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This week 麻豆约拍 Radio 5 live’s sister station - 5 live Sports Extra have put a proposal to the 麻豆约拍 Trust to make some changes. Controller Jonathan Wall explains further.

We’ve been in discussions with the as part of the service licence review they are currently conducting into 麻豆约拍 Radio 4, 麻豆约拍 Radio 4 Extra, 麻豆约拍 Radio 5 live and 麻豆约拍 5 live Sports Extra.

The main aim of the proposed changes is to give increased airtime and exposure to a wide range of sports that don’t currently receive significant coverage on UK radio.

We want 5 live Sports Extra to be an even bigger driving force for good for sport in this country. By introducing a limited amount of new magazine programming to our remit of covering live sport, Sports Extra could become a broader multi-sport channel.

This plan would also help meet some of the new ways of listening to sport – on phones, on tablets and in a personalised way.

We propose to commission a maximum of 10 hours per week of new magazine programmes.

What will these be? Well, we are committing to a new weekly Olympic and Paralympics show in the build up to Rio next year. There would also be a new weekly cycling show focusing both on elite sport and participation.

Our proposal also includes, for the first time ever on British radio, a new weekly show all about netball, one of the UK’s fastest growing sports. We would also make a weekly magazine show during the women’s football season.

Listeners can then find these programmes when they want either online via the or by tuning in to on digital radio.

Sports that are already well served by UK radio, such as Premier League football, international cricket and international rugby union won’t be included in this list of new shows. This proposal is driven by a mission to make a big step change in how we cover sports that don’t always get the attention they deserve.

We also propose to schedule a maximum of 10 hours per week to repeat the very best of our sports journalism. For example, the high quality specials made by 5 live sport and 麻豆约拍 World Service sport such as Pregnancy and Sport, Tony McCoy’s Top Ten Horses, and Jimmy Anderson – The Wicket Man.

Crucially, none of this will be at the expense of the current range and depth we now deliver on our main channel 麻豆约拍 Radio 5 live.

In 2014, we covered 51 sports on 5 live. That’s the most in our history. I really believe this proposal to make limited, tailor-made content for Sports Extra would complement the programming on 5 live.

Over the last two years, we have taken a number of steps to reach audiences in new ways. This has included an innovation on the 麻豆约拍 Sport App where you can now listen to our live commentaries on your mobile whilst checking out the latest scores. We’ve also launched a 'snackable' service which allows people to listen to short bursts of our best output. , as it’s known, now gets a million hits a month.

We think this proposal will not only deliver the most distinctive programming in the 90 year history of 麻豆约拍 radio sport, but will also encourage our audiences to listen to us in new ways.

We also think it increases support for a broader range of sports at a time when participation is declining and physical inactivity is increasing. We want the wonderful, much-respected 麻豆约拍 radio sport team to deliver such range that it feels that our audiences can access world-leading coverage of all the sports that matter to them. In the new internet-first age, it is important that the 麻豆约拍 feels like a place that belongs to everyone, and is where everyone belongs, no matter their interest.

We will continue to discuss this issue with the 麻豆约拍 Trust over the next few months, and subject to approval, we hope to be in a position to start making changes to the 5 live sports schedule from January 2016.

Jonathan Wall, controller of 麻豆约拍 Radio 5 live and 5 live Sports Extra.