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The Pirates quietly dropped the standard-issue-but-grey NESN scoreboard for an updated version during their home opener It's serviceable and definitely an improvement (though the white backgrounds on the batter/hitter is a bit iffy. Would probably make them color coded for the teams)

According to that other site, the Braves on Gray graphics are actually the first outing for what will eventually be a group-wide graphics package for regional sports broadcasts on Gray channels.

Gray's Braves Spring Training games have their own graphics that aren't too bad. It's serviceable with that "NFL preseason"/late-2000s Raycom Sports vibe. Even though they are going to be produced by FDSN instead, you begin to wonder if the regular season games may keep these, since they went as far as even making a "Braves on Gray" branding for them.

So far the studio graphics on the pre-game are brand new and do not appear to match up with these. In fact so far they may actually be an improvement, and may actually lend some credence to the theory this may be a decoy, some other test version that is not going to be used (though if they did that layout but with the trim/design of these graphics we're seeing...), or someone going a lot harder in trying to make fake leaks than usual. Now, of course, we've seen Fox basically "chicken out" on debuting graphics before (LI), but the last two games they have been consistent.

Kinda looks like an ultra minimalistic take on the ESPN CBB/SEC on ABC graphics with how it handles the "slide-outs". The team names being in a typeface that appears to actually be derived from the Fox logo is a neat touch, though this looks like something you'd see on a preseason game rather than the Super Bowl. Somehow this makes the college football graphics look good.

There's another one going around claimed to be a test from a satellite backhaul but it looks so absolutely plain that I don't think Fox would do it.

Missed this (though given the team got some, err, attention just now), but in December the Mavs switched to their third scorebug in several months (or second if you count changing the NBA-provided one to use your team font more of a half-step), and this one looks a lot more final. It's pretty clean.

Netflix gets some creativity points for actually having a dedicated graphics package built around their logo (with CBS producing, I thought it was going to be just a rebranding of their graphics per the precedent of the Yahoo games from earlier). Though this scoreboard looks a bit iffy, almost like it's a preseason game on a Gray station. Not to mention the preseason-like errors (such as the Steelers somehow starting the game with only two timeouts)

The new CFP graphics were interesting. They definitely felt like an evolution of both the existing graphics and the SEC graphics, while also having clearly adopted some elements of the MNF graphics. https://x.com/FOS/status/1870281123609092348 Meanwhile as was reported earlier, despite how surprisingly competent their Mountain West coverage was, the CFP games on TNT are ESPN productions, just with ESPN logos replaced by TNT Sports on the graphics.

We may have a new scoreboard coming for non-SEC ESPN games, specifically debuting during the College Football Playoff. I was personally expecting the SEC one but more white and gold; this appears to be a hybrid between the SEC on ABC scoreboard and the current one. The fact they adapted both the Saturday Night Football and CFP logos into the same SEC template indicates this is probably the look going forward.

A promo for the CFP rankings show has a logo that follows the same "shield" template as the SEC on ABC. Though except for the bracket graphics (which used a completely different style of graphic to anything else), the current studio graphics were otherwise out in full force

All the new teams with OTA broadcasts this year (except for the Trail Blazers which continue to use their Fox NFL 2020 knockoff) are using a generic NBA-provided graphics package for team-produced broadcasts, which had debuted on Jazz games last season (albeit tweaked; the clock is bigger with a black background now, which doesn't make it look as Bally-ish)

For some reason, I'm betting this is not going to be the end for Bally's stupid graphics. I'm betting they're just gonna take all the Bally graphics and make them blue and flatter. Or only change the intros and make the B in the ticker the FanDuel emblem, and nothing else.

Another new scorebug from Amazon for its new NHL package in Canada; uses the same art style as their Premier League (UK)/NWSL graphics (which have some hints of the Thursday Night Football look but flatter) An interesting feature is that the power play clock (displayed on the circle with the Prime logo on it) has a little countdown border

CHSN suddenly dropped the "banner" scoreboard it was using after criticism from viewers over its use in the NBA; both NHL and NBA now use more typical designs (though they may need to adjust how it interacts with the goal animation since it was clearly meant to go above the vertical scoreboard).

Or HDNet's obscure NHL package from the early 2000s

CBS did a few subtle changes this week, namely changing the down and distance arrow font to the condensed font that some graphics use, and bolding the font used for team names. The weird alternate "light mode" version of the scoreboard has also popped up.

Panthers unsurprisingly have the Scripps graphics from Golden Knights games, which are serviceable Meanwhile, the Utah HC games are still using the NHL/MLB Network graphics but with SEG Media branding, implicating that these are remaining team productions rather than Scripps Sports productions from the top down (as the Utah Jazz games also have that branding and a league-provided graphics package -- which is used primarily by some WNBA games)

Morgan Murphy did one more thing last week, moving WJMN's MNTV schedule to 3.3 in favor of mirroring WBUP's ABC and The CW (itself simulcast from WBKP) on 3.1 and 3.2

Graphics feel like a mix of TNT with some CBS-esque stylings. Besides the size I'd say that's pretty nice. MSG also has new graphics

ESPN had some minor graphics changes (different design for the timeout indicator, and an on-field down and distance arrow for the first time in quite a while) In addition, a notable change has happened in some international markets; the NFL seems to be providing unbranded "clean" feeds of more games (particularly nationally-televised games) that use generic graphics (the NFL Network ones but a little off-looking) but still contain most of the video and commentary from the U.S. English broadcast (but with things such as sponsor plugs edited out). Typically this was only done for the Super Bowl in the past (which had its own bespoke world production and different commentators to the main U.S. broadcast). How these are being used by Sky in the UK has been facing some criticism due to the quality of the resulting broadcast (especially given how Comcast owns Sky).

Also of note, TNT Sports now has its own dedicated CFB graphics for its Mountain West package (don't know if they'll show up on the CFP games it has sub-licensed too because reportedly ESPN will be producing them). Scoreboard looks like a cross between the March Madness one and the Monday Night Football graphics Something else I noticed that's a bit odd about the new CBS graphics. For some reason, certain games have been using a scoreboard where the game clock area is white instead of black, and this has happened on games with both the new and old scoreboard.

ESPN is serious enough about the SEC on ABC that even the BottomLine has an SEC on ABC logo instead of an ABC one. Something else I noticed was that the separate ESPN on ABC bug is gone on college football now, with that logo replacing the usual ESPN CFB insignia on replays instead. Also CBS's mistake of a scoreboard refresh: you thought that team name font looked bad enough with abbreviations? Meanwhile the temporary ESPN graphics for college football on The CW are gone. Replaced with what is now basically the old CBS one with a different font. For some reason I was expecting them to take the Pac-12 Network graphics and shove a CW logo into them (given that its staff is producing the Pac-2 games) or use some version of the third variant of the ACC basketball graphics. I wonder if they gave them to Raycom for the ACC games too.

Due to some software changes (adopting XPression for on-campus productions), Big Ten Network now has a dedicated graphics package again for the first time since 2017, replacing the old Fox graphics: this is primarily for sports outside of football and basketball (which continue to use the corresponding Fox graphics). I kinda like it, though the "one-size-fits-all" nature of it makes soccer look a bit odd.

The Cardinals one is one NFL Network did use briefly in 2021-22 (mainly for the Senior Bowl on NFLN and Super Bowl world feed, which were still using the old, pre-2014 Thursday Night Football graphics; this got replaced by the Exclusive Game Series graphics)