I’m surprised they got away with that flat look for so long in that market, especially for the NFL - although notably that was also used by Fox Sports Regional; most of the move away came when that was sold off and became Bally Sports.
After what had come before it the past couple of decades or so, it felt… extremely un-Fox-like?
The new college score bug looks no bigger than the new NFL bug (as seen today in the pre-season game ESPN showed today - I was going to post it, but it will already be here as it debuted last Super Bowl; just scroll up this thread to February)…
…except that actually looks decent-ish. In this case, yeah, go “omg SCHOOL!” all you like, but not by having parts of the scorebug (like the clock and down-and-distance) off-skew like a book at an angle. Yuck.
Yep, it’s different to last season - but the US free-to-air broadcasters tend to unveil their new graphics on Super Bowl night, which was Fox’s turn last year (graphics post for SB57: International Sports Presentation - #217 by JohnsonTV) so it was basically the first time seen outside that. (Their USFL coverage during the northern spring used the previous graphics, with a different font, that they also used in 2022 for that league.)
It probably makes sense, means they only have to do new graphics once every three years. (Presuming they aren’t already happy with it. It’ll be CBS’ turn this season and I wonder if that’ll be the case for them.)
Obviously ESPN does it whenever they like basically, since they only have MNF (and a couple of other games such as their one during wild-card week) to deal with.
That’s correct, under the new broadcast deal that starts this year, it will be a four-year cycle with ABC included.
The last few years have had an variation or two to the then 3-year cycle; NBC and CBS notably swapped their 2021 and 2022 slots (respectively) so NBC had '22 (SB56), because of conflicts with NBC’s Winter Olympic coverage - said to be an unwritten rule of sorts between the FTA broadcasters that you don’t counter-program the Super Bowl, especially with the rotation process that exists.
Would’ve been Super Bowl LV (in 2021) as that’s when they had it, but yeah, CBS has a habit of being a lot more conservative than either NBC or Fox [the simplistic era of Fox notwithstanding], and the changes in 2021 for CBS were more of an evolution and bringing back to the overall brand, a lick of paint rather than anything “all-change”.
I like conservative graphics and such but CBS probably goes a little too far in the other direction than I’d like.
Not hugely surprised. If there’s any time for ESPN to change their look for college football, it’ll be next year when the new 12-team playoff comes in (and they’ll need the eyeballs as they’ll be paying a heckload for those!).
Spíler 1 and 2, the male-skewing sport channels from Hungary’s TV2, simplifed their symbol and dropped the “TV” in their name. They were reportedly to be renamed to TV2 Sport and Sport+ respectively, but was ultimately scrapped.
The circling neon rings kinda feels like the old BBC Sport globe
Some weird stuff going on with this match. Seems to be a world feed and Mexican/Spanish feed (not unusual) but they are coming from opposite sides of the field. Not sure as to why. The ads aren’t focused on one way region or another. The Spanish feed has extra/different angles too whether that’s director’s choice not to use the shoulder shots or not I’m not sure.
I’d say the feed with the TUDN branded scorebar is a US feed and not a Mexican one, since it has a Univision watermark. The Univision brand is only used in the US, while TUDN is used in both Mexico and the US. Also the sideline ads on that feed are clearly meant for the US (ads being partially in english and advertising some brands not available in Mexico).
The other feed with the blue white scorebar seems to be the Mexican/International one with Mexican/International ads.
The wierd part is that with this match one of the feeds is for a 3rd country (though the match was hosted in Austin) and not the away team that is actually playing.
For some reason my mind went with Austin when I was writing that.