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(July 2008)

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ST
Ste Founding member
Another Eurosport channel has launched today, Eurosport HD is on Sky 412, SD events are shown in widescreen on this channel too. According to DS Eurosport News is returning to the UK after it was previously replaced by Eurosport 2.
RE
remlap
Also now Eurosport HD launched theres an alternative to Olympics in HD hopefully than the BBC Very Happy
HC
Hatton Cross
Ste posted:
Another Eurosport channel has launched today, Eurosport HD is on Sky 412, SD events are shown in widescreen on this channel too. According to DS Eurosport News is returning to the UK after it was previously replaced by Eurosport 2.


Eurosport News was even worse than Setanta Sports News for incompetent broadcasting. Most of the time the football scores were out of date, and it the channel wasn't updated frequently enough. So a return for this channel will not be welcome.

And I'd rather British Eurosport went 16:9 rather than than relegate the widescreen output to the HD channel.
NW
nwtv2003
Ste posted:
Another Eurosport channel has launched today, Eurosport HD is on Sky 412, SD events are shown in widescreen on this channel too. According to DS Eurosport News is returning to the UK after it was previously replaced by Eurosport 2.


Eurosport News was dire, imagine EuroNews but in a rather boring way. Anyway Eurosport News is on pretty much most of the time Eurosport 2 isn't showing anything.
SG
SiGa
Ste posted:
. According to DS Eurosport News is returning to the UK after it was previously replaced by Eurosport 2.


Unfortuneatly it is. Its video testing on a label which for weeks was black level with EPG info for NFL TV which is now delayed til next year at the earliest.

Eurosport news is still dire.
JO
Jon
Eurosport needs a new logo, it's TV answer to Morrisons in terms of branding.
ST
Ste Founding member
wells posted:
Eurosport needs a new logo, it's TV answer to Morrisons in terms of branding.


Look what a disaster Morrisons new logo is though.
JO
Jon
Ste posted:
wells posted:
Eurosport needs a new logo, it's TV answer to Morrisons in terms of branding.


Look what a disaster Morrisons new logo is though.

It's not up to much but it's certainly more easy on the eye.
JO
Joe
Do you mind? There is a dedicated Morrisons thread on Metropol.
SG
SatGold
They use to air TNA wrestling but instead of tna announcers they used a eurosport guy over the top of tna announcers and the guy new sod all about wrestling.
take a look some new japan wrestling with eurosport commentary (awful)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5cKVkd6OBg&feature=related
RD
rdd Founding member
wells posted:
Eurosport needs a new logo, it's TV answer to Morrisons in terms of branding.


I think the logo has been around since what, 1993 now??? Certainly has to be one of the longest lasting logos on British television (yes I know Eurosport is French...). The Channel 4 logo is around longer, but has been restyled and altered (lost its colour and thrown in a circle, then a box, then the current 3D-ised version) but the Eurosport logo has stayed identical.

(Someone will point out now how the US networks have had much the same logos since the 1950s...)

Oddly enough, I prefered the original Europsort logo from 1989. Same idea, but the text was in a different font and was red and yellow instead of blue and white/red.
OV
Orry Verducci
I'm sure the font on the logo has been updated at some point, as looking at clips of Eurosport from the 90's, the font appears to be different, although similar.

Personally I quite like the Eurosport logo, although they could consider giving it a slightly more 'glassy' appearance, in accordance with current design styles.

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