[NI92]

After all these years, the ITV 2006 graphics are finally dead as ITV's snooker coverage has new graphics today. Not sure why blue and black are the dominant colours rather than the greens used on the generic football graphics and the ITV Sport logo, but overall looks quite nice. I think this is the recently intorduced font used on the ITV website, programme trailers etc.?











With Jill Douglas based in France during the Rugby World Cup, Rishi Persad is leading the coverage this week from Cheltenham. The ITV snooker coverage is generally excellent, but one gripe I do have is the lack of multi-table coverage that is standard with the BBC and Eurosport (there's four tables playing this afternoon). You'd hope with the advent of ITVX this would become a possibility, but as of yet it does not look it will happen.

PS Nice touch that the trophy is the Clive Everton Trophy after his lengthy commentary tenure with the BBC and latterly ITV, and his work as editor of the Snooker Scene magazine, that he stepped down from last September.

They moved away from the 2006 set at the World Series of Darts Finals the other week as well
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[Jon]

ITV sport graphics seem to be all over the place it's in desperate need of a unified approach.

It looked like they were going for the unified approach, the football, domestic rugby and NFL all had the same new green graphics package. But this season the NFL Show seems to have gone it own way and Snooker and Darts seem to have gone off in different directions. 

Not a massive fan of green graphics, they look ugly in parts.

These Snooker ones look quite nice and the name lower thirds in particular remind me of the BBC Sport graphics from around 2000.

Perhaps ITV Sport is going to reclaim dark blue and this look will replace the green graphics on the football when the FA Cup comes around.

[lookoutwales]

And a new virtual sports studio for BBC Wales. And in typical BBC joined-up thinking, looks likely to be based on the recently departed Match of the Day studio in Salford.

A similar set (with a rather more basic design) was used for S4C's highlights of the Iceland v Wales game, which also made use of the new UEFA graphics. Even ran similar opening and closing montages.

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Unusual to see BBC Cymru producing football for S4C these days - most of it is produced by Rondo, an indie company, under the 'Sgorio' banner.

[fusionlad]

Nice graphics on the Junior Ryder Cup on Sky Sports now. Not sure if these will be the same for the main event tomorrow.

Can be seen on Sky Sports Mix for those without sports sub.

[Rdd]

Not sure I like them, the score bar looks squashed. (Never understood the need for a constant score bar in match play golf - it can be hours between score changes).

The Solheim Cup last weekend used Sky’s graphics (though apparently “A/S” has been dumped in favor of “Tie” - I gather that’s a change to the rules of match play golf rather than down to Sky).

[RhysJR]

It's also available for free on YouTube here. I have to agree they do look rather squished.

Last week did indeed have Tied used rather than A/S on the world feed graphics, which caused some online debate. The BBC graphics and website used A/S still, so with the world feed graphics used on the action on the highlights, and the BBC's own graphics also popping up, both appeared on the same programme.

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[RhysJR]

The England and Wales women's International rugby matches that are currently occuring are without a broadcaster. The Telegraph last week reported that the BBC were offered the rights for the England games for free but turned them down. This essentially seems to be because of the short time frame between the announcement of the fixtures and when they actually take place. It is worth noting that these rights are sold by the Six Nations centrally, like is the case of the men's matches, although from what I can observe the non-Six Nations matches are not sold in one block but by team (i.e. France matches are not shown in the UK). It is also worth noting that there was no live sporting action on BBC One or Two last Saturday oor this coming Saturday, with the usual weekday daytime fare on BBC One each Saturday between Football Focus and Final Score.

The England match last weekend was streamed on YouTube by the RFU, and the same looks to be happening for this weekend's Wales match. The viewing figures for the England stream are below, they would certainly be higher on actual TV.

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By the sounds of it, Eurosport are cutting back their snooker presentation. For the upcoming English Open, studio coverage will only begin on the Friday rather than the Monday as has been the case since studio presentation began. A little disappointing, especially with the lack of studio coverage that appears on Eurosport's covergae of anything in general, though it is an obvious cutback for them - I doubt Jimmy White or Ronnie O'Sullivan are particularly cheap.

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[NI92]

By the sounds of it, Eurosport are cutting back their snooker presentation. For the upcoming English Open, studio coverage will only begin on the Friday rather than the Monday as has been the case since studio presentation began. A little disappointing, especially with the lack of studio coverage that appears on Eurosport's covergae of anything in general, though it is an obvious cutback for them - I doubt Jimmy White or Ronnie O'Sullivan are particularly cheap.

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Their simulcasts on Quest were also cut down to Friday-Sunday this year as well

[SuperSajuuk]

By the sounds of it, Eurosport are cutting back their snooker presentation. For the upcoming English Open, studio coverage will only begin on the Friday rather than the Monday as has been the case since studio presentation began. A little disappointing, especially with the lack of studio coverage that appears on Eurosport's covergae of anything in general, though it is an obvious cutback for them - I doubt Jimmy White or Ronnie O'Sullivan are particularly cheap.

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Dave Hendon hinted at it on his podcast too. Quite shameful to cut down the studio coverage to such a small sliver, where you would argue that there isn't any point having a studio for just a couple of days. I realise we're all in a cost-cutting era and a large part of this is to do with the WBD + TNT Sport merger, but buying up rights to basically every single event on the World Snooker Tour [barring a couple of Matchroom events], and then stripping back the coverage to the point of requiring the commentators to have to present the programme with little analysis or deep-dives rather devalues the sport. All this does is makes ITV and BBC coverage look positively top-notch by comparison.

[Rdd]

Sky using their own graphics for the Ryder Cup - although they’ve added a second scoreboard with the status of each individual match in the bottom right hand corner, which they didn’t have for the Solheim last week.