2019 NFL Season

[Viper550 291]

TSN's simulcasting the Raiders/Packers preseason tilt in Winnipeg, taking the Raiders/NBC Bay Area network feed. I do believe this is the first time 2008 (which had Citytv added to the team's preseason network due to the game at Rogers Centre the SkyDome) that a local preseason broadcast has been picked up by one of our national sports networks.

[24994J 5577]

As expected, Monday Night Football will debut a new look and evolved shield logo for their week 1 doubleheader. For the first time, ESPN's NFL properties will be under one graphics package, based off this year's NFL Draft look. Expect a lot of black and white...and venom?

 

https://www.newscaststudio.com/2019/09/04/espn-nfl-new-graphics/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=facebookpost

[Spring Rubber 703]

2 hours ago, 24994J said:

As expected, Monday Night Football will debut a new look and evolved shield logo for their week 1 doubleheader. For the first time, ESPN's NFL properties will be under one graphics package, based off this year's NFL Draft look. Expect a lot of black and white...and venom?

 

https://www.newscaststudio.com/2019/09/04/espn-nfl-new-graphics/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=facebookpost

The show logos seem nice. The jury is still out on the black, white, and lime green/yellow of the venom package.

[24994J 5577]

New sports ticker on NBC. It fits the template of NBCSN (& ESPN), and replaces the SNF-exclusive look for the last year-plus.

[Georgie56 3304]

4 minutes ago, 24994J said:

New sports ticker on NBC. It fits the template of NBCSN (& ESPN), and replaces the SNF-exclusive look for the last year-plus.

 

Seems like everyone's copying the ESPN-style bottomline lately. 

[Viper550 291]

On a side note, NFLN's new Conference USA package is here, and the old silver Thursday Night Football graphics just won't die.

[Spring Rubber 703]

6 hours ago, Viper550 said:

On a side note, NFLN's new Conference USA package is here, and the old silver Thursday Night Football graphics just won't die.

I wish NFL Network and NBC would have agreed to a deal to permanently give 2016-2017 TNF graphics to NFLN for live game coverage. Those graphics were too good to get used for what, like 15 games ever?

[Spring Rubber 703]

New for Fox's studio shows this year: a brand new desk in both studios, new flat-design on full-screen intros and full-screen graphics to match the flat design of Fox's main graphics, and a minor redesign of the headline lower thirds to add a bit of character to what was just a flat black bar for the past two seasons.

 

There seems to be a new diagonal line motif that's being used on the new graphics and the desk design.

[Spring Rubber 703]

A few more screens from the halftime studio show...

[Georgie56 3304]

Fox has always debuted a new desk of some kind on Super Bowl years.

 

The old studio desk resembled their 2010-2014 graphics, so it was time for a change.

[Spring Rubber 703]

2 hours ago, Georgie56 said:

Fox has always debuted a new desk of some kind on Super Bowl years.

 

The old studio desk resembled their 2010-2014 graphics, so it was time for a change.

Yeah, but usually only a new traveling desk that's actually used at the Super Bowl itself. This is only their 3rd new studio desk of this century: 2003, 2012, 2019. (Well, it's their 4th if you count the way that they expanded their 2003 desk in 2008 when Strahan joined. It was the same exact desk design, just made longer to accommodate the added analyst position.)

[24994J 5577]

Forget sets, graphics, or even the play on the field.

 

The only big thing that really matters. All is right with the world.

 

 

[Viper550 291]

And now the new MNF graphics are ... all over the place

 

 

[24994J 5577]

I'm not about to say I love it, but I'm glad they blew it all up, and redesigned. The green will be the major gripe, but I actually don't mind it. While the scoreboard maintains the same template, I'm thrilled they cleaned up the mess of italics from the last few years. The fonts are a bit messy, but I can live with them. My biggest complaint is rhe use of that awful wide font to display the score, so poorly proportioned. That should be reserved for special graphics and the show logo, only.

 

I still like it more than CBS.

[Spring Rubber 703]

I'm just disappointed that they took the lazy way out on the scoreboard by doing simply another tweak to the design they've been using for the past 4 seasons. This is better, like you said, without the italics. The font being used for the score and for the down and distance looks so out of place.

[MidwestTV 1232]

CBS lost the feed of the Chiefs-Jaguars game Sunday due to a "power outage" that affected half the stadium. CBS originally said they were going to switch viewers to a more competitive game, implying the KC-JAX game was too boring. Then, SEVERAL minutes later, they said their truck took a "power hit" and they were working to get it back, while showing other games and updating (I use that word loosely) fans on the status of the KC-JAX game. There was never, to my knowledge, an official explanation of what happened nor an apology.

[Georgie56 3304]

Oh, we're still doing that stupid Genesis prerecorded halftime performance.

[Georgie56 3304]

That was fast.

 

 

[Spring Rubber 703]

11 minutes ago, Georgie56 said:

That was fast.

 

 

Wow, I can't believe 1) that they changed it that quickly ... and 2) that an ESPN employee openly tweeted about it rather than just making the change silently.

[dman748 1256]

55 minutes ago, MidwestTV said:

CBS lost the feed of the Chiefs-Jaguars game Sunday due to a "power outage" that affected half the stadium. CBS originally said they were going to switch viewers to a more competitive game, implying the KC-JAX game was too boring. Then, SEVERAL minutes later, they said their truck took a "power hit" and they were working to get it back, while showing other games and updating (I use that word loosely) fans on the status of the KC-JAX game. There was never, to my knowledge, an official explanation of what happened nor an apology.

CBS probably would have switched viewers to a more competitive game anyway not because it was boring but, it was because that by the time the production truck took a power hit it was probably a noncompetitive game.

 

But even so, CBS should have at least came out with an apology for that technical mishap.

[Geoffrey 861]

55 minutes ago, Georgie56 said:

That was fast.

 

 

 

For those who want more context: https://ftw.usatoday.com/2019/09/espn-mnf-yellow-scoreboard-down-distance-graphic-fans-reaction-twitter

 

I'm impressed by the speed!

 

I don't love how huge the graphics are (they're for easy viewing at bars, right?) but I do really like the design.

[24994J 5577]

It's not yellow, it's VENOM. 

[24994J 5577]

On 9/8/2019 at 11:35 PM, 24994J said:

Forget sets, graphics, or even the play on the field.

 

The only big thing that really matters. All is right with the world.

 

 

 

NBC throwing it back, and MNF removing the unnecessary side performers and rap breaks.

 

 

[Spring Rubber 703]

Intro is great, but I'm not a big fan of the new remix to the MNF music, though. It just doesn't have that same power to it.

[AdamTheJ 90]

On 9/8/2019 at 2:50 PM, Spring Rubber said:

A few more screens from the halftime studio show...

Can I ask you something? After a decade, Am I, An incredibly DEVASTATED Dol-Fan, the only person who Still misses Jillian Barberie the Fox pregame show like crazy?