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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)

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)

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)

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)