NFL Preseason 2012

[Viper550 292]

The NFL pre-season is always a fun time to see what nice (and well, often horriffic) in-house looks the individual teams will come up with for their games. We had a thread like this last year, so I thought we'd try it again

 

So, from what I've gathered so far from highlights;

 

WCBS (Jets) - NFL on CBS from the top down, except with a CBS 2 logo on the scoreboard. Just like last year

WBZ (Patriots) - same ugly stuff from last year.

WVUE-TV/Cox (Saints) - Interesting look with shades of the old Monday Night Football "score pod"

WRC/CSN Mid-Atlantic (Redskins) - Comcast Sportsnet default (which is perplexing, since we got an NBC O&O afoot here)

WXYZ (Lions), WPVI (Eagles) - NFL Network

KUSA (Broncos) - NBC 2012 with a "9NEWS.COM" logo on the side part that flips to display downage (and I mean, the real thing, not some bootleg looking versions like the Green Bay Packers are using)

KCPQ (Seahawks) - Root Sports

WWOR/WNBC (Giants) - NBC 2011 (come on, couldn't have used the new ones?)

KCTV (Chiefs) - CBS 2011 with advertisements shoehorned on poorly

KNXV (Cardinals) - Unique look, vertical timeout indicators, and Fox's 1st and 10 graphics (they were being simulcast on FS Arizona, that probably explains it)

[ABC 7 Denver 1729]

Gannett is really going for the gold! And so is WNBC, lol.

[Spring Rubber 716]

I saw some team still using the NFL on CBS graphics from 2006-2008. Was it the Dolphins? I can't quite remember.

[skbl17 188]

I saw some team still using the NFL on CBS graphics from 2006-2008. Was it the Dolphins? I can't quite remember.

WGCL-TV/WGST-AM (remember, WGCL doesn't have a sports department,) uses the old 2006 NFL on CBS package for Falcons preseason coverage. Trust me, it looks horrible on air here.

 

Honestly, WXIA should have kept the rights to Falcons preseason football.

[trev57 46]

I saw some team still using the NFL on CBS graphics from 2006-2008. Was it the Dolphins? I can't quite remember.

 

The Packers used those up until this year when WTMJ became their official carrier.

 

The NFL pre-season is always a fun time to see what nice ... or amazingly awful looks the local broadcasters pull off. We had a thread like this last year, so I thought we'd try it again

 

KUSA (Broncos) - NBC 2012 (and I mean, the real thing, not some bootleg looking versions like the Green Bay Packers are using)

 

Those "bootleg looking versions" were done in-house. Pretty nice looking if you ask me.

[A3N 1002]

KFMB (Chargers): Uses the 2006 NFL on CBS score banner, while lower 3rds and the score box (used when going to commercials or coming back from) and end of the game summary use CBS' NFL graphics from 2002. So in essence, there are 2 different NFL on CBS graphics packages being used, mixed with some in-house graphics from KFMB. Horrible to say the least.

[RGSJenkins 435]

I saw some team still using the NFL on CBS graphics from 2006-2008. Was it the Dolphins? I can't quite remember.

It was the Bucs, the Dolphins were using a custom package from WFOR

[Viper550 292]

Those "bootleg looking versions" were done in-house. Pretty nice looking if you ask me.

 

Yeah; except for the layout and the fact that the real thing never had such a harsh looking shadow, that actually looks pretty close.

 

Some more

 

WFLD (Bears) - Custom, scoreboard seems a bit ESPN-esque, but in a good way

KTVI (St. Louis Rams) - Altitude (yes, you're wondering why a Denver sports network is producing games for a St. Louis NFL team? It's cause Stan Kroenke owns both.)

WTSP (Buccaneers) - CBS 2006 (they should really throw some better preseason stuff into their hub.)

KTRK (Texans) - Glossy, but something looks a little off. Least they were not as RIDICLOUSLY HUGE as last year

KARE (Vikings) - Custom branded NBC 2011 (your Vikings.com banner seems a bit misaligned, mate.)

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KTVI (St. Louis Rams) - Altitude (yes, you're wondering why a Denver sports network is producing games for a St. Louis NFL team? It's cause Stan Kroenke owns both.)

 

It didn't dawn on me but now I see it. Definitely a step up from before when it was basically just cheaply done in-house presentation from KTVI.

 

Now they actually look like a professional sportscast.

[Jess 1116]

WRC using CSN graphics doesn't surprise me, as I think they're one of the markets where the O&O and CSN are fairly tightly integrated. (Philly, surprisingly, isn't, though NBC 10 reports and personalities are showing up on CSN, CSN talent doesn't show up on 10.) If CSN is producing coverage, CSN uses their graphics. Having seen the bizarre spectacle of CSN graphics being used on Union telecasts on, of all places, 6ABC, I can attest to this.

 

That "SportsNet default" shouldn't last much longer. CSN usually does their branding changes in October to coincide with baseball playoffs and Hockey season, and they have a new one launching in Houston at the same time. Prelaunch promos for CSN Houston are sporting a modified logo with peacock, and Troika's case study says "they worked on the RSNs", so I'd expect a variation on the 2012 NBC graphics to start showing up on those stations very soon.

 

Interestingly enough, the same case study has a bit of the initial planning, and if you look closely on the image, they were indeed planning to rename those stations as "NBC Sports". Like the FSNs, they were planning to adapt the existing region names (NBC Sports Philadelphia) and the team names (NBC Sports Flyers). The planning image used the original NBC Sports logo, and they didn't have a final name yet for Versus (they were going to call it just "NBC Sports"), so it's early, and the modified CSN logo suggests that brand isn't going away yet. The corporate division has been renamed from "Comcast Sports Group" to "NBC Sports Regional Networks", so we'll see what happens.

 

For WPVI, Eagles pre-season broadcasts are produced by the team's propaganda machine television production arm, Eagles Television Network. Their previous packages were various degrees of horriffic, so when they decided to just use the pre-existing NFL Network stuff it was obviously several magnitudes of improvement. Of course their commentators seem to be picked randomly out of a hat each year (Scott Graham, really?)

 

As for the Packers graphics, I agree with several others here that they're not knockoffs. In fact, given they're probably running on much lower powered hardware than NBC has, those are startlingly good and close.

 

National preseason broadcasts are already starting, and I've seen NBC and Fox. Fox's scoreboard looked tweaked, and not for the better - in fact it looked entirely too small and quite a bit "flat" - it doesn't seem to work for some reason, but I can't articulate WHY it looks bad and/or wrong.

 

NBC's using NBC stuff. Interesting, Dan Hicks is calling the game tonight. I realllllllly wouldn't mind if he ends up calling more games or takes over after Michaels retires.

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CSN usually does their branding changes in October to coincide with baseball playoffs and Hockey season, and they have a new one launching in Houston at the same time. Prelaunch promos for CSN Houston are sporting a modified logo with peacock, and Troika's case study says "they worked on the RSNs", so I'd expect a variation on the 2012 NBC graphics to start showing up on those stations very soon.

 

I'm also starting to see this CSN logo with the peacock on some San Francisco Giants promotional materials. A huge version of the logo lifted from the Houston Astros site:

 

 

Blah. My personal aversion to Arial aside, the peacock looks pretty rough just sandwiched in there (how is that supposed to read, "Comcast NBC SportsNet?") and it doesn't seem like it'd fit in with the identity package that Troika designed.

 

I think the current CSN look debuted around the October 2010 timeframe, which is when I started seeing it on Warriors and Sharks broadcasts. The previous look debuted in 2008 with the beginning of the MLB regular season when FSN Bay Area rebranded into the CSN family—it was also when the current CSN logo format first appeared, incorporating the SNY swooshes.

[johnnya2k6 171]

CBS will have their NFL preseason game on Friday; it won't be long till we hear the words "CBS Sports, home of Super Bowl XLVII, welcomes you to/thanks you for watching this presentation of the National Football League."

 

As for their graphics: Same, unless if they're debuting new ones similar to those during March Madness (which I think they co-own with Turner).

[MidwestTV 1247]

I'm also starting to see this CSN logo with the peacock on some San Francisco Giants promotional materials. A huge version of the logo lifted from the Houston Astros site:

 

 

Blah. My personal aversion to Arial aside, the peacock looks pretty rough just sandwiched in there (how is that supposed to read, "Comcast NBC SportsNet?") and it doesn't seem like it'd fit in with the identity package that Troika designed.

 

I think the current CSN look debuted around the October 2010 timeframe, which is when I started seeing it on Warriors and Sharks broadcasts. The previous look debuted in 2008 with the beginning of the MLB regular season when FSN Bay Area rebranded into the CSN family—it was also when the current CSN logo format first appeared, incorporating the SNY swooshes.

 

I honestly just read it as "Comcast Sportsnet" so...yeah...

[ColumbusNewsFan 217]

CBS will have their NFL preseason game on Friday; it won't be long till we hear the words "CBS Sports, home of Super Bowl XLVII, welcomes you to/thanks you for watching this presentation of the National Football League."

 

As for their graphics: Same, unless if they're debuting new ones similar to those during March Madness (which I think they co-own with Turner).

 

Usually during Super Bowl year the network that have it usually change up the graphics for their NFL game coverage... So I would be watch if CBS pulls out something new tonight.

 

UPDATE:

No major changes with CBS' NFL graphics.

[johnnya2k6 171]

Usually during Super Bowl year the network that have it usually change up the graphics for their NFL game coverage... So I would be watch if CBS pulls out something new tonight.

 

UPDATE:

No major changes with CBS' NFL graphics.

 

CBS also has special graphics for the Masters (co-used by ESPN); other than that, they've been using the generic package for I think four or five years now. At least being CBS, they're still more pleasing than the other networks'.

[Viper550 292]

CBS also has special graphics for the Masters (co-used by ESPN); other than that, they've been using the generic package for I think four or five years now. At least being CBS, they're still more pleasing than the other networks'.

 

They did refresh them last year with that more glossier look on the L3s. They applied that treatment to the tennis stuff and it looks pretty slick there too.

 

In other news, I guess CBS Atlanta learned about the newest addition to the NFL scoring rules, the File Goal

[Viper550 292]

Just peeked into the Packers game; they actually removed the background shading from their version of the NBC Sports scoreboard. I actually think it looks a little better, every other use of the new scoreboard has no connecting wires/shaded backgrounds like the old look, but why the football still has it, I will never know.

 

Also my cable provider finally added NFL Network HD, Yay. Too bad Thursday Night Football is actually aired by Sportsnet here instead (which has, well, much better carriage than the actual NFL Network)

[johnnya2k6 171]

I should remind you that ALL of the preseason games are on NFL Network, including Falcons/Jaguars (from the Jaguars Network/WTEV) where we may see a slight tinkering with CBS' graphics.

[24994J 5630]

I should remind you that ALL of the preseason games are on NFL Network, including Falcons/Jaguars (from the Jaguars Network/WTEV) where we may see a slight tinkering with CBS' graphics.

 

Well, CBS might adopt these for the NFL broadcasts, but the scoreboard the Jags are using is the college version, with the city name spelled out.

[Viper550 292]

Speaking of NFL Network, I caught the game on Wednesday (yes, a Wednesday Night edition of Thursday Night Football. Are you kidding me?) and also saw that NFL Network, just one year after adopting that black and blue pod design for their scoreboard, has switched up to a brand new design. The graphics are mainly white and glossy, and the bar kinda looks a bit more like ESPN now (and I mean, the silver/gold college ones, not MNF), but it looked very slick. And I mean, very slick.