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Football pundit Stan Collymore switches from 5 Live to TalkSport
From Media Guardian. Posted May 29 2008, 10.49am
TalkSport has signed BBC Radio 5 Live football pundit Stan Collymore to host his own nightly show on the station. By John Plunkett (more)

Question time: Hannah Pool talks to Simon Mayo
From Media Guardian. Posted May 28 2008, 11.57pm
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, 3.20pm
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, 11.27am
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. By John Plunkett (more)

Jonathan Wall to replace Moz Dee
From Radio Today. Posted May 27 2008, 1.31pm
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.Jonathan will have a key role alongside 5 Live controller Adrian Van Klaveren, who took over the post of BBC Radio 5 Live and 5 Live Sports Extra controller in April. (more)

Hignell retires from 5 Live
From Radio Today. Posted May 27 2008, 1.23pm
BBC Radio 5 Live's Rugby Union commentator Alastair Hignell is set to retire on May 31st, following the Guinness Premiership final at Twickenham, RadioToday.co.uk can reveal. (more)

Danny Baker returns to BBC Radio Five Live
From Media Guardian. Posted May 20 2008, 9.44am
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. By Jemima Kiss (more)

Baker returns to Radio 5 Live
From Radio Today. Posted May 20 2008, 1.40am
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.Danny Baker, who has been sacked from the BBC many times in the past, returns to host six editions of 606 en route to the final in Vienna on Sunday 29 June. (more)

Bacon brings home the results
From Radio Today. Posted April 29 2008, 9.39pm
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, 1.11pm
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, 3.45pm
Gethin Jones, who is leaving Blue Peter after two years, is to join BBC Radio Five Live to present a new Saturday morning show. By Mark Sweney (more)

New 5 Live boss hires TV presenter
From Radio Today. Posted April 21 2008, 2.35pm
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, 2.35pm
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)

John Plunkett interviews Adrian van Klaveren
From Media Guardian. Posted April 20 2008, 11.03pm
Five Live controller Adrian van Klaveren on removing presenters from London, the benefits a populist station, and Paxo-esque interviewers. By John Plunkett (more)

Hill follows Shennan to C4
From Radio Today. Posted April 17 2008, 12.57am
BBC Radio 5 Live's managing editor Michael Hill is following his former boss Bob Shennan to join the executive launch team for Channel 4 Radio. Shennan quit the BBC in December last year, and Hill is expected to join him within weeks. (more)

Radcliffe questions Salford move
From Radio Today. Posted April 15 2008, 12.18pm
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)

A man for all seasons
From Media Guardian. Posted April 6 2008, 11.02pm
Moz Dee, the new programme director of TalkSport, is all set to challenge Five Live's dominance. He just wishes it was a fair fight. John Plunkett reports (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)

Sportsweek Wins Top Award
From Radio Today. Posted March 19 2008, 5.22pm
BBC Radio 5 Live's Sportsweek programme has been voted the best sports programme for the second successive year at the Sports Journalists' Association Awards. (more)

'And it's Zara Phillips by a nose'
From Media Guardian. Posted March 16 2008, 12.07am
Radio: Cheltenham Festival, Five Live (more)

Donal MacIntyre to front 5 Live series
From Digital Spy. Posted March 14 2008, 4.29pm
Donal MacIntyre will make his radio presenting debut with an investigatory series for BBC Radio 5 Live. (more)

MacIntyre goes undercover for 5 Live
From Radio Today. Posted March 14 2008, 11.15am
Donal MacIntyre will make his radio presenting debut next month in a new series of programmes on BBC Radio 5 Live. (more)

MacIntyre joins Five Live
From Media Guardian. Posted March 14 2008, 11.06am
Donal MacIntyre is to return to the BBC, presenting a new series of investigative programmes on Radio Five Live. By Ben Dowell (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. The consortium had proposed to provide ten linear national services including that of Sunrise Radio. However, MediaGuardian has said that a leading executive at the group was split, with chief executive, Andy Duncan and director of new business and corporate development, Nathalie Schwarz, who are advocates of the project, looking increasingly isolated. The programme commissioning team believe the radio venture will drain Channel 4 of up to £100m, which is needed to bolster its programme budget at a tough point when the channel is about to launch its campaign for public assistance. Senior channel executives accordingly held a meeting last week to consider options and the board, chaired by Luke Johnson, is to take a hard look at the policy decision to invest in digital radio at its April meeting. It looks increasingly unlikely that the new national multiplex consisting of channels like Sunrise Radio is launching this year. In other DAB digital radio news, Financial Times has reported the possibility of BBC Radios 1, 2, 3, 4 and Five Live gradually switching to DAB only, albeit over a long time period. Related link: Sunrise Radio to go national after new licence win (more)

Radio 5 Live at the races
From Radio Today. Posted March 7 2008, 12.11am
BBC Radio 5 Live is broadcasting live from the Cheltenham Festival for four days of national coverage for one of the highlights of the jump racing calendar. (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. By John Plunkett (more)

Radio covers England earthquake
From Radio Today. Posted February 27 2008, 1.38am
Live radio stations across England enjoyed extra listening overnight as thousands of people tuned in to gain essential information about an earthquake with a magnitude of 4.7. BBC Radio Five Live's up all night programme took phone calls from listeners reporting that the 12:56am quake took place at 12:56am. (more)

Nicky Camobell Gets Jingle from Stevie Wonder
From Merry Media. Posted February 26 2008, 11.33am
Five Live presenter Nicky Campbell met Stevie Wonder and asked him to sing a jingle for the radio station. Campbell met him at the Oscars and the soul legend was kind enough to sing for him "909, 693, medium wave". . (more)

Nicky Campbell Gets Jingle from Stevie Wonder
From Merry Media. Posted February 26 2008, 11.33am
Five Live presenter Nicky Campbell met Stevie Wonder and asked him to sing a jingle for the radio station. Campbell met him at the Oscars and the soul legend was kind enough to sing for him "909, 693, medium wave". . (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's sights on Salford
From Media Guardian. Posted February 22 2008, 5.11pm
BBC Radio Five Live's move from London to Salford is not due for another three years, but the relocation will be top of new station controller Adrian van Klaveren's agenda. By John Plunkett (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. By John Plunkett (more)

New 5 Live boss announced
From Radio Today. Posted February 22 2008, 2.07pm
BBC Radio 5 Live has appointed Adrian Van Klaveren as controller of the national network, taking over from Bob Shennan who left in December. Adrian is currently deputy director of news and controller of news production and regular deputies for BBC director of news Helen Boaden. (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. By John Plunkett (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)

606 makes the move to TV
From Radio Today. Posted February 12 2008, 6.37pm
BBC Radio 5 Live's football phone-in show 606 is making its debut on television this Wednesday with host Tim Lovejoy. (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)

Five Live controller race hots up
From Media Guardian. Posted January 23 2008, 4.47pm
The BBC's deputy director of news, Adrian van Klaveren, has emerged as a leading contender to become the next controller of BBC Radio Five Live. By John Plunkett (more)

Zilkha to be Today deputy editor
From Media Guardian. Posted January 16 2008, 1.52pm
The editor of Radio Five Live's drivetime show has been appointed as the deputy editor of Radio 4's Today programme. By Leigh Holmwood (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)

Sport on Radio: Grand national institution, but Corporation 0... Campbell 1
From The Independent. Posted January 6 2008, 12.50am
'Sports Report' was often more like a school report. These days we can look back and chuckle at some of its foibles and "idiosyncratic iconoclasts", as Stuart Hall called the news team on BBC Radio 5 Live's 60th birthday tribute on Thursday night ? he would call them that, wouldn't he? (Oh, and by the way, what was the score?) (more)

60 years of Sports Report
From Radio Today. Posted December 22 2007, 10.36am
BBC Radio 5 Live is celebrating 60 years of Sports Report in January by bringing back a host of previous presenters. (more)

Radio Devon is BBC favourite
From Radio Today. Posted December 10 2007, 9.00pm
BBC Radio Devon has won an award for the Best Regional Radio Station in the media category of the 28th annual Plain English Campaign awards. BBC Radio Five Live's Midday News has also been awarded a gong for Best National Radio Programme. (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. By Leigh Holmwood and John Plunkett (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. By Leigh Holmwood and John Plunkett (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 Radio 5 Live ?Chase?
From UTalk Marketing. Posted November 15 2007, 11.51am
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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)

Moz Dee set to join UTV Radio
From Radio Today. Posted November 12 2007, 12.30pm
BBC Radio 5 Live commissioning editor Moz Dee is joining UTV Radio early next year to take up the position of director of programmes. He will be responsible for output at talkSPORT and the new digital offering Talk Radio, due to launch nationally next year. (more)

One in four BBC radio journalists to move to Five Live
From Media Guardian. Posted November 1 2007, 7.34am
Around a quarter of the BBC's radio news journalists are to move to Radio Five Live. By John Plunkett. (more)

Five Live blames 'dud summer' for bad ratings
From The Independent. Posted October 26 2007, 1.05am
Radio Five Live, the BBC station specialising in sports and news, has suffered a fall in its audience to the lowest level for seven years. (more)

BBC Five Live's big loss
From Radio Today. Posted October 25 2007, 10.53am
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, 8.33am
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 5 2007, 12.00am
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)

Radio MD appointed at Sky
From Radio Today. Posted October 4 2007, 12.28pm
David Ford, current executive producer for Sky Sport News will make the move back to radio with the launch of Sky News Radio in London this month and on Channel 4's new digital multiplex next year. Before television, David worked for BBC Radio Leeds and Five Live. (more)

Jane Garvey Joins BBC Radio 4
From Merry Media. Posted September 18 2007, 11.06am
Jane Garvey is joining BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour team as a presenter. Jane is leaving BBC Radio 5 Live, where she has been a presenter since it launched in 1994.. (more)

Jane Garvey joins Radio 4's Woman's Hour
From Press Gazette. Posted September 18 2007, 12.00am
Veteran BBC Radio Five Live presenter Jane Garvey is joining BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour as a presenter, replacing Martha Kearney. (more)

Anita Anand lands 'Drive' on BBC Radio 5 Live
From Biz Asia. Posted September 17 2007, 9.55am
BBC Radio 5 Live's popular presenter Anita Anand is moving from her late night show to front the 'Drive' programme, in major schedule changes taking place at the station from Monday 8th October. The ex-ZEE TV presenter has been with Radio 5 Live since 2005 after Matthew Bannister left the 22:00 chat show. Anita Anand will join Peter Allen on the new sounding 'Drive' show. She replaces Jane Garvey who has partnered Peter Allen in various programmes on Radio 5 Live since 1994. Anita Anand said: "I am delighted and really rather honoured to be taking over on 5 Live Drive. Jane has always been a presenter I have admired and respected. "To get the chance to work with a journalist of Peter's calibre is a joyous prospect. Drive is such an important news programme and I relish this new challenge." Peter Allen said: "Jane's been a delight to work with – and very long suffering. Bear in mind our partnership has lasted longer than the average marriage at the BBC! "Anita Anand is a terrific find for 5 Live, and has a great sense of humour, which is probably just as well." Meanwhile Richard Bacon will take over the late night show from Anita Anand on the same day. Radio 5 Live Controller Bob Shennan said: "It's the end of an era and I am really sad to lose Jane. She is a fantastic broadcaster and has played a major part in the station since its launch. I hope she will be back on it at some stage in the future. "I'm delighted to welcome Anita, Richard and Gabby to new places in our schedule. They are all familiar voices to our listeners and great talents." (more)

My Mentor: Dotun Adebayo on Bob Shennan
From The Independent. Posted September 17 2007, 12.45am
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, 12.19pm
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, 12.06pm
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, 1.00am
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 14 2007, 12.00am
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, 11.49am
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. Children aged nine and [...] (more)

Radio: BBC defends employing MacKenzie
From Media Guardian. Posted August 30 2007, 1.00am
BBC Radio 5 Live controller Bob Shennan has defended using Sun columnist Kelvin MacKenzie on his station. By Tara Conlan. (more)

Five Live bags Rugby rights
From Radio Today. Posted August 29 2007, 7.02pm
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, 9.01am
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, 1.00am
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, 5.50pm
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, 2.22pm
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)

Julian Worricker quits Radio Five Live
From Media Guardian. Posted July 13 2007, 1.00am
8am: Julian Worricker, one of the most familiar voices on Radio Five Live, is to leave the station after 13 years. By John Plunkett. (more)

Deep pockets at Channel 4 Radio
From Radio Today. Posted July 11 2007, 9.14am
Tuesday is always the big day of the Festival, and what did we learn from this year's sessions? Quite a lot, actually. Danny Baker doesn't have a contract with the BBC, Vanessa Feltz likes to swear, Jamie Theakson's idea of multi-platforms is to get some theatre work, and Five Live's Fighting Talk should have John Myers and Nick Ferrari on it more often! (more)

Fighting Talk at Radio Festival
From Radio Today. Posted July 11 2007, 12.14am
The Sony Gold winning programme Fighting Talk made the move from BBC Radio Five Live to the Radio Festival on Tuesday afternoon. Regular presenter Colin Murray chaired the special radio-related edition of the panel show, with radio guests John Myers, Keith Pringle, Nick Ferrari and impressionist Jon Holmes. (more)

Up All Night in Cambridge
From Radio Today. Posted July 10 2007, 9.08am
BBC Radio Five Live's Up All Night made the trip to The Radio Festival for a special edition of the talk show this morning. The programme, presented by Nick Wallace invited attendees of the industry event to talk about the state of radio today. (more)

Tim Lovejoy joins Radio Five Live
From Merry Media. Posted June 26 2007, 11.28pm
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, 8.11pm
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, 1.00am
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, 2.57pm
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)

Murray driven back to Five Live
From Radio Today. Posted June 22 2007, 2.45pm
The legendary voice of Formula One, Murray Walker is returning to BBC Radio Five Live, six years after his retirement from the commentary box. His special one-off appearence will take place over the weekend of the European Grand Prix in Germany in July. (more)

Murray drives back to Five Live
From Radio Today. Posted June 22 2007, 2.45pm
The legendary voice of Formula One, Murray Walker is returning to BBC Radio Five Live, six years after his retirement from the commentary box. His special one-off appearence will take place over the weekend of the European Grand Prix in Germany in July. (more)

Vaughan back at BBC Five Live
From Radio Today. Posted June 7 2007, 9.28am
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, 1.00am
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, 2.44pm
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, 1.14pm
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, 3.54pm
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 Hosts New Radio Five Show
From Merry Media. Posted May 18 2007, 12.36pm
Gabby Logan gets her own show this summer on BBC Radio Five Live, hosting The Gabby Logan Show from 9am to noon on Saturdays with sport and entertainment including a panel quiz show.. (more)

Gabby Logan's Five Live show gets quiz boost
From Media Guardian. Posted May 18 2007, 1.00am
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, 1.00am
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, 1.00am
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, 1.00am
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)

Simon Mayo to front election special on Five Live
From Media Guardian. Posted April 27 2007, 1.00am
4.30pm: Simon Mayo is to anchor Five Live's local election coverage, with a five-hour results special. By John Plunkett. (more)

Radio Five Live Cover 2007 Elections
From Merry Media. Posted April 20 2007, 12.58am
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, 1.00am
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)

Bacon quits Xfm
From Radio Today. Posted March 13 2007, 3.30pm
Xfm drivetime presenter Richard Bacon's quitting the London station at the end of his current contract - to do more work at BBC Five Live. The former Blue Peter TV presenter is to host a new version of the popular Fighting Talk format on Sunday nights. (more)

Richard Bacon Quits XFM for Five Live
From Merry Media. Posted March 13 2007, 3.21pm
Richard Bacon is giving up his drivetime show on XFM in London to host a new show on BBC Radio Five Live.. (more)

Richard Bacon casts off from Xfm
From Media Guardian. Posted March 13 2007, 12.00am
Richard Bacon is leaving London station Xfm and has bagged a new show on Radio Five Live. By John Plunkett. (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)

Plans submitted for Media City
From Radio Today. Posted February 26 2007, 11.38am
The BBC move to Salford Quays has taken another step closer today with the land owners Peel Holdings submitting planning applications to Salford council. It is thought work could start on the site, pictured below, within months. About a quarter of the site will be home to the BBC, including national radio staton Five Live. (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)

BBC move to Salford confirmed
From Radio Today. Posted January 18 2007, 12.24pm
After years of talks, the BBC will move to a new Media City in Salford Quays will go ahead, after the Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell announced a licence fee settlement today. The move north should be complete by 2011 which includes moving BBC Radio Five Live. (more)

Matt Dawson Joins BBC Radio Five Live
From Merry Media. Posted January 16 2007, 4.32pm
Rugby World Cup winner Matt Dawson is joining BBC Radio Five Live's award-winning rugby commentary team, starting with the Six Nations on 3 February.. (more)

Dawson joins BBC Radio Five Live
From Radio Today. Posted January 16 2007, 3.56pm
World cup winning Rugby player and celebrity dancer Matt Dawson has signed for Radio Five Live. He'll be the England summariser for the Six Nations tournament which starts next month, and will be part of the commentary team for matches in the summer and next year's Rugby World Cup as well. (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. He told listeners Hollywood star Sylvester Stallone, a special guest at the game, would probably find his limousine had no wheels when he returned to it. (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. That’s because Five Live Sports Extra version will be commemorating the 80th anniversary of football commentaries on the radio. The commentary from John Murray [...] (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)

Richard Bacon back on Five Live
From Breaking Radio. Posted November 30 2006, 4.27pm
Richard Bacon is judge and jury in a special news-focussed edition of Fighting Talk. (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)

Bannister fills in for Derbyshire
From Media Guardian. Posted November 17 2006, 12.00am
12.30pm: Matthew Bannister will stand in for Victoria Derbyshire on Radio Five Live's morning phone-in for six months while she is on maternity leave. By John Plunkett. (more)

Commercial radio narrows BBC lead in audience share
From Media Guardian. Posted October 26 2006, 1.00am
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)

Ray Stubbs Joins 606 on Five Live
From Merry Media. Posted September 21 2006, 8.43pm
Ray Stubbs is to join 606, BBC Radio Five Live's original and best football phone-in, from next Wednesday 27th September, it was announced today.. (more)

Chiles leaves Five Live
From Media Guardian. Posted September 21 2006, 1.00am
1pm: Adrian Chiles is leaving BBC Radio Five Live, the station he helped launch in 1994. By Julia Day. (more)

BBC Five Live Brookmans Park transmitter off air for essential maintenance
From Media Network Weblog. Posted September 5 2006, 2.10pm
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. It means you won’t be [...] (more)

BBC Cleared Schedule for Terror Plots
From Merry Media. Posted August 10 2006, 11.44pm
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 5.40am when business producer Joe Lynam, who was at Gatwick, tipped off the BBC to the story.. (more)

606 Football Writers Wanted for Radio Five Live
From Merry Media. Posted August 3 2006, 9.15pm
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. From 12 August until the end of September, Five Live wants listeners to send in their football stories, perhaps ranging from their first memory of the game to meeting their favourite player. Whatever the subject, Five Live wants to hear it.. (more)

Spoony to leave BBC Radio 1
From Radio Today. Posted July 28 2006, 3.15pm
Spoony has decided to leave BBC Radio 1 to explore other offers, including hosting programmes on BBC Five Live. Spoony currently hosts the weekend breakfast show from 7 - 10am and has been with the station for six years, but now feels it is time to move on. Previously Spoony has worked on commercial stations Kiss 100 and Galaxy. (more)

World Cup doubles Five Live's internet audience
From Brand Republic. Posted July 28 2006, 11.07am
LONDON - BBC Radio Five Live's website doubled its audience to 2.13m from May to June thanks to its World Cup coverage. (more)

Tony Blair co-host on Five Live
From Radio Today. Posted June 19 2006, 8.45pm
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). Mr Blair, an England and Newcastle United fan, recently rashly promised to replicate Peter Crouch's famous robot dance should England win the World Cup in Berlin on 9 July. The Prime Minister was in the studio for an hour from 7.00pm, sharing his views with listeners commenting on the World Cup. (more)

British PM Tony Blair to co-host soccer phone-in this evening
From Media Network Weblog. Posted June 19 2006, 3.44pm
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 7.00pm (1800-1900 UTC), sharing his views with listeners commenting on the World Cup. The live [...] (more)

BBC poised to create 'media city' in Salford
From The Independent. Posted June 16 2006, 12.00am
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 5 2006, 12.00am
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. He is married to fellow Five Live presenter Jane Garvey, they have two daughters aged six and three and live in Hammersmith, west London. (more)

Who needs pictures?
From The Independent. Posted June 5 2006, 12.00am
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, 1.15pm
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, 1.15am
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. There are notable gains for Five Live Breakfast (from 2.12m to 2.32m) and Victoria Derbyshire (from 1.57m to 1.88m), while Sports Extra benefited from increased Premiership coverage, Six Nations rugby and Test cricket. (more)

RAJAR Q1-06 - BBC Digital Radio
From Merry Media. Posted May 11 2006, 1.34pm
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%. BBC 7 remains the biggest of the BBC's digital networks with a reach of 621,000.. (more)

Kelvin MacKenzie Makes BBC Radio Debut
From Merry Media. Posted April 2 2006, 5.06pm
Kelvin MacKenzie makes his BBC radio debut this summer in 2 programmes looking at scandals that have surrounded past world cups. The former editor of the Sun newspaper and former CEO of the Wireless Group will kick start BBC Radio Five Live's World Cup offering with a wry look at the players and the managers who have courted notoriety in 'World Cup Scandals'. From allegations about shoplifting and Bobby Moore in 1970 to Maradona's dramatic exit at the USA Tournament in 1994, Kelvin lifts the lid on some of the more notorious figures in the world game.. (more)

MacKenzie joins BBC Five Live
From Radio Today. Posted March 30 2006, 11.15am
Kelvin MacKenzie makes his BBC radio debut this summer in two programmes looking at scandals that have surrounded past World Cups. The former editor of the Sun and former CEO and Chairman of the Wireless Group will kick start BBC Radio Five Live's World Cup offering with a wry look at the players and the managers who have courted notoriety in World Cup Scandals. (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. "It will be a great honour and challenge to lead Wales's only English language national radio station," said Sali. "I'm really enthusiastic about the job and the opportunity to build on Radio Wales's success." (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. Nolan, a multi-Sony award winner, has been bringing his late night mix of news, views and comment to listeners for over a year on Five Live. (more)

New weekend news for Five Live
From Radio Today. Posted March 9 2006, 4.01pm
John Pienaar, BBC Radio Five Live's Chief Political Correspondent, and Lesley Ashmall, who has made a name as a roving reporter on Five Live, will be the new presenters of the network's Weekend News. The new partnership will join Weekend News - Saturdays and Sundays at 8.00pm - on Saturday 22 April. (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. David Croft heads up the team who will provide live commentary on every single race, starting in Bahrain on Sunday 12 March. (more)

Murray Walker returns
From Media Guardian. Posted March 8 2006, 5.07pm
4.45pm: Five years after he commentated on his last race for ITV, Murray Walker is to make a formula one comeback on Radio Five Live. By John Plunkett. (more)

Five Live add money podcast
From Radio Today. Posted February 25 2006, 5.11am
BBC Radio Five Live's financial programme Wake up to Money will be available as a daily podcast from Monday 27 February 2006. Listeners can go bbc.co.uk/fivelive to download the programme directly to their MP3 players every morning and can catch up with the latest business and money news. (more)

Five Live seals cricket deal
From Radio Today. Posted February 22 2006, 8.55am
The BBC has signed the exclusive radio broadcasting rights to all India's incoming cricket tours for the next four years, including England's series which starts next month as well as their tour in spring 2009. The deal allows the BBC to broadcast live commentary across any of its radio networks on a total of ten series between India and international touring sides including Australia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and South Africa. (more)

Fighting Talk for Colin Murray
From Radio Today. Posted February 1 2006, 9.02am
Colin Murray is taking over as the new presenter of BBC Radio Five Live's Fighting Talk - a weekly battle of punditry and wit - on Saturday 4 February. Colin is a familiar voice to BBC Radio listeners with a daily show on Radio 1, but this is his first regular show on Five Live. Colin Murray said: "It's an honour to be called to wield the legendary Fighting Talk gavel. (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. The departments relocating from London are Children's BBC, including the TV channels CBBC and CBeebies, Children's Radio and Children's Learning; BBC Sport; BBC New Media and R&D; and radio stations Five Live and Five Live Sports Extra. The proposed sites have been chosen from a shortlist of four, following a stringent evaluation process conducted by the BBC. (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. "Rather than relying on [London-based] stations like Talk Radio and BBC Radio Five Live for this type of talk based programming, we should be looking at developing the market in Scotland. Better competition (more)

Five Live - It's Radio Bloke from the BBC
From The Independent. Posted January 1 1970, 12.59am
When the new financial year begins in April, two long-running shows will disappear from BBC Radio Five Live. Euro News, first broadcast when the station was launched in 1994, will be abolished along with the weekend obituary show Brief Lives. Up to six journalists' jobs will go, but a BBC spokesman says "These cuts are unrelated to any overspend." (more)

My Mentor: John Inverdale On Danny Baker
From The Independent. Posted January 1 1970, 12.59am
I started working in radio on BBC Radio Lincolnshire in 1982 but I didn't come across Danny until I came down to London in the mid-1980s, when he was a television presenter. I then started listening to him on Radio 5, the precursor to Five Live, where he was doing the morning show. (more)

Nicky Campbell: My life in media
From The Independent. Posted January 1 1970, 12.59am
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. He moved to London in the mid-1980s and became a household name as a Radio 1 DJ and the presenter of Wheel of Fortune, Top of the Pops and Watchdog. He is married to Tina Ritchie, a former head of Virgin Radio News. They have four young daughters. (more)

My Mentor: Fi Glover on Peter Allen
From The Independent. Posted January 1 1970, 12.59am
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)