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Jeff Stelling starts on talkSPORT Breakfast with Ally McCoist two days a week

talkSPORT’s new breakfast show line-up will be complete on Monday when Jeff Stelling joins to host each Monday and Tuesday. As announced in August, he’ll be co-hosting with Ally McCoist twice a week.

Presenter changes at talkSPORT as Jeff Stelling joins for Breakfast

There are now five main weekday breakfast presenters on talkSPORT as Jeff Stelling joins the rota for two days a week.

talkSPORT to host live talent football match the talkSPORT Trophy

talkSPORT ex footballers and celebrities are to part in a live football match, the talkSPORT Trophy...

ARIAS winners are announced – BBC picks up 17 Gold Awards

The annual ARIAS took place last night at London’s Theatre Royal and saw the BBC win 17 Gold out of the 28 awards. BBC Radio 4 picked up Gold for UK station or network of the year and Tony Blackburn was honoured with the Pioneer Award, presented by Greg James...

Radio Times Moment of the Year nominees are announced

Voting has opened for this year’s Radio Times Moment of the Year after the nominees were announced. It’s the only ARIAS category decided by the votes of the general public. Last year the award was won by Adele Roberts, whose return to...

talkSPORT submits request to reduce its AM coverage

Ofcom has launched a consultation after receiving a request from talkSPORT to reduce its AM coverage. The station wants to switch off four of its 22 transmitter sites immediately. This will would reduce the coverage of its AM licence from 93% to 89.9% of the UK adult population...

Martin Samuel joins talkSPORT for weekly sports news show

Sports journalist Martin Samuel is joining News UK to work at The Times and also co-host a weekly show on talkSPORT. In addition, Martin will appear as a contributor on TalkTV/TalkRadio and talkSPORT’s breakfast show from January 11th 2023. Martin will pen his views in weekly columns on all the big sporting stories. He will also write across the news pages and magazines – both digitally and in print – for The Times and The Sunday Times throughout the year...

talkSPORT suspends radio presenter Trevor Sinclair after personal tweet

Sports commentator and presenter Trevor Sinclair will not be on-air for the foreseeable future at talkSPORT as the station investigates the circumstances and timing of a tweet he sent. The social media post, sent an hour after the death of Her Majesty The Queen was announced on Thursday, has attracted many comments and media reports...

talkSPORT and LBC News react to BBC dropping classified results

Following the BBC’s decision to end reading the full classified results on 5 Live, both talkSport and LBC News have reminded listeners they will still broadcast them. LBC News has previously broadcast a recorded version of the classifieds later on Saturday afternoon, but from this weekend it will broadcast the football scorecard live at 5.05pm every Saturday afternoon during the football season...

talkSPORT promises ‘biggest ever’ season of EFL coverage

talkSPORT is launching what it calls its “biggest ever” season of coverage for the English Football League. It gets underway this Friday at 8pm, when Huddersfield faces Burnley in the Championship. The network has carried extensive coverage of the EFL since a deal was struck with the Wireless Group in 2017...