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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - nwtv2003 - 05-08-2023

In addition Bianca Westwood has also confirmed she’s left Sky Sports.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CvjoHORK746/?igshid=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng ==

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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - Brekkie - 05-08-2023

(05-08-2023, 10:42 AM)Critique Wrote:  It looks very much like the atrium but I doubt it’s virtual - that’d be very difficult to light (although the lighting isn’t great anyway) and the reflections in the base of the stools/desk are all too normal for a green screen - you can see bits of the background reflected in the bases which I doubt they’d have managed with an ad hoc green screen set-up.

I was thinking the atrium but they'd hung a green cloth to create the centre screen and then made a mess of it.

I thought BBC Sport still had two VR studios anyhow - the larger one used for the football and smaller one generally used for other sport.   I'm sure they've been used simultaneously before, but wouldn't be surprising if one had been decommissioned considering how rarely they're both in use.

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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - RhysJR - 05-08-2023

(05-08-2023, 11:10 AM)Brekkie Wrote:  I was thinking the atrium but they'd hung a green cloth to create the centre screen and then made a mess of it.

I thought BBC Sport still had two VR studios anyhow - the larger one used for the football and smaller one generally used for other sport.   I'm sure they've been used simultaneously before, but wouldn't be surprising if one had been decommissioned considering how rarely they're both in use.

If I remember correctly, the football one isn't 'there's' per se, I think they hire it when they use it, and they're not launching their football progamming until the Premier League resumes next week so it probably isn't available just yet.

The other studio was used for the FIFA Women's World Cup this morning. That was off air at 0815, so almost two hours before the netball coverage began, so they could have potentially been done back-to-back from that studio. But with extra time potentially making that turnover even tighter, and until Thursday it was possible the BBC were showing the 09:00 kick-off it was probably right to find another location for the netball, however rubbish it is.

In early 2021, some coverage (Australian Open tennis highlights as below, and the rescheduled France v. Scotland match in the Six Nations come to mind) came from what was called the 'Question of Sport studio'. Not sure if that was available as back up. Another back up over the years was the room with a view over the Shipping Canal that hosted the 2015 World Athletics Championships and the 2018 Olympics and Commonwealth Games. I assume that is no longer a studio space as I haven't seen it since.

https://twitter.com/KDownesSport/status/1360555412572033026?s=20 

https://youtu.be/TX_5n8V2AqA 

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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - Brekkie - 05-08-2023

I thought football had moved in to share the Blue Peter studio?

The North West Today studio now going spare in the mornings too. Apparently this space is directly above the new Breakfast set and I think if they didn't have the mess on the floor even though a bit dark they'd get away with it, though lighting saves any studio set.

Rip Off Britain and Breakfast themselves have hosted from around the building in areas which looked much more TV friendly.

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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - RhysJR - 05-08-2023

It's not 100% clear in the below, but I get the impression that the Match of the Day studio is owned by Dock10 rather than the BBC.

https://www.svgeurope.org/blog/headlines/creating-space-how-and-why-bbc-sport-turned-to-virtual-reality-for-its-football-studio-refresh/ 

https://www.dock10.co.uk/televisionstudios/hq7/ 

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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - Newshound47 - 05-08-2023

(04-08-2023, 12:56 PM)gottago Wrote:  I’m not suggesting just athletics and swimming, but I think it’s fair to say there’s a world in which the games could exist without quite a lot of minority sports like lawn bowls and 3x3 basketball. If it brings the cost down of buying the rights and broadcasting the games then that could help increase its mainstream profile beyond just the UK and Australia. 

Maybe ending the games is the answer, which would be ironic given Birmingham was the biggest games ever. Personally I find the games become less relevant each time they come around, probably because the Commonwealth itself feels less relevant as time goes on and feels like an increasingly odd collection of countries.

Lawn Bowls would be one of the more appropriate ones to keep as it doesn’t have an another big game and the quality is fairly high.

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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - RhysJR - 05-08-2023

Jeff Stelling going on tour, hosted by Bianca Westwood

https://twitter.com/JeffStelling/status/1687782889977442304?t=QwWZet-6-o6Mf8Pj5iXOlQ&s=19 

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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - AM160 - 05-08-2023

(05-08-2023, 11:47 AM)Brekkie Wrote:  I thought football had moved in to share the Blue Peter studio?

The North West Today studio now going spare in the mornings too. Apparently this space is directly above the new Breakfast set and I think if they didn't have the mess on the floor even though a bit dark they'd get away with it, though lighting saves any studio set.

Rip Off Britain and Breakfast themselves have hosted from around the building in areas which looked much more TV friendly.

The Netball set is defiantly not a green screen, virtual set...I'll agree it doesn't look great, but we don't know what budget was available
Women's World Cup is in the green screen.

The NWT studio, whilst is dark in the mornings at the moment isn't connected to anything useful that sport can use. Likewise the sports studios aren't connected to the news infrastructure so its not much use

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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - RhysJR - 05-08-2023

Rather disappointing that Amazon Prime have no studio coverage for Ireland v. Italy, or for the Welsh language option for Wales v. England. Even more so when you think in a few weeks a broadcaster with far less overall budget will have studio coverage for the likes of Romania v. Tonga.

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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - robertclark125 - 05-08-2023

The weather has caused problems for live sporting events today. The Hundred cricket matches, live on both BBC2 and Sky Sports were washed out. Play in the mens match at Old Trafford did get under way, but was later abandoned. The last three races at Glorious Goodwood, on ITV, were also abandoned due to bad weather. BBC2 showed Grand tours of Scotland, and Sky showing old cricket. Not sure what ITV showed.

Now it's the turn of a USA event. On Sky Sports F1, qualifying for the Indycar Grand Prix of Nashville, on a street circuit, is delayed due to earlier heavy rain, and lightning. The rain has abated, but the problem now is lots of puddles on the track. This has now exposed a problem for Sky Sports F1; for race day, Tom Gaymor is in a booth in London, providing some commentary and reading out tweets, when NBC commentary stops for ad breaks, but this arrangement isn't in place, it seems, for qualifying. The result is, NBC Peacock, which is broadcasting the qualifying today in the USA, has stopped commentary, and we're left looking at live coverage of the start finish line, but no commentary, or other voiceovers currently.

UPDATE: Leigh Diffey of NBC came back onto the coverage, to announce that qualifying had been rescheduled to 18:15 ET, 17:15 Nashville time. That's 23:15 our time, and so Sky Sports F1 has switched to a programme looking back at the 1995 F1 Belgian Grand Prix, with three drivers who took part in it.

And not weather related (I think) but Sky Sports actions coverage of the Argentina v South Africa rugby union match is affected by serious sound problems.

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