LONDON: talkSPORT has successfully obtained the exclusive free-to-air radio broadcast rights for England cricket’s overseas tour of South Africa in 2019/2020, the second successive England winter cricket tour that has gone out of the hands of the BBC.
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 in the coming months.
This winter will be the first time the BBC have not broadcast Test Match Special since 2004/05.
The South Africa tour, including four Tests and all ODIs and T20s, represents another big coup for the station, after taking the rights from the BBC’s Test Match Special programme.
Scott Taunton, CEO of talkSPORT parent company Wireless, 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 golf’s greatest challenge, the Ryder Cup, along with the third successive and highly anticipated Anthony Joshua fight next weekend, exclusively on the station.
Recently talkSPORT announced a raft of new talent across its programming including Bradley Wiggins and the “voice of football”, John Motson, as it continues to invest in its output across live sport, news and opinion.
