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Sports Commentators (non-football) (Part 2)
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Darren Lethem
11-06-2014
More BT Sport tennis commentary from Nick Mullins and Martina Navratilova

Sam Smith is a good host
The Difference
11-06-2014
Originally Posted by pakokelso93:
“BTW The summer tests do the home nations games such as Wales / Ireland come under the Rugby Championship/Super Rugby deal? Or do Sky have a deal with Welsh/Irish Rugby?”

I can't say this definitively but from what I've heard and read online it would appear as if the South Africa v Wales games at least come under Sky's SANZAR deal, as do any other summer internationals played in Australia, South Africa or New Zealand. Not sure about Ireland's games in Argentina given that Scotland and England's matches there in previous summers were covered live by the BBC.

Sky don't have a deal with the WRU - pre-tour summer games played in Wales such as the Probables v Possibles match this year and the Wales v Barbarians match where Martyn Williams finally got his 100th cap two summers ago have been on BBC Wales and/or S4C, as have games from developmental summer tours to places like the USA and Japan during British & Irish Lions years.

Originally Posted by Alex2606:
“Some sad news, apparently Martin Gillingham suffered a heart attack in New Zealand at the weekend, thankfully he's recovering well!

http://www.sportsjournalists.co.uk/o...tor-collapsed/”

All the best to Martin, hopefully he'll make a speedy recovery and we'll be hearing from him again very soon.
SSReporters
11-06-2014
For those interested in NFL coverage: CBS has released its commentary pairings for this year and it is revamped.

Ian Eagle and Dan Fouts are now the new "B team" behind only the lead crew of Jim Nantz and Phil Simms. Greg Gumbel has been downgraded to 3rd team with new co-comm Trent Green after Dan Dierdorf retired.

Kevin Harlan will work with Rich Gannon, Spero Dedes is elevated to 5th team with Solomon Wilcots, and Andrew Catalon is paired with co-comms Steve Beuerlein and Steve Tasker.

Marv Albert has left CBS' NFL coverage.
Li4m
12-06-2014
Sky extends US Open golf rights for five years.

http://corporate.sky.com/media/press...en_golf_rights
chrisr21
12-06-2014
Originally Posted by SSReporters:
“For those interested in NFL coverage: CBS has released its commentary pairings for this year and it is revamped.

Ian Eagle and Dan Fouts are now the new "B team" behind only the lead crew of Jim Nantz and Phil Simms. Greg Gumbel has been downgraded to 3rd team with new co-comm Trent Green after Dan Dierdorf retired.

Kevin Harlan will work with Rich Gannon, Spero Dedes is elevated to 5th team with Solomon Wilcots, and Andrew Catalon is paired with co-comms Steve Beuerlein and Steve Tasker.

Marv Albert has left CBS' NFL coverage.”

Eagle and Fouts will be getting some of CBS's first choice games this season as well with Nantz and Simms missing a few Sundays because they're doing Thursday night games this year.

An unusually large amount of changes in the booth this year, both at CBS and Fox. When Fox's pairings are announced, there'll be at least 2 changes there as Brian Billick and Tim Ryan both won't be back as Color commentators.
coventrywooo
12-06-2014
Originally Posted by Darren Lethem:
“Bit of the tennis info

BBC - Aegon Championships

Hosted by Sue Barker - Comms - Andrew Castle, Andrew Cotter, John Lloyd and Peter Fleming

BT Sport - WTA Aegon Classic

Hosted by Sam Smith with Martina Navratilova - Comms - Alastair Eykyn and Anne Keothavong. Maybe more commentators, guessing there are, but I only saw the start

I see ESPN are covering the Aegon Championships so will find out who they have later”

i think ESPN is taking the World Feed?
IanFergus
12-06-2014
Originally Posted by coventrywooo:
“i think ESPN is taking the World Feed?”

I though that The Tennis Channel was taking both Queen's and Halle in the United States.
LOSG
12-06-2014
Originally Posted by IanFergus:
“I though that The Tennis Channel was taking both Queen's and Halle in the United States.”

He means UK
SSReporters
12-06-2014
Originally Posted by chrisr21:
“Eagle and Fouts will be getting some of CBS's first choice games this season as well with Nantz and Simms missing a few Sundays because they're doing Thursday night games this year.

An unusually large amount of changes in the booth this year, both at CBS and Fox. When Fox's pairings are announced, there'll be at least 2 changes there as Brian Billick and Tim Ryan both won't be back as Color commentators.”

Yes Billick is gone and CBS mercifully didn't hire him. Tim Ryan is now the San Francisco 49ers' radio co-comm.

Ex-Giants player David Diehl will be paired with Thom Brennaman next year but the rest is all yet to be sorted out.
IanFergus
12-06-2014
Originally Posted by LOSG:
“He means UK”

Ah thanks.
Alex2606
12-06-2014
Originally Posted by SSReporters:
“Yes Billick is gone and CBS mercifully didn't hire him. Tim Ryan is now the San Francisco 49ers' radio co-comm.

Ex-Giants player David Diehl will be paired with Thom Brennaman next year but the rest is all yet to be sorted out.”

Where do you think Kenny Albert stands at Fox now SSReporters?

His crew fell down the pecking order last season and he's had a very prominent role at NBC during the winter. Do you think he may fall down to 3 or 4 and Kevin Burkhardt's crew become number 2?
coventrywooo
12-06-2014
Originally Posted by LOSG:
“He means UK”

yea i did, but i think its a bit poor for espn/bt to take the world feed..
LOSG
12-06-2014
Originally Posted by coventrywooo:
“yea i did, but i think its a bit poor for espn/bt to take the world feed..”

Why I can't imagine why anyone would watch it on ESPN over the BBC. (The amount of people who even know its on there would be tiny anyway) So they've (correctly) pooled there resources for the other tournament.

Sending a gallery of people in a truck for an OB would probably double the ESPN audience.
coventrywooo
12-06-2014
Originally Posted by LOSG:
“Why I can't imagine why anyone would watch it on ESPN over the BBC. (The amount of people who even know its on there would be tiny anyway) So they've (correctly) pooled there resources for the other tournament.

Sending a gallery of people in a truck for an OB would probably double the ESPN audience.”

i thought they would of just taken bbc's comm...
LOSG
12-06-2014
Originally Posted by coventrywooo:
“i thought they would of just taken bbc's comm...”

That'll look great when they're plugging stuff on the BBC.
The Difference
12-06-2014
Originally Posted by Alex2606:
“Where do you think Kenny Albert stands at Fox now SSReporters?

His crew fell down the pecking order last season and he's had a very prominent role at NBC during the winter. Do you think he may fall down to 3 or 4 and Kevin Burkhardt's crew become number 2?”

Kenny Albert seems to have a busy workload across a number of sports almost all year round.

I've been reading a US sports commentary forum recently and a lot has been made about how he's been commentating on New York Rangers games in their run to the Stanley Cup Finals for ESPN Radio New York and the Rangers Radio Network, as well as other NHL Playoffs games for NBC and the NBC Sports Network (he covered for Doc Emrick on Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Finals due to Doc attending a family funeral), while also doing regular Major League Baseball commentaries nationally for Fox Sports 1 and the main Fox's regional Saturday Game of the Weeks. Over the last month there's been weeks where he hasn't had a day off I think.

Kevin Burkhardt seems to have had a meteoric rise - this time last year he was SNY's fieldside reporter on their New York Mets regional TV coverage, by the start of this year he was doing NFL Playoff commentaries for Fox. That may indicate he's in-line to become Fox's secondary NFL commentator behind Joe Buck, with perhaps Kenny Albert being compensated for that demotion by getting to commentate on the MLB Divisional Series that Fox have rights to which Buck's lead crew won't be covering.
The Difference
13-06-2014
Originally Posted by The Difference:
“...perhaps Kenny Albert being compensated for that demotion by getting to commentate on the MLB Divisional Series that Fox have rights to which Buck's lead crew won't be covering.”

Ah, just considered that Fox hired and publically announced Matt Vasgersian and John Smoltz as their secondary baseball commentary team at the start of the year, so they'll most likely be calling the MLB Division Series that Fox are televising and isn't the one their new 'A' team of Joe Buck, Harold Reynolds and Tom Verducci are doing. In any case, the regular pairing of Thom Brennaman (another NFL on Fox commentator) and Eric Karros have long been senior to Kenny Albert and AN Other in the MLB on Fox announcing pecking order, so it's highly unlikely that Albert would be given Playoff baseball to make up for a lack of bigger NFL games on Fox if he is indeed demoted there.

Staying on the baseball/American football commentary crossover theme, in addition to the six main pairings announced for CBS' NFL coverage this year that SSReporters has mentioned, regional MLB TV announcers Brian Anderson (Milwaukee Brewers) and Tom McCarthy (Philadelphia Phillies) will call selected NFL games for them alongside analysts Adam Archuleta and Chris Simms. Anderson is quoted in this article on the subject, saying that he'll be commentating on 3-5 NFL games for CBS in November and December once his Turner Sports commitments are over, which suggests he'll be calling the MLB Division Series that TBS has rights to that isn't handled by their 'A' team lead by Ernie Johnson Jr.

TBS previously had rights to all four MLB Division Series (the first round of the Playoffs barring the one-game Wildcard and tiebreaker matches) over the past seven years, but from this year onwards two of those series will be shifting to Fox and Fox Sports 1. I had felt that Brian Anderson, who is highly rated as one of the best young MLB announcers around, would get the nod over their other postseason announcers Don Orsillo (NESN's Red Sox TV announcer) and Dick Stockton (a prolific freelancer who covers NFL and MLB for Fox) to stay on and call the secondary series given how he is about as prominent on their regular season MLB coverage as lead announcer Ernie Johnson Jr is. So for the 2014 MLB Division Series it'll likely be crews of 1) Buck, Reynolds and Verducci and 2) Vasgersian and Smoltz for Fox and 1) Johnson Jr, Ron Darling and Cal Ripken Jr and 2) Anderson, Joe Simpson and AN Other for TBS. The question still remains to who will take over from John Smoltz on TBS' secondary crew seeing as he's now with Fox, Bob Brenly and Buck Martinez would probably be the leading candidates.
SSReporters
13-06-2014
Originally Posted by Alex2606:
“Where do you think Kenny Albert stands at Fox now SSReporters?

His crew fell down the pecking order last season and he's had a very prominent role at NBC during the winter. Do you think he may fall down to 3 or 4 and Kevin Burkhardt's crew become number 2?”

I think Burkhardt has become the clear #2 comm and that's fine with me. He's very impressive.

Albert is solid but I do think Fox want a "fresh" face around and maybe NBC will look to snag him for more than just hockey in the future. It all depends on how many more years Al Michaels has left on Sunday Night Football.
OMc
14-06-2014
International Rugby Union - Saturday 14 June (Sky Sports 1)

New Zealand v England - 2nd Test

Alex Payne presenting from the studio alongside Will Greenwood, Sean Fitzpatrick and Sir Clive Woodward.

Commentators: Miles Harrison & Stuart Barnes

Reporter: Graham Simmonds
OMc
14-06-2014
International Rugby Union - Saturday 14 June (Sky Sports 1)

Australia v France - 2nd Test

Alex Payne presenting from the studio alongside Will Greenwood and Michael Lynagh.

Commentators: Greg Clark, Greg Martin, Rod Kafer & Nathan Sharpe (as Fox Sports Australia)
The Difference
14-06-2014
Saturday 14th June - Sky Sports 1

Live International Rugby Union: First Test Match: South Africa v Wales

James Gemmell presenting alongside Sam Warburton, Thinus Delport and Scott Quinnell

Commentators: Johnnie Hammond and Ieuan Evans

We were chatting about Simon Ward's absence for Sky Sports' international rugby union coverage this summer during the week. Tuning in to talkSPORT this morning, I heard him reporting on the Second Test between New Zealand and England from Dunedin for them. Going by the Talking Rugby Twitter account, it appears as if the reason why Simon missed the First Test was because he was covering a polo event last weekend!
OMc
14-06-2014
Originally Posted by The Difference:
“We were chatting about Simon Ward's absence for Sky Sports' international rugby union coverage this summer during the week. Tuning in to talkSPORT this morning, I heard him reporting on the Second Test between New Zealand and England from Dunedin for them. Going by the Talking Rugby Twitter account, it appears as if the reason why Simon missed the First Test was because he was covering a polo event last weekend!”

Polo, wow!
OMc
14-06-2014
International Rugby Union - Saturday 14 June (BT Sport 2)

Canada v Scotland

Commentators: Wyn Gruffydd & Mike Blair

Unusual selection of commentators for BT Sport's first game of international rugby. Very limited personnel, but at least they didn't take the host broadcaster's commentary.
pakokelso93
14-06-2014
I know Wyn is a IRB world feeder, but not entirely sure if rather than TSN feed this is an IRB world feed or commentary for BT. However they are offtube. Pictures breaking up a couple of times and commentary coming over blank screen.
OMc
14-06-2014
International Rugby Union - Saturday 14 June (Sky Sports 2)

Argentina v Ireland - 2nd Test

Rupert Cox presenting from the studio alongside Paul Wallace and Alan Quinlan.

Commentators: Mark Robson & Shane Horgan
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