The Sport Thread

HA

harshy Founding member 17 July 2016 5:13pm

toby lerone 2016 posted:

Eirsport are using those graphics too, so presumably they are the "world feed" graphics. They're huge, and horrible.

Terrible compared to last years world feed which were very similar to the BBC Sport style and were massively better

Am hearing rumours that ITV4 will announce secondary US Open Tennis Rights later in the week. Eurosport not claiming exclusivity on their promos might give this some validity.

Good news if it happens, have to give credit to ITV4 French Open Coverage which has been excellent the last few years.

The open graphics not much better on NBC Golf either it's a variation on the world graphics but still huge, sky definitely has the best graphics.

DV

dvboy 17 July 2016 6:20pm

Davis Cup dead rubber being shown on the BBC Sport website this evening with no commentary.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/tennis/36543053

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harshy Founding member 17 July 2016 7:57pm

I was on it earlier and there seemed to be commentary maybe it came later?

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dvboy 17 July 2016 8:24pm

Unless I happened to rewind to points that happened to have no commentary. Do you know who was commentating?

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harshy Founding member 17 July 2016 9:12pm

No idea dvboy I only watched two minutes

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A former member 17 July 2016 10:18pm

Question:

When does Jim white present Sky sport news? I have never spotted him of the many times I have catch coverage., is he only on the main footy season? or just deadline transfere day?

HB

HarryB 17 July 2016 10:20pm

623058 posted:

Question:

When does Jim white present Sky sport news? I have never spotted him of the many times I have catch coverage., is he only on the main footy season? or just deadline transfere day?

Jim White normally presents News HQ at Five & Six alongside Kirsty Gallagher.

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A former member 17 July 2016 10:24pm

Cheers, so its only a very short window. does he have any other duties with Sky sports?

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Ste Founding member 17 July 2016 10:26pm

I don't know if he still does but I have seen him present Scottish Football (SPL/SFA Cup) on Sky Sports too.

RD

rdd Founding member 18 July 2016 5:12pm

News today that Virgin Media in Ireland will pull all the EirSport, Premier Sports, and BT Sport channels from their platform as of 1st August 2016, having failed to agree a renewal on their carriage deal.

No one really wins from this - EirSport are losing a lot of advertising revenue from their basic carriage and great EPG position (105) on the Virgin Media platform, Virgin Media will lose pretty much any commercial customers they had left (for whom BT Sport with their Saturday 5:30pm KOs is pretty much a necessity, not to mention their European Cup rugby), and there are customers who might now be tied into 18 month contracts who won't be happy (though given the circumstances they might be able to cancel).

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Rex 18 July 2016 5:53pm

rdd posted:

News today that Virgin Media in Ireland will pull all the EirSport, Premier Sports, and BT Sport channels from their platform as of 1st August 2016, having failed to agree a renewal on their carriage deal.

No one really wins from this - EirSport are losing a lot of advertising revenue from their basic carriage and great EPG position (105) on the Virgin Media platform, Virgin Media will lose pretty much any commercial customers they had left (for whom BT Sport with their Saturday 5:30pm KOs is pretty much a necessity, not to mention their European Cup rugby), and there are customers who might now be tied into 18 month contracts who won't be happy (though given the circumstances they might be able to cancel).

Virgin will most likely lose a good chunk of its install base thanks to the loss of BT Sport. As for sport, Sky and Eir will probably gain more support as a result.

In Britain, Virgin has lost TV customers simply due to the fact that their TV service hasn't been marketed well and with the stiff competition from Sky, BT, TalkTalk and from streaming services such as NOW TV.

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harshy Founding member 18 July 2016 6:29pm

MetalGearRex posted:

rdd posted:

News today that Virgin Media in Ireland will pull all the EirSport, Premier Sports, and BT Sport channels from their platform as of 1st August 2016, having failed to agree a renewal on their carriage deal.

No one really wins from this - EirSport are losing a lot of advertising revenue from their basic carriage and great EPG position (105) on the Virgin Media platform, Virgin Media will lose pretty much any commercial customers they had left (for whom BT Sport with their Saturday 5:30pm KOs is pretty much a necessity, not to mention their European Cup rugby), and there are customers who might now be tied into 18 month contracts who won't be happy (though given the circumstances they might be able to cancel).

Virgin will most likely lose a good chunk of its install base thanks to the loss of BT Sport. As for sport, Sky and Eir will probably gain more support as a result.

In Britain, Virgin has lost TV customers simply due to the fact that their TV service hasn't been marketed well and with the stiff competition from Sky, BT, TalkTalk and from streaming services such as NOW TV.

Got to admit I am on Virgin and their tv packages are way too expensive.

(January 2006)