{"id":962,"date":"2026-06-02T06:38:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T06:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=962"},"modified":"2026-06-02T06:38:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T06:38:20","slug":"world-cup-2026-how-to-follow-on-the-bbc-tv-radio-online-and-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=962","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026: How to follow on the BBC &#8211; TV, radio, online and social media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There will be live commentary on every World Cup game (except for the clashing final group games, when one of the two matches being played simultaneously will be broadcast live in full, with updates from the other) on BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And there will be podcasts galore.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The BBC will have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/programmes\/p02nrsln\/episodes\/downloads\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Football Daily<\/a> podcast every day of the World Cup, released at 06:00 BST, while from then until 09:00, Rick Edwards will be live in Los Angeles for 5 Live Breakfast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There will be two episodes of The Wayne Rooney Show every week &#8211; and a 606 every week too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sounds\/play\/live\/bbc_radio_scotland_fm\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">BBC Radio Scotland<\/a> will will have a daily podcast every morning &#8211; plus YouTube live shows throughout the group stages &#8211; and extended programming on the radio on game days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Special editions of The Saturday Show from Boston, Off the Ball and Breaking the News are on the agenda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There are also offerings on BBC Radio nan G\u00e0idheal and BBC ALBA&#8217;s YouTube page.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And Sunday League manager Steve Bracknall has six World Cup specials of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sounds\/brand\/p0mh9lt6\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Game&#8217;s Gone: The Steve Bracknall Podcast<\/a>plus reaction to home nations games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">To find a home nations commentary, you can say to your smart speaker &#8216;ask BBC Sounds to play the England or Scotland match&#8217; or request it to play the radio station you want.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sounds\/play\/live\/bbc_world_service\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">BBC World Service<\/a> will have a Global World Cup podcast three times a week. The Sport Today (Monday to Friday) and Sportsworld (Saturday and Sunday) shows will be broadcast to more than 66 million listeners worldwide on location from host cities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There will be live commentary on every World Cup game (except for the clashing final group games, when one of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}