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The Radio 2 Breakfast Show (also known as The BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show) refers to a range of programming on weekday mornings on BBC Radio 2 since the station's inception on 30 September 1967. The show's longest serving host to date was Sir Terry Wogan , who worked on the programme for over 29 years in two separate stints, from 3 April 1972 ...
The BBC broadcasts almost all major sports events. Initially broadcast as a MW opt-out on BBC Radio 2, The launch of Radio 5 in 1990 saw a huge increase in the level of coverage on BBC Radio. Radio 5 became BBC Radio 5 Live in 1994 and the station, which combines live news and sport, provides round-the-clock coverage of sport through both live ...
BBC Radio 2 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC. It is the most popular station in the United Kingdom with over 14 million weekly listeners. [ 1 ] Since launching in 1967, the station broadcasts a wide range of content.
The BBC today runs national domestic radio stations, six of which are available in analogue formats (via FM or AM), while other have a purely digital format – they can be received via DAB Digital Radio, UK digital television (satellite, cable and Freeview) plus live streams and listen again on BBC Sounds. The current stations are:
BBC Sport is the sports division of the BBC, providing national sports coverage for BBC television, radio and online.The BBC holds the television and radio UK broadcasting rights to several sports, broadcasting the sport live or alongside flagship analysis programmes such as Match of the Day, Test Match Special, Ski Sunday and Today at Wimbledon.
This includes an edition of BBC Business Today at 11:30 and Sportsday at 11:45, then fifteen minutes of BBC News Now, this had previously been between 2006-2010 an edition of World News Today and 2010-2011 GMT. At 12:15 pm during the Parliament session, political debate programme Politics Live is broadcast on BBC Two.
April – Due to COVID-19, BBC Radio 2's news bulletins come from BBC Radio 5 Live. Three minute bulletins are broadcast on the hour with extended five minute bulletins at breakfast and on early weekday evenings. 19 December – Graham Norton presents his final Saturday mid-morning show and leaves the station to join Virgin Radio UK. [122] [123]
Simon Mayo Drivetime, is the incarnation of the drivetime show on BBC Radio 2 between 11 January 2010 and 4 May 2018, being revived briefly for Mayo's final show with the station on 21 December that year, and then fully from 15 March 2021 on Greatest Hits Radio.