once a week, on Saturdays after Sports Report. It gets its name from the (approximate) time the show starts on a Saturday evening - six minutes past six.^[1] Its original host was Danny Baker (1991-1992, 1994-1997). David Mellor (1992-2001) presented 6-0-6 for much of the 1990s and early on in the 2000s and was for a long time its regular Wednesday evening presenter. Other previous hosts have included Richard Littlejohn (1997-2002), Dominik Diamond, Adrian Chiles (2001-2006) and Jonathan Pearce (2002-2003).

[edit] 6-0-6 Online Forum

In addition to the phone-in programme, there is also an online version of 6-0-6 in the form of an Internet message board, although in June 2006 the site was forced to close due to the large amount of web traffic and forum threads.^[2] Football, cricket, rugby union, rugby league, snooker, motorsport and several other sports have messageboards embedded into 606.