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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - Rdd - 29-09-2023

They’ve a nice if very American looking (on site?) set though - not their usual golf studio.

One issue with the bottom right score bar is that it just labels the matches “1, 2, 3, 4” - up to the viewer to remember which golfers are playing in each match!

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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - RhysJR - 29-09-2023

(25-09-2023, 03:02 PM)RhysJR Wrote:  The ITV snooker coverage is generally excellent, but one gripe I do have is the lack of multi-table coverage that is standard with the BBC and Eurosport (there's four tables playing this afternoon). You'd hope with the advent of ITVX this would become a possibility, but as of yet it does not look it will happen.

It appears somebody at ITV listened to what I said earlier in the week, with table two of the snooker available to stream via YouTube today.

https://twitter.com/itvsnooker/status/1707723206985965647?t=v3MQRN8g9yHE81zFvToskw&s=19 

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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - eyeTV - 29-09-2023

It's probably the most accessible thing to do to put it on YouTube but seems crazy when they have their own streaming platform sat there.

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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - Brekkie - 29-09-2023

(28-09-2023, 01:50 PM)RhysJR Wrote:  The England and Wales women's International rugby matches that are currently occuring are without a broadcaster. The Telegraph last week reported that the BBC were offered the rights for the England games for free but turned them down. This essentially seems to be because of the short time frame between the announcement of the fixtures and when they actually take place. It is worth noting that these rights are sold by the Six Nations centrally, like is the case of the men's matches, although from what I can observe the non-Six Nations matches are not sold in one block but by team (i.e. France matches are not shown in the UK). It is also worth noting that there was no live sporting action on BBC One or Two last Saturday oor this coming Saturday, with the usual weekday daytime fare on BBC One each Saturday between Football Focus and Final Score.

The England match last weekend was streamed on YouTube by the RFU, and the same looks to be happening for this weekend's Wales match. The viewing figures for the England stream are below, they would certainly be higher on actual TV.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/rugby-union/2023/09/20/england-women-v-canada-on-tv-bbc-sport-refuses-to-show/ 

https://twitter.com/nickheathsport/status/1706631665139765251?t=qxN3lm6EuA43RHG6hxA3RQ&s=19 

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It's pretty dumb of World Rugby to schedule these games during the men's World Cup - no surprise broadcasters aren't too interested and of course most of the on screen and off screen talent is likely tied up with the men's event anyway.

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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - SuperSajuuk - 29-09-2023

(29-09-2023, 02:05 PM)eyeTV Wrote:  It's probably the most accessible thing to do to put it on YouTube but seems crazy when they have their own streaming platform sat there.

Remember that those in Scotland cannot use ITVX in any way at all, due to the specific circumstances of STV Group being an independent company that is an affiliate of ITV, allowing STV to show ITV programming. The STV Player has no live stream support whatsoever [beyond live feeds of STV and STV+1], and that would open up ITV to accusations of deliberately blocking access to the sport from Scottish viewers. YouTube is a neutral platform which can be geoblocked to only UK and Ireland viewers, so I can understand why they put it there.



Admin edit: as clarified in a subsequent post, [font='Open Sans', 'segoe ui', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]ITVX is in fact available in Scotland, though ITV 1-specific content is generally available on the STV Player only, in Scotland.[/font]

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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - cable - 29-09-2023

doesn't ITVX work for non ITV1 content in Scotland (i.e. 2/3/4 & Be)?

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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - Orry Verducci - 29-09-2023

(29-09-2023, 02:48 PM)SuperSajuuk Wrote:  Remember that those in Scotland cannot use ITVX in any way at all

Incorrect.

(29-09-2023, 03:49 PM)cable Wrote:  doesn't ITVX work for non ITV1 content in Scotland (i.e. 2/3/4 & Be)?

Yes ITVX is available in Scotland, as evidenced by the ads run on 2/3/4/Be which are available Scotland. Some programmes (i.e. those on STV) aren't available, but most stuff is.

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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - RhysJR - 29-09-2023

(29-09-2023, 07:28 AM)Rdd Wrote:  Sky using their own graphics for the Ryder Cup - although they’ve added a second scoreboard with the status of each individual match in the bottom right hand corner, which they didn’t have for the Solheim last week.

The world feed is what was seen on Sky on Wednesday and Thursday.

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(29-09-2023, 11:14 AM)Rdd Wrote:  They’ve a nice if very American looking (on site?) set though - not their usual golf studio.

One issue with the bottom right score bar is that it just labels the matches “1, 2, 3, 4” - up to the viewer to remember which golfers are playing in each match!

And qaccording to the below, the studio would be 'very American looking' as it's shared with NBC.

https://www.sportsvideo.org/2023/09/29/live-from-the-ryder-cup-hamish-greig-emg-director-golf-operations-on-a-new-era-of-ryder-cup-coverage/ 

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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - TIGHazard - 29-09-2023

(29-09-2023, 02:48 PM)SuperSajuuk Wrote:  Remember that those in Scotland cannot use ITVX in any way at all, due to the specific circumstances of STV Group being an independent company that is an affiliate of ITV, allowing STV to show ITV programming. The STV Player has no live stream support whatsoever [beyond live feeds of STV and STV+1], and that would open up ITV to accusations of deliberately blocking access to the sport from Scottish viewers. YouTube is a neutral platform which can be geoblocked to only UK and Ireland viewers, so I can understand why they put it there.

But I'm sure previously STV have had ITV4 as a live stream during Euros/WC group matches when they've been playing at the same time.

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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - Newshound47 - 29-09-2023

And doesn’t ITVX in Scotland just go by postcode anyway?

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