5 Live Sports Extra
As 5 Live cannot accommodate all of the sports which they have rights to broadcast, they split some of it with its sister station Sports Extra, including:
- Cricket World Cup, ICC Champions Trophy, and Twenty20 World Cup
- England cricket tests and One Day Internationals
- Friends Provident Trophy semi-finals and final and Twenty20 Cup
- 'Grand Slam' Tennis tournaments
- Action from any other competition broadcast on Five Live
Sports Extra typically emphasizes full broadcasts of Premier League and Home Nations football if games overlap each other. Five Live carries the first-choice match in such cases.
Despite the fact that commercial stations (such as Sky Sports) have acquired the vast majority of sports television broadcasting rights in the UK, the BBC remains dominant in radio sport with BBC Radio 5 Live and its local radio stations. Its main commercial rival for radio sports rights is TalkSPORT.
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