BBC Five Live Sports Extra is an additional radio service provided by the British Broadcasting Corporation via digital radio and the digital satellite and digital terrestrial television services in the UK. It is not available via normal analogue radio.
It is used to provide an additional sports commentary service when the main radio channel BBC Radio Five Live is already being used.
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Live Internet broadcast (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/fivesportsextra.shtml)
FiveLive is the overnight sustaining service for almost all BBC Local Radio stations between 1am and 5am when Up All Night is broadcast.
FiveLive occasionally collaborates with the BBC Asian Network (Bob Shennan is controller of both stations).
FiveLive's commercial rival is TalkSPORT, but unlike the commercial television station, Sky Sports, TalkSPORT has acquired few exclusive rights, and non-commercial radio, represented by FiveLive and the BBC's local radio stations, remains dominant in radio sport broadcasting in the UK.
BBC One and BBC Two are available via conventional analogue transmission — the remainder can be viewed only by those with digital reception equipment (now in widespread use in the UK, with analogue transmission expected to be phased out from 2008).
BBC 2 was broadcast in colour from July 1, 1967, and was joined by BBC 1 and ITV on November 15, 1969.
BBC Worldwide also maintains the publishing arm of the BBC and it is the third-largest publisher of consumer magazines in the United Kingdom [3].
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