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DV
dvboy
Tonight they are going to be 15 minutes late to the tennis on Sky Sports Action, they are starting on time on Sky Sports Mix (which hasn't previously shown any of it all week as far as I know).

Seen lots of tweets from people unable to find Sky Sports Mix since it moved to 121, mostly searching for today's Super Rugby final which is also otherwise only on the red button.
SU
SkyUser23
No music for titles on soccer Saturday.Guess it's cheaper that way to not pay licence fees.

Full screen graphics for matches with no video link or presenter watching are very ugly too.

Used to be red white and blue but they removed red and the graphidp look much worse.

Bring back the old sky sports with no rush to end the program. Proper analysis better graphics and better use of channels.

This is the lowest point of sky sports for years for me.
HC
Hatton Cross
Fine. Unsubscribe then. Stop wasting your money on something you think is now a sub-standard product/service.

And before you call up Sky to cancel - Soccer Saturday has always had full screen graphics when there is no reporter at the ground or if one of the 'legends' in the studio watching the feed of the game.
nwtv2003 and Brekkie gave kudos
SU
SkyUser23
[quote="Hatton Cross" pid="1073295"And before you call up Sky to cancel - Soccer Saturday has always had full screen graphics when there is no reporter at the ground or if one of the 'legends' in the studio watching the feed of the game.[/quote]

Indeed, but the current ones are terrible, the two colour blue and white ones don't work the way the old ones used to with red as well.
LL
London Lite Founding member
I see Soccer Saturday is on Football, PL and Sky Sports News. I suppose the duplication is so those who subscribe to either football channel can still watch the show, despite the programme being also on SSN.
DV
dvboy
I see Soccer Saturday is on Football, PL and Sky Sports News. I suppose the duplication is so those who subscribe to either football channel can still watch the show, despite the programme being also on SSN.


With the 3pm blackout what else are they going to show on those channels? Might as well simulcast.
MY
MY83
[quote="Hatton Cross" pid="1073295"And before you call up Sky to cancel - Soccer Saturday has always had full screen graphics when there is no reporter at the ground or if one of the 'legends' in the studio watching the feed of the game.


Indeed, but the current ones are terrible, the two colour blue and white ones don't work the way the old ones used to with red as well.[/quote]

The aesthetics are irrelevant for a programme of this type. So long as it does its job.
DV
dvboy
dvboy posted:
Tonight they are going to be 15 minutes late to the tennis on Sky Sports Action, they are starting on time on Sky Sports Mix (which hasn't previously shown any of it all week as far as I know).


And as of 19:00 they are still showing live golf on Mix.
JA
JAS84
dvboy posted:
I see Soccer Saturday is on Football, PL and Sky Sports News. I suppose the duplication is so those who subscribe to either football channel can still watch the show, despite the programme being also on SSN.


With the 3pm blackout what else are they going to show on those channels? Might as well simulcast.

Yeah, it's either that or repeats.
DV
dvboy
dvboy posted:
dvboy posted:
Tonight they are going to be 15 minutes late to the tennis on Sky Sports Action, they are starting on time on Sky Sports Mix (which hasn't previously shown any of it all week as far as I know).


And as of 19:00 they are still showing live golf on Mix.


And after all that, Sky Sports Action got to the tennis first, dropping in during the first game while Sky Sports Mix is still doing golf analysis.

9 days later

DV
dvboy
Did anybody capture the rebranding of Sky Sports 2,3,4 or 5 during the night like Sky Sports 1 below?
Figured that no one captured footage of any of the former numbered channels rebrand so I decided to share this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=940T61oapeg

Still waiting for an answer...

I think you can assume no.
JO
johnnyboy Founding member
Just watching the Italian football on Mix.

The Italian version of Sky is using the old, much better logo, albeit without the pluralising S on Sports.

The new design and graphics package is just awful. Very 1930s Germany.

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