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 ones. These come complete usually with those in-game network promos for shows which may or may not be available on a Sky channel, and almost certainly aren't being shown this week.
The Monday game is also on Sky, but comes complete with ESPN logos. That's despite the fact that Sky's rival in the UK for sports is now BT Sport, and BT has a channel named "BT Sport ESPN" which shows a wide array of the parent channel's coverage. So yes - we do get college lacrosse! BT Sport ESPN has MLB and is picking up TBN and FS coverage. I think the only difference is normally the World Series itself, when we get the "World Feed" which has no Fox promos built in, and more explainers for an audience that doesn't see much baseball. However, given the games themselves happen in the small hours in Europe, and early morning in much of the rest of the world, I always think that anybody making the effort to watch the WS probably already has a reasonable grasp of the rules of the game. Adam On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 4:45 AM, PGage <pga...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 8:15 PM, Jim Ellwanger <train...@ellwanger.tv> > wrote: > >> On Oct 19, 2015, at 7:30 PM, PGage <pga...@gmail.com> 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? >> >> >> Not to be too obvious, but the answer is of course — same way that >> scripted shows air on different networks in different countries (but of >> course, one big difference is that they’re not live, and the foreign >> networks will have gotten a “clean” version in some manner from the >> distributor). >> > > The answer may be obvious - I do not travel much, which is why I asked. > But I am not sure it is obvious from your reply. I would not be surprised > to have seen "Scandal" for example running on some Ecuadorian network with > a Spanish audio track, or subtitles, and some residual ABC branding > bleeding out in a few places. But I think I would have been surprised to > see Scandal running on a channel presented as NBC, with both ABC and NBC > logos and bugs. This is basically what I was seeing with the NBC SNF > running on ESPN. > > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
