In Italy, the two Eurosport channels were replaced by Sky Sport Legend (essentially digging through the archives) and Mix (Summer sports, with a grid view of Wimbledon being the initial attraction) on Sky Italia.
In addition, there’s also a new, basketball-focused (versus solely on NBA) channel, Sky Sport Basket, as the group got the rights to the European matches through 2028.
It came after Sky Italia parted ways with WBD, with other Discovery channels and Discovery+ leaving the platform too.
Very irritated that Sportsnet is using generic world feed graphics for their coverage of the National Bank Open tonight.
It’s the first round of the tournament in their own backyard, with the sponsor being Sportsnet’s owner. The very least they could do is show some pride in carrying it, don’t you think?
For reference, the scoreboard that should have been seen:
The standards that they have set in previous years is their own on-air personnels, their own graphics, their own promos. It’s unmistakably a Sportsnet production (to Canadian viewers), given this is the only tennis tournament they have rights to.
If they have used the world feed in previous years, I would not have said a thing. That is the way TSN go about it, because it isn’t worth it to produce a separate production for far-flung tourneys. I get it.
The best analogy I could give is assume that the AFL GF is sponsored by Seven West Media Ltd., and then on the day of the game, Ch 7 broadcasts a feed produced by Fox.
M4 Sport, the sports channel of the Hungarian public broadcaster Duna, has a new look and typeface as part of their 10th anniversary. Sport+, their time-shared version with overseas audience-facing Duna World, got the same look.
The in-game graphics are also updated for better legibility, according to the channel director:
Guessing not needing people to manage + overlay Sportsnet graphics over the ATP/WTA broadcast feed is another casualty of the many, many cuts Rogers has made over the last few years due to overpaying for the national NHL rights.
Only noticed it today, but this was an article from two days ago largely echoing my sentiment. However, apparently I mistakenly assumed only the graphics were taken - the coverage was taken verbatim.
It also clarified that the normal production - the version viewers have come to expect - will resume Saturday for the R16 onwards. (Update: And it did. That’s what I’m talking about.)
Further update: The same tabloid has issued a follow-up article, and to summarize, organizers are not happy one bit. There are even discussions popping up about whether Sportsnet should continue as the sole broadcaster of the event.
Apparently Sky Sports UK updated their graphics a few days ago, and the viewers overwhelmingly hated it (according to the tabloids, at least)… EFL and F1 are currently the ones spotted.
Just implementation of a font (apparently modified version of Rubica) that seems like what I could mock up in ten minutes and with an unnecessary emphasis on boldness for the sake of credibility. Oh, and that transparent layer that screams Sky… gone.
Also the scoreboard being used is EPL version, but it is not good. Just so we all know, EPL’s color is blue, and EFL is red. When an EPL game hits extra time, the scoreboard will do this.
