Category: Sport; Five Live; Radio 4
Date: 26.01.2006
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The whole RBS Six Nations 2006 championship will be screened on 成人快手 ONE, for the first time since the 成人快手 won the live and exclusive contract back in 2002.
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The 成人快手's television coverage kicks off with Six Nations Grandstand at 1.00pm on Saturday 4 February.
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John Inverdale will be the main host, with Jill Douglas and Craig Doyle as fellow presenters.
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Former England player and current Leicester Tigers scrum half Austin Healey joins the team, along with former All Black and Italy coach John Kirwan.
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They boost the existing studio line-up of Jonathan Davies, Jeremy Guscott, Andy Nicol and Keith Wood.
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Commentators will be Eddie Butler, Nick Mullins and Andrew Cotter, with Jonathan Davies, Brian Moore and Philip Matthews as co-commentators.
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Sonja McLaughlan, John Beattie and Graham Thomas head up the pitchside reporting team.
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成人快手 Director of Sport, Roger Mosey, said: "It's great for rugby that we're able to schedule so much of it on our flagship channel.
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"Last year's Grand Slam for Wales shows this tournament retains its capacity to provide great entertainment.
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"We'll be covering the game across TV, radio and online, keeping people up-to-date with the latest news and doing everything we can to analyse and explain the game for new audiences coming in."
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成人快手 Radio Five Live, Five Live Sports Extra and Radio 4 LW will carry live commentary on 11 games, plus match reports.
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Ian Robertson heads up the team with Alastair Hignell, former England player Martin Bayfield, Iain Carter, Alastair Eykyn and Jonny Saunders.
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World Cup winning scrum half and Saracens favourite Kyran Bracken will follow England's two home games.
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Former Scotland captains Bryan Redpath and Gavin Hastings analyse Scotland; former Wales and Lions scrum half Robert Jones looks at the current champions; and Ireland full back Hugo MacNeill completes the line up with analysis of the Irish.
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bbc.co.uk/sport will feature preview material, matchday coverage and post-match coverage including pundits' predictions, player pundits, squad selector, referees' forums, skills guide, message boards and player of the weekend.
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