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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - Rdd - 12-03-2024

I dunno. I think there’ll be a move to put “Men’s” in the logo for next year, as they’ve been referring to the tournament as the “Guinness Men’s Six Nations” since Guinness did the sponsorship deal for the women’s tournament. I think it probably came a bit too close to the tournament to change this year, but I suspect it may well be changed next year.

And that in turn may be the catalyst to bring the branding in line with the U20s and Women’s tournament, which I suspect is only a matter of time before they do so.

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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - JACKLUFC1998 - 12-03-2024

The sixth round of rugby league's challenge cup has been drawn, but the BBC's live ties will be only valuable on the Red Button, iPlayer and the BBC Sport website, as neither BBC1 or BBC2 are to show ties from the competition until.the quarter finals stage.

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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - RhysJR - 12-03-2024

With a completely new format, the Champions League draw procedure will also change significantly with computers determining oponents. Apparently if it was all done manually it would take four hours - about as long as the outgoing format felt like.


https://twitter.com/SkyKaveh/status/1767561152177807582?t=Ojs8lE-Zi5v7oUMBTQImSQ&s=19 

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(12-03-2024, 03:01 PM)Rdd Wrote:  I dunno. I think there’ll be a move to put “Men’s” in the logo for next year, as they’ve been referring to the tournament as the “Guinness Men’s Six Nations” since Guinness did the sponsorship deal for the women’s tournament. I think it probably came a bit too close to the tournament to change this year, but I suspect it may well be changed next year.

And that in turn may be the catalyst to bring the branding in line with the U20s and Women’s tournament, which I suspect is only a matter of time before they do so.

Good points, the men's logo uses the word 'six' with the masterbrand of the website and the other two competitions using the numeral '6'.

Though, the BBC moved on in summer 2015 from the graphics style that the world feed is based on, and the Six Nations is still keeping that legacy alive in spring 2024.

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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - JamieMurph25 - 13-03-2024

Earlier this week, ABC's 'Media Watch' in Australia, did the feature on how Nine and NewsCorp (all of their TV, radio and print media) dominated the coverage of an NRL match in Las Vegas earlier in March (and why it was underwhelming for the US audience it attracted): https://twitter.com/ABCmediawatch/status/1767437869910471074?t=Qo5A2zbWEjFhTjJo62sTtQ&s=19 

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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - Brekkie - 13-03-2024

I think it's the same for most sports where an event is picked up and taken to a country where either the state is paying for it or the sports federations believe there is a market to be exploited - the locals just aren't that interested and as a result the true fans are excluded from the event.

History is so important in sport too - a boxing event in Saudi Arabia is never going to feel as big as a fight in Las Vegas, Madison Square Gardens or Wembley - although of course the "rumble in the jungle" is arguably the sports most referenced event.

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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - mcrdev - 13-03-2024

(12-03-2024, 02:35 PM)RhysJR Wrote:  AE's contract as the graphics provider is until 2025, so expect the ancient graphics set to continue for another year after this one.

Graphics provider doesn't equal graphics designer. AE will be quite capable of providing graphics to a different design if that's what the Six Nations desire - likewise other providers could provide graphics to the current design after AE's contract expires if that is what is desired.

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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - Brekkie - 13-03-2024

BBC Scotland has picked up simulcast rights from Viaplay of Scotland's home friendlies against Northern Ireland and Finland, which will be shown on BBC Scotland and BBC Three, with the NI games also on BBC2 NI. Two away games remain exclusive to Viaplay.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2024/bbc-scotland-television-rights-international-friendlies 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2024/bbc-ni-secures-live-rights-for-northern-ireland-mens-international-game-against-scotland 

Would be good if a deal could be done for the Wales play off games.

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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - RhysJR - 13-03-2024

(13-03-2024, 03:49 PM)Brekkie Wrote:  BBC Scotland has picked up simulcast rights from Viaplay of Scotland's home friendlies against Northern Ireland and Finland, which will be shown on BBC Scotland and BBC Three, with the NI games also on BBC2 NI. Two away games remain exclusive to Viaplay.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2024/bbc-scotland-television-rights-international-friendlies 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2024/bbc-ni-secures-live-rights-for-northern-ireland-mens-international-game-against-scotland 

Would be good if a deal could be done for the Wales play off games.

S4C are the main rights holders for Wales games IIRC (they produce the match feed), so they're unlikely to want to share one of their biggest ratings with another FTA broadcaster. Of course the disadvantage of that is no FTA English language TV coverage of Wales' games.

I think Viapaly/Premier Sports had to have so many Northern Ireland and Scotland games with free coverage over the rights cycle, with one each being shown in October 2022 (on FreeSports for NI and ITV 4 for Scotland), and presumably they've ticked the rest off with friendlies right at the end of the cycle here.

This is something that has been often called for in recent years, so will be interesting to see if the reality mirrors the demand, and if any future games could end up being sublet.

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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - RhysJR - 13-03-2024

(10-03-2024, 01:23 AM)RhysJR Wrote:  Viaplay/Premier Sports haven't officialy renewed the Championship rights yet. They pulled out of the sport last year, though the latest speculation from January suggested they could return. The Championship returns on Friday, but no broadcaster is confirmed as of yet.

https://www.loverugbyleague.com/post/everything-we-know-about-the-possibility-of-a-championship-tv-deal-for-2024 

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On the subject of Viaplay/Premier Sports, has anyone seen or heard anything about when they rebrand? I remember seeing one rugby journalist say they were expecting it soon after the Six Nations ended, but I haven't heard or seen any hint of it yet (bar Viaplay Xtra's demise).

News below on a broadcast deal for the rugby league Championship to return to Premier Sports with EVERY game shown live. I assume when they launch, Premier Sports will be quite keen on a strong streaming service, as their schedules always look quite full with La Liga and URC.

The article also says it expects the Premier Sports-Viaplay deal to conclude after Easter now.


https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/new-championship-broadcast-deal-would-28814107 

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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - Rdd - 13-03-2024

How could they make that one pay? I know rugby league is very popular in its heartlands, but is it enough of a subscription driver that it would pay to cover every game from the second tier (average gate just over 2,000). Presumably some of them would have to be single camera and a commentator jobs?

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