He is a Journalist and sports writer. Getting under peoples feet, digging for information and getting around people to talk is his job. Hobbo as much as he is passionate goes through states of depression, suicide, anger and elation all in 80 minutes!

Well there are a few names that derive from Edward, but I assume he decided he preferred 'Ted' - which is the reason why everyone apart from the BCB commentator calls him 'Ted'

Yeah just realised we had Ted and not Jay. Confused myself!

Official Super League account has just tweeted the teams for Wire/Widnes. They've called him Ed too. Probably because it's his name.
He goes by "Teddy" on his own twitter account, something I've not seen any media outlet refer to him as. Seems fairly clear he's not all that bothered about which shortened version he uses. Except I expect he doesn't like being called Jay (which incidentally is short for James...). Point remains, it was hardly something to pick the commentator up about.