Sky Sports 3 Snooker Shoot Out
Presenter Andy Goldstein

Mark Allen Vs Dominic Dale
Comms: Clive Everton And Mike Hallett
Kurt Maflin v Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
Comms: Clive Everton And Mike Hallett
Jack Lisowski v Michael Holt
Comms: Phil Yates And Willie Thorne
Andrew Higginson v Liu Chuang
Comms: Phil Yates And Willie Thorne
Nigel Bond v Martin Gould
Comms: Clive Everton And Neal Foulds
Jimmy Robertson v Mark Williams
Comms: Clive Everton And Neal Foulds
Barry Hawkins v Michael White
Comms: Phil Yates And Mike Hallett
Dave Harold v Stephen Maguire
Comms: Phil Yates And Mike Hallett

theres all of this afternoons last 16 matches

Ramiz Raja has signed a contract with ESPN Star Sports and will work in all the india games, and this means that he won't be able to work on all the pakistan matches, so in south africa Ramiz Raja will do the test matches, but in the ODI and T20 Aamer Sohail will be doing the commentary for Supersport.

Saturday 9 February on BBC One

Scotland v Italy- John Inverdale introduces. With commentary by Alastair Eykyn and Lawrence Dallaglio, and analysis by Andy Nicol and Chris Paterson.

France v Wales- Gabby Logan hosts. With commentary by Andrew Cotter and Jonathan Davies, and analysis by Sir Clive Woodward and Martyn Williams.

Surprised Simon Reed didn't do the mens final, isn't he their number one tennis commentator?

I like Ramiz. Very good commentator.


He is the head of their entire commentary set up. Maybe didnt want to be seen as giving himself the best gigs.

ESPN Star Sports today became Fox Sports Asia, so I'm assuming the contracts just carry over?

NFL Pro Bowl-AFC v NFC (Sky Sports)
Presenter: Kevin Cadle with Neil Reynolds and Bradlee van Pelt
Commentators (NBC): Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth
Reporters (NBC): Michele Tafoya and Doug Flutie

Sunday 10 January on BBC One (apart from NI, who will have their own coverage)

Ireland v England- John Inverdale presents. With commentary by Eddie Butler and Brian Moore, and analysis by Keith Wood, Jonathan Davies and Jeremy Guscott.

Think it was Hutchins for the women's final too


Yeah, it's no more than a rebrand, News Corp bought out Disney's (ESPN's) stake last year

Superbowl XLVII on BBC Two

San Francisco 49ers v Baltimore Ravens- Mark Chapman introduces. With commentary by Jim Nantz and Phil Simms, and analysis by Mike Carlson and Darren Sharper

Judging by today it looks like he did the womens final so he could fly back in time for their coverage of the WTA event in Paris

Claire Balding joins BT too

http://www.btlife.bt.com/entertainme...w-on-bt-sport/

By the way for the snooker ( German Masters ) Dave Hendon tweeted he is in Berlin. Not sure about the rest of the BE team

ESPN will show Great Britain's attempt(s)to qualify for the 2014 Winter Olympics through a 'final qualification round' taking place in Riga next week


Source

Sad news that John Gwynne will be stepping down from darts commentary after the World Matchplay

http://www.pdc-darts.co.uk/index.php...is-microphone/

I'm surprised to read the forthright nature of his comments - when clicking on that link I was expecting to read about Gwynney deciding to retire in a similar manner to Dave Lanning, that he's stepping down due to the feeling his standing has been "diminished" and can cite examples to back that view up is quite surprising but at the same time I can see where he is coming from.

Hopefully Sky Sports will do John right by handing him the mic to commentate on the World Matchplay final on the main Sky Sports platforms. Good luck for the future John.

Friday 1st February - BBC Two Wales and BBCi

Scrum V Live: Wales Under-20s v Ireland Under-20s

Ross Harries presenting from Eirias Park alongside Rob Appleyard, with Sean Holley in the analysis truck

Commentators: Gareth Charles and Robert Jones

Red button commentators: Rick O'Shea and Gareth Llewellyn with the RedZone; Gareth Rhys Owen and Dafydd Jones in Welsh

Reporter: Phil Steele

The same match was on over on RTE but they had Joanne Cantwell in the RTE Studio in Dublin with Mark McDermott. Commentary came from Hugh Cahill & Frankie Sheahan

Six nations Rugby Ltd have now got their own new-fangled 6Nations Youtube channel, where highlights of games will be posted up a day after the games.

Official blurb:-


Source:- http://www.rbs6nations.com/en/21959.php

Wales v Ireland
Presenter: Jason Mohammad
With: Keith Wood & Jonathan Davies
Commentators: Eddie Butler, Phillip Matthews & Martyn Williams
Reporter: Sonja McLaughlan

England v Scotland
Presenter: John Inverdale
With: Jeremy Guscott, Sir Clive Woodward & Andy Nicol
Commentators: Andrew Cotter, Brian Moore & Chris Paterson
Pitchside: Jill Douglas & Lawrence Dallaglio

Presenter: Tom McGurk
With: George Hook, Brent Pope & Shane Horgan

Commentators:
Wales v Ireland - Ryle Nugent & Conor O'Shea
England v Scotland - Hugh Cahill & Frankie Sheahan

S4C - Gareth Roberts hosting pitchside from the Millennium stadium, with Dafydd Jones, Gareth Davies and Gareth Edwards as analyst (before all heading off to a studio before half time). Commentary was from Huw Llewellyn Davies and Dr. Gwyn Jones, with Dot Davies pitchside. Derwyn Jones was 'OB tactician' for the day.

S4C's graphics department had Wales starting with 13 men for 10 seconds after the 1st half kick off, as there were 2 red cards underneath their team name

Not a massive fan of the 'ESPN Style' 3 pronged commentary team, however it worked today on the whole. better than having likes of Chris Paterson down with Jill Douglas every 15 minutes, better utilising all 3 at once.

Although saying that Lawrence Dallaglio spoiling the broth chipping in his 'own booth' now and again... (Although would take him over Brian Moore anyday)

I enjoyed the 3 man commentary especially on the Ireland match and it is better than having them being pitchside with Sonja or Jill or being the Analyst which they seemed to have dropped this year, I think doesn't work aswell on Rugby as it does on Cricket as on the Cricket they have natural stoppage in play so the likes of Simon Hughes or Ian Botham can talk in detail but last year you had people like Matt Dawson or Andy Nicol having 30 seconds to show a replay and getting cut off by the resumption in play.

On todays coverage on the BBC the coverage was excellent as ever but the only criticism I would have is at the end of the brilliant Wales v Ireland match they basically left straight away to have 30 minutes build up at Twickenham when they could of stayed in Cardiff for proper analysis from to 3.45pm before crossing to England v Scotland. As usual it seems the BBC only have 5 England matches live a year and they prefer to big them up rather than properly look at an amazing game of Rugby.

On RTE I only saw the analysis and part of the build up and they had their usual mad punditry a bit like on the Football where they pull no punches especially Hook who is the Dunphy of Rugby on RTE but I was impressed by Shane Horgan. Basically before the match Hook said O'Driscoll was finished and at the end he was God or Bod again

Just saw a tweet from Darren Fletcher that his colleague David Oates has passed away