Current Format
For the large part of the season, football is the main sport broadcast. Five Live Sport during the week consists of sports chat and debate, such as the Monday Night Club. If there is football during the week, such as UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, mid-week Premier League, League Cup, Championship games or international matches, then they are broadcast. However, news concerning many other sports are aired. Until 2010, three matches were heard in full on Saturdays, i.e., Premier League kick-offs at 12:45, 3:00 and 5:30. But from 2010-2013 at the earliest, TalkSport have the national radio rights to broadcast the late 5:30 game, meaning that only two games are heard on Five Live Sport on Saturdays at 12.45 & 3.00pm, and sometimes only one game if there is no 12.45pm game scheduled. This means Sports Report broadcasts at 5:00 PM for an hour and then 606 broadcasts at 6:00 PM, reverting to times when a 5:00 PM game was not scheduled by the Premier League. At 3:00 o'clock, there is a main commentary at one of the games, yet there are constant contributions and updates from all the other Premier League games, some Championship games and one or two games from Scotland, while games from the lower leagues are constantly monitored. Then after the games end, Sports Report at 5:00 PM then summarizes the day's action and gets reaction from managers and players. Sundays may then have one or two Premier League games, including the one at 4.00. This however varies depending on the UEFA Europa League the previous Thursday. However, TalkSport gained the national radio rights for the 1.30 kick offs on Sundays as well from 2010-2013, meaning that Five Live Sport has only one game to broadcast at 4:00 PM.
As well as football, any sport that broadcasts on Five Live goes under the Five Live Sport banner. Exceptions to these are sports events that either occur all day, such as The Open Golf Championship, Wimbledon Tennis, or those that happen in the middle of the night, like the American Football Super Bowl. See BBC Radio Five Live for a full list.
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