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Nationality. English. Occupation. Football commentator. Employer (s) BBC, TNT Sports. Jonathan Mark Pearce (born 23 December 1959) [1] is an English sports commentator on football for the BBC and TNT Sports. [2] He worked for BBC Radio 5 Live and Match of the Day, as well as participating in other lower-profile sports programmes.
February. 3 February – Stamps commemorating the late Diana, Princess of Wales, go on sale in the UK. 7–22 February – Great Britain and Northern Ireland compete at the Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, and win one bronze medal. 8 February – Former Conservative Cabinet Minister Enoch Powell dies in hospital in London aged 85.
October. 3 October – Undertakers go on strike in London, leaving more than 800 corpses unburied. 7 October – Rock band Queen 's power ballad "We Are the Champions" is released. 10 October – Missing 20-year-old sex worker Jean Jordan is found dead in Chorlton, Manchester, nine days after she was last seen alive.
October. 1 October – QVC launches the first television shopping channel in the UK. 3 October – The Northern Irish journalist Rory Peck, 36, is shot and killed outside the Ostankino TV Centre in Moscow by Boris Yeltsin 's loyalists while covering the Russian constitutional crisis.
13 April – A 22-year-old woman is raped at her bedsit in Cambridge. Cambridgeshire Police believe that she was the sixth victim of a rapist who had been operating across the city since October last year. In June, the police arrest 47-year-old Peter Cook for the rapes; he is sentenced to life imprisonment in October.
2 November 2006 - News staff planning to strike Members of journalism union Bectu have voted in favour of strike action in response to changes in shift times introduced by the BBC. Union leaders are to meet to decide upon a date; if the action were to occur, main news operations such as BBC News 24 and bulletins on BBC One would be affected.
Reshmin Chowdhury (born 16 December 1977) is a British sports journalist broadcaster and event host. She currently lead presents live Premier League football on Talksport every Saturday morning in GameDay Exclusive. She presents live coverage of the Women's Super League and major women's football tournaments for BBC Sport.
James Oliver Richardson (born 29 May 1966), also known as AC Jimbo, [1] is an English television presenter and journalist. He is best known as a former presenter of Channel 4's Football Italia programme and former host of The Guardian Football Weekly podcast. He currently hosts BT Sport 's The UEFA Champions League Goals Show, World's Strongest ...