JAM TV replacing IMG as NBL Production Partner. Hopefully comes with a return to in arena commentary, although that’d be against the grain.
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Doubt it sadly with this quote:
“NEP will continue in deploying a full IP remote solution for the NBL coverage across Australia & New Zealand…”
Will we see new graphics? Or will the existing IP be transferred (or is already owned by NBL not IMG)?
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ESPN will air the week 2 MNF doubleheader between Titans @ Bills and Vikings @ Eagles on Tuesday, 20 September on both ESPN and ESPN2.
It is also slated to air the Chiefs@Chargers game which is on Amazon Prime in the US
Kickoff times
TEN @ BUF 9:15AM AEST ESPN
MIN @ PHI 10:30AM AEST ESPN2
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ESPN has picked up broadcast rights to WNBL for the first time, replacing Fox Sports as the pay TV broadcaster. Over the next two seasons, ESPN will show 16 regular season games per season including a featured Game of The Week live every Wednesday night, exclusively, plus all finals live.
The announcement means ESPN will show NBL, WNBL, Opals, Boomers and Basketball World Cup games over the next 24 months.
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And NBA, WNBA and College Basketball.
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The 2022 NFL season starts tomorrow morning (Friday). These are the matches to be shown on ESPN in Australia and New Zealand this weekend.
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Accomplished broadcaster Neroli Meadows will anchor ESPN’s daily coverage of the tournament having previously hosted the Super Bowl and NBA Finals for the network.
Two iconic voices of Australian sport, Jason Bennett and John Casey will provide live commentary for ESPN’s coverage of the FIBA Women’s World Cup.
Expert Kelsey Griffin will be courtside and will join ESPN reporters Kane Pitman and Alexa Philippou in delivering hoops fans all the latest updates from across the tournament.
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According to today’s Herald Sun, there will be several new faces in the ESPN commentary team for the 2022-23 NBL season, which starts this Saturday (October 1). They are Leigh Montagna, Erin Phillips, Mitch Creek, Jenna O’Hea, Adam Gibson, Alister Nicholson, Anneli Maley, Bec Cole, Brett Maher and Joel Peterson.
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Surprised to see no Jason Bennett, especially since he is doing the FIBA Women’s World Cup for ESPN & He also does/did WNBL games too. Maybe he is too busy with AFL & AFLW for 7?
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Heard on ABC Radio that many home viewers didn’t get to see the closing stages of Women’s Basketball World Cup bronze medal match between Australia and Canada this afternoon, because the ESPN feed dropped out.
The Opals won the match 95-65, with Lauren Jackson scoring 30 points in her last ever game.
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Fetch also had the coverage go down, but it was just a black screen, there was no message or anything.
Looks like it worked fine on Kayo
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I find it slightly hilarious that the NBL can’t seem to figure out how to get the score for a team to go up by increments of 2 or 3, and so instead it gets added one-by-one. Heck, even streams of local leagues manage to do this!
(Worth noting that Sky Sport NZ didn’t seem to have that issue today for the game that they produce…)
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I don’t watch the coverage, but is it not meant to be the way it is shown, like a style of working. They may be doing that on purpose, what makes you think it is a technological limitation?
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Also that black box with “#NBL23” in it stays like that the whole game. I hope they put stats or something in there (even remove/shrink it). Otherwise it is very pointless.
They are also having issues with the foul indicator. There should be 5 dots. Each time there’s a foul it will turn red up until 5 fouls. 5 team fouls per qtr results in a penalty and automatic 2 shots to the other team.
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The NBL-produced coverage has always seemed to have teething problems with graphics, although that is a Breakers home game - the NZ game graphics are produced by Sky (or their own contractor) and not the NBL itself - it’s an imitation of the NBL Media graphics and they’ve always been a little off compared to the Australian-produced games. The team graphics look quite off, for instance. (Maybe that’s also explains why the #NBL23 graphic was static in that game.)
Australian-produced graphics look like this (screencaps via Kayo of this afternoon’s game Phoenix v Taipans game):
It’s sort of their own thing while trying to imitate ESPN US’ old NBA graphics (noting ESPN US have updated theirs, I noticed… might need to find a screengrab of that). It’s possible that they’ll eventually use the RHS space to also cross-promote games like they used to with the previous graphics, but they might still be having teething issues with that. (Certainly have seen it used for the occasional ad, though.)
Yes the AU-produced games are having the scores go up by 1, it’s not good. Attention-to-detail thing, for sure.
They haven’t had that problem with the Australian produced games so far, as seen above (in the graphics the dots are actually yellow, they don’t turn red like the FIBA graphics when they’re over the foul limit). Although occasionally they have issues with them and turn them off, for sure.
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And for completeness as promised, the update seen on ESPN US’ NBA graphics, as seen here on a Lakers vs. T-Wolves pre-season game yesterday.
The time-outs/bonus indicator occasionally flashes out to show the number of challenges remaining for each team.
Player graphic (one presumes that this’d be in team colours):
Usual graphic where the NBA requires the broadcasters to cross-promote the games on Turner and NBA.TV… that also seems to show the timeout indicators stretching out when teams aren’t over the foul limit… not sure I like that look.
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Now that looks a lot better than the old ones!