About the only time I comfortable enough to see it on TV.
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It’s always been there, I think we’ve become more adept at picking it up, not to mention we now know a lot more about the commentators than we ever have.
I’ve noticed watching the baseball that the Americans are very good at doing it subtly
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I guarantee you nobody was “rooting” for a team 
Audience figures are in. Of course they’re good.
Note: percentage in brackets represent proportion of total available audience during span.
In France:
| M6 | Canal+ & Canal+ Foot | Total cume | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Match | 6.24m (36.1%) | 2.94m (14.7%) | 9.18m (50.8%) |
| Shootout | 9.8m (46.6%) | 3.1m (14.6%) | 12.9m (61.2%) |
| 9pm peak | 10.4m | 3.7m | 14.1m |
| Postgame | 9.09-9.26: 4.4m (23.8%) 9.33-10.13: 1.83m (11.2%) |
TNT averaged over 7 million viewers (25.6%) for the match. Note that it was available for free to Virgin Media customers on a dedicated pop-up channel.
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We’ll find out soon enough.
No we won’t. Anti-siphoning laws won’t change under this government.
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But how about under different governments? Remember - pollies are Australian media’s little bitch. They’ll do as they’re told. 
The NBA Finals will also feature Skycam and - first time ever - fully presented in 1080P HDR.
Some changes of hands around Latin American sports channels before tha World Cup…
Luxembourg-based Milicom’s sports channel (under their telco brand Tigo) relaunched as FOX (sans Sports) two weeks ago in various CenAm countries. This came after Fox bought the channels in April as part of their expansion in the continent.
The introduction, though, was a bit confusing: some feeds were replaced outright, while others will stay at least after the World Cup. In some countries, the secondary Sports 2/+ channel was also replaced by FOX+. This was taken from Costa Rica, for instance:
Meanwhile, TyC Sports in Argentina updated their symbol to reflect their change in ownership.
After being a joint venture between Clarín Group (who also owns Channel 13) and sports broadcasting company Torneos (y Competencias, apparently hence the channel name) for 32 years, the former sold their shares to the latter’s holding company, Waiken ILW, reportedly for 25 mil USD.
The new owner itself is a reorganised media/web tech division of Werthein Group, who also owns Directv in Latin America and more importantly, DSports in the country. Interestingly, TyC just reached a last minute deal last month to air 52 World Cup games, while DSports is the main rightsholder with all 104.
This is a compilation of the moment of change and the first ad breaks afterwards:
@Medianext.MX probably knows more about all the changes than me…
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Their American parent has no problem with this?
Is it with the NBA on Prime graphics and stuff or just taking the the ABC stuff with UK specific commentary?
I think in the regular season, the Portuguese and Spanish language coverage on Prime had their own graphics etc
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Just checked the nba league pass and the Spanish and Portuguese streams via prime is also the same.
Game 7 of the Western Finals they did have prime graphics but I guess for NBA Finals it’s the same presentation for all
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Prime had the host rights to that series.
NBC was the host of the west & ESPN/ABC was the east in 
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I thought I saw something from them but maybe they just did some highlights. Thanks!
Next season Prime will be the East broadcaster & ESPN/ABC will have the West
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