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This weekend's rugby internationals at Twickenham will be live on Sky Sports Action. The double header has South Africa v. Wales also being shown on S4C, folowed by Barbarians v. Fiji, live only on Sky.
There is still no broadcaster(s) announced for Scotland's summer tour fixtures against Canada, USA, Chile and Uruguay. When they announced their squad on June 12th, they said that the matches will be televised and "broadcast details confirmed in due course". July 6th is their first game.
The first few fixtures might clash with the Copa America on Premier Sports, and BBC Scotland the other logical guess.
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The 2025 African Cup of Nations in Morocco will take place over Christmas, starting on December 21st and ending on January 18th. The tournament is supposed to be now held at this time of year to avoid a clash with the European domestic season, but has been pushed back by six months due to the new, expanded Club World Cup taking its slot. The 2023 season was held in January/February this year becasue of the rainy season.
All quite of a mess really. FIFA have stepped on CAF's feet, who moved off European club's feet, but now have been pushd back on their feet. This will impact the ever busy Christmas period of English football, but will likely not clash with any UEFA Champions League matchdays, itself now an expanded competition.
Most of the tournament, including the business end, will be in a quiet period for Sky Sports in January, so I wouldn't be surprised if the current arrangement of Sky/BBC airing the competition would continue, even if there might be no linear outlet for the early parts of the group stage.
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To the Club World Cup itself, that is threatening to fall apart at the seams. Players Unions and potentially clubs/leagues are threatening to sue FIFA over the extra football, and Bloomberg reports that the potential global rights deal with Apple TV has fallen through. Apple bid $1 billion for global rights, but FIFA was expecting $4 billion and now are considering to go back to the traditional strategy of selling the rights on a region-by region or country-by-country basis. They are also consulting with clubs to lower prize money if they do get less revenue than they anticipated.
Can only be happy that its blowing up in FIFA's face.
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Japan v England on RugbyPass and the host broadcaster graphics are the same, RWC 2015/ Sky NZ spinning ball era inspired ones we used to get for the Sunwolves games in Super Rugby.
Not sure if this is the first time RP has done its own studio show but it’s a nice virtual set, the lower thirds are in odd shade of blue with black text, the contrast is horrible.
Nick Heath and Tom May on comms.
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(22-06-2024, 07:52 AM)Rdd Wrote: Japan v England on RugbyPass and the host broadcaster graphics are the same, RWC 2015/ Sky NZ spinning ball era inspired ones we used to get for the Sunwolves games in Super Rugby.
Not sure if this is the first time RP has done its own studio show but it’s a nice virtual set, the lower thirds are in odd shade of blue with black text, the contrast is horrible.
Nick Heath and Tom May on comms.
Don't think RugbyPass have done any coverage of their own before, but this is the highest profile event they've shown. They have likely had studio coverage on some of their action, but that would be taking the broadcast direct from the likes on Stan Sport when covering a women's international.
I've been impressed with the effort, certainly wasn't expecting a studio set-up with some notable rugby broadcasters appearing. I think Nick Heath has commentated on the Japan games when they have appeared on Premier Sports in the past, so not sure if it is a world feed-like commentary.
Despite these graphics being more basic than the Sky NZ ones thy take inspiration from, I have a real soft spot for the originals, so it's nice to see them live on in a way. I love that it still changes the teams around for the second half to show which side is playing from which side of the pitch.
On the subject of RugbyPass, they will be showing every game live from the World Rugby Under 20 Championship and Under 20 Trophy. The second tier competition will be hosted in Edinburgh this year and all four Scotland games will be shown live exclusively on BBC Alba as well.
Nothing yet in the linear schedules of the channels that broadcasted the U20 Championship last season in the UK & Ireland. S4C will be showing the Wales Women match v. Spain at the same time as Wales' first U20 match, so it is possible they will show it online only and show the other fixtures live. Nothing next Saturday on the Virgin Media channels in Ireland, and no highlights show listed on ITV 4 either.
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It may well have been a world feed, the studio presenter (whom I didn’t recognise) tried to hand back after half time only to be met with silence, cue a few minutes of jokes about sandwiches and gyms before they did finally hand back.
Over on Sky NZ itself, the Super Rugby final (no more competitive a game, unfortunately) came with a gold twist to the normal graphics (they’ve been using this through the playoffs) plus a special “Grand Final” replay wipe. I thought Grant Nesbitt and Justin Marshall used to get all the high profile games, but it’s Tony Johnson instead.
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(22-06-2024, 08:55 AM)Rdd Wrote: It may well have been a world feed, the studio presenter (whom I didn’t recognise) tried to hand back after half time only to be met with silence, cue a few minutes of jokes about sandwiches and gyms before they did finally hand back.
Over on Sky NZ itself, the Super Rugby final (no more competitive a game, unfortunately) came with a gold twist to the normal graphics (they’ve been using this through the playoffs) plus a special “Grand Final” replay wipe. I thought Grant Nesbitt and Justin Marshall used to get all the high profile games, but it’s Tony Johnson instead.
It was David Flatman hosting for RugbyPass, someone more often on the other side of the studio, but is an enjoyable presenter when he steps up.
I think Grant Nisbitt and Justin Marshall ar being phased out by Sky NZ. Nesbitt is around 73 years old, so could likely be retiring in this World Cup cycle one would imagine. Twitter didn't react well to him calling most of the South African backline Mapimpi when they played New Zealand last summer. Marshall on the other hand was not chosen by Sky to travel to France for the RWC last year (they only sent the one commentary team onsite), which he was apparently not pleased about. He ended up covering the tournament for SuperSport instead of Sky.
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The South Africa v. Wales match at Twickenham is a little bizarre.
S4C are using graphics in the Qatar Airways maroon, as is the world feed, but they are different. The English world feed graphics is the same as saw in the NZ v. SA fixture last year. S4C's are different, using what looks like the WRU's official typeface so possibly something from them.
Sky Sports is the most odd. They took the SuperSport South African build-up in full. Whilst I certainly welcome them showing the Southern hemisphere studio coverage (something they didn't do this morning on the Super Rugby for example), it seems a little odd to do for a test involving a home nation. SuperSport do have a prescence onsite, but took pre-match interviews from Martin Gillingham, who is now commentating for the world feed airing on Sky, alongside Jamie Roberts.
All just quite strange.
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Quite nice graphics for the Wales v SA match on S4C though the scorebar (and massive S4C) DOG let it down. Not sure if Sky have the same (in Qatar Airways purple).
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Sky does have the purple Qatar Airways branded graphics, but their score bar is different to S4C’s, much smaller, different font and overall not dissimilar to Sky’s one from when they last covered rugby.
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Probably asked this before. But NBC is carrying the Royal Ascot Day 5 (Days 1-4 were Sky Simulcasts). But on day 5 they go back to ITV Racing for races, interviews, and other things. Are there different rights to different races of the day?
