Rugby World Cup 2003

The Rugby World Cup begins on Friday 10th October, and ITV1 and ITV2 will be showing live coverage of the games and highlights.

Friday 10th October - ITV1

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10.10 Rugby World Cup 2003 - Opening Ceremony and Australia V Argentina

Jim Rosenthal introduces live coverage of the opening ceremony from the Telstra Stadium, Sydney, followed by the first match of the tournament between holders Australia and Argentina.

1.40 ITV Lunchtime News
2.00 Everything Must Go
2.30 Moving Day
3.00 As Normal Schedule

Then at 11pm Rugby World Cup Highlights

There is a list of fixtures on the HTV Wales website - http://www.itv1wales.com/rugby/fixtures/ - games will be shown on both ITV1 and ITV2.

HTV Wales will show live coverage of all of Wales live games and have reports from the HTV News team during the main HTV News program at 6pm each weeknight - more info here from the HTV Wales website - http://www.htvwales.com/autumn/world_cup.shtml

UTV will be opting out to show every Ireland game live (including the ones scheduled for ITV2). As with last time they will not just be taking the network coverage, but having their local presenter and analysis.