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 Scottish Radio Orchestra Shirley Bassey, Lulu, Lena Zavaroni and Anne Lorne Gilles. It also had its own BBC One programme, "Make Way for Music". They recorded 'inserts' for the many music and chat shows on Radio 2 and Radio Scotland, recording with artists including Cleo Laine, Georgie Fame, Carol Kidd and trombonist Don Lusher. With the ever-increasing air-time being given to commercial pop music, there was less time available for staff studio orchestras, the costs of which were becoming disproportionate to their use. In 1980 the BBC announced its intention to disband several of its staff light orchestras including the Northern Radio Orchestra,