[shropshireguy28]

Coverage has been terrible today, not sure if anyone had it but my stream has frozen and jumped. I know I have said it before but if this was on ITV/Free to air channel this would not have happened.

[Rdd]

No issues for me on TNT Sports on Now TV, at least for the second half. I have to say I couldn’t get on the RTE Player feed, but the fault there may have been on my end. I have to say kudos for whoever’s bright idea it was to get Jose Mourihno on, he’s been a great (if temporary) addition to the coverage.

[bkman1990]

RTÉ2 has a lower third graphic on the bottom of the screen which says Real Madrid are UEFA Champions League Winners.

Although it is not shown in the UEFA graphic template format. It might be a graphics template from the RTÉ Sport department.

[thegeek]

I watched the second half on the Discovery+ app on a YouView box, and there was no freezing or stuttering - it was clean, and without the poor frame rate conversion the YouTube stream suffered in previous years.

One minor note from what I saw of TNT's coverage - they added a graphic post match labelling Real Madrid as "UCL winners". I know UCL gets used quite a bit internally, but would your average viewer ever refer to the Champions League as that?

[RhysJR]

No issues for me on TNT Sports on Now TV, at least for the second half. I have to say I couldn’t get on the RTE Player feed, but the fault there may have been on my end. I have to say kudos for whoever’s bright idea it was to get Jose Mourihno on, he’s been a great (if temporary) addition to the coverage.

No problem me for Discovery+ either, apart from when I was trying to skip through the adverts when watching the build-up on a slight delay. RTÉ Player almost always ends up giving me a horrible picture quality when I try using it.

Got to agree Jose Mourinho was an unexpected success. A personal favourite was ahead of kick-off when laura Woods asked him what he told his players before a final and answered something like "Make sure their families are crying not ours".

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RTÉ2 has a lower third graphic on the bottom of the screen which says Real Madrid are UEFA Champions League Winners.

Although it is not shown in the UEFA graphic template format. It might be a graphics template from the RTÉ Sport department.

I think all broadcasters use their own lower third graphics for things like that. The TNT Sports one looks close to the UEFA template, but it's not the right font I don't think.

ZDF in Germany are using their own lower thirds for interviews etc. and used their own graphics for teamsheets etc. in the build-up. Surprised they are allowed to do that.

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Coverage has been terrible today, not sure if anyone had it but my stream has frozen and jumped. I know I have said it before but if this was on ITV/Free to air channel this would not have happened.

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[RhysJR]

CBS had a star signing as a new pundit tonight. Branching out after her work on the Super Bowl.

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I watched the second half on the Discovery+ app on a YouView box, and there was no freezing or stuttering - it was clean, and without the poor frame rate conversion the YouTube stream suffered in previous years.

One minor note from what I saw of TNT's coverage - they added a graphic post match labelling Real Madrid as "UCL winners". I know UCL gets used quite a bit internally, but would your average viewer ever refer to the Champions League as that?

I wouldn't call myself an 'average viewer' but I would use UCL on the internet at least. It's far shorter than UEFA Champions League anyway. #UCL on Twitter gives a special emoji and I think it's common internet shorthand on hashtag etc., like on the CBS post above.

Next year the acronyms get a little disfigured with the Europa Confernce League dropping the 'Europa' from its name, so that will be UCL as well, rather than UECL. That will be one of many changes for next season of course, including Thursday night Champions League football in one week in September.

[Rdd]

I don’t think so. I have seen it used by UEFA, but I suspect it might become a bit more problematic going forward as the third tier tournament becomes the UEFA Conference League.

[News Engineer]

I watched the second half on the Discovery+ app on a YouView box, and there was no freezing or stuttering - it was clean, and without the poor frame rate conversion the YouTube stream suffered in previous years.

Same experience for me with Discovery+ on AppleTV for the whole game. Completely clean, no freezing or stuttering.

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There seems to be something wrong with the video feed that's showing the UEFA Champions League Final in Wembley.

A Video Signal Detected slide came up on the screen on RTÉ2 during the match. Some scenes of the match had audio cut out for a time.

I wonder does that error from UEFA itself or with the individual broadcasters?

Did anyone see this error occur from TNT Sports who are showing the game in the UK?

No issues with on TNT Sports. Sounds like an issue either at RTE or in the world feed distribution to them. (Can’t remember if it’s EBU or IMG who handle it.)

TNT were on site so likely took the match feed locally (especially as they were host broadcaster), but would have had a backup via different route to Chiswick as well.

[Brekkie]

Coverage has been terrible today, not sure if anyone had it but my stream has frozen and jumped. I know I have said it before but if this was on ITV/Free to air channel this would not have happened.

I assume you mean the radio stream you were listening too considering you made it very clear you wouldn't sign up to watch it for free on TNT.

[shropshireguy28]

I assume you mean the radio stream you were listening too considering you made it very clear you wouldn't sign up to watch it for free on TNT.

I ended up watching it in the end, didn't think it was bad coverage but just the stream jumped, mainly in the second half