[Rdd]

ESPN’s are ridiculously OTT, they had a nice understated package for college football mind you for most of the 2010s.

NBC’s I do not like, preferred their previous package, Amazon’s are really just a variation on the NBC theme, changed just enough to make them distinctive but that’s not a surprise given the NBC involvement there.

CBS’ far and away the best at the moment, even if they are also the most conservative- they basically redid the previous set (which had been used for six years) and made it a bit more modern.

[W. Knight]

Staying with Fox, freshly-retired player Tom Brady's broadcasting career will not start until Fall 2024:
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Staying with Fox, freshly-retired player Tom Brady's broadcasting career will not start until Fall 2024:
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Some precedent to this: last May, Fox announced Brady would become its lead analyst when he retires (which eventually happened). The 10-year, $375m deal happened at the same time former #1 announcers Joe Buck and Troy Aikman were poached by ESPN for Monday Night Football; as a result, Fox announced their then-existing #2 team of Kevin Burkhardt and Greg Olsen would be promoted to replace Buck and Aikman, with Brady replacing Olsen when he's ready to do so. The nature of the deal (which also leverages Brady's celebrity notoriety) also surpasses the deal made between CBS and Tony Romo, who signed a three-year deal in 2017, and renewed it in 2020 for a $170m, 10-year deal.

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Still with Fox, their gargantuan Super Bowl LVII plans have been unveiled:



[*]Their studio shows move to the Great Lawn at State Farm Stadium this week, with a large presence (including the "largest" set Fox has built for its coverage) and 12 on site cameras for production needs.
[*]Pregame and postgame coverage, as well as the game itself, will be produced in Full HD (1080p) and will be upscaled to 4K, it will be natively produced in HDR. Xfinity, DIRECTV, Dish, FuboTV, YouTube TV and others will air the 4K feed, with Xfinity also airing an exclusive Dolby Vision HDR feed.
[*]FS1's talk shows move to Glendale on Thursday; Fox's coverage starts at 1pm EST and will continue up to 10:30pm EST. The season 2 premiere of Next Level Chef will follow the game, departing from the recent outings of The Masked Singer.
[*]Spanish coverage will be offered by Fox Deportes, simulcasting on the SAP channel on most OTA stations.


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Worth noting this will be the first time ITV and Virgin Media TV will cover the game in the UK and Ireland; Sky will also air the game on Sky Sports NFL (simulcasting on Main Event and Sky Showcase). As customary, for international broadcasters, NFL Films/NFL Network will produce a world feed of the game which rehashes the raw Fox feeds and integrates the graphics used by their Exclusive Game Series telecasts. ESPN International, which airs the game in Latin America and Africa, will produce their respective feeds using the NFL Films footage, but overlaying their own MNF graphics.

[London Lite]

Are viewers in the US able to watch the Super Bowl in Full HD? Fox (along with ABC) are only 720i on linear tv.

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Are viewers in the US able to watch the Super Bowl in Full HD?  Fox (along with ABC) are only 720i on linear tv.

The HD Fox stream will stay capped at 720p/720i, but for the 4K broadcast, they are producing it in Full HD in order to easily upscale the signal to 4K (with native standard HDR). It is easier and very cost-effective for them to directly produce in standard Full HD given much of the production will be done remotely (but still having to deal with a large presence on site), and Fox Sports' and NFL Media's facilities in LA have already 1080p-compliant/UHD-ready facilities. They did already this with most of their World Cup coverage (however the matches were aired in native 4K).

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NFL Playoffs 2023: Fox Sports Details 1080p/HDR Production Efforts
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[News Engineer]

The HD Fox stream will stay capped at 720p/720i

There’s no such thing as 720i - there’s 720p59.94 and 1080i59.94 (although if you’re being strictly accurate / are the EBU it’s 1080i29.97)

ABC and Fox are 720p59.94 networks, although some affiliates will be 1080i59.94.

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A break on Super Bowl-related things... Bally Sports' parent company, Diamond Sports (majority-owned and operated by Sinclair, with Allen Media Group having a minority interest) is about to declare itself in administration. The immediate aftermath of it would be the start of the decline for the regional sports network model, which in the streaming era is becoming more obsolete. MLB could also take back the regional rights to 14 teams to re-sell it to competing RSNs or offer them through MLB Advanced Media.

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Bally Sports RSNs Planning for Bankruptcy, Sources Say – Sportico.com
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Back to Super Bowl territory, Fox has unveiled the on-site studios for its overall coverage. In the Great Lawn, Fox will produce FS1 daily shows and Fox NFL Sunday on game day before a live studio audience, both in the stage and in the lawn. The large set has a large home base area and a demonstration field next to it. In the State Farm Stadium, Fox will have a position at the North wing of the stadium, with a retractable roof and pull-out stage, allowing the desk to move further into the field. Fox will also have a big 1,200 feet Skycam which will extend from the studio up to the stadium roof. 



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[W. Knight]

According to Tim Burke, Fox is launching new graphics for its NFL coverage this Super Bowl. It looks like they are going for a "revolutionary" design once again. Their outgoing NFL graphics were also considered "revolutionary", taking cues from gaming and comics, resulting on divisive reviews on social media.

Large foghorns maybe coming for their new graphics:
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According to Tim Burke, Fox is launching new graphics for its NFL coverage this Super Bowl. It looks like they are going for a "revolutionary" design once again. Their outgoing NFL graphics were also considered "revolutionary", taking cues from gaming and comics, resulting on divisive reviews on social media.

Large foghorns maybe coming for their new graphics:

And it looks like this is an evolution, rather than a full revolution, looking by this low-quality leak:

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Over on the pregame show, other overarching graphics are already on the air: