Sportsound

Last updated

Sportsound is BBC Radio Scotland's main radio sports show. It provides coverage to listeners on medium wave, FM, DAB Digital Radio and via the internet. It is best known for its exclusive live commentary of Scottish Premiership football games. It is broadcast seven days a week, and on on-match days has an 1810–2200 slot on 810 MW. On Saturdays, at least two matches are broadcast by MW, and the main FM frequency with the Open All Mics feature broadcast on the BBC Radio nan Gàidheal frequency and the remaining matches online where the other matches are simulcast.

Contents

Presenters

Commentators and pitchside

Analysts

Additionally, former managers, assistant managers and players can be heard as guest analysts.

Former presenters

Former commentators and analysts

Player of the Year Award

At the end of the Scottish football season, the player in the Scottish Premier League who has accumulated the most man-of-the match awards from the league season is awarded the Sportsound Player of the Year.

AwardSeasonPlayerClubRef
BBC Radio Scotland Sportsound Player of the Year 2005–06 Russell Anderson Aberdeen [1] [2]
2006–07 Scott McDonald Motherwell [3]
2007–08 Aiden McGeady Celtic [4]
2008–09 Pedro Mendes Rangers [5]
2009–10 Dougie Imrie Hamilton Academcal [6] [7]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">BBC Radio 1</span> British national radio station

BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC. It specialises in modern popular music and current chart hits throughout the day. The station provides alternative genres at night, including electronica, dance, hip hop and indie, while its sister station 1Xtra plays black contemporary music, including hip hop and R&B. Radio 1 also runs an additional online stream, Radio 1 Dance, dedicated to dance music, available to listen only on BBC Sounds.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">BBC Radio 4</span> British national radio station

BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC. The station replaced the BBC Home Service on 30 September 1967 and broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes from the BBC's headquarters at Broadcasting House, London. Since 2019, the station controller has been Mohit Bakaya. He replaced Gwyneth Williams, who had been the station controller since 2010.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">BBC Radio Norfolk</span> Radio station in Norwich

BBC Radio Norfolk is the BBC's local radio station serving the county of Norfolk.

This is a timeline of the history of the British Broadcasting Corporation.

This is a list of rugby commentators from Scotland. It includes TV commentators, radio commentators, and journalists.

Derek Rae is a Scottish association football commentator and presenter who currently works for ESPN and ABC in the United States for the English-language coverages of Bundesliga, DFB Pokal, and La Liga and Deutsche Fußball Liga for the English-language world feed as well as the Premier League coverage on Amazon Prime Video in the UK. He has provided the English commentary for the FIFA/EA FC video game series alongside former Arsenal players Lee Dixon in 2020 and Stewart Robson, who also played for West Ham United since 2021. He is also an ambassador for Berwick Rangers.

Charles "Chick" Young is a professional association football pundit who regularly appears for BBC Scotland on Sportscene and Sportsound. He is known for his trademark laugh and speech patterns, which have made him a popular target for lampooning on the BBC Scotland sports comedy Only an Excuse?

<i>Sportscene</i> British sports television programmes

Sportscene is the name of a range of Scottish sports television programmes produced by BBC Scotland.

Kenny Macintyre is a Scottish sports broadcaster who works for BBC Scotland.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">SFWA Manager of the Year</span> Award

The Scottish Football Writers' Association Manager of the Year award is given to the manager in Scottish football who is seen to have been the best manager of the previous season. The award is voted for by the members of the Scottish Football Writers' Association.

This is a list of events in British radio during 1991.

This is a list of events in British radio during 1988.

This is a list of events in British radio during 1973.

Leicester Sound was an Independent Local Radio station which broadcast to Leicestershire. The station merged with two other East Midlands stations, Trent FM and Ram FM to form Capital FM East Midlands on Monday, 3 January 2011.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Scotland national football team manager</span>

The role of a Scotland national football team manager was first established in May 1954, when Andy Beattie was appointed. Beattie took charge of six matches before and during the 1954 FIFA World Cup, when Scotland competed at their first major tournament. Twenty-four men have occupied the post since its inception, with Beattie, Jock Stein and Alex McLeish occupying it in two spells. Six of those managers were in caretaker or interim roles. Craig Brown held the position for the longest to date; a tenure of 9 years, comprising two major tournaments and a total of 71 matches.

John Barnes is a sports commentator working for BBC Scotland. He is one of the most respected sports broadcasters in Scotland and has worked on both television and radio, mainly as a football commentator on the flagship programmes Sportscene and Sportsound.

The Aberdeen–Rangers rivalry refers to football matches and related activity involving the Scottish football clubs Aberdeen and Rangers.

A timeline of notable events relating to BBC Radio 4, a British national radio station which began broadcasting in September 1967.

This is a timeline of Capital London, previously known as Capital Radio, 95.8 Capital FM or similar variations, from its initial period as an Independent Local Radio station for Greater London to the present day CHR network serving most of the UK.

References

  1. "7 Of The Best Players To Ever Play For Aberdeen". 7OTB. Retrieved 16 May 2019.
  2. "Years of memories and a love for one football club… Looking back on Russell Anderson's career". Press and Journal . 25 May 2015. Retrieved 15 May 2019.
  3. "Sportsound Player of the Year 2006/07". BBC . Retrieved 16 May 2019.
  4. "Sportsound Player of the Year 2007/08". BBC . Retrieved 16 May 2019.
  5. "Sportsound Player of the Year 2008/09". BBC . Retrieved 16 May 2019.
  6. "Sportsound Player of the Year 2009/10". BBC . Retrieved 16 May 2019.
  7. "Sportsound Player of the Year 2010/11". BBC . Retrieved 16 May 2019.