- Station name Station name
- talkSPORT
- Description Description
- 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.
- Launch date Launch date
- 1995-02-14
- Owner Owner
- News UK Broadcasting Ltd
- Contact Contact
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talkSPORT
United Kingdom
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127kbps • AAC
Talksport (styled as talkSPORT) is a British sports radio station owned by News Broadcasting, broadcasting on analogue and digital radio in Britain and Ireland.
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| Country Country |
United Kingdom
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|---|---|
| Language Language | English |
| Source Source | Directory source |
| Stream status Stream status | Ok |
| Homepage Homepage | talksport.com |
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Service type
DAB
Coverage area
British Isles Great Britain and Ireland Global (Premier League games only)
Owner / network
News UK Broadcasting Ltd
First air date
1995-02-14
Digital service
DAB
Additional frequencies
1053.0 kHz · AM
1071.0 kHz · AM
1089.0 kHz · AM
1107.0 kHz · AM
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| Station ID | 489452 |
|---|---|
| Region | United Kingdom, England |
| Coordinates | 51.505341, -0.087781 |
| Map | OpenStreetMap |
| Owner | News UK Broadcasting Ltd |
| Broadcast area | British Isles Great Britain and Ireland Global (Premier League games only) |
| Launched | 1995-02-14 |
| Website | talksport.com |
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| HTTP status | 200 |
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| Content-Type | audio/aac |
| Server software | nginx |
| Latency | 466 ms |
| Last check | 5 hours ago |
| Track seen | 1 day ago |
| Stream host | radio.talksport.com |
| Final host | talksport.live.stream.broadcasting.news |
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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. As of October 2024, the network broadcasts to a weekly audience of 3.5 million listeners in the UK, according to RAJAR.
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