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Fans
get even more rugby on BBC Interactive offering
Rugby
fans can access an extra half hour of analysis and reaction after
the Ireland v England RBS Six Nations game on Sunday (30 March 2003)
on BBC Interactive.
By
pressing the red button on the TV handset, viewers will be able
to see extra interviews that have not been used in the main Six
Nations Grandstand programme.
The
session will be hosted by John Inverdale and viewers will be able
to text in questions from their handset or their mobile phone for
pundits Jonathan Davies and Jeremy Guscott to answer.
Throughout
the match, fans can text questions to former internationals Will
Carling and John Beattie, who will be hosting an Interactive analysis
service.
They
will both be based in the studio at Television Centre in London
and will provide their insight into the game.
The
BBC Interactive service will also provide a range of commentary
options, including Welsh language commentary, and a more Irish flavour
with commentary from Jim Neilly.
Network
television commentators for the Ireland v England game will be Eddie
Butler and Brian Moore.
Injured
Irish player Keith Wood joins Jeremy Guscott and Jonathan Davies
as a studio analyst, and Sonja McLaughlan will provide touchline
news and interviews.
All
the Interactive services are available on Digital Satellite, Digital
Cable and Freeview, by simply pressing the red button.
Notes
to Editors
Rugby
reporter Jill Douglas returns to BBC (27.03.03)
BBC
coverage of the RBS Six Nations Championship (12.02.03)
New
"crowd-cam" from BBC Outside Broadcasts debuts at BBC Sport coverage
of Six Nations Rugby (05.02.03)
All the
BBC's digital services are now available on Freeview,
the new free-to-view digital terrestrial television service, as well
as on satellite and cable.
Freeview
offers the BBC's eight television channels, interactive services
from BBCi, as well as 11 BBC radio networks.
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