Talksport
Sign in to saveTalksport (styled as talkSPORT) is a British sports radio station owned by News Broadcasting, broadcasting on analogue and digital radio in Britain and Ireland. Its content includes live coverage of sporting events, interviews with the leading names in sport and entertainment, phone-ins and discussion. Talksport, alongside sister station Talksport 2, is an official broadcaster for several sporting contests, including the Premier League and English Football League.
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- Official website
- talksport.com
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- inception
- 1995-01-01
- social media followers
- 1640000
- streaming media URL
- talksport.com/radioplayer/live/index.html?interstitial=true
- described at URL
- www.lyngsat.com/radiochannels/uk/TalkSport.html
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14 sectionsContents
- History
- Talk Radio era
- Creation of Talksport
- Expansion of the Talk brand
- Programming history
- Broadcast
- Sister stations
- Talksport 2
- Talksport International
- Other media
- Books, DVDs, and games
- Controversies
- References
- External links
Talksport (styled as talkSPORT) is a British sports radio station owned by News Broadcasting, broadcasting on analogue and digital radio in Britain and Ireland. Its content includes live coverage of sporting events, interviews with the leading names in sport and entertainment, phone-ins and discussion. Talksport, alongside sister station Talksport 2, is an official broadcaster for several sporting contests, including the Premier League and English Football League.
The station originated as a non-sport station, Talk Radio UK, in 1995. It relaunched as Talksport in January 2000. In the UK, Talksport is one of the Independent National Radio licensees, holding the INR3 licence for a speech-based service. It is available primarily on its medium wave frequencies 1089 kHz and 1053 kHz, but also on 1071 kHz and 1107 kHz, DAB digital radio, television platforms Sky, Virgin Media, Freeview, Freesat, and Freely, and via the Internet. Outside the UK and Ireland, Talksport broadcasts live commentary of every Premier League match around the world in multiple languages including English, Spanish and Mandarin.