In other ITV Sport news, while looking on the ITV press site for the statement about this, I see that following on from their full rerun of Euro 96 they're doing the same for the 2003 Rugby World Cup, starting next Monday, with the England matches on ITV4 and all the other matches on the ITV Hub.
Will be quite interesting to see some of the surrounding presentation for this, it was fronted by Jim Rosenthal and Angus Scott in London with Gabby Logan in Australia, and it came during a period where they weren't covering very much rugby at all - I think they had a few Sevens tournaments, but certainly nothing like the late nineties when they had England highlights - so they had to create a commentary team pretty much from scratch. The commentators were John Taylor, Nigel Starmer-Smith (who had left the Beeb a year or so earlier to go freelance, and didn't seem to have left on very good terms) and Mark Robson, though I remember idly flicking on to one match and there was no commentary as they'd lost the line, and Bob Symonds had to take over from London (presumably being on standby to do that in every match), and in the highlights that night he was commentating from the start.
Despite the time difference it was obviously a very successful tournament for ITV, though I remember scoffing at the time at this terrible article in Media Guardian which congratulated them on how quickly they got the adverts on after the final whistle -
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2003/nov/24/mondaymediasection.rugbyworldcup2003 I like the quote from that ad buyer saying "Up until now I think people have subliminally seen it as a BBC event, but that will have changed now", because the Six Nations rights came up for tender a few weeks later and ITV didn't even bid, and didn't show any more rugby for another four years.