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BBC radio favourites prepare for 2011 move to the regions
From Media Guardian. Posted March 8 2010, 12.02pm
BBC Radio 4's The Food Programme and Any Questions? among those earmarked to move from London in April next yearBBC Radio 4 programmes including Any Questions? and The Food Programme are to move out of London as part of the BBC's efforts to beef up its production in the nations and regions. (more)

In-Car DAB radio set for marketing push
From Biz Asia. Posted March 3 2010, 11.53am
Digital radio manufacturer PURE is getting ready to promote in-car DAB radio with a £200,000 marketing push in the months leading up to 2010's summer of sport. (more)

Absolute Radio snaps up rights to Premier League football commentary
From Media Guardian. Posted February 11 2010, 10.03am
Commercial station to air 32 Saturday afternoon games in 2010-2011 season – its first Premier League commentaryAbsolute Radio is to broadcast live Premier League football commentary for the first time, breaking the BBC and TalkSport's grip on the rights. (more)

BBC Asian Network under threat
From Media Guardian. Posted February 3 2010, 3.16pm
Radio station could become a victim of corporation's strategic review, says BBC chief operating officerThe BBC's Asian Network digital radio station could become a victim of the corporation's strategic review, with a senior executive admitting today ... (more)

Radio 5 Live Sports Extra will survive BBC review, says Van Klaveren
From Media Guardian. Posted January 27 2010, 4.44pm
Additional sports channel unlikely to be hit by coming BBC cuts in digital services, according to Radio 5 Live controllerAdrian Van Klaveren, the BBC Radio 5 Live controller, said today that he expects his digital station 5 Live Sports Extra to survi... (more)

Chapman gets regular 5 live gig
From Radio Today. Posted January 15 2010, 1.44am
Mark Chapman is joining 5 live Sport on BBC Radio 5 live as the regular host of Monday evenings.Mark has previously deputised on the football phone-in 606 and 5 Live Sport, and joins the station on a regular basis after ten years at Radio 1. (more)

Chris Hollins to chair radio sports quiz
From Digital Spy - Broadcasting. Posted December 24 2009, 3.18pm
Chris Hollins is stepping in to host Fighting Talk on Radio Five Live in the New Year. (more)

We'll miss our nightly diet of Bacon
From Media Guardian. Posted December 22 2009, 11.50am
Terry Wogan may have drawn the headlines, but Richard Bacon's switch from his late Radio 5 Live slot is worth mourningThere was a media brouhaha last week when some old bloke finally retired from his long-running breakfast show, but for a million rad... (more)

It's Farewell Friday | Media Monkey
From Media Guardian. Posted December 18 2009, 11.59am
As we all woke up to Wogan for the last time today, it is worth keeping in mind that apart from El Tel, there are a clutch of other TV and radio programmes and personalities taking a final curtain call on this Farewell Friday. Tea-time legend Paul O'Grady ends his Channel 4 show after 900 episodes. (more)

R2 told to put ambition before ratings
From Media Guardian. Posted November 30 2009, 1.40pm
Radio 2 must offer 'content the licence-fee payer can't hear elsewhere' says David Liddiment, leader of BBC Trust reviewBBC Radio 2 should put more ambitious programmes in its peaktime schedule even if it means some listeners switching off, the BBC t... (more)

BBC 5 live decks the halls
From Radio Today. Posted November 27 2009, 12.41pm
Annabel Croft, Didier Drogba and Jenson Button are part of the festive line-up on BBC Radio 5 live that also includes new documentaries, current affairs and comedy specials. (more)

Watch out Noddy Holder: Nicky's coming to claim your Christmas crown | Media Monkey
From Media Guardian. Posted November 10 2009, 5.09pm
Is song written by Radio 5 Live DJ on its way to becoming a festive classic?Nicky Campbell's got a Christmas single coming out! Well, in the interests of accuracy, it's not actually Campbell singing - the BBC Radio 5 Live man wrote it for his fellow sultan of swing music, Mark Moraghan. (more)

Ashes coverage helps 5 Live Sports Extra draw record audience
From Media Guardian. Posted October 29 2009, 9.46am
Digital radio station boosted by absence of cricket series from terrestrial TV, as BBC6 Music attracts nearly 5% more listenersBBC digital radio station 5 Live Sports Extra attracted its biggest ever audience over the summer, boosted by cricket fans ... (more)

Daily slots for Gabby Logan and Richard Bacon in BBC Radio 5 Live shake-up
From The Independent. Posted October 20 2009, 11.02am
TV sports host Gabby Logan is to host a new daily afternoon show in a shake-up for BBC Radio 5 Live, it was announced today. (more)

Logan to star in 5 Live schedule
From Media Guardian. Posted October 20 2009, 5.17am
BBC Radio 5 Live controller Adrian Van Klaveren is expected to unveil a new schedule with major changes within daysGabby Logan is understood to be in line to present a two-hour lunchtime news show on BBC Radio 5 Live as part of a major revamp of the station's schedule. (more)

Derbyshire wins Nick Clarke prize for rape-claim interview
From Press Gazette. Posted October 12 2009, 8.42am
Victoria Derbyshire of BBC Radio 5 Live has been named as the winner of this year�s Nick Clarke award. (more)

Could the Monday MediaGuardian section go online-only?
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted October 9 2009, 8.20am
The Guardian is considering making its Monday media section online-only, according to its sports columnist Martin Kelner, speaking to Phil Williams on Simon Mayo’s BBC Radio 5 Live show on Wednesday. (more)

Chris Evans's breakfast audience likely to be younger than Terry Wogan's
From Media Guardian. Posted September 22 2009, 5.02am
Average age of Chris Evans's drivetime audience is four years younger than the listenership for Terry Wogan's breakfast showBob Shennan, the BBC Radio 2 controller, recently said that Chris Evans will be as good at the breakfast show as the legendary... (more)

Broadband Content Bits: iPlayer on PS3; Virgin Media; Stream5's VC Deal; BBC Five Live Site
From paidContent:UK. Posted September 9 2009, 3.00am
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'Evans/Moyles war would hurt listeners'
From Media Guardian. Posted September 8 2009, 1.59pm
Battle between Radio 1 and Radio 2 breakfast DJs would be 'disastrous', says top industry figureA breakfast show ratings war between BBC Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles and his new BBC Radio 2 rival Chris Evans would be "disastrous" for radio listeners, a senior commercial radio representative warned today. (more)

Mayo tipped for Radio 2 drivetime slot
From Media Guardian. Posted September 8 2009, 12.56pm
Radio 5 Live host Simon Mayo, who is not joining move to Salford, considered 'shoo-in' as Chris Evans replacementSimon Mayo has been tipped to take over the BBC Radio 2 drivetime show when Chris Evans succeeds Terry Wogan on breakfast. (more)

Broadband Content Bits: iPlayer on PS3; Virgin Media; Stream5's VC Deal; BBC Five Live Site
From paidContent:UK. Posted September 7 2009, 3.30pm
—BBC-PS3: The Beeb’s released an updated version of the iPlayer for Sony (NYSE: SNE) PS3s. FM&T online controller Anthony Rose says the quality is almost as good as regular TV. (more)

'Forced to bankruptcy' by councils
From BBC News. Posted September 6 2009, 12.50am
Some local councils are taking drastic action against vulnerable people who have failed to pay their council tax, a BBC Radio 5 live investigation suggests. (more)

Murray misses first 5 Live show
From Radio Today. Posted August 18 2009, 6.33am
Colin Murray missed his first show of the season on BBC Radio 5 Live last week due to Swine Flu. (more)

BBC 'pays £100,000' to settle dismissal claim with radio host
From Media Guardian. Posted August 12 2009, 2.53pm
The BBC has reportedly paid about £100,000 to former Radio 4 presenter Richard Evans after his contract was terminatedThe BBC has reportedly paid about £100,000 to a former BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 5 Live presenter to settle an unfair dismissal claim. (more)

Gough keeps TalkSport drivetime show
From Media Guardian. Posted August 11 2009, 5.29am
Ian Wright moves to TalkSport's flagship Saturday show as former England cricketer Darren Gough is given permanent slotThe former England cricketer Darren Gough is to present the drivetime show on TalkSport throughout the coming football season as Ian Wright moves to a new Saturday slot. (more)

Why 5 Live thinks Colin Murray is the man for the new season
From The Independent. Posted August 2 2009, 11.01pm
Colin Murray hasn't even started his new pivotal role at BBC Radio 5 Live and yet he's already got his eye on a job at Radio 2. His friends warned him he was taking on too much work before he left Radio 1 earlier this year. But the ambitious young Ulsterman can't help himself. (more)

Media Talk: Radio Festival 2009
From Media Guardian. Posted July 2 2009, 2.44pm
Matt Wells returns to the microphone for this week's Media Talk, and we're live(ish) from the Radio Festival in Nottingham. (more)

Campbell: BBC won't let me choose texts
From Media Guardian. Posted July 1 2009, 8.35am
BBC radio presenters cannot choose which listener text messages they read out under strict new compliance rulesBBC radio presenters are no longer allowed to choose which listener text messages they read out under strict new compliance rules in the wa... (more)

Why Lord Carter has gone radio ga-ga
From Media Guardian. Posted June 28 2009, 10.01pm
Wasn't that a neat trick of that nice Lord Carter. He comes up with an anti-commercial solution to an industry that didn't have a problem and then does a runner leaving the listeners, the advertisers and the voters in disarray. I do so hope the ITV board is reading this. (more)

BNP success brings media scrutiny
From Media Guardian. Posted June 8 2009, 7.34pm
This morning, when BBC Radio 5 Live breakfast host Nicky Campbell interviewed Nick Griffin, he did what he often does with politicians after a successful night at the polls – he congratulated the British National party leader and new MEP on his victory. (more)

BBC launches "radio visualisation" trial
From Biz Asia. Posted June 3 2009, 2.04pm
The BBC is set to enhance the radio experience for its listeners by allowing them watch to some of their favourite radio shows being broadcast. (more)

BBC in libel payout to West Ham's Zola
From Media Guardian. Posted May 12 2009, 10.08am
Corporation apologises and pays undisclosed damages over false claim made in BBC Radio 5 Live interviewThe BBC has apologised and paid undisclosed libel damages to West Ham's manager, Gianfranco Zola, and first-team coach, Steve Clarke, over false cl... (more)

Gethin gets back to Radio 5Live
From Radio Today. Posted April 8 2009, 7.00am
Gethin Jones will return to BBC Radio 5 Live hosting a regular Saturday morning show throughout the summer. (more)

Campbell clashes with Guido Fawkes
From Media Guardian. Posted March 31 2009, 10.31am
• Campbell accuses Paul Staines of being a 'fascist'• 'I jokingly said something silly,' says apologetic DJRadio presenter Nicky Campbell traded insults with Paul Staines, the political blogger known as Guido Fawkes, on the BBC Radio 5 Live breakfast show today. (more)

Radio review
From Media Guardian. Posted March 26 2009, 12.01am
Simon Mayo (Radio 2), sitting in for Chris Evans for two weeks, sounds poised. The shows are like a sugar rush, full of confidence and bounce, and in that sense they echo Evans. (more)

Fiona Phillips for Radio 5 Live
From Radio Today. Posted March 9 2009, 2.24pm
Fiona Phillips will be a guest presenter on BBC Radio 5 Live sitting in for Simon Mayo. (more)

BBC apology as radio guests swear about politician
From The Independent. Posted February 13 2009, 11.31am
Presenter Simon Mayo apologised to his BBC Radio 5 Live listeners after two guests swore while referring to far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders. (more)

Mark Story to leave Bauer Media
From Media Guardian. Posted February 10 2009, 9.28am
Magic 105.4 managing director Mark Story is to leave Bauer Media in a management shakeup that sees Kiss boss Steve Parkinson promoted to the newly created role of managing director of both London stations. (more)

Darren Gough to host weekly TalkSport drivetime show
From Media Guardian. Posted January 30 2009, 3.54pm
TalkSport has signed BBC Radio 5 Live cricket pundit Darren Gough to host a new weekly drivetime show.Gough will co-present the Friday drivetime slot with Adrian Durham during a busy summer of cricket including the Ashes and the Twenty20 World Cup. (more)

Battle looms over £130m-a-year digital switchover surplus
From Media Guardian. Posted January 21 2009, 3.32pm
A tug of war is set to break out over the possible use of the BBC's £130m-a-year switchover surplus with government factions split over using it to reinvent Channel 4 or help get broadband in every home in time for the Olympics. (more)

Maitland covers Macintyre on 5
From Radio Today. Posted January 19 2009, 11.50pm
Broadcaster and journalist Jonathan Maitland is to cover for Donal MacIntyre's BBC Radio 5 Live show whilst Donal Dances On Ice. (more)

Radio review by Camilla Redmond
From Media Guardian. Posted January 19 2009, 12.01am
You know just what you're getting with Does the Team Think ... (Saturday), Radio 2's quiz game - Bob Mortimer and Ulrika Jonsson are panellists, and it's all held together by host Vic Reeves's surreal whimsy, so it's basically Shooting Stars remade for the airwaves. (more)

Richard Madeley goes 5 Live
From Radio Today. Posted December 17 2008, 3.45pm
Richard Madeley, of Richard and Judy fame, will present three shows on BBC Radio 5 Live between Tuesday 20 and Thursday 22 January 2009. Madeley, who started his broadcasting career at BBC Radio Cumbria, will stand-in for Richard Bacon. (more)

Zoe Williams: Radio head
From Media Guardian. Posted December 17 2008, 12.16am
I try to avoid writing about the Today programme (Radio 4), because if you let yourself get into that, it's all you ever talk about. But I do think it's worth wondering why they thought Ed Stourton was expendable, even in these, yik yak, most difficult times, etc etc. (more)

New Radio 5 Live schedule: Nicky Campbell gets phone-in and midday news axed
From Media Guardian. Posted November 26 2008, 11.22am
The new-look BBC Radio 5 Live is good news if you are a fan of Nicky Campbell, bad news if your day just isn't the same without Aasmah Mir on the midday news. (more)

Radio, Martin Kelner: BBC must end its smug comedy consensus
From Media Guardian. Posted November 17 2008, 12.04am
The comedy writer and performer Jon Holmes's recent Guardian blog about the Sachsgate row attracted the usual mix of reasoned argument, vitriol and personal abuse - with the latter very much favoured. (more)

Elisabeth Mahoney's radio review
From Media Guardian. Posted November 6 2008, 12.12am
It was either stay up very late or get up very early to hear how Obama had fared. (more)

Dom Joly and Danny Wallace celebrate Christmas on 5 Live
From Media Guardian. Posted November 5 2008, 7.13am
Dom Joly and Danny Wallace are to team up for a BBC Radio 5 Live show about the bizarre traditions of the festive season. (more)

Contenders line up for Radio 2 top job
From Media Guardian. Posted November 4 2008, 7.14am
Former BBC Radio 5 Live controller Bob Shennan and Radio 1 boss Andy Parfitt have emerged as possible contenders to succeed Lesley Douglas. (more)

Digital listening continues to rise
From Radio Today. Posted October 16 2008, 10.31am
Three of the BBC's national digital services posted best ever audiences in today's RAJAR results.1Xtra increased its reach to 600,000, while BBC7, now BBC Radio 7, attracted 887,000 listeners. BBC 6 Music added 300,000 hours and Five Live Sports Extra increased its reach to 776,000. (more)

Danny Baker returns to Radio 5 Live weekly phone-in 606 - yet again
From Media Guardian. Posted July 31 2008, 3.15pm
Danny Baker is to return yet again to BBC Radio 5 Live with a regular weekly berth on the 606 football phone-in. (more)

Football pundit Stan Collymore switches from 5 Live to TalkSport
From Media Guardian. Posted May 29 2008, 9.49am
TalkSport has signed BBC Radio 5 Live football pundit Stan Collymore to host his own nightly show on the station. (more)

Question time: Hannah Pool talks to Simon Mayo
From Media Guardian. Posted May 28 2008, 10.57pm
Hannah Pool finds out from Simon Mayo why Five Live is criminally underrated and how he's part Richard Dawkins and part Rowan Williams... (more)

Former 5 Live presenter Julian Worricker joins Radio 4's You and Yours
From Media Guardian. Posted May 28 2008, 2.20pm
Former BBC Radio 5 Live presenter Julian Worricker is to join BBC Radio 4 consumer affairs show You and Yours, replacing veteran presenter John Waite. By John Plunkett. (more)

BBC Radio 5 Live promotes Jonathan Wall to commissioning editor
From Media Guardian. Posted May 28 2008, 10.27am
The BBC Radio 5 Live executive in charge of all its live sport and sports news programmes has been promoted to become the station's new commissioning editor. (more)

Jonathan Wall to replace Moz Dee
From Radio Today. Posted May 27 2008, 12.31pm
BBC Radio 5 Live editor Jonathan Wall has been promoted to commissioning editor at the station, signalling an official replacement for Moz Dee who left to join talkSPORT last year. (more)

Danny Baker returns to BBC Radio Five Live
From Media Guardian. Posted May 20 2008, 8.44am
Controversial DJ Danny Baker is making another return to BBC Radio 5 Live next month as part of the station's coverage of Euro 2008. (more)

Baker returns to Radio 5 Live
From Radio Today. Posted May 20 2008, 12.40am
Danny Baker is heading back to BBC Radio 5 Live to host the football show 606 this Sunday evening, following the European Championship game between Austria and Croatia. (more)

Bacon brings home the results
From Radio Today. Posted April 29 2008, 8.39pm
Richard Bacon and Dotun Adebayo are to co-present a BBC Radio 5 Live local election results special on Thursday night, online, on television and on the radio. (more)

Gethin Jones gets 5 Live show
From Digital Spy. Posted April 22 2008, 12.11pm
Gethin Jones is to present a show for BBC Radio 5 Live after leaving Blue Peter at the end of June. (more)

Blue Peter's Gethin Jones moves to BBC Radio Five Live
From Media Guardian. Posted April 21 2008, 2.45pm
Gethin Jones, who is leaving Blue Peter after two years, is to join BBC Radio Five Live to present a new Saturday morning show. (more)

New 5 Live boss hires TV presenter
From Radio Today. Posted April 21 2008, 1.35pm
Adrian van Klaveren has began his role as controller of BBC Radio 5 Live today by signing Blue Peter presenter and Strictly Come Dancing star Gethin Jones. (more)

New 5 Live boss hires TV host
From Radio Today. Posted April 21 2008, 1.35pm
Adrian van Klaveren has began his role as controller of BBC Radio 5 Live today by signing Blue Peter presenter and Strictly Come Dancing star Gethin Jones. (more)

Radcliffe questions Salford move
From Radio Today. Posted April 15 2008, 11.18am
Veteran BBC radio presenter Mark Radcliffe has raised concerns about the decision to move BBC Radio 5 Live out of London, and said the move to Media City at Salford Quays near Manchester would radically change the station's character. (more)

My week: Nicky Campbell
From Media Guardian. Posted March 30 2008, 12.02am
The Five Live Breakfast host ponders whether Alan Titchmarsh and God really exist, plays his ukulele on News 24 and then has a brush with the dental mafia... (more)

Could Sunrise Radio national get delayed?
From Biz Asia. Posted March 7 2008, 10.36pm
According to reports this week, Channel 4 executives are effectively split over the broadcaster's digital radio venture. 4 Digital Group consortium led by Channel 4 was awarded the second national DAB multiplex licence. (more)

A different hand on the dial
From Media Guardian. Posted March 3 2008, 12.03am
Go figure: The new controller at Radio Five Live will have to tackle its steadily falling figures, as well as making up for a football-light summer. (more)

Van Klaveren made 5 Live controller
From Digital Spy. Posted February 25 2008, 11.31am
The new controller of BBC Radio 5 Live is named as Adrian Van Klaveren. (more)

Van Klaveren new Radio Five Live boss
From Media Guardian. Posted February 22 2008, 2.37pm
The BBC's deputy director of news, Adrian van Klaveren, has been appointed the new controller of BBC Radio Five Live. (more)

Logan returns to Radio 5 Live
From Radio Today. Posted February 22 2008, 12.13am
Gabby Logan is returning to BBC Radio 5 Live this weekend to host a new Sunday show featuring chat and comment on the week's big stories. (more)

Van Klaveren is new BBC Five Live chief
From Press Gazette. Posted February 22 2008, 12.00am
BBC's deputy director of news, Adrian Van Klaveren, has been appointed controller of BBC Five Live. (more)

Two left in running for Five Live top job
From Media Guardian. Posted February 21 2008, 7.16am
The BBC's Adrian van Klaveren, and Radio Five Live's Steve Kyte, are understood to be the last two names in the running for the post of Five Live controller. (more)

Four still going for Five Live
From Radio Today. Posted February 20 2008, 5.24pm
Radio Today has learnt that there are still four candidates for the position of BBC Radio 5 Live Controller, despite nearly three months passing since the resignation of previous controller Bob Shennan. (more)

Gordon joins Eamonn on 5 Live
From Radio Today. Posted February 6 2008, 7.43pm
Eamonn Holmes will be chatting to Prime Minister Gordon Brown on his BBC Radio 5 Live show this Saturday. (more)

Radio Five Live hires Dawson
From Radio Today. Posted January 24 2008, 9.11am
World Cup winner Matt Dawson is to present a series of special rugby preview shows during the RBS Six Nations tournament on BBC Radio 5 Live. (more)

Richard Bacon May Need Throat Operation
From Merry Media. Posted January 8 2008, 2.54pm
BBC Radio 5 Live host Richard Bacon may have to have a throat operation because of a growth on his vocal cord. He posted a picture of his throat on his Five Live website and said he has been given medication to treat it. . (more)

Radio Five Live boss defects to Channel 4 rival
From Media Guardian. Posted December 4 2007, 12.17am
The controller of rolling news and sport station BBC Radio Five Live yesterday defected to join nascent national rival, Channel 4 Radio... (more)

Bob Shennan takes charge at Channel 4 Radio
From Media Guardian. Posted December 3 2007, 5.15pm
BBC Radio Five Live controller Bob Shennan has defected to Channel 4 Radio, where he will head the launch of three national digital stations. (more)

Shennan joins Channel 4 Radio
From Radio Today. Posted December 3 2007, 4.49pm
Bob Shennan, controller of BBC Radio Five Live and BBC Asian Network, is joining Channel 4 Radio. His departure was confirmed in an email to staff this afternoon. (more)

Five Live controller Bob Shennan defects to Channel 4 Radio
From Media Guardian. Posted December 3 2007, 4.32pm
BBC Radio Five Live controller Bob Shennan has defected to Channel 4 Radio. (more)

Paperless Studio wins award
From Radio Today. Posted November 30 2007, 8.08am
Ex-Capital Disney breakfast presenter Matt James has beaten BBC Radio Five Live and BBC Radio 1 to win this year's Radio Academy Innovation Award. Matt's "Paperless Studio" service was voted the best technological innovation by delegates at the Radio At The Edge event in London. (more)

Salford is our Silicon Valley
From Radio Today. Posted November 26 2007, 8.11pm
BBC Radio Five Live controller Bob Shennan has made favorable comparisons between the upcoming mediacity:uk in Salford and Silicon Valley. He said the BBC is looking forward to welcoming many more media related tenants to the area. (more)

BBC Five Live's Moz Dee defects to TalkSport
From Media Guardian. Posted November 12 2007, 3.04pm
Radio Five Live managing editor Moz Dee has defected from the BBC to become programme director at TalkSport. By Ben Dowell. (more)

BBC Five Live's big loss
From Radio Today. Posted October 25 2007, 9.53am
BBC national speech station Five Live has today suffered a loss in audience making Q3 it’s worst RAJAR in some years. Year on year the BBC news and sport station has suffered losses with their audience down to 5.49 million from 5.75 million this time last year. (more)

BBC Radio Five Live hits seven-year low
From Media Guardian. Posted October 25 2007, 7.33am
BBC Radio Five Live has slumped to its lowest audience for at least seven years in a tough quarter for the two BBC national speech networks. By John Plunkett. (more)

Sheffield Wednesday chairman sues over Five Live fan posts
From Press Gazette. Posted October 4 2007, 11.00pm
Sheffield Wednesday chairman David Allen has kicked off a libel battle over messages posted on the BBC’s Five Live message board service.Five Live runs a message board service for members to post statements about sport, connected to... (more)

Jane Garvey joins Radio 4's Woman's Hour
From Press Gazette. Posted September 17 2007, 11.00pm
Veteran BBC Radio Five Live presenter Jane Garvey is joining BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour as a presenter, replacing Martha Kearney. (more)

My Mentor: Dotun Adebayo on Bob Shennan
From The Independent. Posted September 16 2007, 11.45pm
My first contact with Bob was an email asking me to lunch. He wrote after I had been a guest on Radio Five Live programmes many times, mainly as a black book-publisher, and a presenter on BBC London. (more)

BBC 5 Live gets daily Bacon
From Radio Today. Posted September 14 2007, 11.19am
Former Capital FM and Xfm DJ Richard Bacon is set to take over the late show on BBC Radio 5 Live from next month, in a schedule shake-up which will also see Jane Garvey leave the station after 13 years, and Anita Anand take over as co-host of the drivetime show. (more)

Richard Bacon Weeknight Show on Five Live
From Merry Media. Posted September 14 2007, 11.06am
BBC Radio Five Live are making changes to their schedule which includes Anita Anand presenting Drivetime, Gabby Logan on Sundays and Richard Bacon weeknights.. (more)

Gabby Logan gets Sunday slot in Five shakeup
From Media Guardian. Posted September 14 2007, 12.00am
11.45am update: Five Live is to shake up its schedule next month, with Drivetime co-host Jane Garvey leaving and new shows for Richard Bacon and Gabby Logan. By John Plunkett. (more)

Jane Garvey leaves Five Live after 13 years
From Press Gazette. Posted September 13 2007, 11.00pm
BBC Radio Five Live presenter Jane Garvey is leaving the station after 13 years to spend more time with her family. (more)

Radio FiveLive uses FoI for youth crime figures
From thenoise.co.uk. Posted September 2 2007, 10.49am
BBC Radio Five Live has used the Freedom of Information Act to reveal the true extent of youth crime in England and Wales. The station submitted FoI requests to all 43 police forces in England and Wales, asking how many cases had been recorded last year in which the suspect was under 10. (more)

Five Live bags Rugby rights
From Radio Today. Posted August 29 2007, 6.02pm
BBC Radio Five Live has secured the exclusive radio commentary rights for the 2007 Rugby World Cup. John Inverdale and Ian Robertson will join a team of summarisers from Friday September 7th when France plays Argentina. The deal includes coverage via digital-only station Five Live Sports Extra. (more)

Record reach for BBC digitals
From Radio Today. Posted August 16 2007, 8.01am
The BBC's five digital-only networks – BBC 6 Music, 1Xtra BBC, BBC 7, BBC Asian Network and BBC Five Live Sports Extra continued their strong performance this quarter, with Five Live Sports Extra bringing in 866,000 listeners in a record listening figure for the network. (more)

Bids in for Five Live Sunday show
From Media Guardian. Posted August 15 2007, 12.00am
More than half a dozen producers are bidding to take over Julian Worricker's Sunday morning slot on Radio Five Live. By John Plunkett. (more)

Five Live Have More Commentary than Anyone Else
From Merry Media. Posted August 5 2007, 4.50pm
BBC Radio Five Live are boasting that they will have more commentary on more Premier League football than any other UK broadcaster in the new football season.. (more)

Five Live launches daily Pod
From Radio Today. Posted August 4 2007, 1.22pm
BBC Radio Five Live has launched a daily football Podcast. The Five Live Football Daily, voiced by the host of Five Live Sport Mark Saggers, will be available Sunday to Thursday. It will provide a round-up of the day's football news and post-match comment after the day's action. (more)

Fighting Talk at Radio Festival
From Radio Today. Posted July 10 2007, 11.14pm
The Sony Gold winning programme Fighting Talk made the move from BBC Radio Five Live to the Radio Festival on Tuesday afternoon. (more)

Tim Lovejoy joins Radio Five Live
From Merry Media. Posted June 26 2007, 10.28pm
Tim Lovejoy is joining BBC Radio Five Live from the start of the new football season. He will present the phone-in programme 606 from Wednesday August 6th.. (more)

Lovejoy joins BBC Five Live
From Radio Today. Posted June 26 2007, 7.11pm
Former Xfm and Virgin Radio presenter Tim Lovejoy is set to join BBC Radio Five Live to host the football phone in show 606. Lovejoy's first 606 show will be on Wednesday 8 August and he will present the regular Wednesday evening show from then on through the season. (more)

Tim Lovejoy to host 606 phone-in on Five Live
From Media Guardian. Posted June 26 2007, 12.00am
5pm: Former Soccer AM presenter Tim Lovejoy is to join BBC Radio Five Live as one of the hosts of its football phone-in, 606. By John Plunkett. (more)

Murray Walker Commentating on Radio Five Live
From Merry Media. Posted June 22 2007, 1.57pm
Murray Walker will bbe commentating for BBC Radio Five Live from the European Grand Prix in Germany on July 22nd - the first time since he retired in 2001.. (more)

Vaughan back at BBC Five Live
From Radio Today. Posted June 7 2007, 8.28am
Capital 95.8 breakfast presenter Johnny Vaughan is heading back to Five Live to host a series of weekend shows, it has been reported. Johnny will host five editions of a new current affairs show called Fighting Talk, Any Other Business. The programmes start in July on Sunday evenings. (more)

Johnny Vaughan returns to Radio Five Live
From Media Guardian. Posted June 7 2007, 12.00am
8am: Johnny Vaughan is to return to Radio Five Live to host a spin-off of panel show Fighting Talk. ByJohn Plunkett. (more)

BBC Media City terms agreed
From Radio Today. Posted May 31 2007, 1.44pm
The BBC Trust has agreed details terms with Peel Holdings, the owners of the land in Salford Quays, about the upcoming move. Five Live and other departments will leave London in 2011. It is expected that preliminary work will begin at mediacity:uk in Salford Quays within days. (more)

Radio Five Live at the Vodafone Derby Festival
From Merry Media. Posted May 24 2007, 12.14pm
BBC Radio Five Live will be providing live coverage of the 2007 Vodafone Derby Festival with listeners and punters getting the chance to take part in a live question time.. (more)

Five Live Introduce Mayo Video Podcast
From Merry Media. Posted May 21 2007, 2.54pm
BBC Radio Five Live have introduced a video podcast version of the Mark Kermode/Simon Mayo Film Review - a feature which goes out on Simon Mayo's weekday show every Friday.. (more)

Gabby Logan's Five Live show gets quiz boost
From Media Guardian. Posted May 18 2007, 12.00am
1.15pm: Gabby Logan is to host a Radio Five Live quiz show in the Saturday morning Fighting Talk slot. By John Plunkett. (more)

Radio 3 and Five Live drag down BBC Rajar results
From Media Guardian. Posted May 10 2007, 12.00am
Rajars: Radio 3 and Five Live both lost listeners in an otherwise positive set of results for BBC radio. By John Plunkett. (more)

Radio 3 and Five Live drag on BBC Rajar results
From Media Guardian. Posted May 10 2007, 12.00am
Rajars: Radio 3 and Five Live both lost listeners in an otherwise positive set of results for BBC radio. By John Plunkett. (more)

Bite Yer Legs snaps up Matt Hall
From Media Guardian. Posted May 8 2007, 12.00am
12pm: The independent producer of Eamonn Holmes's BBC Radio Five Live show has hired a former executive at a rival firm. By John Plunkett. (more)

Radio Five Live Cover 2007 Elections
From Merry Media. Posted April 19 2007, 11.58pm
In the run up to local and national elections across the UK, BBC Radio Five Live cuts through the party political agendas and gives five families a chance to tell the truth about what matters to them, not the politicians.. (more)

BBC cancels Sly Bailey interview
From Media Guardian. Posted April 3 2007, 12.00am
4.30pm: A Five Live radio interview with Sly Bailey was spiked when the Trinity Mirror chief objected to another guest - Sun business editor Ian King. By Stephen Brook. (more)

Grand National Coverage on BBC TV and Radio
From Merry Media. Posted March 23 2007, 2.41pm
With comprehensive live coverage on BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Radio Five Live and the BBC Sport website, the BBC ensures that not a moment from the 2007 John Smith's Grand National will be missed.. (more)

BBC Radio Five Live to Broadcast Formula 1 Action
From Merry Media. Posted March 8 2007, 12.43pm
BBC Radio Five Live will be broadcasting all the action as Formula 1 starts one of the most exciting campaigns of recent years.. (more)

Formula 1 for BBC Five Live
From Radio Today. Posted March 8 2007, 12.21pm
BBC Radio Five Live commentary team David Croft, Holly Samos and Maurice Hamilton will be broadcasting all the action from the Formula 1 once again this year, starting with the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne. They worked together for the first time last year providing a complete service. (more)

Gabby Logan Co-Hosts Five Live Breakfast
From Merry Media. Posted February 1 2007, 1.59pm
Gabby Logan widens her BBC Radio Five Live presenting responsibilities when she co-presents Five Live Breakfast (6-9am, weekdays) from next week.. (more)

Gabby Logan extends radio Five Live role
From Media Guardian. Posted February 1 2007, 12.00am
12.45pm: Gabby Logan is to co-host Radio Five Live's breakfast programme with Nicky Campbell. By John Plunkett. (more)

More job cuts at the BBC as Radio Five Live closes two shows
From Media Guardian. Posted January 31 2007, 12.00am
5.45pm: BBC Radio Five Live is axing two news shows with the loss of up to six journalists' posts. By Jason Deans. (more)

BBC says sorry to Liverpool
From Radio Today. Posted January 23 2007, 9.00am
BBC Radio Five Live boss Bob Shennan has sent a letter to local council leader and Everton fan Warren Bradley apologising about the comments made by commentator Alan Green during a recent football match on Merseyside between Everton and Reading. (more)

Radio 5 Live apologises for hubcap comment
From Media Guardian. Posted January 23 2007, 12.00am
2pm: BBC Radio 5 Live has apologised after Alan Green joked about Liverpudlians stealing car hubcaps. By John Plunkett. (more)

Five Live upsets Liverpool
From Radio Today. Posted January 16 2007, 8.06am
BBC Radio Five Live has had a complaint from Liverpool City Council - over comments made by football commentator Alan Green during Sunday's match between Everton and Reading. (more)

BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra goes back to square one on 21 January
From Media Network Weblog. Posted January 2 2007, 2.23pm
On Sunday 21 January, commentary on the English premiership football match between Arsenal v Manchester United will be broadcast on both BBC Five Live and its digital sister station Five Live Sports Extra. (more)

Christmas on BBC Radio Five Live
From Merry Media. Posted December 1 2006, 1.07am
BBC Radio Five Live gets into the festive mood with a mixture of analysis, celebration and downright fun this Christmas.. (more)

BBC Five Live festive schedule
From Radio Today. Posted November 30 2006, 2.14pm
BBC Radio Five Live has revealed details of their festive programming. They include Kelvin MacKenzie reviewing the best of the year's news and a Sports Review of the Year looking back at some of the greatest, worst and best forgotten key sporting moments from 2006 . (more)

Commercial radio narrows BBC lead in audience share
From Media Guardian. Posted October 26 2006, 12.00am
Rajars: Commercial radio has fought back in the radio listening wars, narrowing the BBC's lead in audience share again - with Five Live the biggest loser and TalkSport the biggest winner. By John Plunkett. (more)

BBC Five Live Brookmans Park transmitter off air for essential maintenance
From Media Network Weblog. Posted September 5 2006, 1.10pm
BBC Five Live advises: “On 5 September Five Live’s Brookmans Park AM transmitter is being switched off for essential, but temporary maintenance [sic]. So, if you listen to Five Live on 909 AM and live in the South East of England, London and some parts of East Anglia this affects you. (more)

BBC Cleared Schedule for Terror Plots
From Merry Media. Posted August 10 2006, 10.44pm
BBC News is keeping viewers updated on the unfolding development of the airline terror plot via simulcasts of the latest developments on BBC One and BBC News 24. The story broke first on BBC Radio Five Live at 5. (more)

606 Football Writers Wanted for Radio Five Live
From Merry Media. Posted August 3 2006, 8.15pm
BBC Radio Five Live's 606, the original and best football phone-in, is inviting listeners to write about the passion, drama, agony or ecstasy of the beautiful game and have their stories broadcast on-air. (more)

Tony Blair co-host on Five Live
From Radio Today. Posted June 19 2006, 7.45pm
Prime Minister Tony Blair has co-presented football's original football phone-in, 606, on BBC Radio Five Live with Adrian Chiles tonight (Monday 19 June). (more)

British PM Tony Blair to co-host soccer phone-in this evening
From Media Network Weblog. Posted June 19 2006, 2.44pm
British Prime Minister Tony Blair will co-present the football phone-in show, 606, on BBC Radio Five Live with Adrian Chiles this evening. Mr Blair, an England and Newcastle United fan, The Prime Minister will be in the studio for an hour from 7. (more)

BBC poised to create 'media city' in Salford
From The Independent. Posted June 15 2006, 11.00pm
The city of Salford has beaten Manchester, its neighbour and old foe, to pole position in the race to house BBC Sport, Children's BBC and Radio Five Live when they are relocated north. (more)

Adrian Chiles: My Life In Media
From The Independent. Posted June 4 2006, 11.00pm
Adrian Chiles, 39, presents Working Lunch on BBC2 most weekdays. He will present highlights programmes from Berlin during the World Cup. He has presented Match Of The Day 2 for the past two seasons and has worked on Radio Five Live since it started in 1994. (more)

Who needs pictures?
From The Independent. Posted June 4 2006, 11.00pm
You have to feel a little sympathy for the members of the Radio Five Live team who, having been assigned to cover the passion and excitement of the World Cup, will find themselves heading down the M4 to spend an afternoon in Gloucestershire in the company of a group of American airmen. (more)

Five Live appeals for World Cup dramas
From The Stage. Posted May 16 2006, 12.15pm
Budding scriptwriters are being called to pen short dramas centred around the World Cup, with winning entries performed by stars including Johnny Vegas and Kwame Kwei-Armah and broadcast on Radio Five Live throughout the tournament. (more)

BBC RAJAR Headlines
From Radio Today. Posted May 12 2006, 12.15am
BBC Radio Five Live and sister station Five Live Sports Extra added nearly half a million listeners in the last quarter, according to figures released today by Rajar, The figures show a quarterly increase of 492,000 listeners across both stations. (more)

RAJAR Q1-06 - BBC Digital Radio
From Merry Media. Posted May 11 2006, 12.34pm
All of the BBC's digital only services posted an increased audience according to the lastest figures released by RAJAR. Five Live Sports Extra has 613,000 listeners, from 414,000 last year and 460,000 last quarter. Its share has went unchanged at 0.1%. (more)

New Editor for BBC Radio Wales
From Radio Today. Posted March 24 2006, 7.00am
Sali Collins – formerly a senior editor with BBC Radio Five Live – has been announced as the new Editor of BBC Radio Wales. Sali is currently Project Manager, Broadcast Development at BBC Wales. (more)

More Five Live shows for Nolan
From Radio Today. Posted March 16 2006, 5.02pm
The Stephen Nolan show, currently broadcast at the weekend on BBC Radio Five Live, is to be extended to three nights a week from May 2006 and will be produced by BBC News in Manchester. (more)

Changes at BBC Five Live
From Radio Today. Posted March 8 2006, 5.38pm
BBC Radio Five Live is gearing up for the 2006 Formula One season - there will be extended live coverage throughout the season brought to listeners by a brand new commentary team. (more)

Shortlist for BBC Manchester move
From Radio Today. Posted January 18 2006, 9.02am
The BBC is launching the next phase of its plans to relocate key departments from London to Greater Manchester in 2010 and have shortlisted two sites for the location of the Media Zone. (more)

SNP wants Ofcom to issue talk radio licence for Scotland
From Media Network Weblog. Posted January 1 2006, 2.53pm
Nicola Sturgeon, leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) in the Scottish parliament, has called on UK media regulator Ofcom to issue a licence for a national talk radio station in Scotland. (more)

Nicky Campbell: My life in media
From The Independent. Posted December 31 1969, 11.59pm
Nicky Campbell, 46, presents the breakfast show on Radio Five Live with Shelagh Fogarty, which last month won the Sony Gold award for news and current affairs. Campbell was born in Edinburgh to Irish parents and adopted at birth. (more)

My Mentor: Fi Glover on Peter Allen
From The Independent. Posted December 31 1969, 11.59pm
I heard Peter Allen before I met him. I was listening to him on BBC Radio Five Live for four or five years before I worked with him. (more)

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