http://www.itv.com/sport/football/fi...dcup/fixtures/

Lots of games on ITV4, so that means those games would not be in HD !?

It's possibly best to redirect your query to the World Cup Broadcasting and Scheduling discussion thread in the broadcasting/TV section.

At a guess though, I don't think any of the four games on ITV4 will be in HD.

The only live games to be shown on ITV4 are four clashing final group games, with the games perceived to be the more appealing of the two conflicting fixtures being shown on ITV1 and so presumably ITV HD as well.

Chapman has certainly come on well over the last few months, it must be quite hard to shake that "arsing about on Radio One" image off, and for a while it will stick, so I'll give him credit for doing that.

I'm with The Diff as far as Pougatch is concerned, i've never really warmed to him, Ian Payne before him, seemed to have a nicer style somehow. Stubbs will be a good addition to TS, I think he has a good sense of humour and can be quite dry at times.
If I am correct that Jim Proudfoot is lead commentator, I guess he will pick up the bigger games next season??

Well, I have a soft spot for Kiddie Harriers but they're not my team.

On Ray Stubbs, I think he can bring a lot to the party, although I do take the point that talkSPORT have got depth in the live match anchor area as it is.

For a start he's a name people know (and we all know how UTV love a big name signing), so conceivably can draw people to the station through familiarity, but is a proven professional broadcaster having presented live games on TV and radio and I also thought he did a decent job of presenting 606 sporadically before his departure from the BBC.

He's got a "voice of the common man" feel about him, he clearly gets on well with sports fans as his interaction with them on things such as the BBC's darts coverage in years gone by shows and he doesn't appear to be up himself.

Also, having been BBC TV's reporter in the England camp in years gone by, it's likely he still has connections to the FA which could help with securing interviews. Plus he's a respected broadcaster who's well known among sporting stars generally so it could be a good move to get him on board from that point of view.

I know people dismiss Stubbsy for being boring but I personally don't think you have to be particularly flashy to be a good sports anchor. I'd rather hear Ray do a solid, professional job quietly than hear another presenter try to make a name for themselves with wild opinions etc.


As of around midday, there's still no new press release or such like from talkSPORT about their coverage that I've seen. Therefore it's looking unlikely that they've signed a big name commentator to their coverage such as Alan Parry.

So I suspect their commentary line-up will be lead by Jim Proudfoot with him being joined by Ian Danter, Nigel Pearson and Graham Beecroft. Seeing as he's not fixed up elsewhere, could John Rawling get the call to join their team as well?

If they need more commentators to make up their team, then I would be in favour of them calling upon some of their reporters who've made their name as commentators elsewhere - guys like Geoff Peters, Dom McGuinness, Graham Courtney, Simon Humphreys and Mark Donaldson.

As for next season I don't think things will change that much for Jim Proudfoot. I could see him continuing to be talkSPORT's voice of the Champions League but not appearing at weekends, when he concentrates on his TV commitments with ESPN's European league coverage.

It wouldn't surprise me if Nigel Pearson and Stan Collymore moved from doing Saturday 3pm games to the 5.30pm fixtures later in the day, although maybe the Sunday fixtures will open up opportunities for a team like Ian Danter and Alvin Martin to do regular commentary matches (indeed I suspect they will be talkSPORT #2 commentary team at the World Cup now sparring a late signing).

The BBC's press office listings for w/c June 12th do not reveal any commentators for 5Live except that Alan Green is involved in England games and is doing 606 after them which is no surprise

Saturday + Sunday it looks like Mark Chapman does the afternoon and Pougatch does the evening

During the week, they seem to be alternating days between doing 12-5 and 7-9:30/10

Pougatch looks to be doing the England games (no surprise). Chapman seems to be travelling a lot to various venues, Pougatch less so.

Here is the UPDATED talkSPORT schedule for the coming weeks, which includes World Cup programming:

Saturday 24th May: Danny Kelly presents a World Cup Countdown show following live commentary of the League One Play-Off Final between 17:15-19:00.

Saturday 5th June: Danny Kelly takes over the reigns from Mark Saggers on the Weekend Sports Breakfast between 08:00-12:00 with Micky Quinn, followed by Hawksbee & Jacobs 12:00-15:00, and World Cup Countdown with Ian Danter and Alvin Martin 15:00-19:00.

Sunday 6th June: Football First is World Cup Countdown with Ian Danter, Alvin Martin and Ray Houghton 15:00-19:00

Friday 11th June
06:00 Alan Brazil’s World Cup Breakfast with Ronnie Irani and Alvin Martin
10:00 Andy Townsend & Mike Parry
13:00 World Cup Matchday Live with Mark Saggers: South Africa v Mexico with Jim Proudfoot & Stan Collymore
17:00 Adrian Durham & Darren Gough
19:00 World Cup Matchday Live with Adrian Durham: Uruguay v France with Ian Danter & Alvin Martin
22:00-23:00 World Cup Today with Adrian Durham & Alvin Martin

Saturday 12th June
06:00 The World Cup Breakfast with Danny Kelly, Micky Quinn & Ian Wright
10:00 Back Home with Hawksbee & Jacobs
12:00 World Cup Matchday Live with Adrian Durham: South Korea v Greece with John Rawling & Bobby Gould, followed by Argentina v Nigeria with Ian Danter & Micky Quinn
17:00 World Cup Matchday Live with Mark Saggers, Alvin Martin & Harry Redknapp: England v USA with Jim Proudfoot & Stan Collymore
22:00-23:00 World Cup Today with Mark Saggers & Stan Collymore

Sunday 13th June
06:00 The World Cup Breakfast with Danny Kelly & Micky Quinn
10:00 Back Home with Hawksbee & Jacobs
12:00 World Cup Matchday Live with Adrian Durham: Algeria v Slovenia with Ian Danter & Alvin Martin, followed by Serbia v Ghana with John Rawling & Bobby Gould.
17:00 Andy Goldstein’s Sports Bar
19:00 World Cup Matchday Live with Mark Saggers: Germany v Australia with Jim Proudfoot & Stan Collymore
22:00-23:00 World Cup Today with Mark Saggers & Stan Collymore

Monday 14th June
06:00 Alan Brazil’s World Cup Breakfast with Ronnie Irani and Ray Parlour
10:00 Andy Townsend & Mike Parry
13:00 World Cup Matchday Live with Mark Saggers & Harry Redknapp: Holland v Denmark with Jim Proudfoot & Alvin Martin, followed by Japan v Cameroon with John Rawling & Bobby Gould
17:00 Adrian Durham & Darren Gough
19:00 World Cup Matchday Live with Danny Kelly: Italy v Paraguay with Ian Danter & Stan Collymore
22:00-23:00 World Cup Today with Danny Kelly & Stan Collymore

Tuesday 15th June
06:00 Alan Brazil’s World Cup Breakfast with Ronnie Irani and Alvin Martin
10:00 Andy Townsend & Mike Parry
13:00 World Cup Matchday Live with Mark Saggers: New Zealand v Slovakia with John Rawling & Bobby Gould, followed by Ivory Coast v Portugal with Nigel Pearson & Ray Parlour
17:00 Adrian Durham & Darren Gough
19:00 World Cup Matchday Live with Ian Danter: Brazil v North Korea with Jim Proudfoot & Alvin Martin
22:00-23:00 World Cup Today with Ian Danter & Alvin Martin

Wednesday 16th June
06:00 Alan Brazil’s World Cup Breakfast with Ronnie Irani
10:00 Andy Townsend & Mike Parry
13:00 World Cup Matchday Live with Mark Saggers: Honduras v Chile with Graham Beecroft & Micky Quinn, followed by Spain v Switzerland with Nigel Pearson & Ray Parlour
17:00 Adrian Durham & Darren Gough
19:00 World Cup Matchday Live with Danny Kelly: South Africa v Uruguay with Ian Danter & Stan Collymore
22:00-23:00 World Cup Today with Danny Kelly & Stan Collymore

Thursday 17th June
06:00 Alan Brazil’s World Cup Breakfast with Ronnie Irani
10:00 Andy Townsend & Mike Parry
13:00 World Cup Matchday Live with Danny Kelly: Argentina v South Korea with Graham Beecroft & Micky Quinn, followed by Greece v Nigeria with John Rawling & Bobby Gould
17:00 Adrian Durham & Darren Gough
19:00 World Cup Matchday Live with Mark Saggers: France v Mexico with Nigel Pearson & Ray Parlour
22:00-23:00 World Cup Today with Mark Saggers & Ray Parlour

Friday 18th June
06:00 Alan Brazil’s World Cup Breakfast with Ronnie Irani and Alvin Martin
10:00 Andy Townsend & Mike Parry
13:00 World Cup Matchday Live with Adrian Durham & Paul Merson: Germany v Serbia with Graham Beecroft & Micky Quinn, followed by Slovenia v USA with TBC.
17:00 Adrian Durham & Darren Gough
19:00 World Cup Matchday Live with Mark Saggers & Harry Redknapp: England v Algeria with Jim Proudfoot & Stan Collymore
22:00-23:00 World Cup Today with Mark Saggers & Stan Collymore

Saturday 19th June
06:00 The World Cup Breakfast with Danny Kelly, Micky Quinn & Ian Wright
10:00 Back Home with Hawksbee & Jacobs
12:00 World Cup Matchday Live with Adrian Durham: Holland v Japan with Graham Beecroft & Paul Merson, followed by Ghana v Australia with Ian Danter & Alvin Martin
17:00 Andy Goldstein’s Sports Bar
19:00 World Cup Matchday Live with Mark Saggers: Cameroon v Denmark with Jim Proudfoot & Stan Collymore
22:00-23:00 World Cup Today with Mark Saggers & Stan Collymore

Sunday 20th June
06:00 The World Cup Breakfast with Danny Kelly & Micky Quinn
10:00 Back Home with Hawksbee & Jacobs
12:00 World Cup Matchday Live with Adrian Durham: Slovakia v Paraguay with Graham Beecroft & Ray Parlour, followed by Italy v New Zealand with John Rawling & Bobby Gould.
17:00 Andy Goldstein’s Sports Bar
19:00 World Cup Matchday Live with Mark Saggers: Brazil v Ivory Coast with Jim Proudfoot & Stan Collymore
22:00-23:00 World Cup Today with Mark Saggers & Stan Collymore


THE HEADLINES
[LIST][*]Presenters of live coverage include Adrian Durham, Mark Saggers, Danny Kelly and Ian Danter.
[*]Commentary team include Jim Proudfoot, Ian Danter, Nigel Pearson, Graham Beecroft and John Rawling.
[*]Summarisers and co-commentators include Alvin Martin, Stan Collymore, Micky Quinn, Ray Parlour, Bobby Gould and Paul Merson, plus Harry Redknapp alongside presenting team.
[*]The Weekend Sports Breakfast will broadcast between 06:00-10:00 meaning no Fisherman's Blues.
[*]Hawksbee & Jacobs will broadcast their Back Home show each Saturday and Sunday between 10:00-12:00.
[*]Andy Goldstein's Sports Bar is shifted to 17:00-19:00.
[*]The Jeremy Kyle Show appears to be rested.
[*]Ian Collins will present The Late Show between 23:00-02:00, followed by Adrian Goldberg until 06:00. At weekends, it is Mike Graham followed by the overnight show.[/LIST]
PLEASE NOTE: Every single last bit of this is subject to late minute change and alteration. It's as accurate as possible for now!

An error I've spotted: Andy Townsend and Mike Parry will present their show between 10:00-12:00, and not 13:00 (except Friday 11th June, when it will be 13:00) as kick-off for lunchtime matches is at 12:30.

4-4-2, thanks very much for finding out and posting that information. It is much appreciated.

My reaction to some of the headlines:

Hawksbee & Jacobs being shunted out to weekends with Townsend & Parry remaining in 10am-noon/1pm? Not was I hoping for to be honest, but it will be interesting to hear how H&J fare at weekends. I guess there's every chance they'll return to weekdays for a truncated show once the first two rounds of matches are done.

Townsend & Parry staying in the mid-morning slot now looks a lot more logistically straight forward as we know ITV have a Johannesburg base, like talkSPORT and ESPN, meaning they won't have to shape the show around travelling. However, they may have to invite the likes of Mike Graham to cover for Andy if he's involved in the live coverage of any 12.30pm kick-offs.

Also, with Mike based in Johannesburg that could present an opportunity for another reporter(s) to mingle with the England fans in other cities (Ian Abrahams?) as I'm sure they'll want someone in that role.

The commentary teams are as we expected sparring the involvement of a big name, although we haven't heard John Rawling on talkSPORT for a while.

Great to see Jim Proudfoot and Alvin Martin paired together for some games. It does seem like Proudfoot and Collymore will be the top commentary team with Danter and Martin the second regular pairing, but it's nice to see them mixing it up a bit for a few games as Jim and Alv work so well as a duo.

Hearing Paul Merson doing co-commentary should be interesting. At the very least, he and Beeky covering Holland v Japan should keep H&J in Clips of the Week!

The resting of Fisherman's Blues is a surprise - I'm guessing that'll only be for the first couple of weekends when there are 12.30pm games. Once they end, I could see the fishing return to 6-8am, with the Weekend Sports Breakfast shifting to its usual 8-12noon slot, Hawksbee & Jacobs to 12noon-2pm (or alternatively returning to weekdays) and Matchday Live to 2-5pm.

I think Jeremy Kyle could return to the talkSPORT airwaves in the Back Home slot later on in the tournament if H&J move back to weekdays once the 12.30pm games end. But then again his Sunday show has to be removed from the weekend schedule at some point due to them landing Premier League commentary rights in that timeslot, so it's a pretty seamless way to make the change due to World Cup fixtures.

Disappointing that it seems Darren Gough will remain on Drivetime, what with so many actual football pundits at their disposal in South Africa.

Interesting to see that talkSPORT are looking at various triple headed breakfast shows - although I won't be listening to the return of Ian Wright on Saturday mornings. Hearing Alvin Martin on weekday mornings is a different matter, he deserves the opportunity and it'll be interesting to see if he can improve the dynamic between Alan and Ronnie.

Good to see Danny Kelly has a weekday role on top of his Weekend Sports Breakfast commitments. Will he still be UK-based, and presenting from London alongside both Micky Quinn and the rest of the Matchday Live team in South Africa?

Thanks again for posting all of the above details 4-4-2.

One thing I've noticed about the initial talkSPORT schedule - after the involvement of Ray Stubbs on Thursday night, there's no mention of him anywhere.

Given that he was alongside Alan Brazil on the Launch Show, maybe he could be the third man on the weekday World Cup Breakfast show on days when Alvin Martin or Ray Parlour are not alongside Alan and Ronnie.

Also, if they want to keep that show fully on-site, he could present alongside Mike Parry in the inevitability that Andy Townsend won't be able to host every mid-morning show due to his ITV commitments.

Then again, maybe I was right when I said they might have just been trumping up Ray's role on the ESPN promotional slots on the station.

Unusually, 5Live are running 606 next weekend despite their being no football on, nothing on who is presenting Saturday's show (I very much doubt it's Alan Green) and on Sunday it's Spoony and Marcotti.

Next weekend will be a bit eggy as far as Five Live and talkSPORT are concerned, what with no live football.

Are the Beeb sticking the cricket on Five Live next weekend? Are they doing Wales v South Africa in the rugby? Either would be a good move IMO.

Looking at talkSPORT's schedule for next Saturday and while I'm sure any shows involving Hawksbee & Jacobs, Ian Danter and Alvin Martin will prove to be good listening, it does look a bit "filler" for understandable reasons.

Next Saturday it's the Epsom Derby so Elanor Oldroyd is covering that and they have the Ladies French Open final on.

On Sunday they are covering the Men's FO final and a discussion about England (football).

Not a bad line up, the real sticky times for 5Live come in July/early August, other than the UK Open (golf) on one weekend there isn't much to cover. There's F1 but that doesn't even fill 1 Sunday show and then there's cricket!

Not you as well

Re- Holland/Netherlands, we all know that the country is called the Netherlands but the Dutch fans refer to the national side as Holland.

5Live obviously have the game from Graz on tomorrow but it will be intersting as to who goes over. Green doesn't like friendlies so I'd guess at a combination of Ingham and Murray but a possibility of Darren Fletcher or Ian Dennis doing the game.

Ian Danter has just very deliberately introduced Jim Proudfoot as talkSPORT's "lead commentator for the World Cup Finals."

I think we can safely say Jim will be doing his third World Cup Final for talkSPORT, most probably alongside Stan Collymore, on July 11.

talkSPORT's Ian Abrahams will be going to the World Cup after all - although his presence in South Africa has been confirmed by RTE Radio, who have released their World Cup coverage press release today.


If Ian's going to be out there to contribute to a two hour Saturday morning show, then I'm guessing he'll have a more substantial role during the week for talkSPORT. Although the last time I tuned into the Sports Breakfast, Alan and Ronnie were still teasing him about the uncertainty into whether he'd be going.

On the subject of RTE Radio's World Cup coverage, from reading their press release there is nothing to suggest either RTE Radio 1 or 2 will be carrying any live commentaries from South Africa despite there being lots of discussion programmes scheduled to compliment their live TV coverage.

BBC sign up Roy Hodgson and Harry Redknapp as part of their television punditry team: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...10/8718071.stm

I wonder what this means for Redknapp's involvement with talkSPORT? I wouldn't be surprised if he juggles both roles.

I've posted a similar question in the equivalent thread in the broadcasting section.

As we know during the domestic football season, a growing number of pundits - notably Ray Parlour, Perry Groves and Matt Holland - make appearances across talkSPORT and Five Live on a regular basis.

Like you, sparing another "poaching" situation (see Gabriele Marcotti and Stan Collymore), I suspect this will just be a more high-profiled case of the above.

Given how much Harry has done on the station already since confirming his involvement in talkSPORT's coverage (donating his coat from the Man City-Spurs game to them for a charity auction, appearing at the World Cup launch, regularly being used as a phone guest whenever big England news breaks etc) I don't see him jumping ship at this very late stage.

Given that he's down to be involved primarily in talkSPORT's live England coverage, it could be that Harry does punditry on the BBC TV highlights shows on days when England are not playing.

Harry was on 5 Live doing a interview with Mark Chapman on the England World Cup team last night so could something be read in to that. I have been surprised this season that the BBC has allowed Matt Holand to be on Talksport as he a host of Late Kick Off and all the other presenters have regular work at the Beeb

606 this Saturday will be presented by Darren Fletcher and Dion Dublin
Sunday by the usual combo of Spoony and Marcotti

This is the first time in memory that 606 has been broadcast on a weekend where there is no football.

Since then, I've heard trailers promoting Harry Redknapp's involvement in their World Cup coverage running on talkSPORT as well as Mark Saggers referencing some of the comments he made on the station about the England team on Kick-Off last night. I'd be surprised if they'd do things like that had Harry jumped ship completely.

I've said it before on different threads, but I think the examples of Harry and Matt Holland here show you that there now seems to be some kind of sensible dialogue between talkSPORT and Five Live when it comes to talent. Neither station appears to have any problem with pundits or freelancers working for them one day and "the opposition" the next. Compared to how relations between the two organisations were frosty in the early part of the last decade, this is very refreshing and welcome IMO.

Going back to the RTE press release I posted earlier in the week, both Ray Houghton and Matt Holland have been listed among their World Cup co-commentary line-up. Judging from the way this list is ordered, it would appear that Ray will be working alongside RTE's senior commentator George Hamilton as part of their main commentary team.

Couple of bits on the 5 Live commentators from twitter

Jacqui Oatley has said that she is doing 7 commentaries from the group stages.

One of her matches is Chiles vs Switzerland, where she'll be with Danny Mills and Nigel Adderley, Nigel has said he is doing 10 matches from the group stages and a last 16 match. He's got all 3 of Chile's matches and Paraguay twice.

Wow! That transfer from the BBC to ITV also gets him his own World Cup squad

606 will be done by Alan Green after England games and Spoony/Marcotti will do shows on a Sunday