Daily Mail: Woods confirmed as leader of all-female TNT Sports' presenting team

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Laura Woods was the centrepiece of TNT Sports' launch on Tuesday as the broadcaster confirmed their all-female line-up of football presenters ahead of next season.

Reshmin Chowdhury, Lynsey Hipgrave and Woods will lead TNT Sports' Premier League and Champions League coverage following the exit of Jake Humphrey, who left the company earlier this summer.

Meanwhile, Jules Breach has replaced the broadcaster's touchline reporter Des Kelly having previously hosted their results programme Score, which was axed ahead of the new campaign.

TNT have also axed former Premier League referee Peter Walton for next season amid a major shake-up with the broadcaster's on-screen personnel.

Showing off their 19-strong studio team, the Warner Bros (Discovery) company placed Woods and Chowdhury front and centre alongside pundits Rio Ferdinand, Peter Crouch, Joe Cole and Ally McCoist.

McCoist has an excellent relationship with Woods, having acted as her partner on talkSPORT's breakfast show, and will continue to work with the 36-year-old in her new role at TNT Sports.

Andrew Georgiou, the president and managing director of Warner Bros Discovery Sports Europe, said: 'We do want to be contemporary, we do want to be bold, we definitely want to push the boundaries of what sports broadcasting has been in this market over the previous years.

'It’s a really good opportunity for us to reflect on what’s happened and it’s almost like, "Okay, we’ve got a moment in time to refresh and rethink".'

From Tuesday, TNT Sports is available to stream via the discovery+ platform.

UK subscribers with a premium plan will be able to access TNT Sports and Eurosport via the discovery+ platform, allowing them to watch both networks’ live sport in the same place as well as discovery+ entertainment content.

The cost of the premium plan is £29.99 a month, the same as was previously charged for the BT Sport Monthly Pass.

Georgiou said TNT Sports would be keenly focused on the Premier League’s invitation to tender for its next set of domestic television rights later this year.

'We are a premium sports broadcaster and our 100 per cent stated ambition is to remain a premium sports broadcaster, and reviewing our rights portfolio to make sure that remains (the case) is in the bullseye of our agenda,' he said.

'We look at everything that comes up. Obviously the Premier League tender is up at the end of the year. That is a key part of our rights portfolio and something we’re focused on.'