The Sport Thread

Presumably due to the three European Fixtures to cover tonight, and not wanting to start up the Sport Extra channels.

It's back to BT Sport 2 for the third round.

Also not sure if it's been mentioned but Rob Walker will be fronting C4's darts coverage, with John Rawling leading the commentary team.

It's Matt Smith & Chris Mason fronting coverage on BT Sport

Same old setup for the last three years, I much prefer itvs coverage of darts.

Mark Pougatch pulling a double today - Big Bash League cricket on Channel 5 this morning, then BT Sport Score this afternoon. As the former is also coming from BT Sport's studio, at least he doesn't have much of a commute..

That's also the League Cup studio Channel 5 use albeit relit blue from red.

Good coverage from Channel 5 this morning and good to see live cricket back on one of the 'terrestrial' channels or 5 main channels for the first time since 2005 (I know ITV4 covered IPL). Channel 5 have 1 game per weekend between now and the end of January with highlights of the final on the 28th January at 1.30pm.

MOTD going out silent on BBC ONE HD.

Only on some VM regions and on Sky. Absolutely fine here in South Wales on VM 108.

It went silent for me here. Switched back on after seeing your replies and there is sound again

and there was an apology during the showing of the last ident

Channel 4 Racing ended with a ~10 minute montage, finishing with this:

Did it play out the old theme?