Sports Report
| Genre | Sports news and results |
|---|---|
| Running time | 60 mins |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Language(s) | English |
| Home station |
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| Hosted by | Mark Chapman |
| Original release | 3 January 1948 – present |
| Opening theme | "Out of the Blue" by Hubert Bath |
| Website | www |
Sports Report is one of the longest-running programmes on British radio, and is the world's longest-running sports radio programme.[1] It started on 3 January 1948,[2] and has always been broadcast from 5.00 to 6.00 p.m. on Saturday evenings during the football season, although commentaries on evening matches kicking off shortly after 5pm on Saturdays had often curtailed it in recent years.
Originally produced by Angus Mackay,[3] it was broadcast on the BBC Light Programme until 25 April 1964. On 22 August 1964 it became part of Sports Service and moved to Network Three (which later became BBC Radio 3) where it initially started at the earlier time of 4.42 pm.[4] On 4 April 1970, however, it moved back to what had by then become BBC Radio 2,[5] where it stayed until 25 August 1990 as part of Sport on 2. From 1 September 1990 to 26 March 1994 it was on the original BBC Radio 5, and since 2 April 1994 it has been broadcast on BBC Radio 5 Live as part of 5 Live Sport.
Presenters[]
- Raymond Glendenning (1948–53)
- Stephen Grenfell (1948–53)
- Eamonn Andrews (1950–64)
- Robin Marlar (1964–68)
- Liam Nolan (1965–66)
- Peter Jones (1968–70)
- Des Lynam (1970–80)
- Mike Ingham (1980–85)
- Renton Laidlaw (1985–87)
- John Inverdale (1987–94)
- Ian Payne (1994–2000)
- Mark Pougatch (2000–2016)
- Mark Chapman (2016–present)
Classified football results announcers[]
- John Webster (1948–1974)
- James Alexander Gordon (1974–2013) [6]
- Charlotte Green (2013–present) [7]
Theme tune[]
The programme, almost uniquely, has used the same theme music since its inception - "Out of the Blue", written by Hubert Bath. It is said that Lynam prevented the theme from being dropped in the 1970s due to it sounding old-fashioned.
On Saturday 5 January 2013, Sports Report did not open with "Out of the Blue" for the first time, prompting a string of tweets and presenter Mark Pougatch to tweet shortly afterwards that:
For clarification. The Sports Report music has not been axed.
"Out of the Blue" was subsequently played an hour later.[1]
External links[]
References[]
- ^ a b "Sports Report at 70: Presenters' memories, royal recognition & THAT theme tune". BBC Sport. BBC. 5 January 2018. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
I had to say 'I'm really sorry, it's clearly not the music' and there was such a reaction to it, we played the right music later. It was like the ravens had left the Tower of London, it was like the worst thing you could have ever done.
- ^ Andrews, Eamonn; Mackay, Angus (1955). Sports Report. London: Sportsmans Book Club. p. 10. OCLC 11471101.
- ^ Butler, Bryon, ed. (1987). Sports Report: 40 Years of the Best. Queen Anne Press. p. 12. ISBN 0-356-14863-7.
- ^ "Sports Service". Radio Times. Vol. 164, no. 2128 (London & South East ed.). BBC Publications. 20 August 1964. p. 13. Retrieved 18 February 2018 – via BBC Genome Project.
- ^ "Sports Report". Radio Times. Vol. 187, no. 2421 (London & South East ed.). BBC Publications. 2 April 1970. p. 22. Retrieved 26 January 2020 – via BBC Genome Project.
- ^ "Obituary: James Alexander Gordon". The Daily Telegraph. London. 19 August 2014. Retrieved 18 February 2018.
- ^ "Charlotte Green makes BBC football results debut". BBC News. BBC. 28 September 2013. Retrieved 8 February 2018.
- BBC Light Programmes
- BBC Radio 2 programmes
- BBC Radio 5 Live programmes
- British sports radio programmes
- 1948 radio programme debuts