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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...

talkSPORT to cover UEFA Women’s Euros tournament for fans

talkSPORT is to broadcast every England match of the UEFA Women’s Euros tournament this summer along with the crunch games in the final stages. The network will also broadcast all of Northern Ireland’s games in England’s group including Norway versus Northern Ireland and Austria versus Northern Ireland, plus updates and analysis from the tournament across its schedule...

talkSPORT to broadcast England’s tour of the Netherlands

talkSPORT has won the exclusive rights to broadcast England’s three match ODI tour of the Netherlands in June. All three games will be played at the VRA Cricket Ground, Amstelveen, with the first game on Friday June 17, second on Sunday June 19, and the final fixture on Wednesday June 22...

talkSPORT announces new partnership with Cricket Ireland

talkSPORT has agreed a new partnership with Cricket Ireland to broadcast Ireland’s 2022 home fixtures against India, New Zealand and South Africa across the UK and the Republic of Ireland. talkSPORT recently expanded its international cricket coverage to broadcast India’s international fixtures, including series involving New Zealand, West Indies & South Africa...