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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - dvboy - 31-08-2023

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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - dvboy - 31-08-2023

   
Are there any full matches available to replay on Sky Stream, Q, Glass or the Sky Sports App?
There are six matches on Now TV, and three highlights programmes.

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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - dvboy - 01-09-2023

Four Brits playing tomorrow, three probably at the same time with Draper at 16:00, Evans at 17:00 and Norrie 2nd after 16:00.

Looking at the schedules, Sky Sports Action isn't joining the US Open until 19:00. They should probably think about moving the Super League and boxing undercard to Sky Sports Mix?

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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - RhysJR - 02-09-2023

(01-09-2023, 10:38 PM)dvboy Wrote:  Four Brits playing tomorrow, three probably at the same time with Draper at 16:00, Evans at 17:00 and Norrie 2nd after 16:00.

Looking at the schedules, Sky Sports Action isn't joining the US Open until 19:00. They should probably think about moving the Super League and boxing undercard to Sky Sports Mix?

Sadly they didn't do that (or put the tennis early on Mix either).
After Tuesday was rather ropey, I think the coverage has been more organised and operating well the rest of the week. I still think Sky should have employed more of their own lead commentators (with Jonathan Overend doing multiple matches per day and the vast majority of action with world feed comms) but overall the coverage is working well. They have stayed with matches (on SS Action especially) until their conclusion instead of leaving for the night session at dead on midnight like they did in the first few days, which is the correct decision.

A return today for Annabel Croft to the Sky Sports fold, the first person I think to appear in the former Sky Sports Tennis era and this week. I saw she appeared in the build-up and has just joined Jonathan Overend on commentary. Around half an hour ago (after Evans v. Alcaraz), Emma Paton presented from New York rather than Gigi Salmon from London for the whole section before they joined their next match on SS Tennis.

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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - RhysJR - 02-09-2023

Although I'm not particularly fond of the growing use of AI, it is quite cool to hear the classified results read by an AI recreation of the voice of the legendary James Alexander-Gordon.

https://twitter.com/JAGresults/status/1698022943664509345?t=A8uEjUj3iNPoD6WWpqRQBA&s=19 

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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - dvboy - 03-09-2023

(02-09-2023, 08:55 PM)RhysJR Wrote:  Sadly they didn't do that (or put the tennis early on Mix either).
After Tuesday was rather ropey, I think the coverage has been more organised and operating well the rest of the week. I still think Sky should have employed more of their own lead commentators (with Jonathan Overend doing multiple matches per day and the vast majority of action with world feed comms) but overall the coverage is working well. They have stayed with matches (on SS Action especially) until their conclusion instead of leaving for the night session at dead on midnight like they did in the first few days, which is the correct decision.

A return today for Annabel Croft to the Sky Sports fold, the first person I think to appear in the former Sky Sports Tennis era and this week. I saw she appeared in the build-up and has just joined Jonathan Overend on commentary. Around half an hour ago (after Evans v. Alcaraz), Emma Paton presented from New York rather than Gigi Salmon from London for the whole section before they joined their next match on SS Tennis.

Gigi Salmon flew to New York today. Karthi Gnanasegaram did some presentation later on today. Laura Robson also appeared as a pundit for the first time.

If they swapped one pundit for one lead commentator they’d have more flexibility. There are plenty of them around and I can think of a few that seemingly aren’t working anywhere this week.

They should spread the pundits out more across the day rather than having them all working almost all the time during the day session. I don’t think they’ve really needed five pundits in New York and three in London, on some days they’d gone through all of them already by the start of play. Today has been a bit better without the London team.

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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - W. Knight - 05-09-2023

Spíler 1 and 2, the male-skewing sport channels from Hungary's TV2, simplifed their symbol and dropped the "TV" in their name. They were reportedly to be renamed to TV2 Sport and Sport+ respectively, but was ultimately scrapped.
https://youtu.be/Gkl81JUySq4 
https://youtu.be/hc-7cJyA6ag?t=36 
https://youtu.be/oms8ihUEucA?t=20 

The circling neon rings kinda feels like the old BBC Sport globe 

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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - RhysJR - 06-09-2023

BBC Director of Sport Barbara Slater has announced her retirement after 14 years in the role. Admist a background of many real-terms cuts to the BBC Sport budget, and the cost of rights to many sporting events skyrocketing over her tenure, her legacy I'm sure will be heavily contested as a success or faliure by many.

 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/66728355 

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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - Brekkie - 06-09-2023

An absolute failure in my eyes, especially the deal struck with Discovery where they sacrificed exclusivity for 2018/20 Olympics for a deal which saw them pay more for 2022/24 for 90% less content when France and Germany held out for much better deals. However it wouldn't be fair to put that all personally on her.

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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - NI92 - 06-09-2023

Seen this on another Forum I am not a member of but Cricket World Cup Highlights will be on Channel 5, again another move for the tournament after 2007/11 Highlights were on the BBC, 2015 on ITV, 2019 on Channel 4 (including the final Live).

https://www.skymedia.co.uk/opportunities/icc-cricket-world-cup-highlights-2023/ 

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