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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - Rdd - 18-07-2023

On the day that ESPN and BT Sport’s long standing relationship came to an end, it also seems that anyone hoping to catch college American football in the U.K. and Ireland will be out of luck next season as the ESPN Player has also announced its closure on 18th August.

https://www.espnplayer.com/espnplayer/help.jsp 

So it appears that, a handful of Notre Dame home games and possibly late Big 10 games on Sky aside - if we’re lucky - access to college American football will be a thing of the past on this side of the world. I know it’s niche but it was an enjoyable watch - there’ll be a sold out NCAA game in the Aviva Stadium at the end of August so obviously someone else is watching it too.

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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - RhysJR - 18-07-2023

(18-07-2023, 12:51 PM)RhysJR Wrote:  The BBC and World Aquatics have not reached an agreement to allow the briadcaster to air the World Swimming Championships next week. I echo Andy Jamieson's thoughts below. It will still be available for free on All Aquatics.

https://twitter.com/Andyjamesonswim/status/1681248179818229772?t=QEvEGaFhhmRshQAUdP5BRQ&s=19 

An addendum to the swimming coverage is that there will be extensive coverage across Radio 5 Sports Extra / online. The action begins on Sunday (TMS live on 5 Sports Extra then) but there is coverage on 5 Sports Extra of the evening sessions next Monday and Tuesday from 11:30 to 14:30 (action begins at midday).

Granted radio rights will be cheaper by can't understand from the perspective of either organisation how they can agree one deal but not the other for the exact same event. Both organisations are once again beyond my understanding.

https://twitter.com/HuntyCaller/status/1681269707410743297?t=UU4djcDcxSBPjJ4l7CXf9w&s=19 

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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - Brekkie - 18-07-2023

I just don't get why FINA would rather get nothing than what the BBC think the rights are worth when there is no other realistic bidder. Discovery don't seem too interested either

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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - robertclark125 - 18-07-2023

One possibility for the commonwealth games, as mentioned above, is having venues across the country, if its the UK. Gateshead stadium for athletics, St. James Park for rugby sevens, Boxing at the Royal Highland Centre at Ingliston, Edinburgh. Aquatics in Glasgow. Netball in Birmingham, Bowls in Kirkcaldy, badminton in Leeds. That may be how it gets done.

But, if public interest is waning, are broadcasters losing interest too? How much coverage did other countries give to Birmingham 2022?

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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - Brekkie - 18-07-2023

The Aussie broadcasters love it, but they're hardly going to bankroll it. CBC in Canada give it relatively little coverage now - just 10 hours on TV but did have 6 live streaming channels.

Elsewhere it looks like mainly pan-regional pay TV coverage in the Caribbean, Africa, Asia and Pacific.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_2022_Commonwealth_Games_broadcasters 

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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - excel99 - 18-07-2023

(17-07-2023, 09:59 PM)RhysJR Wrote:  For some reason for every multisport event since Glasgow 2014, Gabby has only covered the athletics, and in the case of Rio 2016 only flew out for the second week. Guess that might be a personal preference.

Whilst true for live(*) coverage of the Olympics(**) and Commonwealth Games, she did do other sports during last years European Championships - only appeared when the athletics started, but then took over the whole of the late afternoon/evening shift. In 2018 she was in Glasgow despite the athletics being in Berlin so I guess she maybe have done other sports then too?

*I'm sure she co-presented the whole of the Commonwealth Games highlights shows in 2018. I recall she took the lead on the athletics and Clare Balding on the other 'lead' event that day, but they then shared the rest of the show
**For Tokyo I'm sure Gabby covered for Dan Walker on one of the Sunday mornings

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Newshound47 - Newshound47 - 18-07-2023

(18-07-2023, 01:54 PM)Brekkie Wrote:  I think given how last minute if the UK hosts it would be Birmingham or Glasgow again to avoid any significant building.   It would be too costly for Liverpool to step in so quick.

London a possibility but London automatically makes it more expensive.

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Looks like they didn't have Olympic Breakfast in 2004.  Instead Olympic Grandstand began at 7am with Breakfast shifting to BBC2, but events generally beginning at 8am.  

I suspect the one channel deal might see Olympic Breakfast from 6-8am then live coverage, with perhaps the news block starting at 8am on BBC2.

Of course through events started a little earlier in Athens than Paris due to being a further hour ahead. While some events will start at 7.30 BST it will be more like 8.30/9 before a lot of things start.

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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - UTVLifer - 18-07-2023

It'll be interesting to see how the BBC covers Paris next year, as with France being an hour ahead and action beginning around 8:30/9am Paris time, we'll effectively have all day coverage in the UK. Plus there's the surfing taking place Tahiti in the evenings of Paris time.

I have managed to find the full events schedule on the Paris 2024 website if anyone else is interested
https://medias.paris2024.org/uploads/2023/06/Competition-schedule-by-sessionevents-V4.2-1.pdf 

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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - robertclark125 - 19-07-2023

Both the Daily mail, and Daily record newspapers, are reporting that via play are reviewing their Scottish football commitments, after lower subscriptions. There's no danger of the spfl or sfa losing money, as via play has already paid for the next season of the league Cup, and the Scottish Cup deal is in its last season. Both were inherited when via play bought Premier sports.

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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - Rdd - 19-07-2023

Watch out for an announcement on that tomorrow AM before the Stockholm market opens. Viaplay Group are in real trouble and recently replaced their senior management after having to withdraw their earnings forecast, and are going to make some class of announcement on measures tomorrow. Now I don’t think they’ll leave the U.K. only nine months in after paying £30m for Premier’s U.K. operation but it appears there’s some speculation in that regard.

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