Dave Woods was at Villa.

Looks like some more switching to come with 5 Live having Man City v Southampton next Sunday at 130 and Palace v Liverpool at 530 on the following Saturday.

BBC Radio Sheffield-16/10/16

Huddersfield Town v Sheffield Wednesday. Midday Kick-off. Andy Giddings and Brian Laws. Andy hosted build up to kick off before the match from 11:30

Gareth Jones, Paul Ogden and Matt Glennon are providing the Huddersfield Town commentary on BBC Radio Leeds FM, Freeview and the official Huddersfield Town website, while normal programming continues on AM and DAB.

Andy Bishop was talkSPORT 2's commentator on Real Betis v Real Madrid. He's a relatively new name to the station, I've heard him covering a few of the non-featured Saturday 3pm Premier League games for their international talkSPORT Live service, but never a featured game for them or one of their UK stations.

Tonight, James Fielden and Adam Virgo will commentate on Villarreal v Celta Vigo from 7.45pm. I'm not sure if they'll be a separate presenter during their build-up.

Sunday 16th October - talkSPORT

The Two Mikes with Mike Parry and Mike Graham, followed by The Full Time Phone-In with Jason Cundy and Perry Groves

Premier League
Middlesbrough v Watford - Graham Courtney
Southampton v Burnley - Laurence Mora


talkSPORT Live

Premier League
Middlesbrough v Watford - Alex Crook and Jason Euell
Southampton v Burnley - Phil Blacker and Jason Dodd

Bundesliga
Mainz 05 v SV Darmstadt 98 - Dan Wheeler
VfL Wolfsburg v Red Bull Leipzig - Kevin Hatchard

There is no Premier League commentary on Newstalk 106-108FM today. They were planning to do commentary on the European Rugby Champions Cup match between Racing Metro and Munster in Paris with Dave McIntyre, Liam Toland and Johne Murphy, which was postponed due to the sad passing of Munster coach Anthony Foley. RIP. They are now doing a studio-based tribute show with Joe Molloy and Nathan Murphy and understandably I don't think they've been taking any IRN updates on the football.

Spurs are on BT Sport.
Talksport, BBC five live and BBC London have decided to cover the match.
Surely BBC London could supply live coverage of one of the London Championship games?
Very poor scheduling in my opinion

Signal107 had Andy Thompson and Wolves under 18s coach Jerry Gill as part of their commentary team.

Diff I know we've had this debate before and you'll probably fire all sorts of old stuff at me again but once again WM show their undoubted current favouritism to Villa, as the away team should not the Wolves commentary have been on FM and Villa's on DAB?

This coming a week or so after they did a special phone in on Di Matteo's sacking which I know was delayed because of Rowett's appearance on the regular phone in but even so, we didn't get a phone in for our managerial change or takeover, Albion didn't get one either when they were taken over, yet Villa did for the takeover, Di Matteo's appointment and Di Matteo's sacking. So in the last 6 months they've done 2 special programmes and at least 3 special phone ins for Villa, 2 of their 4 regular phone in pundits are former Villa, with not one ex Wolves guy on since they dropped Froggatt and he only got on he was ex Villa too

This time I agree with you, at least on the FM/DAB split point. I get the impression that they did two distinct commentaries due to them supplying Aston Villa's official website with audio commentaries and wanting to have the usual Villa-leaning service available for them, rather than the even-handed commentaries with a co-commentator representing each club that we usually get on derby matches. It'll be interesting to see if we get a similar two-way split for other derbies, starting with Birmingham v Aston Villa in two weeks. Of course it's hard to know if this was going to happen for the first Birmingham v Wolves derby given that their planned Wolves co-commentator dropped out, in any case their lead commentary team seemed stretched that day with I think five matches being covered including Solihull Moors plus some Warwickshire cricket.

Like you, I thought they'd put the Wolves slanted commentary on FM and the Villa one on DAB going by the usual convention of having away teams on their primary FM platform when games clash. So you can view this (and I knew you would as soon as I heard about it! ) as being an example of them favouring Villa over their other clubs, although I think the fairest way to judge it is to see what they do when it comes to Birmingham v Villa in two weeks and Wolves v Villa later in the season. If on those occasions the Villa-slanted service is on DAB with the home clubs on FM, then clearly they would be acting even-handedly, in the same way that I expect Wolves commentator Mike Taylor to get the Wolves v Birmingham match seeing as Blues voice Richard Wilford covered the reverse fixture.

As for the phone-ins, without treading back over old ground I can't fairly comment on the ones regarding takeovers earlier in the summer as I wasn't listening to the station regularly at that point, but I think adding an additional hour to their phone-in to reflect on the sacking of Robert Di Matteo on the night of his departure was fair enough in the circumstances. Obviously it was a big story fans will have wanted to react to on the day, but with Gary Rowett having been booked in for weeks in advance to field Birmingham City fans comments between 6-7pm on that day, it would have been unfair on him and the Blues faithful to have changed that plan at short notice. So I think (and hope most would agree) that what they did was a very good compromise solution.

Sunday 16th October - talkSPORT 2

Dan Windle presented La Liga Live

La Liga
Villarreal v Celta Vigo - James Fielden and Adam Virgo (7.45pm commentary)

There's no La Liga commentaries scheduled for next Saturday, but on Sunday they'll have Sevilla v Atletico Madrid at 3.15pm (in the absence of any Premiership rugby) and then Real Madrid v Athletic Bilbao at 7.45pm. talkSPORT 2's 3pm Premier League commentary on Saturday will be West Ham United v Sunderland.

Monday 17th October - talkSPORT

Mark Saggers presenting Kick Off alongside Danny Murphy and Danny Webber

Premier League
Liverpool v Manchester United - Graham Beecroft

BBC Radio Manchester

Liverpool v Manchester United - Bill Rice - reports

5 LIVE SPORT
19:00-20:00
Kelly Cates presenting The Monday Night Club from Anfield, ahead of their live commentary game.
20:00-22:00
Liverpool v Man United - John Murray and Robbie Savage
22:00-22:30
Kelly Cates anchoring The 5 Live Football Social with reaction from tonight's Premier League game.

Bill Rice was also on BBC Radio Merseyside this evening. Mike Hughes will commentate for BBC Radio Merseyside with Jimmy Case.

Monday 17th October - talkSPORT Live

Premier League
Liverpool v Manchester United - Tom Rennie and Adrian Clarke

BBC Radio Manchester - Tuesday 18th October

Leeds United v Wigan Athletic - Dave Fletcher - reports
Bury v AFC Wimbledon - Liam Bradford - reports
Millwall v Bolton Wanderers - Jack Dearden and Steve Brown - commentary
Oldham Athletic v Scunthorpe United - John Gilder - reports
Swindon Town v Rochdale - Graham Miller - reports

Commentators and reporters around my region tonight are as follows:

BBC Radio Oxford
Coventry City v Oxford United Jerome Sale and Nathan Cooper (commentary)

BBC Radio Berkshire
Reading v Aston Villa Tim Dellor and Mick Gooding (commentary)

BBC Sussex
Brighton v Wolves Johnny Cantor and Warren Asponal (commentary) with Adrian Harms

BBC Radio Kent
Gillingham v Walsall Matt Cole and Peter Lloyd (commentary)
Margate v Harrow Matt Gerrard

BBC Radio Surrey
Woking v Torquay Gary Smith

BBC Radio London
Bayer Leverkusen v Tottenham Hotspur Phil Parry and Bradley Allen (commentary)
Derby v Brentford Stuart Smith
Fulham v Norwich Aaron Paul
QPR v Bristol City Jamie Hill
Bury v AFC Wimbledon Mark Taylor
Millwall v Bolton Deano Standing
Port Vale v Charlton Louis Mendez

BBC Three Counties Radio
MK Dons v Bristol Rovers Luke Ashmead and Geoff Doyle (commentary)

BBC Essex
Bradford v Southend Mark Babbage and ? (commentary)

BBC Suffolk
Ipswich v Burton Brenner Woolley and Mick Mills (commentary)
Lowestoft v Bury Town Gary Butter (?)

BBC Radio Norfolk
Fulham v Norwich Chris Goreham and Paul McVeigh (commentary)

A bit further away

BBC Radio Sheffield
Barnsley v Newcastle ? (Adam Oxley?)
Chesterfield v Fleetwood ? (I assume Matthew Shaw)
Birmingham v Rotherham Paul Fisher (commentary)
Shrewsbury v Sheffield Utd Rob Staton (FM commentary)

BBC Radio Lancashire
Blackburn v Nottm Forest Andy Bayes and Kevin Gallagher (commentary on 95.5FM, 855AM, 1557AM and DAB)
Chesterfield v Fleetwood Gary Hunt and Keith Southern (commentary on 103.9FM, 104.5FM and Freeview)

5 Live - 18.10.16

With Mark Pougatch at the King Power Stadium

Bayer Leverkusen v Tottenham - Alan Green & Pat Nevin (commentary)
Leicester v Copenhagen - Ian Dennis

Barnsley v Newcastle - Gary Flintoff
Fulham v Norwich - Mike Sewell

BBC Radio Sheffield
Barnsley v Newcastle ? (Adam Oxley?)
Chesterfield v Fleetwood ? (I assume Matthew Shaw)
Birmingham v Rotherham Paul Fisher (commentary)
Shrewsbury v Sheffield Utd Rob Staton (FM commentary)

Nice one . Yeah Adam Oxley reporting on Barnsley.
Paul Fisher was reporting on Chesterfield.
It was Mike Miney commentating on Birmingham v Rotherham.
Keith Edwards was alongside Rob Staton for Shrewsbury v Sheffield United.

Tuesday 19th October - talkSPORT and talkSPORT 2

Mark Saggers presented Kick Off: Champions League Live (on talkSPORT)

Ian Danter presented Kick Off: Round the Grounds from Oakwell (on talkSPORT 2 from 7.30pm)

UEFA Champions League Group Stage
Bayer 04 Leverkusen v Tottenham Hotspur - Jim Proudfoot and Alvin Martin (7.45pm commentary on talkSPORT)
Leicester City v FC Kobenhavn - Geoff Peters

Championship
Barnsley v Newcastle United - Graham Beecroft and Ian Danter
Birmingham City v Rotherham United - Tom Ross
Blackburn Rovers v Nottingham Forest - Dom McGuinness
Brighton & Hove Albion v Wolverhampton Wanderers - Elliot Cook
Derby County v Brentford - Dave Easson
Fulham v Norwich City - Ian Abrahams
Ipswich Town v Burton Albion - Dave Rowe
Leeds United v Wigan Athletic - Alan Biggs
Queens Park Rangers v Bristol City - Tony Incenzo
Reading v Aston Villa - Jack Woodward

Both stations took the same build-up between 7-7.30pm, as is becoming the norm on Champions League Tuesdays. talkSPORT carried updates from the games at Barnsley, Derby and Fulham on top of their Champions League coverage, while it was Around the Grounds with regular reports from all of the above matches bar Spurs on TS2.


UEFA.com

Rob Daly presented Champions League Matchday Live alongside Paul Saffer

UEFA Champions League Group Stage
Olympique Lyonnais v Juventus - Richard Connelly and Paul Saffer (commentary)
Real Madrid v Legia Warszawa - Jonathan Beck


BBC WM 95.6

Richard Wilford presented BBC WM 95.6 Sport from St Andrew's

Championship
Birmingham City v Rotherham United - Richard Wilford and Tom Marlow (7.45pm commentary on DAB in Birmingham)
Brighton & Hove Albion v Wolverhampton Wanderers - Mike Taylor (7.45pm commentary on DAB in the Black Country and Freeview channel 722)
Reading v Aston Villa - Mark Regan and Garry Thompson (8pm commentary on 95.6FM)

League One
Gillingham v Walsall - Rob Gurney

WM's 95.6FM platform took the first ten minutes or so of both halves from Brighton prior to the kick-off in either half at Reading, while at half-time and full-time on all other platforms they took the conclusion of each half from Reading.

Fixtures
Leeds United versus Wigan Athletic
Bradford City versus Southend United

BBC Radio Leeds
Leeds United - FM and Freeview - Gareth Jones, Adam Pope and Noel Whelan
Bradford City - AM and DAB - Tim Steere and Wayne Jacobs

Pulse 2 and the official Bradford City website
Bradford City - Chris Cooper and Jon Francis

Thanks. My notes said Chesterfield for Paul Fisher so I had a bit of brain fade there. The normal reporter, Matthew Shaw (who also covers Chesterfield for BBC Radio Derby) also seems to do a bit of Rugby League work.

BBC Newcastle - October 18th

Barnsley v Newcastle - Matthew Raisbeck (in for Mick Lowes) and John Anderson

Studio: Chris Sykes

I made a mistake here. It was actually Chris Parrott, rather than Paul Saffer, who co-hosted Champions League Matchday Live and co-commentated on Lyon v Juventus. And it was Tuesday 18th October yesterday!

Another Charles Sale article today about Stan Collymore, i am beginning to think Sale is attracted to Collymore, the amount of attention he is giving him!

BBC Radio Lancashire
Preston NE v Huddersfield T Andy Bayes and Colin Greenam (commentary)

BBC Radio Leeds
PNE v Huddersfield Katherine Hannah (host), Paul Ogden and Matt Glennon (commentary)

Andy Giddings I think will commentate on Cardiff City v Sheffield Wednesday for BBC Radio Sheffield. I assume John Pearson will join him. It is all surmising at present.