so i guess the bbc is a bit less rigid about having the news at 6?

The BBC doesn't have a fixed 6pm news bulletin at the weekend, only Monday to Friday

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oh so i guess they have some flexibility with the six nations

i have always wondered who sky would use if they had the six nations in full

Slovakia v Czech Republic (Winter Universiade Ice Hockey)

Bob Ballard for British Eurosport (HD)

Snooker: German Masters on British Eurosport

Presented from Berlin by Colin Murray with Ronnie O'Sullivan, Jimmy White and Neal Foulds. Commentary from Dave Hendon, Phil Yates, Mike Hallett and Joe Johnson


Rugby League: Super League Round One on Sky

Widnes Vikings v Wigan Warriors

Presenters/Commentators: Eddie Hemmings, Mike Stephenson, Phil Clarke, Terry O'Connor, Brian Carney & Jon Wells

St Helens v Catalans Dragons

Presenters/Commentators: Eddie Hemmings, Mike Stephenson, Phil Clarke, Brian Carney, Jon Wells, Terry O'Connor and Barrie McDermott

Rugby Union Friendly - Thursday 5 February (Sky Sports 3)

Toulon v Sharks

Alex Payne in the studio with Stuart Barnes and Shane Horgan.

Commentators: Johnnie Hammond & Pat Sanderson

It isn't Phil Yates it is Phillip Studd

Terry only got interviewed as part of the Widnes initiative, he wasn't part of the Sky team tonight.

Correction - Terry was part of the team, its just that I didn't hear him much

apologies

I've been watching Goreuon Rygbi Huw Llywelyn Davies on S4C this evening and was interested to hear that in the clips from 1999 (I think) it was Huw doing the English-language commentary and what sounded like Gareth Charles doing the Welsh-language commentary.

How come they swapped back over?

Six Nations on RTE

Ireland Under-20s v France Under-20s- Daire O'Brien is joined by Brent Pope and Frankie Sheahan to present. With commentary by Hugh Cahill and Donal Lenihan.

As an aside, ITV's Cricket World Cup highlights hosts currently include Richard Henwood, Tom Skippings and Georgie Bingham.

hugh cahill instead of ryle nuget or jim sherwin?

RBS 6 Nations - Friday 6 February (BBC One)

Round 1 - Wales v England

John Inverdale at the Millennium Stadium with Jeremy Guscott, Jonathan Davies and Sir Clive Woodward.

Commentators: Eddie Butler, Brian Moore & Martyn Williams

Reporter: Sonja McLaughlan

I'm liking the BBC adapted blue/white graphics. Funny BBC have used the same standard stylings for everything bar Wimbledon, interesting why the 6 Nations they've went away from yellow/black.

EDIT: The in-play game graphics are very much like a combo BBC/6N WF design brand this year it seems. Those score graphics were used on the 6N youtube page last year.

Hugh Cahill is much than his boss ryle nugent

Ryle should be making sure from 2018 that the 6 nations live remains on rte2

For S4C we had Gareth Roberts initially hosting pitchside with Dwayne Peel, Rhys Patchell, Ken Owens and Deiniol Jones, with commentary from Gareth Charles, Gwyn Jones and Dwayne Peel. Dot Davies was on interview duty, whilst Deiniol 'de-camped' to do in-play tactical analysis.

S4C also changed their score graphic to take the 6Nations feed look, and for one English player interview the bottom half of his name was cropped out of the graphic.

Six Nations on RTE

England v Italy) and Ireland v France- Tom McGurk is joined by Brent Pope, George Hook, Conor O'Shea, Shane Horgan and Ronan O'Gara to present. George Hamilton commentates on the first match, before Ryle Nugent and Ralph Keyes take over for the second.

i guess george hamlton is solo?

i have to say this is what i wanted Eurosport to do for a long time, and they have not disappointing, lets hope they keep doing this for the rest of the season..

RBS 6 Nations - Saturday 7 February (BBC One)

Round 1 - Italy v Ireland

Jason Mohammad at the Stadio Olimpico with Keith Wood and Carlo del Fava.

Commentators: Conor McNamara, Phillip Matthews & Carlo del Fava

Reporter: Lee McKenzie

I have criticised McNamara but he's been pretty solid in this first half. Not the emotion of Eddie Butler (not sure if that's a good or a bad thing) but generally he's been perfectly up to the job.

RBS 6 Nations - Saturday 7 February (BBC One)

Round 1 - France v Scotland

Gabby Logan at the Stade de France with Gregor Townsend, Andy Nicol and Thomas Castaignède. Chris Paterson pitchside.

Commentators: Andrew Cotter & Andy Nicol

Reporter: Jill Douglas

I haven't seen any host pictures from Italy, but looking at this picture from France it looks like all broadcasters are using the same type scorebar/graphics a la the Champions Cup

https://twitter.com/RugbyramaFR/stat...50389503967233

With the graphics on the French match today disappearing during replays as French broadcasters' graphics seem to do.

Interesting that they've gone with the BBC's font etc. and merged it with the world feed design from last year.