Month: October 2024

BBC Radio 5 Live is making a number of changes to its schedule including Chris Warburton moving to Drive and Tony Livesey returning to Lates.

Chris, who has been co-hosting Weekend Breakfast for 10 years, will join Clare McDonnell on 5 Live Drive from December.
Tony, who has been on Drive also for a decade, returns back to where he started his 5 Live career on weeknights 10pm till 1am.
On weekends, mornings are set for a shake up, as former Olympian Jeanette Kwakye MBE steps into the spotlight to present the weekend breakfast programme alongside Eleanor Oldroyd on Saturdays and Gordon Smart on Sundays.
Jeanette Kwakye
Regular Weekend Breakfast host, Eleanor Oldroyd, remains as co-host on Saturdays but has decided to take a step back from Sundays, making way for Gordon Smart, who is moving from weeknights to co-host alongside Jeanette on Sundays.
Gordon will also regularly present across the 5 Live schedule as well as other BBC programmes.
Heidi Dawson, Controller of BBC 5 Live, said: “It’s fantastic to be welcoming Jeanette in to the 5 Live family. After an outstanding year of big impact events, from the election, Euros football and Olympic Games, 5 Live continues to be the voice of the UK, and our brilliant new schedule line up will continue to bring people together for the country’s biggest moments.”

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A new radio station covering Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and Cambridgeshire has launched called Radio Big Sky.

The service launched on Saturday 28th September and is offering a playlist of 70s, 80, 90s music plus a few familiar tracks from today.
It will also have local traffic and weather news.
“At Radio Big Sky, we know from our research that whilst listeners do want to hear about their local communities, they don’t want to hear long interviews.” Said David Miller, one of the five founders behind Radio Big Sky
He continued: “What they do want is great music interspersed with short, snappy bitesize chunks of information about the areas in which they live.
“Above all, our listeners want more music and a lot less chat and that’s what we at Radio Big Sky promise to bring!”
The station is streaming now via radiobigsky.com.

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