Talksport

Talksport

Broadcast area	United Kingdom
Frequency	Medium Wave: 1053 kHz, 1071 kHz, 1089 kHz, and 1107 kHz DAB: 11D Digital One (England and Wales) 12A Digital One (Scotland) 12D Score Northern Ireland (Northern Ireland) (United Kingdom)
First air date	14 February 1995 as Talk Radio UK 17 January 2000 as Talksport
Format	Sports commentary Sports discussion Talk and news
Audience share	2.1% (May 2011, [1])
Owner	UTV Radio

Talksport (styled as talkSPORT), owned by UTV radio, is one of the United Kingdom's three terrestrial analogue Independent National Radio broadcasters, offering a sports and talk radio service broadcast from London to the United Kingdom.

Its content includes sports phone-ins and discussions, live sports commentaries, and general phone-in discussions. It is transmitted on 1089 and 1053 kHz across the UK and digitally via DAB digital radio, Freeview, Sky, Virgin Media, Freesat and TalkTalk TV. Talksport is also streamed online; however, due to rights restrictions on live coverage, some live sport commentaries are not available online.

Contents 1 The Talk Radio era 2 Creation of Talksport 3 Programming 4 Programming highlights 5 Live sports coverage 6 Presenters 7 Former presenters 8 Station management 9 Frequencies 10 Audience 11 Controversies 12 Other Media 13 Books, DVDs and Games 14 References 15 External links

The Talk Radio era

The station was originally and officially launched as Talk Radio UK on 14 February 1995, with Sean Bolger and Samantha Meah presenting the original Talk Radio Breakfast Show. However the first live broadcast had been Caeser the Geezer's phone-in which aired at 10:00pm the previous night. Other presenters on Talk Radio included Jeremy Beadle, Scott Chisholm, Moz Dee, Tommy Boyd, Anna Raeburn, Gary Newbon, Terry Christian, Ronnie Barbour, Jonny Gould and Dale Winton. Also joining the line-up were Caesar the Geezer and Wild Al Kelly, dubbed as shock jocks.

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 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. Tony Lockwood, Clive Allen and 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 Monday 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 football, 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 Whale, 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 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. Between 2001 and 2007, talksport broadcast an annual debate between presenters entitled Clash of the Titans.

Programming

Talksport’s programming consists of sports talk, live coverage, discussion and phone-in debate for the majority of the day, but diversifies into more general discussion and phone-in debate during the night.

The weekday schedule begins with the morning’s sports news, debate and reaction on The Alan Brazil Sports Breakfast with Alan Brazil and Ronnie Irani, followed by Richard Keys and Andy Gray, who take an in-depth look at the day’s sports stories and invite listeners to have their say. Hawksbee & Jacobs present through the afternoon with sports gossip, interviews and chat, followed by Drive Time with Adrian Durham and Darren Gough round-up the day’s sports news with debate.

Kick Off, hosted by Mark Saggers, Danny Kelly and Stan Collymore then guides listeners through the evening's sporting action with live commentary of selected matches. Andy Goldstein, Bobby Gould and Jason Cundy take further phone-calls and debate on the Sports Bar before handing over to the late night team, including George Galloway and Mike Graham who tackle the big news and social issues of the day, with listener interaction on the nightly phone-in.

On Saturday and Sunday, Talksport has full coverage of the weekend’s sport with the latest news and scores from around the grounds on Matchday Live, including live Premier League commentary, followed by a post-match phone-in hosted by Stan Collymore.

Talksport also broadcasts specialist programming, including the long-running fishing-based phone-in, Fisherman's Blues, hosted by Keith Arthur, Howzat!, a cricket show with Ronnie Irani, My Sporting Life with Danny Kelly, an in-depth interview with sporting legends, and Full Contact with Mike Bovill, a regular rugby-based magazine show focussing on the Aviva Premiership and Six Nations and the 2011 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand.

Programming highlights

• May 2001: Talksport secured rights to broadcast Premier League games for the first time. The Radio Authority grant the station permission to broadcast games involving Chelsea, Fulham and Tottenham Hotspur on their London transmitters only.^[3] Later, Talksport also secure similar deals with Everton, Blackburn Rovers and Manchester City for their transmitters in Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Lancashire following approval from the Radio Authority. The station also had the ability to split their transmitters in the West Midlands for games involving Aston Villa but this never comes to fruition.

• December 2002: Talksport announced plans for the station's first ever music show. An easy listening music show entitled Champagne & Roses with Gerald Harper, was broadcast each Saturday evening. The show was axed after less than six months.^[4]

• June 2004: Talksport broadcast their first international football tournament officially. Euro 2004 from Portugal was broadcast live on Talksport with commentary of various matches, including the final, from Jim Proudfoot and Alvin Martin. Talksport teamed up with Northamptonshire band 4-4-2 to release a single Come on England. The track reached number 2 in the Official UK Singles Chart.

• June 2006: the station broadcast the 2006 World Cup, with live match commentary of all 64 matches in Germany. Commentary was provided by Jim Proudfoot, Chris Cooper, Nigel Pearson, Ian Danter, Tim White and Geoff Peters with punditry from Alvin Martin, Rodney Marsh, Gary Stevens, Jason Cundy and Micky Quinn. To coincide with the event, Talksport presenters using the collective name "Talksport Allstars", released the novelty song "We're England" to the tune from "Tom Hark" by Elias and the Zig Zag Jive Flutes.

• August 2006: Former Sky Sports presenter Kelly Dalglish became the first female sports presenter on Talksport, hosting Monday’s edition of Kick-Off alongside Gabriele Marcotti and Jason Cundy.^[5]

• October 2006: Talksport secured national radio broadcast rights to 32 live Premier League matches each Saturday afternoon at 3:00pm for the next three years from August 2007. BBC Radio 5 Live won six of the seven available broadcast rights packages of 32 games each from the Premier League; however, Talksport becomes the first national commercial radio station to broadcast live top flight football since the BBC first aired live football commentary of Arsenal v Sheffield United on 22 January 1927 in the Division One Championship. Talksport's first live commentary match was Bolton 1-3 Newcastle on Saturday 11 August from the Reebok Stadium. Nigel Pearson and Alvin Martin were Talksport's commentary team with Adrian Durham and Alan Brazil presenting Matchday Live.

• April 2007: Talksport were awarded "official broadcaster" status for the first time by the International Rugby Board for the 2007 Rugby World Cup in France. The tournament took place in September and October 2007, however, Talksport did not broadcast full, live commentary of matches but it allowed the station to provide updates and news access live from each of the stadia during the competition.

• April 2009: Russell Brand and Noel Gallagher were signed by Talksport to present a one-off football talk show on 19 April 2009.^[6] It was only a few months after Brand resigned from BBC Radio 2 in the wake of the uproar over the Sachsgate affair.

• February 2010: Talksport gained more Premier League football in the latest radio bidding wars. Whilst relinquishing their 3.00 pm package to football newcomers Absolute Radio, they won two packages from BBC Radio 5 Live, who are currently considered to be the home of football broadcasting on radio. They took over the national radio rights to broadcast the late kick-off every Saturday evening from the Premier League (usually kicking off at 5.30pm), and the early Sunday games (before 3.00pm). This agreement will cover the 2010/11 to 2012/2013 Premier League seasons.

• June 2010: Talksport secured exclusive broadcast rights to the 2011 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand.^[7]

• June 2010: Talksport broadcast the 2010 World Cup, with live match commentary of all 64 matches in South Africa. Commentary was provided by Jim Proudfoot, Ian Danter, Nigel Pearson, John Rawling, and Graham Beecroft with punditry from Alvin Martin, Stan Collymore, Ray Parlour, Bobby Gould, Tony Cascarino, Lawrie Sanchez and Micky Quinn.

• September 2011: Talksport broadcast the 2011 Rugby World Cup, with exclusive commentary of all 48 matches in New Zealand. Commentary was provided by John Taylor, Rupert Bell, John Anderson, Russell Hargreaves and Andrew McKenna with punditry from Brian Moore, Jeff Probyn, David Campese, Chris Sheasby, Michael Owen, Scott Quinnell, Gavin Hastings and Paul Wallace, with presenting from Mark Saggers and Mike Bovill. Additional reporting from Roger Hughes, David Brady and Stuart Cameron.

Live sports coverage

Currently, Talksport focusses its live sports coverage on football, but also has rights to other sports:

• Premier League
• Football League
• Carling Cup
• UEFA Champions League
• FIFA World Cup
• UEFA European Football Championship
• Rugby World Cup

Since its launch, Talksport has held the rights to the Premier League, UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, FA Cup, England internationals, Euro 2004, 2006 World Cup, 2010 World Cup, Carling Cup, Football League, domestic Twenty20 cricket, 2009 Twenty20 World 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, Ryder Cup and World Title Boxing Fights.

Presenters

Talksport have a selection of regular presenters and commentators, which include: Adrian Durham, Alan Brazil, Andy Goldstein, Andy Gray, Andy Jacobs, Danny Kelly (journalist), Duncan Barkes, Eddie Irvine, George Galloway, Graham Beecroft, Ian Danter, Jack Bannister, John Anderson, John Rawling, Keith Arthur, Mark Saggers, Matt Forde, Mike Bovill, Mike Graham, Neil Manthorp, Nigel Pearson, Paul Hawksbee, Ray Parlour, Richard Keys, Rupert Bell, Russell Brand, Sam Matterface, Stan Collymore and ex-professional sportsmen to provide expert comment on a variety of the station's programmes, including: Alvin Martin, Bobby Gould, Darren Gough, Jason Cundy, Jeff Probyn, Matt Holland, Micky Quinn, Neil Warnock, Ray Houghton, Ronnie Irani and Stewart Robson.

The station also has a team of journalists and reporters bringing listeners the latest news and sport through their bulletins and programmes, including: Andrew McKenna, Andy Clarke, Bob Bubka, Dave Rowe, David Brady, Dominic McGuinness, Faye Carruthers, Geoff Peters, Graham Courtney, Grahame Lloyd, Ian Abrahams, John Temple, Kevin Lawrence, Nick Heath, Nigel Ringland, Pete Abbott, Peter Martin, Robyn Schonhofer, Roger Hughes, Russell Hargreaves, Simon Humphreys, Simon Ward and Tony Incenzo.

Former presenters

Talksport's original line-up included Alan Brazil, Mark Nicholas, Chris Cowdrey, Geoffrey Boycott, Alan Parry, Peter Shilton, Brian Moore, Brough Scott, Tom Watt, Gary Newbon, Ian Darke, Tony Banks, James Whale (radio), Ian Collins, Derek Hatton and Mike Dickin.

Other past presenters on the network include Mike Parry, John Gaunt, Nicky Horne, Tony Lockwood, Tommy Boyd, Charlie Wolf, Mark Green, Richard Kaufman, Bill Young, Patrick Kinghorn, Mike Mendoza, Rhodri Williams, Howard Hughes, Jeremy Kyle, Dave Roberts, Chris Cooper, Jim Proudfoot, Rodney Marsh, Ian Wright, Rob McCaffrey, Russ Williams, Steve Bower, Kelly Dalglish and many others.

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. Moz Dee is Programme Director, having taken over from Bill Ridley in 2008, while Matt Smith is Programme Controller and Head of Outside Broadcasts. Simon Caney is editor of Sport magazine, with Neil Sedley is currently chief engineer, while, Peter Gee is head of creative.

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 frequency was originally used by BBC Radio 1 between 1978 and 1994.

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

Audience

According to the RAJAR audience figures for Q1/2011, Talksport’s audience is 3.25 million adults in the UK,^[8] which is highest achieved since the station launched as Talk Radio in 1995. Men make up 80% of the Talksport audience, while 47% of all listeners are in the 15-44 age bracket, giving the station an advantage when pitching to potential advertisers. Each listener tuned in for an average of 6.8 hours per week giving them a total of 22.5 million hours. Talksport's market share is 2.1%.

Talksport programme director Moz Dee said: “This is a very promising start to 2011 and shows that our recent record-breaking figures are not just a flash in the pan, but rather a sign of consistent and significant growth as we continue to win new listeners. I’m very proud of everyone in the programming team, as they have worked so hard to build credibility in sports journalism and made talkSPORT must-listen radio for sports fans.”^[8]

Controversies

• June 2000: Talksport caused a stir with the BBC after it was revealed Talksport 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.^[9]

• April 2002: Tommy Boyd and his production team were sacked from Talksport after a call from someone who wanted to shoot the Royal Family views went through on air. Boyd went on record that he did not share the views of the caller^[10]

• 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.^[11]

• 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, Monday 24 February, a mass of protesters gather outside the station's London studios. Despite this, both presenter James Whale and head of programming Bill Ridley defend the station for having invited Hamza onto the programme.^[4]

• March 2004: Alan Brazil is sacked 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.^[12]

• May 2006: Alan Brazil is reportedly given three months notice by Talksport after bust-up with the station's management.^[13] Less than two months later, Brazil and Talksport management held talks and the former Scotland international footballer signed a new long-term contract with the station.^[14]

• June 2006: The Sports Breakfast presenter Alan Brazil got in trouble with Ofcom for referring to the Japanese as "the nips" during the 2006 World Cup in Germany^[15]

• August 2007: Mike Mendoza and Garry Bushell made derogatory comments about gay people, and the station was subsequently censured by regulator Ofcom.^[16] 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^[17] 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".^[18] Gaunt has since sought legal action for unfair dismissal, but any potential case has yet to go to court.^[19] His campaign has been 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 claimed they "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.^[20] 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.^[21]

• December 2010: Drive Time presenter Adrian Durham caused controversy after stating during his show, that the footballer Andrey Arshavin "shouldn't be welcomed back to England" after helping Russia win the rights to host the 2018 FIFA World Cup.^[22]

• February 2011: Talksport hired former Sky Sports presenters Andy Gray and Richard Keys a fortnight after the pair were sacked from Sky Sports for being at the centre of a sexism controversy.^[23]

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.^[24]

• Talksport TV launched in October 2004 plaform broadcasting for six hours a day on the Sky Digital television platform aiming to catch listeners who've come home from work.^[25] 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.^[26]

• 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.^[27] However, the station never launched after Channel 4 announced that it was abandoning its plans for digital radio stations.^[28]

• Talksport Magazine launched in May 2008 as a weekly online-only digital publication to extend the station's brand beyond the radio.^[29] The magazine was later integrated into the newly relaunched Talksport website in 2010.^[30]

• Sport was acquired by Talksport in 2010 and is the UK’s 2nd largest men’s magazine. Sport is targeted at the affluent male and hand distributed in locations across the country including London mainline and tube stations. It’s also made available across many hotels, gyms and airports.^[31]

• Talksport Online is the station's website at talksport.co.uk. In January 2011, it announced a seven-fold growth in unique visitors in the previous year. Exclusive content such as Richard Keys’ candid apology for his role in the Sky Sports sexism scandal and the latest gossip on Fernando Torres’ transfer to Chelsea sent monthly unique users soaring to a record 1.7 million – up nearly 600% year on year.^[32]

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. .^[33]

• 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.^[34]

• 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.^[35]

• 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.^[36]

References

External links

• Official Talksport Website

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