On that note, one interesting thing coming up later this summer is a full rebrand for the Premier League, though I'm not sure what the scheduled date for its introduction is (probably ties in with whatever date the Barclays sponsorship formally concludes on - I suspect either 1st July or 1st August).
Edit: and although kept much quieter, seemingly the Football League will also have a new name ("EFL") and look ahead of next season.
On that note, one interesting thing coming up later this summer is a full rebrand for the Premier League, though I'm not sure what the scheduled date for its introduction is (probably ties in with whatever date the Barclays sponsorship formally concludes on - I suspect either 1st July or 1st August).
It'll be June if it coincides with the new commercial partnerships commencing. Carling are rejoining the PL as a partner (note, however there will be no single title sponsor anymore, it'll simply be referred to as the Premier League.)
If nothing else, it'll mean the end of the awful FL72 name Sky have used for the last few years.
Ahead of the new, a couple of lasts - the last Saturday Night Football is on Saturday, along with the last BT 12:45pm KO. Eight days later, the last ever Setanta Premier League game after 12 years.
They have lost their live Saturday 3pm package to Sky as of next season. They'll broadcast their last Saturday 3pm this week, though they'll have a game on the last day which will be their very last.
They may yet retain their highlights rights however.
As you might know, Premier Sports and Setanta Sports 1 are in fact actually the same channel, labelled Setanta Sports 1 on the Irish Sky EPG but fully branded on air as Premier Sports except during programmes that only air in Ireland. It was this channel the 3pms aired on. The only other Ireland-only programmes are live Champions League and Europa League games. I mention all this because it may change shortly - as of last Friday, Setanta and Premier are now separate companies, with Setanta now being owned by Irish telco Eir, and Premier remaining under the ownership of Setanta founder Michael O'Rourke. The only manifestation of this so far is that Setanta subscribers in Northern Ireland have been transferred over to Premier Sports since the start of April, though I understand they still receive Setanta Ireland as a bonus channel.
On last night's edition of Match of the Day, they had a supposed down the line interview with Gary Lineker - I think pre-recorded with delays (if any) edited out, but odd as the MOTD studio was 50i but the camera on Lineker was 25p and seemingly lit as though he was about to do a charity appeal or something (there's probably a better comparison but that's the first thing I thought of!). One for noggin to explain perhaps?
Didn't see it - but it could have been any number of things. If it was pre-recorded they may have shot it on a C300 (which can shoot 50i but most people use 25p), or a camcorder like a PMW500/PDW800 that had previously been used for a 25p shoot and nobody spotted that it wasn't (particularly if it wasn't live)
If it was live then it could have been the above too, or also if a 3G/4G circuit was used like a LiveU or a WMT, they sometimes have the option to run at 25p rather than 50i.
Or as others have said, it could have been shot on a DSLR, iPhone, iPad, or any consumer camera...
