Tuesday 12th January


BRMB/Mercia FM

Tom Ross presenting The Goalzone from St Andrews

FA Cup Third Round Replays
Birmingham City v Nottingham Forest - Tom Ross and Jon McCarthy (BRMB commentary)
Coventry City v Portsmouth - Joe Holt and Dave Bennett (Mercia commentary)

BRMB's Russ Morris is tonight's pitchside announcer at St Andrews.



BBC WM

Mark Regan presenting The Football Phone-In from The Mailbox, followed by Dan Wheeler presenting WM Sport from St Andrews

FA Cup Third Round Replay
Birmingham City v Nottingham Forest - Rob Gurney and Dan Wheeler (FM and DAB commentary - not available online)



BBC Coventry & Warwickshire

Clive Eakin hosting The Sky Blues Live from the Ricoh Arena

FA Cup Third Round Replay
Coventry City v Portsmouth - Geoff Foster and Clive Eakin (FM, DAB and online commentary)



BBC Radio Derby

Sport from Six with Colin Bloomfield, followed by Colin Gibson presenting Midweek Sportscene from Pride Park

FA Cup Third Round Replay
Derby County v Millwall - Ed Dawes and Gary Rowett (FM, AM and online commentary)

Burton Albion assistant manager Gary Rowett is tonight's "special guest summariser", returning to Radio Derby to deputise for Roger Davies. Good luck to Ed if he has to interview Robbie Savage after the game!



BBC Radio Wales

Steve James hosting Radio Wales Sport alongside Kevin Ratcliffe from Llandaff, with Ian Gwyn-Hughes at Ashton Gate

FA Cup Third Round
Bristol City v Cardiff City - Rob Phillips and Nathan Blake (commentary on all platforms)

Tuesday 12th January - talkSPORT

Danny Kelly presenting Kick-Off: Tuesday Night Football alongside Micky Quinn at the Ricoh Arena

FA Cup Third Round
Bristol City v Cardiff City - Roger Hughes

FA Cup Third Round Replays
Birmingham City v Nottingham Forest - Ian Danter
Coventry City v Portsmouth - Dave Rowe and Micky Quinn
Derby County v Millwall - Graham Beecroft
Queens Park Rangers v Sheffield United - Tony Incenzo

Premier Reserve League South
Arsenal Reserves v West Ham United Reserves - Ian Abrahams

Africa Cup of Nations Group C
Egypt v Nigeria and Benin v Mozambique - Andrew McKenna

Snooker: The Masters
Wembley Arena - Geoff Peters (afternoon updates) and David Brady (evening updates)

Tuesday 12th January - 5 Live

Mark Pougatch presenting 5 Live Sport from St Andrews

FA Cup Third Round
Bristol City v Cardiff City - Simon Mann

FA Cup Third Round Replays
Birmingham City v Nottingham Forest - Pat Murphy (Jacqui Oatley & Tim Flowers on SE)
Coventry City v Portsmouth - Nigel Adderley, Steve Claridge & Simon Brotherton
Derby County v Millwall - Conor McNamara
Queens Park Rangers v Sheffield United - David Oates

Premier Reserve League South
Arsenal Reserves v West Ham United Reserves - Steve May

BBC London 94.9

Derby v Millwall Phil Parry (host) and Clive Walker (FM commentary)
QPR v Sheff Utd Kevin Hand and Bradley Allen (DAB commentary)

Why do five live and talksport have reporters at a reserve match? Is this normal?

Sol Campbell was re-appearing for Arsenal.

Of course. I knew it must be something! Thanks Ian!

Paul Walker commentated, and Keith Edwards summarised on Queens Park Rangers verses Sheffield United for BBC Radio Sheffield.

BBC Bristol / Somerset - Geoff Twentymann hosting with commentary from Richard Hoskin and Dave Lea

The Radio Derby 'hoo-hah' between Colin Gibson and Robbie Savage also got played out at half time

Real Radio South Wales - Mark Poyser

A minor correction here - West Ham's Reserves were the home team last night.

Incidentally, talkSPORT were the first to break the news that Arsenal had taken Sol Campbell on trial, with Andrew McKenna announcing what was then a rumour during one of his bulletins on Hawksbee & Jacobs.


I think it has done the rounds on a number of BBC Local Radio stations (did it make Five Live as well?).

They played an edit of Robbie's Rant during Paul Franks' BBC WM drivetime show after 6.30pm, with Franksy likening Colin Gibson to "Radio Derby's version of Mark Regan."

It even made talkSPORT - Hawksbee & Jacobs interviewed Ram FM's Derby County reporter Phil Matthews about the situation, albeit skilfully avoiding any reference to BBC Radio Derby as being the source of Sav's anger (Ram FM got a couple of national radio mentions though).

Over on Radio Derby, on Sport from Six Colin Bloomfield was taking calls and texts about Robbie Savage's comments about himself and Gibson.

On that - I had a chuckle about how it was a bit of a baptism of fire for Ed Dawes, with him standing in for Bloomfield as commentator and post-match interviewer for Radio Derby at Pride Park last night.

The reason why Bloomfield didn't do the commentary on Derby-Millwall last night was because 1) he was filling in for Phil Trow, who is covering on the Radio Derby Breakfast Show this week, on Sport from Six and 2) he has a cold. There's nothing more to it than that.

Marc Vesty had been their usual second choice as Rams commentator, but I think he might have moved on now - he writes a lot of articles on the BBC Sport website and I noticed he was listed as a researcher on the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year show - so Dawes, who reported on an Albion game for BBC WM earlier in the season, got the call.

It was Dave Lee alongside Richard.

Wednesday 13th January 2010

FA Cup Round 3 Replay

BBC Merseyside - Host: Alan Jackson
Liverpool v Reading: Gary Flintoff & Jimmy Case

City Sport
Liverpool v Reading: Steve Hothersall & John Aldridge

Wednesday 13th January - talkSPORT

Danny Kelly presenting Kick-Off: Wednesday Night Football alongside Alvin Martin

FA Cup Third Round Replays
Liverpool v Reading - Dom McGuinness
Newcastle United v Plymouth Argyle - Graham Courtney

Snooker: The Masters
Wembley Arena - Geoff Peters (afternoon updates) and David Brady (evening updates)

Wednesday 13th January 2010

5 Live

Presenter Mark Pougatch

Liverpool vs Reading- Conor McNamara Alistair Bruce Ball and Mark Lawrenson (Pitchside Reporter Alistair Yeomans)

Newcastle vs Plymouth- Peter Slater

Wednesday 13th January - BBC Five Live Sports Extra

Bob Ballard presenting Sports Extra Football

FA Cup Third Round Replay
Newcastle United v Plymouth Argyle - Nigel Adderley and Steve Stone (commentary)


I was flicking around during the commercials at half-time in the Liverpool-Reading game, so I don't know if they used another commentator (if so, then Adderley would have done the "opening" leg of each half). Given that Sports Extra generally use commentary tandems these days, I think it's unlikely they would have.

They've since updated this trailer to include references to it being Brian Laws' first game in charge of Burnley.

The new trailer says talkSPORT's Matchday Live team this Saturday will be Adrian Durham, Nigel Pearson, Bobby Gould and Ray Parlour.

So Stan Collymore is still on holiday, but it doesn't mention who'll be co-commentating in his absence - it could be either ex-pro, as Gould was pencilled in to summarise last weekend before the postponement and I think Parlour did co-commentary on at least one Champions League Live game last term.

Thursday 14th January


talkSPORT

Danny Kelly presenting Kick-Off alongside Ray Houghton

Carling Cup Semi-Final First Leg
Blackburn Rovers v Aston Villa - Simon Humphreys

Snooker: The Masters
Wembley Arena - David Brady (afternoon updates) and Geoff Peters (evening updates)



BBC WM

Mark Regan presenting The Football Phone-In and WM Sport from The Mailbox

Carling Cup Semi-Final First Leg
Blackburn Rovers v Aston Villa - Rob Gurney and Mike Taylor (commentary)



BRMB

Tom Ross presenting The Goalzone from Ewood Park

Carling Cup Semi-Final First Leg
Blackburn Rovers v Aston Villa - Tom Ross and Pat Heard (commentary)

Thursday 14th January 2010 - League Cup Semi Final 1st Leg

BBC Lancashire (95.5FM/855AM/1557AM/DAB) - Host: Gary Hickson
Blackburn v Aston Villa: Phil Cunliffe & Jason Wilcox

Thursday 14th January 2010

Five Live

Presenter Eleanor Oldroyd
Blackburn vs Aston Villa John Murray Darren Fletcher and Craig Burley

Parlour at Man Utd (Gould at Stoke/Liverpool).

I'll be at Glandford Park tomorrow for Scunthorpe United V Cardiff City, so will be able to do BBC Humberside and Real Radio Yorkshire.

I might go 'Old Skool' and take my Personal Stereo (I'm making a long, long train journey) so could get BBC Lincolnshire as well.

If any of the stations mentioned could let me know how the Cardiff Blues fair tomorrow against Sale in the Heineken Cup that would be much appreciated

Arlo White is leaving the BBC so Mark Chapman will be presenting Monday night's on 5Live Sport

That's good to know, thanks for sharing that George.

On the subject of talkSPORT, I've been thinking about their postponed game from last weekend and how they are going to make up their quota of 32 games.

As it stands, Sunderland v Bolton has yet to be rescheduled - although with Sunderland still in the FA Cup, I think it's likely they might opt for a midweek date. If the rearranged game clashes with Champions League matches, then that'd be no good for talkSPORT who are likely to already be covering a live game from that competition.

However next Saturday, which is FA Cup fourth round Saturday, I see Manchester United v Hull City in the Premier League has been pencilled in as a 3pm kick-off, what with both teams having been knocked out in the third round.

With the omens on both Five Live and Sports Extra to be broadcasting FA Cup games at that time, especially in light of the BBC Trust's verdict that Five Live bosses must intend to provide their listeners "value for money" after the station's "aggressive pursuit" of exclusive radio rights to the FA Cup, you would hope that the Manchester United-Hull City game would be available for talkSPORT to provide a commentary on seeing as though the BBC have locked them out of doing FA Cup commentaries.

If this should happen, then listeners would have a choice of three national radio football commentaries with talkSPORT's problem regarding their missing game being resolved.

That's a shame - he was the only regular Five Live Sport presenter who I rated once Mark Saggers had left the station.

Will Arlo still be part of Five Live/Sports Extra's NFL coverage through to the Superbowl? I hope so, he has been excellent on that this season.

EDIT: I've just seen in another thread that Arlo is off to Seattle to present coverage of Seattle Sounders games. I remember reading he had made a good impression while doing a TV commentary on one of their MLS games during the summer, so this makes sense.
Last edited by The Difference : 15-01-2010 at 13:49

As announced by Tom Ross on tonight's Sports Bar, here is Orion's Saturday coverage details:


Saturday 16th January - BRMB/Beacon 97.2FM & 103.1FM/Mercia FM

Tom Ross presenting The Goalzone from Fratton Park

Premier League
Portsmouth v Birmingham City - Tom Ross and Jon McCarthy (BRMB commentary)
Wolverhampton Wanderers v Wigan Athletic - Bill Hatton and Keith Downing (Beacon commentary)

Championship
Ipswich Town v Coventry City - Joe Holt and Dave Bennett (Mercia commentary)



Former Cheltenham Town boss Keith Downing, currently a West Brom academy coach but also a long-serving Wolves midfielder in the 80s and 90s, will be making his Beacon debut when doing co-commentary on Wolves for the first time tomorrow.

The Wolves v Wigan game will also be the first Wolves commentary to be relayed on Beacon 103.1FM in Shropshire as well as being broadcast on 97.2FM in the Black Country.