talkSPORT has won the exclusive free-to-air rights for England cricket’s overseas tour of South Africa in 2019/2020.
The news means talkSPORT is now the audio home for all of England’s major overseas tours for the next two years, including the full Sri Lanka and West Indies series.
The South Africa tour, including four Tests, have been taken from the BBC’s Test Match Special programme.
Wireless CEO Scott Taunton said: “Following England’s emphatic victory at the Oval and an emotional goodbye to Alastair Cook this week, we’re delighted to have won these rights in another big win for talkSPORT. This investment is a further commitment from us to this great game and these upcoming winter tours are set to be just as exciting as this golden summer of cricket.”
talkSPORT’s live overseas cricket coverage starts with the first ODI in Sri Lanka on October 10.
Later this month talkSPORT and talkSPORT 2 will be broadcasting the Ryder Cup along with the third Anthony Joshua fight next weekend, exclusively on the station.
Recently talkSPORT announced a raft of new talent across its programming including Sir Bradley Wiggins and the voice of football, John Motson.
Be interesting to see how much of it they put on their main channel.
They bought Championship football in a blaze of self-adulation but most of it was consigned to digital-only talksport2 (including the CHAMPIONSHIP play-off semi final).
I also find the steaming on their app very hit and miss.
In terms of reach and coverage alone, a bad day for cricket.
5 Live only covered one of the four championship play-off semi-final matches last year (none were on Sports Extra).
TS2 covered three, the other one was on the main TS channel.
A guaranteed failure; this Mickey Mouse station with its sensationalist tabloid approach will never replicate the smooth professionalism and warmth that TMS has nurtured over 50+ years. A sad day for cricket fans.
Absolutely although TMS has deteriorated somewhat in recent years with Michael “rent a quote” Vaughan and the appalling dreadful Daniel “look at me everyone aren’t I clever” Norcross.
I want to see how much of this they put on their main channel.
if it’s not broken, as the saying goes, don’t try to fix it. TMS is an immense pleasure and available to all. How will cricket and the cricket-loving public benefit from this change?
TGHIS IS A BRAVE MOVE ON THE ECBN’S PART BY SIGNING THIS AUDIO DEAL WITH TALKSPORT
Overseas rights are not owned by the ECB, this deal was done with the South Africa Cricket Board.
Good grief. Just putting caps lock on and typing a lot of gibberish doesn’t go well does it?
davyud lloyd may well be one of talksports cricket commentators due ti new corp uk owning talksport
Is there an English version of this?
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Good grief. Just putting caps lock on and typing a lot of gibberish doesn’t go well does it?
I am ciomung at tuis story frim an Australian point of view join
That explains everything.