A blonde-haired Scotswoman fronting coverage of snooker on a FTA channel. Now where have we seen this before?.,.

Earlier on this season when Jill hosted their coverage

She is very good, no Hazel yet, but good

and its good ITV has two pundits instead of 1

Well last time they were studio based and had Peter Drury doing commentary on the other match. I am guessing now that they have 3 commentators that they will rotate and also be venue based

well yea as its in coventry and not china lol...

Sunday 22nd September - BBC Two Wales

Scrum V Sunday

Ross Harries presented alongside Jonathan Davies and Kingsley Jones

RaboDirect Pro12
Ospreys v Edinburgh - Wyn Gruffydd and Tom Shanklin (as S4C)
Newport Gwent Dragons v Scarlets - Gareth Charles and Jonathan Davies
Cardiff Blues v Zebre - Phil Steele

Principality Premiership
Newport v Llanelli and round-up - Cat Peters (reporting)

Inside the Dragons' Lair (feature on the Newport Gwent Dragons and their build-up to the Scarlets game) - Cat Peters
Feature on Holyhead v Rhosllannerchugog (SWALEC League Division Three North) - Rick O'Shea

Holyhead are the side that lost 181-0 at Llanidloes recently, the biggest ever defeat in Welsh league history.

Friday 27th September - BBC Two Wales and BBC Red Button

Scrum V Live: Leinster v Cardiff Blues

Ross Harries presenting from the studio alongside Gareth Thomas, Robert Jones and Tom Shanklin

Commentators: Gareth Charles and Stuart Davies

Reporter: Phil Steele, joined by Shane Byrne at pitchside

I'm not sure who is doing the Welsh language commentary on the Red Button tonight as they have not been namechecked. Tom Shanklin is joined the team in the studio at half-time, with him also being of BBC Radio Wales' off-tube 'RedZone' commentary team on this match with Rick O'Shea, Paul Williams and Rob Appleyard.

Cennydd Davies and Huw Harries.

Munster v Newport-Gwent Dragons (RaboDirect Pro12 RU)

Gareth Roberts hosted from their studio with Garan Evans and Derwyn Jones. Commentary is from Dr. Gwyn Jones and Emyr Lewis. Dot Davies is wrapped up to the nines and is pitchside reporter.

Fans of score graphics may have noticed S4Cs has had a slight twig to it, as I think it's using a variation of RTE's. There's also not much of a crowd, due to the county of Cork playing in the GAA Hurling final. The 'Big screen' is showing the game at the ground as well.

Graphic piccy

Saturday 5 October on RTE Two

Munster v Leinster- Daire O'Brien is joined by Shane Horgan, George Hook and Brent Pope to present. Commentary by Ryle Nugent and Tony Ward.

I wondered who they might get since I heard that Dave Woods will be commentating on 5 Live, and I assume the live games on the BBC.

Just found an article saying Voss will be calling half the games, as well as being the presenter. Quite a decent coup by PS that is. He would still be on Channel 9 if it wasn't for that turd Ray Hadley.

Daryl Halligan, Robbie Hunter-Paul and Brian Noble have also been named as part of Premier's RL World Cup team.

Sunday 29th September - Channel 4 and More4

American Football Live at Wembley: Pittsburgh Steelers v Minnesota Vikings

Colin Murray presenting from Wembley Stadium alongside Mike Carlson and Merril Hoge

Commentators: Jim Nantz and Phil Simms (as CBS)

Pitchside reporter: Nat Coombs

Coverage is being split between the two channels with Channel 4 broadcasting the game between 5.30-8pm before it shifts over to More4, whose coverage is set to air between 7.55-9.30pm.

Voss was tweeting about it yesterday and he said his commentary would be on Premier Sports, Channel 7 and Sky Sports NZ (Voss works for SSNZ at the moment) so it looks like there will generally be one main feed that goes out everywhere

Where's the sense in C4 shifting the match to its minor digital channel just as it's reaching its climax?

If they didn't have the space in the schedule to run it through to its evening finish they should've either have requested an earlier kick-off time or screened the whole match solely on More4.

Impossible to request a different kick off time.
NFL and US broadcasters set kick off times, not little old Channel 4!
Earliest games can start on Sundays during the regular season is 1PM EST which is 6pm UK time.

Well, then, they should have just run with it until its conclusion; C4's Sunday evening schedule isn't so indispensable that it can't be moved for this kind of thing.

Or should that read "Colin Murray sans spectacles"

They should have i agree.

Probably when they signed for NFL rights, they promised to show the 2 Wembley games live, but with a 3 to 4 hour broadcast window they couldn't give that length of time on the main channel, bit daft though to split the game onto a 'minority' channel.

Live sport occasionally can take precedent on 2 Sundays on 4 over something like Come dine with me or whatever which will not be live anyway.

bbc did the same too they moved the final bit to BBC3

Merril Hoge left their studio just before half-time, so Colin and Mike presented as a tandem at the break and in the run-up to their switch to More4.

Once coverage moved to More4, Vernon Kay and the England rugby union international James Haskell joined them in the studio. Haskell left after the conclusion of the third quarter, with Daunte Culpepper replacing him during the fourth quarter. Kay left the studio at full-time with Murray, Carlson and Culpepper providing around 20 minutes of post-match analysis.

Also for Sky Sports 2 live coverage of Pittsburgh vs Minnesota:

Usual hosts Kevin Cadle anchoring from Wembley Stadium along with Neil Reynolds.

Studio Guests: Cecil Martin for the start of the game, Ahmad Rashad during the first half, and Randall McDaniel during the second half.

Reporter: Bianca Westwood

They also used the CBS feed with Nantz and Simms.

Sky Sports late game: Dallas Cowboys at San Diego Chargers

Anchored by David Tuchman with Cecil Martin from Sky Studios.

Commentary: Kenny Albert with Daryl Johnston and Tony Siragusa (Fox Sports).

Will be interesting to see whether they do the same for the game next month, which starts at 5pm as supposed to 6pm

Always going to pose a problem on terrestrial TV, a 4 hour live sports broadcast at prime time, especially one which has a cult following over here.

Hence as said above, why the BBC split their broadcast of a Wembley NFL game a while back also.

Super League Play-Offs- Semi-Final Highlights on BBC Two

Hosted by Tanya Arnold with Brian Noble, recorded at the DW Stadium on Friday

Warrington v Huddersfield- Ray French and Ian Millward
Wigan v Leeds- Dave Woods and Brian Noble