The Sport Thread

thats good news star are excellent at producing cricket coverage, the world feed is of an extremely high standard, so i am glad its worked out good for sky as well.

OCD alert..... Why can't Sky choose one EPG title for their live football and stick to it? Tonight on Sky Sports 1 we've got " Live Football: Euro Qualifiers " (aka Poland v Scotland). On SS2 we've got " Live International Football " (aka Greece v Norn Iron). Finally for good measure, on SS5 we've got " Germany v Republic of Ireland ". Between them they conspire to be both correct but inaccurate at the same time. Grr.

I've only just got used to the channel numbers being one digit out.....

I am still suffering from the one-digit out on sky sports and keep going to the wrong channels! Too many years of the old numbering, me thinks!

Quite liking the new ECPR rugby graphics, use of mixed case for team and player names quite unusual these days, and the "sin bin clock" is a bit more readable than it used to be. Some of the other graphics, for example the TMO questions, are harder to read. Graphics are coloured purple for the Challenge Cup and presumably will be blue for the Champions Cup.

Music is the same as ERC days, though the Challenge Cup's own theme seems to be getting a bit more usage than it previously did.

Wondering whether it's time to re-invent the EPG, how about a tag based system, with a word cloud of say fifty terms which can be included / excluded from selecting programming from, producing a subset of programming to choose.

Or, you know, calling everything "Euro Qualifiers: POL v SCO"; "Euro Qualifiers: GRE v NI" and "Euro Qualifiers: "GER v IRE".

Blue and gold for the European Rugby Champions Cup.

Rather like the albeit pointless gimmick of animating the outline of the rugby ball shaped clock, providing the duration of the play in graphics as well as the time elapsed showing in figures.

We've come a long way ....

From the BBC Genome project 50 years ago today ...

22.25: TODAY AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES

Highlights of the eighth day of the 18th Olympic Games, brought to you by Satellite from Tokyo
Today's events include: ATHLETICS
50 km. Walk
Hammer FINAL
Long Jump FINAL (men)
110 m. Hurdles FINAL (men) 5,000 m. final
SWIMMING
400 m. Freestyle FINAL (women) 200 m. Butterfly FINAL (men)
4 x 110 m. Medlev Relav (women) 4 x 200 m. Freestyle Relay
Introduced by Cliff Michelmore
Commentary team in Tokyo,
David Coleman , Harry Carpenter Max Robertson , Peter West Frank Bough
Presented by BBC-tv Sport
Contributors
Unknown: Medlev Relav
Introduced By: Cliff Michelmore
Unknown: David Coleman
Unknown: Harry Carpenter
Unknown: Max Robertson
Unknown: Peter West
Unknown: Frank Bough

50 minutes in total .... and that was that.

Worth noting that the Sky and BT graphics for the EPCR are not exactly the same - they are both using distinctively different ways of showing the team sheets and Sky used a "TRY" transition which BT doesn't. The graphics seem to have been the result of a three way Sky/BT/EPCR tie in - there's elements of both broadcasters in there.

Also was strange seeing the Premier League scorers pop up in the EPCR font during the Sarries v Clermont game.
Edit: And it looks like BeinSport is using some of its own elements too. Seems the broadcasters have bit of freedom as long as they follow the house style overall.

Any caps?

A bit like ITV / Sky with the Champions League then.