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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - Yorksman - 20-06-2023

The Scotland game will probably be the latest a game has ever finished in the UK.

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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - Rdd - 20-06-2023

This appears to have been how Premier Sports dealt with the delay, a scrolling message over a wide shot of Hampden.

https://twitter.com/premsportsirl/status/1671247977254649856?s=46&t=fR3aq5_Tiburuz2NuiBouQ 

VMTV also took the Scotland game as their main focus, though unlike Premier they had a studio panel to get them through things.

Edit: though it seems the panel (Ian Harte and Damien Delaney) got sent home after half time because at full time they ran straight into the highlights sequence, which they got through highlights of all the nights games in about 15 minutes.

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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - RhysJR - 20-06-2023

BBC's long-serving Scotland football reporter Roddy Forsyth has just announced on Radio 5 Live that tonight was his last match as a reporter for the BBC after over 40 years. He has Parkinson's and osteoarthritis which has made the job harder for him to do. An incredible longevity of his career and also has always had enjoyable contributions across 5 Live Sport and Final Score.

A lovely tribute from his colleagues Ali Bruce-Ball and Pat Nevin just now. There will be a special tribute programme tomorrow at 9pm on Radio 5 Live (that was due to air tonight but the football rather overran).

https://twitter.com/5liveSport/status/1671284291186327552?s=20 

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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - Cinephilia - 21-06-2023

Sad to hear, Laura and Ally have truly been a brilliant double act

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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - RhysJR - 23-06-2023

More updates from the European Games.

The athletics from today (Division I of the European Team Championships, featuring GB&NI) will be on the BBC Sport website / iPlayer, and the links on EuropeanGames.tv/All Athletics direct to that in the UK (well, to the iPlayer homepage). For some reason the BBC stream begins at 15:50, but the field action began at 15:15.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/athletics/65904741 


As was noticed in the broadcaster guide last week, I have only heard commentary on athletics and diving so far. Though, as was the case through Tokyo 2020(1), in many venues the on-course/in stadium commentary (which is in Polish and English) is audible on the feeds, which is a compromise of sorts. This is a rather disappointing thing to find, as many of the sports are exactly the events that would be enhanced with commentary as almost all potential viewers would be unfamiliar with the rules and nuances of the sports and their athletes (I could fully watch a Premier League game without commentary but will have no chance with a beach handball match).

The graphics look quite nice. I think they're using the same basic design as the graphics of the European Championships last year, but with different colours, fonts and animations.

To The Games themselves, they feel a bit lost and irrelevant in the wider sporting context and I do wonder what their future should be. Unlike the European Championships, the marquee sports are not building on major championships that guarantee the biggest names compete, and likewise the interest from the biggest broadcasters has been minimal (depsite them being given the rights). The crowds in the athletics today continue to be near zero, and the crowds look small elsewhere too. The opening ceremony had just over 20,000 spectators (and looked quite full) but nowhere near the crowds of other sporting events, and I'd say it was noteable the IOC President only appeared via a pre-recorded video. Probably a merger between the European Games concept and the European Championships concept would be a good idea in the future, but I'd imagine there would be a lot of pride to be swallowed and egos to be sorted for all relevant organising parties to agree to that.

Finally, here's the AI-generated audio commentary from AI Hannah England. Bit weird that you can hear Hannah England do two seperate live commentaries at some points today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuALOINbLKE 

PS Wimbledon will introduce AI commentary to some highlights packages.
https://newsroom.ibm.com/2023-06-21-IBM-Brings-Generative-AI-Commentary-and-AI-Draw-Analysis-to-the-Wimbledon-Digital-Experience 

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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - RhysJR - 23-06-2023

The World Rugby Under 20s Championship returns tomorrow for the first time since before the pandemic (the first time in this senior World Cup cycle).

World Rugby have belatedly confirmed that matches will be streamed on the World Rugby website and YouTube. It is a bit noteworthy that matches will be shown on YouTube, as recently World Rugby have steered away from using YouTube, with for example no World Sevens series events being streamed there this season. YouTube allows matches to be watched on demand and is far easier to watch on bigger screens so this is good to see.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDf-m_6KBio 


Elsewhere, all Wales games will be shown on S4C with English commentary.
https://twitter.com/S4Cchwaraeon/status/1671481449327804423?s=20 


Virgin Media Ireland will be showing 19 matches across the competition, beginning with four matches including England v. Ireland tomorrow.
https://twitter.com/VMSportIE/status/1672171277883412480?s=20 


ITV 4 will be showing highlights of the pool stage action. If the practice of previous editions will continue, ITV 4 will show all the main knockout matches live.
https://twitter.com/ITVRugby/status/1671874505176920066?s=20 

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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - Brekkie - 23-06-2023

So on both EuropeanGames.TV and AllAthletics.TV the feed for athletics now directs to the iPlayer, though it lands on Glastonbury coverage and you have to do a bit of a search to find the athletics. Assume they're taking the world feed commentary.

I wonder if it wasn't for Queens and Eastbourne whether the BBC might have done a bit more - most flagship events seem to take place between 1-7pm so an afternoon show on BBC1/2 would have sufficed with events outside those times on the iPlayer. The European Sport Championships, which got all day coverage last year, rated really well for BBC2 - and though we're missing the flagship Olympic events there is enough there where Britain has interest to attract a casual audience.


Even with no live coverage I'm sure the EBU are producing a daily highlights programme which could have been stuck on the iPlayer.

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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - RhysJR - 23-06-2023

A year after Rangers' long-running ban of BBC Scotland from their ground has ended, it appears their Old Firm rivals Celtic might have revived the boycott. BBC Sport Scotland were banned from Brendan Rogers' press conference today, reportedly over comments from a Tom English column about Rogers' re-appointment.

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/celtic-ban-bbc-brendan-rodgers-30309485 

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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - RhysJR - 24-06-2023

(23-06-2023, 04:36 PM)RhysJR Wrote:  The World Rugby Under 20s Championship returns tomorrow for the first time since before the pandemic (the first time in this senior World Cup cycle).

World Rugby have belatedly confirmed that matches will be streamed on the World Rugby website and YouTube. It is a bit noteworthy that matches will be shown on YouTube, as recently World Rugby have steered away from using YouTube, with for example no World Sevens series events being streamed there this season. YouTube allows matches to be watched on demand and is far easier to watch on bigger screens so this is good to see.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDf-m_6KBio 

Amazing that World Rugby appeared to have messed it up. Firstly, only four of the six matches have been made available for streaming on YouTube, with all six on the World Rugby website. No idea why, but I think this is delibrate rather than accidental. Then, 20 or so minutes into the first match of the day, the below message appeared on the live stream for new viewers from the UK. There is nowhere else to watch it in the UK (ITV only showing highlights today, S4C only showing Wales at 15:00), so this is really bizarre. The four scheduled live streams also are no longer appearing when on YouTube. England v. Ireland is at 12:30 so you'd hope they'd get it sorted quick. Truly a useless organisation.

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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - Rdd - 24-06-2023

Amazingly enough VMTV gave wrap around coverage to England U20 v Ireland U20. (And as an aside: probably the first time I’ve heard the second verse of the U.K. national anthem sung at a sporting event, which I don’t think even the players expected!)

The World Rugby graphics have improved a great deal since they seemed stuck in the late 1990s for years, but they now look they’ve borrowed a bit from NBC!

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