Unsurprisingly, given its iconic status, the loss of the classified results service has been widely mourned, often by people who associate it with key memories of going to matches or hearing results come in. They soon became a staple for football fans across the country, however, and will for ever be associated with the programme’s famous theme tune, Hubert Bath’s Out of the Blue.Ĭharlotte Green at her first reading of the classified football results in 2013. While Sports Report began in 1948, the classified results were not included in the first running order and only started several years later. Many fans only noticed the change when the segment failed to appear as usual on Saturday – the first day of the football season. Yet BBC bosses have now quietly dropped the feature to make way for extra live coverage of Premier League matches kicking off at 5.30pm on Saturdays. The results will continue to be read out on television as part of the BBC’s Final Score programme. First presented by John Webster, James Alexander Gordon took over in 1974 and went on to become one of the most recognisable voices in British broadcasting – altering his tone of voice to indicate a home win, an away win or a draw – before passing the torch to Charlotte Green in 2013. The decision to drop the longrunning feature – in which all major English and Scottish matches were given equal treatment, often with a distinctive intonation – has led to suggestions that the BBC is prioritising Premier League football over the lower leagues.įull results have been read out on Sports Report, the world’s longest-running sports radio programme, on Saturday afternoons since the early 1950s.
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