Re: [TV orNotTV] TV South of the Equator

2015-10-20 Thread Adam Bowie
In the UK we tend to get US sports in their original network form on whichever channel has the rights. So NFL is mostly on Sky Sports where they show three games back to back on Sunday (with Redzone also available), and a lovely mix of Fox, CBS and NBC logos and bugs mixed in with Sky Sports' own

Re: [TV orNotTV] TV South of the Equator

2015-10-20 Thread Joe Hass
IIRC, there's an "ESPN America" channel that has a number of rights packages for US sports internationally. What you likely saw was that channel simply picking up the NBC feed and slapping a bug in the corner. This also happens in the US: the CFL package on ESPN now just takes the TSN feed,

Re: [TV orNotTV] TV South of the Equator

2015-10-20 Thread M-D November
This tracks with my cruise ship experience - the feeds available on Royal Caribbean and NCL appear to be ESPN's Caribbean feed; it's branded as simply "ESPN", but unsurprisingly there's a larger focus on footie, and they're pushing the ESPN Play app (the localized version of WatchESPN/ESPN3).

Re: [TV orNotTV] TV South of the Equator

2015-10-20 Thread Bob Jersey
Jim Ellwanger, to PGage, in part: > > I believe Major League Baseball distributes an “international” version of > the playoff games, with “generic” on-screen graphics different than what’s > seen in the U.S., including no network logos. > MLB Network early in their history famously had to use

Re: [TV orNotTV] TV South of the Equator

2015-10-20 Thread Bob Jersey
Joe Hass, to Jim Ellwanger and PGage: > > IIRC, there's an "ESPN America" channel that has a number of rights > packages for US sports internationally. What you likely saw was that > channel simply picking up the NBC feed and slapping a bug in the corner. > > This also happens in the US: the

Re: [TV orNotTV] TV South of the Equator

2015-10-20 Thread Adam Bowie
Although in the UK, the ESPN channel actually appears as "BT Sport ESPN" - to drive home the fact that it's part of the relatively new BT Sport TV package. In fact, because I have HD, the bug actually is a really ungainly "BT Sport ESPN HD" which takes up as much real estate as you might imagine,

Re: [TV orNotTV] TV South of the Equator

2015-10-19 Thread 'David Bruggeman' via TVorNotTV
egroups.com" <tvornottv@googlegroups.com> Sent: Monday, October 19, 2015 10:30 PM Subject: [TV orNotTV] TV South of the Equator So I just returned (last night) from about 9 days in Quito, Ecuador on a business trip. I was pretty busy most of the time, but I did get to flip through the TV

RE: [TV orNotTV] TV South of the Equator

2015-10-19 Thread Brad Beam
I believe this qualifies: Awaiting my return flight back from Montreal during Bowl Week 2012, I was in a sports bar watching beloved Alma Mater was playing in the Pinstripe Bowl. And while TSN is pretty much ESPN North, that game was carried by Rogers’ The Score (now Sportsnet 360). _ _

RE: [TV orNotTV] TV South of the Equator

2015-10-19 Thread Brad Beam
Me speaktype not well this late. From: tvornottv@googlegroups.com [mailto:tvornottv@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brad Beam Sent: Monday, October 19, 2015 23:20 To: tvornottv@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: [TV orNotTV] TV South of the Equator I believe this qualifies: Awaiting my return

[TV orNotTV] TV South of the Equator

2015-10-19 Thread PGage
So I just returned (last night) from about 9 days in Quito, Ecuador on a business trip. I was pretty busy most of the time, but I did get to flip through the TV a bit, mostly watching MLB playoffs and NFL games. I noticed that they apparently really love Comedy Central in general and South Park in

Re: [TV orNotTV] TV South of the Equator

2015-10-19 Thread Kevin M.
Speaking from my experience in Kazakhstan, their cable TV shows tennis and football... er... soccer matches from other networks with Russian announcers providing commentary (though probably not direct translations of what the English speaking commentators were saying). As you witnessed, multiple

Re: [TV orNotTV] TV South of the Equator

2015-10-19 Thread Jim Ellwanger
> On Oct 19, 2015, at 7:30 PM, PGage wrote: > > But what surprised me was that events like Sunday Night Football were shown > on an ESPN channel (they were numbered, but I don't think in a system that > was based on ESPN2 in the US). The SNF game I watched was clearly the

Re: [TV orNotTV] TV South of the Equator

2015-10-19 Thread PGage
On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 8:15 PM, Jim Ellwanger wrote: > On Oct 19, 2015, at 7:30 PM, PGage wrote: > > I wonder if anyone here knows if this is typical outside the US - the > sporting events shown in the US on one network are shown on other networks? > >