Radio Rovers is the official

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of the

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football side

Blackburn Rovers FC Blackburn Rovers Football Club is a professional football club, based in Blackburn, Lancashire, England, which competes in the , the second tier of the English football league system. They have played home matches at Ewood Park since 1890. Th ...

. It was launched at

Ewood Park Ewood Park () is a football stadium in Blackburn, Lancashire, England, and the home of Blackburn Rovers F.C., founding members of the Football League and Premier League, who have played there since 1890. It is an all seater multi-sports facili ...

on 30 October 1993 and was the first dedicated football club radio station in the United Kingdom. The studio is located in the Darwen End one of the stands at Blackburns Ground Ewood Park. The station only airs on Blackburn match days. The broadcast includes pre-match build up, music, team news, and manager comments before the match, full commentary during the match and post-match analysis, interviews, and viewer phone-ins after. The channel begins broadcasting 4 hours prior to kick off, and a typical day covers 7 hours on-air The station broadcasts a 'free to air' service under an OFCOM RSL (restricted service licence) on 1404 kHz am around Blackburn. It is available anywhere in the world via the club's official website rovers.co.uk – for which you pay an annual subscription and is also available for disabled fans inside the ground on match days. Gerald Jackson, seen as the voice of Radio Rovers, is a longtime presenter of the show. He is also a local radio presenter for

BBC Radio Lancashire BBC Radio Lancashire is the BBC's local radio station serving the county of Lancashire. It broadcasts on FM, AM, DAB, digital TV and via BBC Sounds from studios on Darwen Street in Blackburn. According to RAJAR, the station has a weekly au ...

. Matthew Sillitoe replaced Gerald Jackson as presenter at the start of the 2014–15 season and has continued to host the broadcast in its familiar format.

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