30-07-2023, 10:55 AM
(29-07-2023, 03:13 PM)RhysJR Wrote: Unsuprisingly, the Summer Nations Series rugby (the Rugby World Cup warm-ups hosted by the Six Nations sides) appears to be using the same graphics as the Autumn Nations Series, but with orange and yellow replacing light blue and pink where they appear. The Summer Nations Series logo is identical to the autumn one bar the same colour change, and it has inherited the same social media channels as the autumn.Bank of Ireland Nations Series for IRFU hosted fixtures (just two this time around, with a third game hosted in France on a weekend the Aviva’s not available because of Navy @ Notre Dame).
A slight note is that it appears that each nation has also got it's own branding for the series, as was the case before the grouping of the rights (and I think England and possibly Wales was still carrying a sponsor logo in the Autumn Nations Cup in 2020). Today (Scotland v. Italy) is part of the Famous Grouse Nations Series, and I've seen a different brand used somewhere in the WRU marketing website as well.
Finally, Prime seem to be using a similar line-up of talent to their previous rugby showings, which I'd say is good news as almost everyone they use is excellent. It does look like they have reduced the size of their coverage somewhat though, with only the two pundits being used, doubling up as co-comms today, and build-ups throughout the summer only appearing to be 20 minutes long.
On Sky Sports, while I don’t think there’s any harbringer of a change in that promo, it does remind me that the current Sky Sports look has recently passed six years old, although it’s been refershed in the interim with new idents (essentially in a similar style to the previous ones) and a refresh of the match graphics. Wonder when there’ll be a change next. Football season starts in the lower leagues on Friday (already!) so maybe some indication there, and there’s been some media talk of a new studio for Soccer Saturday.