Angus Scott
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Angus Scott is a television sports presenter for ITV Sport. He has worked numerous sports for the network, including Football, rugby union and motorsport. He has provided reports and commentaries for the ITV Network.
Angus will be the anchor of Setanta Sports live UK coverage of the Barclays Premier League when the contract starts in August 2007. He will lead coverage of 46 live matches. Due to his new Setanta contract, it is unknown weather or not he will present again on ITV Sport.
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[edit] Career
Angus started his television career presenting local sport. He presented football shows for Granada in Manchester and Carlton. He then crossed the border to present HTV Wales rugby programmes. HTV is where Angus started his career in the 80's. He also frequently present Carlton/LWT's London Tonight. He is the brother of ITV Newsreader Steve Scott. He now lectures in journalism part-time at the University of Winchester, of which he is an alumnus.
[edit] Football
Between 2001 and 2003, Angus was the main host of ITV's The Goal Rush, the networks answer to Sky Sports' Soccer Saturday. The programme was axed at the end of 2003. Angus occasionally presented the football show On The Ball for ITV as well as Champions League programmes. He presented the Trinidad and Tobago vs Paraguay World Cup 2006 game on ITV4. He has also presented The Championship. He also worked on the 2002 FIFA World Cup in Korea and Japan. He now regularly commentates for ITV's highlight show The Championship.
[edit] Rugby
Angus was one of the presenters of ITV's 2003 Rugby World Cup coverage alongside Jim Rosenthal and Gabby Logan. He has also presented highlights of England's home matches in the Six Nations, for which ITV had the rights to from 1997 to 2002. He has also fronted the Rugby World Cup Sevens, and the main IRB Sevens tournaments for ITV.
[edit] Motorsport
Angus presented the 2005 Belgian Grand Prix and the 2006 U.S Grand Prix for ITV in the absence of main hosts Jim Rosenthal (2005) and Steve Rider (2006). He also presented ITV's World Rally Championship coverage, in 2004 and 2005, as well as presenting Motorsport magazine programme Speed Sunday.
Angus presented the British Superbike Championship on ITV1 and ITV owned channel Men & Motors in 2006, and he co-presented ITV's coverage British Touring Car Championship with Vicki Butler-Henderson. But he won't be presenting these championships for the network in 2007, as Louise Goodman and Ted Kravitz take over the BTCC presenting duties, and James Cracknell and Janie Omorogbe take over the superbike duties.
Angus is considered an ITV Sport all rounder, having presented more or less every sport which ITV cover.
