Sport Relief

Sport Relief
Logo from the 2008 telethon
GenreCharity telethon
Created byComic Relief
BBC Sport
Presented byGary Lineker
Davina McCall
Claudia Winkleman
Ore Oduba
Freddie Flintoff
Paddy McGuinness
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
Production
Production locations
Camera setupMulti-camera
Running timeVarious
Original release
NetworkBBC One
BBC Two
Release13 July 2002 (2002-07-13) –
13 March 2020 (2020-03-13)
Related
Children in Need (1980–present)
Comic Relief (1985–present)
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Sport Relief was a biennial charity event from Comic Relief, in association with BBC Sport, established in 2002.

It was the idea of Kevin Cahill, CBE, who had joined Comic Relief in 1991 to establish a new department as Director of Education and Communications and went on to become its creative director and CEO. Now joint Honorary Life President with Sir Lenny Henry, Cahill joined having created the Education Department at the National Theatre in London and been its first Head.

In 2021, Comic Relief announced that from 2022 it was changing from alternating Sport Relief and Red Nose Day campaigns to Red Nose Day becoming annual and Sport Relief evolving into a year-round brand. The annual Red Nose Day telethon would now take place at Dock10, MediaCityUK in Salford.

  1. ^ "Salford gets sporty as BBC One's Sport Relief comes to dock10". Dock10. Retrieved 20 September 2021.
  2. ^ "Sport Relief returns to BBC One for 2020 live from dock10 studios". Dock10. Retrieved 20 September 2021.