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Sky Sports News New Look aswell (July 2009)

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nwtv2003
rdd posted:
IIRC the Skysports.com TV name lasted a mere few months. It was quite a silly idea done at the height of the .com boom (ranks with Iceland's stupidity of rebranding itself iceland.co.uk) - made it sound like it was a website which just happened to operate a TV channel, rather than the other way around...


Sky Sports.comTV lasted from mid-2000 to about early 2001, IIRC in the US they did have a channel called Fox Sports.comTV so whether they based it on that I don't know.

With regards to SSN, my only faults with the current look is that there's no 16:9 and the music is becoming very tiresome.
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skyfan
nwtv2003 posted:
rdd posted:
IIRC the Skysports.com TV name lasted a mere few months. It was quite a silly idea done at the height of the .com boom (ranks with Iceland's stupidity of rebranding itself iceland.co.uk) - made it sound like it was a website which just happened to operate a TV channel, rather than the other way around...


Sky Sports.comTV lasted from mid-2000 to about early 2001, IIRC in the US they did have a channel called Fox Sports.comTV so whether they based it on that I don't know.

With regards to SSN, my only faults with the current look is that there's no 16:9 and the music is becoming very tiresome.


Or maybe not then!
Last edited by skyfan on 2 August 2009 7:59pm
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Michael
skyfan posted:
Wonder what songs they would use now if they still did it that way?

Probably;

Good Morning Sports Fans/Morning Report - When Love Takes Over, David Guetta
Football Today/Afternoon Report - Techincolour, Coldpay
Evening Update/Football Tonight - In For The Kill, La Roux
Through The Night - Paparazzi, Lady GaGa


Or probably not. Just what the hell are you talking about? What makes you think a selection of chavtastic chick-friendly here-today-gone-tomorrow pieces of *cough* "music" are suitable for a male-orientated sport channel?
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rob Founding member
skyfan posted:
Good Morning Sports Fans/Morning Report - When Love Takes Over, David Guetta
Football Today/Afternoon Report - Techincolour, Coldpay
Evening Update/Football Tonight - In For The Kill, La Roux
Through The Night - Paparazzi, Lady GaGa


Not wishing to sound rude here, but you're having a giraffe. I would switch off immediately if they started using those tracks...
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skyfan
Anyway, someone on DS is stating that the Widescreen icon is showing on the EPG for tomorrow morning on SSN.
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harshy Founding member
I hope they get rid of their Premiership tune which they've used for years, and start giving us proper theme tunes like they did in the 90s!
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Andrew M
skyfan posted:
Anyway, someone on DS is stating that the Widescreen icon is showing on the EPG for tomorrow morning on SSN.


Nope, its not, only on SSHD1.
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rob Founding member
The old look is still on air this morning...
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altrus
rob posted:
The old look is still on air this morning...


Well what did you expect, a channel rebranding in the morning while everyone wakes up!

Most channels these days rebrand after 6.
RD
rdd Founding member
altrus posted:
rob posted:
The old look is still on air this morning...


Well what did you expect, a channel rebranding in the morning while everyone wakes up!



Done by Sky several times! It was once de riguer of Sky (particularly in the 1993-1998 era) to have a rebrand, like clockwork, every two years or so, accross all of its channels, usually at 6am in the morning.
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rob Founding member
altrus posted:
rob posted:
The old look is still on air this morning...


Well what did you expect, a channel rebranding in the morning while everyone wakes up!

Most channels these days rebrand after 6.


You don't say... Rolling Eyes
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Brekkie
Thinking about it it would be a bit strange to rebrand in the middle of The Ashes - certainly as a test match is on-going, although usually with Sky Sports revamps there is a mix of old and new for a while, with football changing first and then everything else following suit in the months that follow.

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