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RE: American Sports Presentation - W. Knight - 28-09-2023

(28-04-2023, 05:42 PM)W. Knight Wrote:  Staying with Bally, the Arizona Family group of stations (KTVK/KPHO Phoenix and KPHE statewide) announced a deal with both Phoenix Suns and Phoenix Mercury to bring free local matches. The games will also be aired on KOLD Tucson's subchannel.

Gray's Arizona's Family Sports is now officially statewide, after the group launched KAZF in Tucson and KAZS in Yuma.
https://www.azfamily.com/2023/09/27/arizonas-family-sports-network-is-now-available-statewide/ 

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Meanwhile, they're starting a similar model in Georgia: Peachtree Sports Network will start in October in a subchannel on WPCH.
https://tvnewscheck.com/programming/article/peachtree-sports-network-launches-statewide-on-gray-stations/ 

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RE: American Sports Presentation - Medianext.MX - 29-09-2023

(12-09-2023, 12:29 AM)RhysJR Wrote:  The latest alternative NFL broadcast from ESPN/Disney will be a Toy Story themed broadcast of one of the London games.

https://twitter.com/espn/status/1701364174830420294 

In preparation for Sunday's broadcast, here's a behind-the-scenes look at the collaboration between ESPN's creative team and Pixar, and the fully remote setting in Bristol:

https://www.sportsvideo.org/2023/09/29/funday-football-in-andys-room-espn-invites-fans-to-toy-story-themed-alternative-broadcast/ 

The game, announced by Drew Carter (play-by-play), Booger McFarland (analyst) and 12-year old Pepper Persley (reporter), will stream on Disney+ in 95 markets (including the UK and Latin America), plus on ESPN+ and Star+ (where the normal telecast will stream exclusively, in the U.S. and Latin America respectively). VOD will be available for 24 hours on all Disney+ markets and on NFL+ (for U.S. users).

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RE: American Sports Presentation - W. Knight - 30-09-2023

(16-09-2023, 06:25 PM)W. Knight Wrote:  Back to the AT&T Sportsnet RSN saga: The new network for Houston Rockets and Astros is reportedly be named Space City Home Network, named after the city's nickname (and also a common phrase for Astros fans).

It's official: The two Houston teams are to be relaunching Space City Home Network in October.
https://www.nba.com/rockets/news/astros-and-rockets-announce-astros-and-rockets-announce-acquisition-of-regional-sports-network-att-sportsnet-southwest 

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Meanwhile, the rebooted XFL is to be merged with USFL, who is also a reboot since 2022. ABC/ESPN currently airs the former, whereas Fox airs both leagues and has a minor part in the latter.
https://www.theusfl.com/the-usfl/xfl-usfl-announce-intent-to-merge 

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RE: American Sports Presentation - Medianext.MX - 06-10-2023

(28-04-2023, 05:42 PM)W. Knight Wrote:  Staying with Bally, the Arizona Family group of stations (KTVK/KPHO Phoenix and KPHE statewide) announced a deal with both Phoenix Suns and Phoenix Mercury to bring free local matches. The two teams previously were affiliated with Bally Sports Arizona instead.
https://www.azfamily.com/2023/04/28/arizonas-family-announces-transformative-broadcast-partnership-with-phoenix-suns-phoenix-mercury/ 

It looks like Bally Sports Arizona will be no more: after a bankruptcy court broke the deal with the Arizona Coyotes (the NHL team), Scripps Sports has agreed to carry the rest of the contract with them. Matches will air on the second subchannels of KNXV/Phoenix and KGUN/Tucson, both ABC affiliates (in squished SD).

https://twitter.com/KaplanSportsBiz/status/1709737461394366843 

https://twitter.com/ArizonaCoyotes/status/1710007011272982624 

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RE: American Sports Presentation - sky303 - 14-10-2023

Scripps Sports on Vegas 34 (KMCC-TV Vegas) 


Also TNT is using the TNT Sports name now on NHL and NBA telecasts 

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RE: American Sports Presentation - thegeek - 14-10-2023

I wonder if the South American channels will get a rebrand to match?

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RE: American Sports Presentation - Medianext.MX - 26-10-2023

(28-04-2023, 05:42 PM)W. Knight Wrote:  Staying with Bally, the Arizona Family group of stations (KTVK/KPHO Phoenix and KPHE statewide) announced a deal with both Phoenix Suns and Phoenix Mercury to bring free local matches. The two teams previously were affiliated with Bally Sports Arizona instead.
https://www.azfamily.com/2023/04/28/arizonas-family-announces-transformative-broadcast-partnership-with-phoenix-suns-phoenix-mercury/ 

The graphics package they use looks really decent; the openers and bumpers look really impressive. It was designed by the Phoenix branch of motion design studio Viztek, according to NewscastStudio; they also brought back the final theme used by KUTP when it offered Suns coverage, which dated back to the UPN days:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1ogpeSbG9Y 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_KJ81GJWDI 

https://www.newscaststudio.com/2023/10/26/phoenix-suns-gray-tv-graphics/ 

They botched it initially with the score bug, with Arial instead of Aktiv Grotesk:

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(30-09-2023, 07:47 AM)W. Knight Wrote:  It's official: The two Houston teams are to be relaunching Space City Home Network in October.
https://www.nba.com/rockets/news/astros-and-rockets-announce-astros-and-rockets-announce-acquisition-of-regional-sports-network-att-sportsnet-southwest 

SCHN is using a rebadged version of AT&T Sportsnet's existing graphics, dropping the company's proprietary typeface (Aleck) for Flama (also used by AT&TSN's predecessor Root Sports).

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(06-10-2023, 12:03 PM)Medianext.MX Wrote:  It looks like Bally Sports Arizona will be no more: after a bankruptcy court broke the deal with the Arizona Coyotes (the NHL team), Scripps Sports has agreed to carry the rest of the contract with them. Matches will air on the second subchannels of KNXV/Phoenix and KGUN/Tucson, both ABC affiliates (in squished SD).

The Coyotes' first match had to be broadcast on both stations' CW sisters (KASW 61/Phoenix, KWBA 58/Tucson) after strong reactions by viewers due to the match being relegated to SD-only subchannels (both in turn simulcast the match too, making it a four-way broadcast). It looks like the matches are not being fully produced by Scripps, unlike what they do with Golden Knights matches, but they have some input from the teams at MLB Advanced Media (which also operate NHL Network); the graphics are very similar to the NHLN graphics too.

https://twitter.com/ArizonaCoyotes/status/1712984726762369423 

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As for Bally Sports Arizona, the network ceased operations on October 20th.

https://x.com/ballysportsaz/status/1712846741597524007 

https://x.com/rltsports/status/1715748979609379062?s=20 

The same case for AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain, which ceased operations the day after, but ended normal programming and fired all of its staff on October 6th, the moment it switched to the temporary SportsNet Rocky Mountain branding:

https://awfulannouncing.com/wbd/att-sportsnet-rocky-mountain-shut-down.html 

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RE: American Sports Presentation - RhysJR - 29-10-2023

Oops, from the FOX NFL coverage of Cleveland @ Seattle

https://x.com/rickhanlonii/status/1718735181538795750?s=20 

https://x.com/jtdiver/status/1718736758349729976?s=20 

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RE: American Sports Presentation - JamieMurph25 - 29-10-2023

(29-10-2023, 10:14 PM)RhysJR Wrote:  Oops, from the FOX NFL coverage of Cleveland @ Seattle

https://x.com/rickhanlonii/status/1718735181538795750?s=20 

https://x.com/jtdiver/status/1718736758349729976?s=20 

Either someone was distracted by Taylor Swift's new album (highly doubtful) or there might be poor coding for the on-screen graphics, wonder what cloud service Fox use for their output?

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RE: American Sports Presentation - Medianext.MX - 30-10-2023

NFL uses Amazon/AWS for their stats; all NFL broadcasters (CBS, NBC, Fox, ESPN, Amazon...) use the same cloud service (Next Gen Stats), and broadcasters run this data (graphics, telestrators...) on Microsoft Surface and Windows servers and devices (also a marketing partnership).

https://aws.amazon.com/sports/nfl/ 
https://www.geekwire.com/2021/surface-saver-how-microsofts-deal-with-the-nfl-turned-into-a-marketing-boon-for-its-tablet/ 

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