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
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,
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).
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
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
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,
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
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).
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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
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
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
> 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
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?
>
>
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