16-04-2023, 06:51 PM
(16-04-2023, 06:25 PM)Reith85 Wrote: Looks like Will Perry has made an extremely quick transfer from presenting BBC Sport updates on BBC News to doing the Sky Sports updates on Sky News. He was seen presenting on BBC News only last week. Another sad but inevitable loss for the BBC.Isn't he freelance though? Was on Eurosport during the 2018 Winter Olympics and has been occasionaly on talkSPORT and more recently Premier League TV. He was also apparently on Final Score yesterday, so not cut all ties with the BBC.
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Yesterday saw the start of this year's World Snooker Championship.
The big broadcasting news is that John Virgo confirmed pre-tournament that he will continue to work for the BBC after this tournament. It was announced last year that both Virgo and Dennis Taylor would leave the BBC commentary team after this year's World Championships. I haven't seen a similar confirmation from Dennis Taylor, so it looks likely he will retire from BBC coverage in a fortnight.
Personally, I'm very pleased with this news as Virgo is still a very strong commentator despite his age/lack of recent playing appearance.
This year's secondary presenter behind Hazel Irvine appears to be BBC Wales' Catrin Heledd. This is her first network appearances after presenting the Welsh Open for BBC Wales for a few years. Evening coverage for the first 10ish days is on BBC Four until 21:00, which is a good use of the channel considering the coverage is being made already and the channel is only showing repeats at that time.