Stuart Pyke (born 8 July 1961) is an English sports journalist and broadcaster. He is now most well known for his darts and rugby league commentary on

Sky Sports Sky Sports is a group of British broadcasting of sports events, subscription sports channels operated by the satellite television, satellite pay television company Sky Group (a division of Comcast), and is the dominant subscription television ...

and rugby league commentary on

BBC Radio 5 Live BBC Radio 5 Live is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC. It broadcasts mainly news, sport, Talk show, discussion, interviews and phone-ins, and is on air 24 hours a day. It is the principal BBC radio station Broadca ...

. He also writes for the

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and the website of darts equipment manufacturer, Unicorn.

Early career

Pyke started commentating on sports back in 1984, when he joined

Piccadilly Radio Greatest Hits Radio Manchester & The North West is an Independent Local Radio station based in Manchester, England, owned and operated by Bauer as part of the Greatest Hits Radio Network. It broadcasts to Greater Manchester and North West En ...

in Manchester, after a four-year grounding on local newspapers. He commentated on

Oldham Athletic Oldham Athletic Association Football Club is a professional association football club in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England. As of the 2025–26 EFL League Two, 2025–26 season, the team competes in EFL League Two, the fourth level of the Eng ...

's football matches during their most successful era, when they reached the League Cup Final and won promotion to the

Premier League The Premier League is a professional association football league in England and the highest level of the English football league system. Contested by 20 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the English Football Lea ...

. During his time at Piccadilly Radio Stuart also commentated on Rugby League matches often combining commentary with programme presentation from the ground he was at. He then moved on to become the Cricket Correspondent for Independent Radio News, covering England tours to Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and the West Indies. He also covered Rugby League and was the first man to cover a

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Tour for the Independent Radio network in 1988, when Great Britain were in Australia and New Zealand. In 1998, Pyke moved into television sport and for five years he covered the North West region for

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Later career

Stuart has commentated on many Rugby League

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Finals,

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Grand Finals and Great Britain test matches during his career. Since 2002 he has been heard regularly on BBC Radio 5 Live and its digital companion station

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covering Rugby League and other sports. Pyke joined the Sky Sports team at the 2003 World Matchplay tournament. His first match, with

Sid Waddell Sidney Waddell (10 August 1940 – 11 August 2012) was an English sports commentator and television personality. He was nicknamed the 'Voice of Darts' due to his fame as a darts commentator, and worked for Granada Television, Granada, Yorkshire ...

, was between Keith Deller and John Lowe. Since then, he has been involved in nearly every major

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event live on

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ESPN ESPN (an initialism of their original name, which was the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is an American international basic cable sports channel owned by the Walt Disney Company (80% and operational control) and Hearst Commu ...

, PDC.TV at Championship League Darts,

US Open U.S. Open or US Open are open championship sporting tournaments that are hosted in the United States and in which anyone, especially amateur and professional, or American and non-American, may compete. The term may also be applied to non-sporting ev ...

with South African Masters in 2007 and 2008 on

Nuts TV Nuts TV was a British television channel related to ''Nuts (magazine), Nuts'' magazine. Nuts TV began broadcasting on Freeview (UK), Freeview channel 42 on 12 September 2007 nightly from 9pm to 1am, and launched on Sky Digital (UK & Ireland), S ...

and

Challenge TV Challenge is a British free-to-air television channel owned by Sky Group's Sky UK subsidiary, themselves owned by American conglomerate Comcast. The channel is dedicated to game shows from the UK, including acquired classic and contemporary sho ...

References

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