Multichannel News: beIN Sports USA will launch 2 channels on August 1

NBC Sports Network showed two MLS games and a US National Team game this past weekend. So how many more GAMES would you like them to show?

 

Y'all need to click on this image. It's very, very funny.

 

It was there when I posted it! Bastages.

 

I think you should take this news more seriously and not brush this news under the rug. This is not coming from English news....

http://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/euro...alian-pm-calls-for-italian-league-suspension/

 

why i am from bosnia and there were funny match fixing scandal in regional league there. where one team (and this is the reason why i believe that it is all of the team who new or this is BS) is supposeto win and they would give them 4000 dollars but then they made a mistake and went to another team and gave them 8000 not to win. first team find out that other team got more money then them and they start scoring own goals and other team was tring to prevent them from doing it. so point in this is that one player could not do what you saying he did or whole of the lazio, bari catania teams new about what they suppose to do or this is a BS

 

The FA and EPL would be insane to simply go for the money when the rights go up for bid for the 13-16 seasons. FOX and ESPN are due a ton of credit for helping to vault the popularity AND the accessibility of their league and sport in the US. Do they really want their product to be seen on fewer screens over the next 3-4 years? Al Jazeera will NEVER own an over the air broadcast network (against FCC rules) and, therefore, will never reach as many TV households as FOX, ABC/ESPN, or NBCU/Comcast. There are way too many 'ifs" with a potential Comcast/beIN Sports partnership, and they would have to have WAY more than 8 matches on NBC for that to fly. Also, if beIN/Al Jazeera has so much cash, why didn't they bid on the FIFA World Cup rights in the US that FOX won?? FOX owns all the US English language broadcast and digital rights from 2015 - 2022 which includes the Cup when it will be in Qatar. Not very strategic of them. At most, they might get one package of games as an experiment, but no more than that. And, having been both a Dish and DirecTV subscriber, I will NEVER go back to Dish again.

 

http://televisionsatelite.blogspot.com/2012/05/nuevo-canal-de-deportes-bein-sport-1-hd.html

Is this referring to the US Beinsport?

 

Nevermind, that looks like a blog about TDT (Spain). I suppose the BeinSport mentioned is the one from France.

 

I believe the rights for FIFA events have a different criteria. That is why Bein would have not qualify for the bidding. Nonetheless, it is clear that this new network, is going to interrupt all the gains football has gained in this country. So, for the next three years, we are going to experience, what we did when Fox Launch Fox World Sport and Goltv sign an exclusive lease with Dish.

Yet, the game goes on. Where there is a will there is a way. So speculated all you want, the writing is on the wall.

 

the issue to aj isn't so much whether serie-a, la liga, or ligue 1 get wide distribution.
the problem is whether BEin gets wide distribution.
aj want their presence to become familiar.
they want name recognition.
there's a 'vanity' element, which to aj serves a strategic purpose way beyond soccer.
that's the explanation for why they payed so much money for a couple of 'pencils.'
and this reasoning applies more strongly in some u.s. markets than in others.
aj may be more concerned about its footprint in ny or dc than elsewhere, for example.
the distribution of this content isn't necessarily to be looked at in the national context.

 

digital sub-channels in selected u.s. markets.

 

Out of work, Tranny looking TV presenters come very cheap.

 

So you're saying an Arsenal vs Wigan or Chelsea vs West Brom sells better than Real Madrid vs Atletico Madrid or a Barcelona vs Valencia. I find that hard to believe when Real Madrid and Barcelona have more fans in the USA than Arsenal and Chelsea.

 

Check your figures. ESPN Deportes radio has been airing La Liga for two years now. The popularity of la Liga is very hight among Latinos in the United States. If you ever listen to their radio, you will notice that a great deal of Mexican, Central Americans and South Americans call to talk about La liga. So when you make the statement that La Liga does not sell, you should re-think that.

La Liga has become very Popular in all the Americas, and the Football fan base in this country who are of Latin America heritage are also following La Liga.

Nonetheless, La liga does not have the television ratings that the EPL has, but it was gaining momentum. In addition, if you ever watch la liga, you will see that La Liga is either as good or a better product than the EPL.

In addition, the top two players in the world are in La liga with the support of some of the best players in the world, and is not just Barcelona and Madrid, but you also have Atletico Madrid, Sevilla, Malaga, Valencia and Athletic who all have good seasons.

So if you are a Media mogul, you want to put your money on a league that has talent and growth potential. You stand a better chance of getting foreigners, and second generation latinos hook on La Liga than getting White people hook on "Soccer".

I am just saying, and by the way, COMCAST has not interest and clue about soccer. Some may like the idea but must of the executive team is not on board on that idea. Remember the roots of Comcast "a cable operator which started in the South ".

 

Let's see them do that EVERY weekend. The weekend before had zero. If they would have picked up US vs Guatemala in Guatemala that would have IMPRESSED me.

In another post someone said NBC Sports would have Barcelona/Real Madrid on next year - unless it clashed with a live event. Like what? AMA MotoCross.

 

Well, even though I'm sure impressing you is in their business plan somewhere, the Guats were under no obligation to sell the rights to that game to any US network. They did what they did.

And it's unrealistic to expect NBCSN to have two MLS games and an international EVERY weekend. But, then, realism isn't a staple around here.

 

The national team game every weekend obviously difficult. Two MLS games? Not so difficult. What would it supplant - AMX Moto Cross.

 

only epl sells oximoron. serie a and la liga sells to not on fox because fox is all about epl 24/7 so how can people know about any other league when only thing you hype is epl and call everything else garbage with fox propaganda. la liga sells but it is goltv . these two channels will boost the popularity of serie a and la liga because they will have people who are passionate about it and will educate viewers about la liga and serie a same thing that fox is doing for epl but didn't want to do for serie a

 

So "Comcast" started in Mississippi? Big deal. The geographic location of a company when it started over 50 years ago has absolutely no bearing on the business decisions made by its executives today.