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Northampton Saints V Scarlets (LV= Cup Semi Final)
S4C - Sarra Elgan hosting from Franklins Gardens, with Dafydd Jones there to provide build up and analysis. Commentary is from Wyn Gruffydd and Derwyn Jones, whilst Rhodri Davies is pitchside reporter, who has turned up expecting the temperature to turn cold suddenly. On the athletics front Martin Gillingham was commentating on the Top 14 on Saturday for ESPN so in the patches I saw Tim Hutchings was flying solo for Eurosport in Istanbul, was this the case all day? |
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On the athletics front Martin Gillingham was commentating on the Top 14 on Saturday for ESPN so in the patches I saw Tim Hutchings was flying solo for Eurosport in Istanbul, was this the case all day?
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World Touring Car Championship - Monza
Martin Haven and Matt Neal commentated, whilst Ben Constanduros was race Interviewer. Fans of the Avian variety may not want to watch Race 2 of the afternoon. Martin Haven commentated solo on the Auto GP earlier that day. I think Eurosport also have some ETCC coming up? |
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World Touring Car Championship - Monza
Martin Haven and Matt Neal commentated, whilst Ben Constanduros was race Interviewer. Fans of the Avian variety may not want to watch Race 2 of the afternoon. Martin Haven commentated solo on the Auto GP earlier that day. I think Eurosport also have some ETCC coming up? |
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I assume that Ben is related (son?) to the rather good motoring journalist Bob Constanduros.
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World Touring Car Championship - Monza
I think Eurosport also have some ETCC coming up? Quote:
I assume that Ben is related (son?) to the rather good motoring journalist Bob Constanduros.
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Eddie Butler is superb for me
Shame about Brian Moore cheerleading, even worse as normal. |
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Newport-Gwent Dragons V Cardiff Blues (RaboDirect Pro12 RU)
BBC Two Wales - Ross Harries hosting from Rodney Parade, with Shane Williams and Nicky Robinson, with commentary from Gareth Charles and Stuart Davies. Phil Steele is pitchside reporter, and has been joined by Nicky Robinson during game play. Welsh language commentary is by Lyn Davies and Dafydd Jones, whilst Rick O'Shea and Tom Willis do the 'Redzone' commentary. Shaun Holley is analyst in the OB truck. David Hasselhoff will be a half time Interview piece! |
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Tuesday 13th to Friday 16th March - Channel 4
Channel 4 Racing: Cheltenham Festival Presenters: Alastair Down and Alice Plunkett Analysts: John Francome, Jim McGrath and Ted Walsh Commentator: Simon Holt (on all four featured races and all/most of the others that were televised live) Betting experts: John McCririck and Tanya Stevenson Reporters: Lesley Graham and Derek Thompson That's the main Channel 4 team for their live coverage of the Festival, Mike Cattermole and Tom Lee were the only other names I saw listed in the credits at the end of their live broadcast today. I presume Cattermole will have handled a few of the lesser races to lighten the load on Simon Holt, with both him and Lee appearing on The Morning Line. I've been fortunate enough to catch a fair bit of Channel 4's coverage of Cheltenham for the first time in a few years, they've really done an excellent job this week. Well done to everyone involved with their coverage. |
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Wales Under 20 V France Under 20 (RBS Six Nations)
S4C - Gareth Roberts hosting from Parc Eirias in Colwyn Bay, with Gareth Davies and Dr. Gwyn Jones for build up, and to talk about Mervyn Davies' life. Commentary is from Cennydd Davies and Derwyn Jones, with Dot Davies pitchside reporter. |
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St Patrick's Day Boxing on Sky
Sheffield- Nick Halling and Glenn McCrory New York- Ian Darke and Jim Watt |
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Tuesday 13th to Friday 16th March - Channel 4
Channel 4 Racing: Cheltenham Festival Presenters: Alastair Down and Alice Plunkett Analysts: John Francome, Jim McGrath and Ted Walsh Commentator: Simon Holt (on all four featured races and all/most of the others that were televised live) Betting experts: John McCririck and Tanya Stevenson Reporters: Lesley Graham and Derek Thompson That's the main Channel 4 team for their live coverage of the Festival, Mike Cattermole and Tom Lee were the only other names I saw listed in the credits at the end of their live broadcast today. I presume Cattermole will have handled a few of the lesser races to lighten the load on Simon Holt, with both him and Lee appearing on The Morning Line. I've been fortunate enough to catch a fair bit of Channel 4's coverage of Cheltenham for the first time in a few years, they've really done an excellent job this week. Well done to everyone involved with their coverage. |
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Tuesday 13th to Friday 16th March - Channel 4
Channel 4 Racing: Cheltenham Festival Presenters: Alastair Down and Alice Plunkett Analysts: John Francome, Jim McGrath and Ted Walsh Commentator: Simon Holt (on all four featured races and all/most of the others that were televised live) Betting experts: John McCririck and Tanya Stevenson Reporters: Lesley Graham and Derek Thompson That's the main Channel 4 team for their live coverage of the Festival, Mike Cattermole and Tom Lee were the only other names I saw listed in the credits at the end of their live broadcast today. I presume Cattermole will have handled a few of the lesser races to lighten the load on Simon Holt, with both him and Lee appearing on The Morning Line. I've been fortunate enough to catch a fair bit of Channel 4's coverage of Cheltenham for the first time in a few years, they've really done an excellent job this week. Well done to everyone involved with their coverage. Quote:
At the course (where I was yesterday), the commentators were Mark Johnson (all days), Mike Cattermole (day 1) and Richard Hoiles (days 2,3 and 4).
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RBS 6 Nations Final Day
BBC Sport
Italy v Scotland Presenter: John Inverdale With: Shane Williams & Jeremy Guscott Commentators: Conor McNamara & Andy Nicol Pitchside: Jill Douglas Wales v France Presenter: John Inverdale With: Jeremy Guscott, Shane Williams & Thomas Castaignede Commentators: Eddie Butler & Jonathan Davies Pitchside: Jason Mohammed & Martyn Williams England v Ireland Presenter: Gabby Logan With: Keith Wood & Lawrence Dallaglio Commentators: Andrew Cotter, Phillip Matthews & Brian Moore Pitchside: Sonja McLaughlan & Lewis Moody RTE Sport Presenter: Tom McGurk With: George Hook, Brent Pope & Conor O'Shea Commentators: Italy v Scotland: George Hamilton & Frankie Sheahan. Wales v France: Hugh Cahill & Ralph Keyes. England v Ireland: Ryle Nugent & Tony Ward. |
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BBC 6 Nations 2012
This is a list of who has all worked for BBC on the 6 Nations this season;
Presenters: John Inverdale, Gabby Logan & Jason Mohammed With: Jonathan Davies, Jeremy Guscott, Andy Nicol, Keith Wood, Serge Betsen, Thomas Castaignede, Colin Charvis, Lewis Moody, Michael Cheika, Matt Dawson, Dan Parks, Chris Paterson, Martyn Williams, Shane Williams, Brian Moore, Philip Matthews, Lawrence Dallaglio, Brian O’Driscoll & Luke Fitzgerald Commentators: Eddie Butler, Andrew Cotter, Alistair Eykyn & Conor McNamara Reporters: Sonja McLaughlan, Jill Douglas & Graham Thomas |
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Not got round to it yet but I have to say although I knew Italy v Scotland wouldn't get as much coverage, the BBC really did make the game almost as though they didn't want to show it.
I know the sad news had came in etc which would dominate before they go on air, it was more of a case of McNamara, Nicol and Douglas, no frills, and not even BBC using their own graphics, making do with Italian HB's/replays/vt's etc, which on the other Italian home games BBC use 1/2 of their own different camera angles / own replay's. all in all I thought was extremely pisspoor, and showed little effort. Connor McNamara is decent though, i'd still rather have Alistair Eyken as their 3rd choice/relief comm on the TV though. |
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Not got round to it yet but I have to say although I knew Italy v Scotland wouldn't get as much coverage, the BBC really did make the game almost as though they didn't want to show it.
I know the sad news had came in etc which would dominate before they go on air, it was more of a case of McNamara, Nicol and Douglas, no frills, and not even BBC using their own graphics, making do with Italian HB's/replays/vt's etc, which on the other Italian home games BBC use 1/2 of their own different camera angles / own replay's. all in all I thought was extremely pisspoor, and showed little effort. Connor McNamara is decent though, i'd still rather have Alistair Eyken as their 3rd choice/relief comm on the TV though. |
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Not got round to it yet but I have to say although I knew Italy v Scotland wouldn't get as much coverage, the BBC really did make the game almost as though they didn't want to show it.
I know the sad news had came in etc which would dominate before they go on air, it was more of a case of McNamara, Nicol and Douglas, no frills, and not even BBC using their own graphics, making do with Italian HB's/replays/vt's etc, which on the other Italian home games BBC use 1/2 of their own different camera angles / own replay's. all in all I thought was extremely pisspoor, and showed little effort. Connor McNamara is decent though, i'd still rather have Alistair Eyken as their 3rd choice/relief comm on the TV though. |
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Do 5 Live get first refusal for Eyken though ?
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It did surprise me that the BBC took the graphics from Sky Sport in Italy. Have to say to I though I thought they were generally better, especially on the HD coverage.
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Not sure, was strange that Eyken did couple games on TV then all of a sudden McNamara crops up, like last year for ITA v SCO
BBC cheekily putting their yellow logo beside it, dunno who they were fooling. I assume Eyken is the number 3 but chose to commentate on the radio for the last weekend instead of the dead rubber between Italy and Scotland which Conor McNamara also did last year. |
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Saint Patricks Day Schools Cup Finals – BBC Two Northern Ireland
GAA: St. Michael's Enniskillen v St. Patricks Maghera
Live from Athletic Grounds Armagh Presenter: Austin O'Callahan With: Martin McHugh Commentators: Mark Sidebottom & Oisin McConville Reporter: Thomas Kane Rugby Union: Methodist College v Ballyclare High School Live from Ravenhill Presenter: Jackie Fullerton With: Tony McWhirter & Bryn Cunningham Commentators: Jim Neilly & Jonny Bell Reporter: Thomas Niblock Didn’t catch any of the GAA before hand as I do not watch it but caught the credits at the end of the program. The finals were played today as Saint Patricks Day fell on a Saturday therefore today was the bank holiday in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland |
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RTE do that in Ireland for all matches where they put an RTE box beside the graphics. The only time they use their own graphics is for the Ireland matches at the Aviva Stadium
Now France, Italy and Ireland have their own HB's so It's only Wales/Eng/Sco games that have BBC Graphics (minus the BBC logo on the worldfeed) |
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Who commentated for the BBC on the Australian Grand Prix. I knew it was David Coulthard but didn't recognize the voice of the other commenatator.
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Who commentated for the BBC on the Australian Grand Prix. I knew it was David Coulthard but didn't recognize the voice of the other commenatator.
Presenter: Jake Humphrey With: Eddie Jordan & David Coulthard Commentators: Ben Edwards & David Coulthard Reporter: Lee McKenzie Technical Analyst: Gary Anderson First time Ben Edwards has commentated on BBC and he really impressed me, far better than Jonathan Legard and Martin Brundle who is a great co-commentator but poor lead commentator. Ben Edwards did BTCC for ITV, A1GP for Sky & F1 for Eurosport in the 1990s so is a respected commentator. Can't say the exact information on Sky as I don't have it, I could probably guess it but won't bother |
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BBC F1 - Austrailian Grand Prix
Presenter: Jake Humphrey With: Eddie Jordan & David Coulthard Commentators: Ben Edwards & David Coulthard Reporter: Lee McKenzie Technical Analyst: Gary Anderson First time Ben Edwards has commentated on BBC and he really impressed me, far better than Jonathan Legard and Martin Brundle who is a great co-commentator but poor lead commentator. Ben Edwards did BTCC for ITV, A1GP for Sky & F1 for Eurosport in the 1990s so is a respected commentator. Can't say the exact information on Sky as I don't have it, I could probably guess it but won't bother SKY F1 HD Simon Lazenby presented with Damon Hill and Martin Brundle for all sessions Sky Pad: Georgie Thompson & Antony Davidson Pit lane: Ted Kravitz and Natalie Pinkham Commentary: David Croft & Antony Davidson (Practice) David Croft & Martin Brundle (Quali/Race) Friday Night Magazine show presenters: Ted Kravitz and Georgie Thompson BBC 5 Live James Allen* and Jaime Algersauri commentated. Jenny Gow was the pitlane reporter. *FP1 Ben Edwards commentated and Allen was in pits with Gow. Also 5 live used Gary Anderson in Free Practice. |
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