tyrannical bastard 3443 Posted September 9, 2023 Share Posted September 9, 2023 Interesting that the CW/Raycom sports coverage is basically using the ESPN package. This is probably the case since this game package for the CW is a loose extension of the ESPN/ACC deal? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CTrey98 26 Posted September 10, 2023 Share Posted September 10, 2023 (edited) I don't think so. They used the Bally graphics when this package aired on Bally Sports last season. Plus, they are using their own full screen graphics and their own theme music. My guess is, given they announced this deal Mid-July, they probably didn't have enough time to put together a full graphics package since they only had a month and a half to make it happen. Using the ESPN inserts is probably just temporary for this year or maybe just a few months. Curious to see how this will work for ACC Basketball since ESPN have a different graphics look for College Hoops. I wonder if they will do the same thing there. Edited September 10, 2023 by CTrey98 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caliwxdude 252 Posted September 10, 2023 Share Posted September 10, 2023 Since ESPN is running the technical production for these games, I think you'll be seeing the ESPN look for the foreseeable future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nycnewsjunkie 1395 Posted September 10, 2023 Share Posted September 10, 2023 (edited) 28 minutes ago, caliwxdude said: Since ESPN is running the technical production for these games, I think you'll be seeing the ESPN look for the foreseeable future. Raycom Sports is actually handling production; they just happen to use ESPN’s graphics. I believe they also produce a number of ESPN games as well (though I could be wrong). EDIT: The games they produce are sublicensed from ESPN, and they use the ESPN look, but Raycom is ultimately running production. https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/38007548/acc-cw-strike-broadcast-deal-air-50-football-basketball-games Edited September 10, 2023 by nycnewsjunkie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickp 294 Posted September 10, 2023 Share Posted September 10, 2023 The CW is a competing OTA network to ABC where those graphics usually air the cw just said to espn we will take your template and graphics and just slap cw on it 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyrannical bastard 3443 Posted September 10, 2023 Author Share Posted September 10, 2023 Bally, being a competing sports network was able to port their graphics package to Raycom to produce the ACC games they did in the past. As for the CW? Seems like Nexstar didn't want to pay the extra $50 to come up with another graphics package. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CTrey98 26 Posted September 10, 2023 Share Posted September 10, 2023 7 hours ago, tyrannical bastard said: Bally, being a competing sports network was able to port their graphics package to Raycom to produce the ACC games they did in the past. As for the CW? Seems like Nexstar didn't want to pay the extra $50 to come up with another graphics package. It's no secret Nexstar is likely running tight budget with The CW since they are trying to make the network profitable again. So it makes sense they wouldn't want to go over budget just to create a full graphics package for their College Football telecasts in a month and a half. They'll eventually do their own graphics package when they get to year 2 of the ACC telecasts. They just need more time to create a full graphics package. You can't rush perfection, unless you're willing to pay a lot for it. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoopInTheHouse 63 Posted December 2, 2023 Share Posted December 2, 2023 Courtside Saturday on The CW has officially “tipped off” today with Notre Dame vs #8 Miami and #7 Duke vs Georgia Tech. No pictures yet, but I can tell it ain’t the ESPN College Basketball graphics they’re using. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racefan_09 9 Posted December 2, 2023 Share Posted December 2, 2023 14 minutes ago, CoopInTheHouse said: Courtside Saturday on The CW has officially “tipped off” today with Notre Dame vs #8 Miami and #7 Duke vs Georgia Tech. No pictures yet, but I can tell it ain’t the ESPN College Basketball graphics they’re using. Not sure if i love it yet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
susquvalleywgal 491 Posted December 2, 2023 Share Posted December 2, 2023 It's something to work and bulid on. It's not bad. It's not great either. -- Matt 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CTrey98 26 Posted December 2, 2023 Share Posted December 2, 2023 6 hours ago, racefan_09 said: Not sure if i love it yet Not a big fan of the look. So many things to touch but I'll keep it short. I like the fact they are trying to go for a clean futuristic feel but it's just executed horribly. If you're going to a super wide scorebug, at least find a way to put the school logos in with all that space. Another annoying thing is the network logo placement, I don't get why networks like NBC do this but you shouldn't have your TV logo in the scorebug and as a screenbug in the top right corner. Makes it look repetitive and a mess. Just make up your mind and keep it in one area in order to keep it simple and effective. The last thing is the font, not sure why they made the clock use a skinny font and the period and shot clock bolded. Makes it very hard to see for viewers. Overall, they definitely have some work to do but at least they are finally going their own creative direction. I'm glad to see that the ESPN graphics was just a temporary solution just to get their ACC broadcasts up and running in a short time frame. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoopInTheHouse 63 Posted December 3, 2023 Share Posted December 3, 2023 2 hours ago, CTrey98 said: I'm glad to see that the ESPN graphics was just a temporary solution just to get their ACC broadcasts up and running in a short time frame. It’s important to note that the bottom-third ESPN graphic known as the ESPN BottomLine, which you’ll see a picture of here… actually mentioned The CW when a football (now basketball, found that out while watching College Gameday this morning) game was gonna be broadcast on the channel. So probably not what you’re thinking. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrschimpf 2051 Posted December 3, 2023 Share Posted December 3, 2023 7 hours ago, susquvalleywgal said: It's something to work and bulid on. It's not bad. It's not great either. -- Matt I do like they leaned into their longtime font rather than the 'Dare to Defy' font with the design; it's clean and simple in that sense, but I'm just tired of oversized scoreboards. Whenever scoreboards compress to show some stat it looks much better in a smaller form than as a full-screen banner, but sadly vertical video has made a middle score compulsory for social sharing. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickp 294 Posted December 3, 2023 Share Posted December 3, 2023 the presentation on the CW for ACC basketball is pretty good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Megatron81 179 Posted December 5, 2023 Share Posted December 5, 2023 Glad to see The CW use different graphics than ESPN yeah, The CW didn't want to rush and just used the ESPN graphics for football year 2 will have different graphics for ACC football. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Frog 392 Posted February 10 Share Posted February 10 The graphics have been tweaked. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTT 33 Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 (edited) What is the deal between cw and acc? Did NBC try to get a deal with this conference? I would assume they would attempt to because they're trying to build peacock as a destination for sports programming or at least put the games on USA network. Also, how did the cw get the bowl game? Did NBC make a bid on it to try to put it on peacock or usa? Edited February 11 by JTT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spring Rubber 609 Posted February 14 Share Posted February 14 On 2/10/2024 at 5:28 PM, The Frog said: The graphics have been tweaked. This definitely looks a lot more "2020s big network" than the earlier design. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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