BBC Radio Leeds Liz Green (weekday afternoons) and Gayle Lofthouse (weekday drivetime). During the station's overnight downtime, BBC Radio Leeds simulcasts BBC Radio 5 Live (weekdays from 1am to 5am and weekends from 1am to 6am). BBC Radio Leeds broadcasts commentaries on many Football and Rugby league games involving Leeds United, Huddersfield Town, Bradford City, and a number of Rugby League teams including Leeds Rhinos, Bradford Bulls, Huddersfield Giants, Wakefield Trinity Wildcats and Castleford Tigers. Rugby Union with Yorkshire Carnegie and coverage of Yorkshire County Cricket Club in all formats. BBC Radio Leeds is the only station in West Yorkshire that covers all
BBC Radio Humberside many West Yorkshire rugby league fans were disappointed when the relatively powerful High Hunsley transmitter signal was heard instead of Radio Leeds, so all they heard was a commentary of Hull KR v Widnes instead of football. It did not broadcast on MW (neither did other BBC local stations) until late 1971. In 1979 it stopped broadcasting dedicated agricultural programmes (although East Yorkshire is an agricultural county). In the 1970s it had the "Radio Humberside Handicap" horserace at Beverley Racecourse, which became the "BBC Radio Humberside Stakes" in the 1980s. By the 1990s this included the "Martin Plenderleith Conditions Stakes",