''Sportsworld'' is the flagship weekend sports program on BBC World Service radio and winner of two Sony Radio Academy Awards. ''Sportsworld'' can be heard on BBC World Service radio, on many of the BBC's FM partner stations who

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the program and from August 2010 online. ''Sportsworld'' is produced by

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for BBC World Service along with ''Sport Today'', ''Sportshour'', ''World Football'' and ''

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History

The programme began as ''Saturday Special'' for one hour in the summer of 1959. Slowly its scope expanded to include the winter months to cover football. The name was changed to ''Sportsworld'' in 1979. A Sunday edition was added in 1996. The programme is now broadcast every Saturday 1400–1800 and Sunday 1600–1900 GMT. During the programme news summaries are only aired at 1430 and 1630 on Saturday, and at 1730 on Sunday. In November 2011 Sportsworld moved out of

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with the rest of the BBC Sport department to MediaCityUK.

Content

''Sportsworld'' brings the biggest sporting events to a global audience, using the full resources of the BBC. The programme features live commentary from the

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every weekend during the English football season. Correspondents in Spain and Italy cover La Liga and Serie A. Live sport is mixed with debate, discussion and analysis of the leading sport stories of the week by the Sportsworld Panel. The big football events on the global sporting calendar always feature such as African Cup of Nations, World Cup and European Championships, as do the multi-sport events like the Olympics, Commonwealth and Asian Games. The regular events on the annual calendar are a feature point of the year such as the Grand Slam's in Tennis, the Golfing Majors, Test cricket, Formula One, Diamond League Athletics, the NBA, the Baseball World Series and Moto GP. A global audience of 188 million, and the reputation of the programme, ensures ''Sportsworld'' is able to secure exclusive interviews with the biggest names in world sport. The programme often leaves its base at MediaCityUK in

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. In 2010 Sportsworld was presented from the 2010 African Nations Cup in

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, the Jamaican Schools Athletics Championships in Kingston, the

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, the

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, the

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final in

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, the 2010 World Basketball Championships in

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and the

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Interaction

''Sportsworld'' uses texts, e-mails, blogs,

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and calls to interact with the audience. The programme e-mail address is sportsworld@bbc.co.uk

Presenters

Paddy Feeny presented the programme from the start in 1959 through to his retirement in 1995. Other presenters have included

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and Russell Fuller. The current presenters are

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for Saturday and Sarah Mulkerrins for Sunday.

Special programmes

A three hour daily ''Olympic Sportsworld'' has been broadcast from the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, the

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, the 2008 Olympics in Beijing and the 2012 Olympic Games in

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. A one hour highlights programme, ''Sportsworld at Wimbledon'', has been broadcast from the

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since 1992. The Wimbledon coverage was cut as a cost-saving measure in September 2010.

References

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