Mark Pougatch, Jonathan Overend in 2010, Mark Pougatch in 2011 and the current host Mark Chapman in 2017, have all collected the sports presenter of the year. There could have been no more auspicious year for our organisation to take flight, for London was about to host the Olympics. Opens the doors to one of the great radio institutions and makes you realise how much effort and love goes into making it so special' -Dan Walker There is always a sense of urgency when you listen to events unfold on Sports Report, but that is nothing compared to the feeling of those involved in making the programme, which is broadcast live and unscripted.

That's why people listen to Sports Report. It is clear the respect and high regard that people have for the programme is still there - we can actually make things happen that TV can't. Delivering the news first is one of them. There had been exploratory meetings the previous year but the Sports Writers’ Association was made reality in April 1948. That same sense of responsibility is shared by everyone involved in Sports Report - on air, or behind the scenes. Pat's reporting has always been engaging, expressive and arresting. Delighted his Sports Report book is just the same' - Mark Pougatch The tones of Hubert Bath’s jaunty march ‘Out of the Blue’ signalled the start of the very first edition.I didn't just want to go through each decade of the show, I wanted to bring stories and anecdotes from the 1950s and 60s to today's audience who weren't even born then, to get them aware of the sweep of the whole thing," Murphy said. Never mind, Sports Report went from strength to strength, consider the names who have presented the programme, amongst the finest voices on sport this country has ever produced. On Saturday 5 January 2013, Sports Report did not open with "Out of the Blue" for the first time, prompting a string of tweets and presenter Mark Pougatch to tweet shortly afterwards that: It's an incredible effort to have one presenter linking to live reports and interviews around the country and indeed around the world, telling stories and sometimes breaking them, as they happen, without ever knowing what will happen next.

Amongst the list of correspondents that first week of 1948 was John Arlott. In those days he also covered football and reported from Portsmouth’s victory over Huddersfield. Speaking in 2018, Chapman said: "Normally, when you do this kind of thing the more you do it, the more relaxed you become and I am usually quite relaxed.He recruited an Irish boxing commentator who became synonymous with the earlier years, and later, as well known for surprising many, not just from the world of sport, by carrying a red book. His name was Eamonn Andrews.

Bill McGowran was a contributor, his name lives on in our award for the outstanding Para sport athletes. The Peter Wilson award is given to the International Newcomer.

The iconic music, written by Hubert Bath and entitled Out of the Blue, has been present since the show's inception in 1948, but tradition is not the only reason Sports Report is the world's longest-running sports programme, celebrating its 75th birthday in January. That part of it has not changed - the principle of telling you what has just happened on a Saturday has stayed the same since it started. It is an easy formula, but the simplest ideas are often the best." 'The Weekly Miracle' Sports Report is as much a 75-year history of sport as a BBC radio institution and Pat Murphy pays handsome tribute to a programme that is still followed affectionately by millions. The BBC’s "Sports Report", plays out every Saturday on BBC Radio 5 Live, and is the world’s longest running sports radio programme, marking its 75th anniversary in 2023. The publisher said: "ThisBBC-endorsed book will be the most comprehensive tribute to the show ever published and features a wealth of anecdotes and insight from presenters, journalists and leading sports personalities as well as celebrity listeners."

The former head of BBC News Roger Mosey told me it was like covering a mini General Election every Saturday night and I don't think the show is always given the credit it deserves for the quality it delivers under constant pressure like that. BBC journalist Pat Murphy, who has written a new book that chronicles the programme's history, has a unique insight into the story of one of the nation's most beloved sports broadcasts.How Sports Report celebrated turning 70 in 2018 - January 2023 will mark the 75th birthday of the iconic show. First broadcast in 1948, Sports Report is the longest-running radio sporting programme in the world and one of the BBC's hardy perennials. Pat Murphy has been a reporter on the programme since 1981 and here he sifts comprehensively through the experiences of his contemporaries and those who made their mark on Sports Report in earlier decades. He hears from commentators, reporters, producers, presenters and the production teams who regularly achieved the broadcasting miracle of getting a live programme on air, without a script, adapting as the hour of news, reaction and comment unfolded. Pat Murphy has been a reporter on the programme since 1981 and here he sifts comprehensively through the experiences of his contemporaries and those who made their mark on Sports Report in earlier decades. He hears from commentators, reporters, producers, presenters and the production teams who regularly achieved the broadcasting miracle of getting a live programme on air, without a script, adapting as the hour of news, reaction and comment unfolded. Written for a Hendon Air display in 1931, it was apparently produced from the BBC Gramophone library that very afternoon.