talkSPORT has been honoured with a special recognition award by the Radio Academy at this year’s ARIAs. 

The station celebrated its 25th year on air in January, expanding into Smart TV, illustrating the brand’s commitment to providing unique talkSPORT content wherever its highly-engaged audience wants it - and the ARIA’s Judge’s Award celebrated talkSPORT’s epic milestone. 

The judges said: “This station deserves recognition not only for serving its audience brilliantly over the years, but for finding new ways to attract record numbers today.”

ARIAS Chair of Judges and former Director of Audio at BBC Studios Bob Shennan presented the award, sharing that the judges were unanimous in their decision to give talkSPORT the special award - praising the network’s creativity and challenging other stations, and that it’s undoubtedly going through its best period now.  

Head of talkSPORT Liam Fisher says, “This is a milestone year for talkSPORT: we are 25 years’ young, and I’m delighted that the ARIAs have joined the celebrations with this wonderful award. It is testament to the strength of the brand that we’re still reaching record audiences on air, whilst also driving innovation to ensure we are meeting audiences online, on YouTube and, most recently, on CTV. Thank you to everyone who has contributed to talkSports success - both past and present, on and off air. Here’s to the next 25!”

Jim White, who was also awarded Silver in the Sports Award (Show or Presenter) category for White & Jordan, said of the win: “It’s very good. Delighted. It’s a great old team at talkSPORT, I love it. We’re all delighted.”

Times Radio Breakfast took home Bronze for Best Speech Breakfast Show. 

So far in 2025, talkSPORT’s unrivalled output has already taken home two Sports Journalism Awards, winning gold for its coverage of the Paris 2024 Olympics, beating the BBC, and another gold for White & Jordan. talkSPORT is up for a Sports Industry Award on Thursday 15 May.

In the most recent RAJAR figures, the talkSPORT network achieved record-breaking reach in Q1 25, to 3.9 million listeners, an increase of 4.8% year-on-year. talkSPORT2 also accomplished a record reach with 676k listeners, a 20.7% increase year-on-year. 

You can tune in to talkSPORT and talkSPORT2 via our free online streaming service at talkSPORT.com. talkSPORT is widely available across the UK via DAB digital radio and on 1089 or 1053 AM. You can download the talkSPORT app, or ask your smart speaker to play talkSPORT.

talkSPORT is also available on the big screen, on your Smart TV. Go to talksport.com/watch for more details.