Arsenal on TV: 2013-14 U.S. only

Ah, this season is going to be a little bit of a learning curve for all us old Fox Soccer junkies.

Like what is "mun2"? Will Telemundo use english announcers? Is NBC PL Extra free?

Thanks Epi for giving it a good go this season. Your work is always much appreciated by this fan!

 

Mun2 is Telemundo's 2nd channel. Games on both of those will be in spanish, but they'll be shown elsewhere in English.

PL Extra Time is included on AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Cox, DirecTV, DISH, Suddenlink, and Verizon.

 

Is the emirates cup going to be televised in the US?

 

Thought I read that ESPN was covering it both here and in the UK

 

Might just be on ESPN Deportes and WatchESPN

worldsoccertalk.com/2013/07/17/arsenal-and-man-city-fans-espn-to-televise-emirates-cup-audi-cup-on-us-tv/

 

Oh I see now what you're saying. Everything listed under Telemundo & Mun2 are also on the english language channels.

PL Extra Time does that exist/work now? I don't see an iPhone app for it like there is for Watch ESPN. Is it just a website?

 

As an aside... I called up Cablevision today to ask if Fox Sports 1 will be carried on their standard packages (like Speed was before) but of course they were ignorant about anything related to FS1.

Cablevision's been raising prices frequently so I'm hoping to offset that by dropping the extra Sports Pak and all I'll lose is GolTV (I rarely watched) & FSP (which I suspect will become near useless for me as long as I get NBCSN & FS1).

 

The app is 'NBC Sports Live Extra'. It worked okay during the Stanley Cup Playoffs.

PL Extra Time is on TV. It's a series of sub-channels, like MLB Extra Innings or NHL Center Ice. But it won't cost extra like those packages, NBC offered it free to any providers who carry NBCSN.

 

I'm anxious to see how this works. So for those of us with a participating cable co, we'll get every match live all year, right? You'll have the flagship matches on NBC and NBCS, and then the rest will be on those overflow channels?


I wonder what feed they'll be picking up too...


Also, I would expect a few more Arsenal games to be picked up. August 17th seems like a good bet for NBCSN. I'm not entirely sure what role CNBC will play here either. It's going to take a few weeks to get used to.

 

Yes, if you have any of those providers you'll have every game on TV somewhere, in English.

The feed for marquee games, so 12:30 Sat, late game Sun, and Mon will be Arlo White along side one of Lee Dixon or Graeme Le Saux. The other games will use the TWI 'world' feed.

And yeah, you can bet on them being selected for quite a few 10a Saturday slots. I think they'll only use CNBC for cases when NBCSN is showing something else, F1 and the Olympics really being the only chances that would happen.

 

I was surprised (shocked?) to find that my provider (Cablevision) is on board for PL Extra Time. I wonder what channels it will be on, or if they will tie it to the very Sports Pak that I'm trying to eliminate to save $'s against their relentless price hikes.

http://www.multichannel.com/distrib...hoc-channel-lineup-premier-league-kickoff/144

p.s. If this PL Extra Time thing works and is widely available to most/all providers, it could be a huge improvement, even on the impressive coverage Fox used to provide! We shall see.

 

Fox coverage was pretty brutal. $15 a month for maybe the 2 games I'm gonna need it for. Very little in the way of highlights. Awful studio hosts. And for me not in HD, and while that's a Comcast problem too I have to put a little of that on Fox for not being able to come to an agreement on that. Sure, maybe it was impressive compared to what was available 10 years ago, but it was not where it should have been in the 2010's.

This is going to blow them out of the ********ing water!

And it won't be part of your sports pack, it's free. I'm sure they'll use the same subchannels that Extra Innings, Center Ice, Direct Kick, etc would run on.

 

I really hope you're right about it blowing them out of the water. I'm an honorary citizen of Missouri so I'll reserve judgment.

Jeez I thought my cable provider Cablevision was rip-off but yours Comcast seems much worse. I pay $0 extra for FSC. I pay $7/mo for Sports Pak which got me FSP, GolTV, etc. All my channels are HD.

Fox's coverage was never ever a significant cost to me, compared to the value it provided. Namely to allow me to watch Arsenal nearly every single Arsenal league match in my living room in HD, usually live.

That's 30 maybe more matches... don't know how you figure 2 but maybe you should be following your team more.

And as for the match hosts, I thought Fox did it right... to use the England-based commentators as packaged by the league. I'll take Martin Tyler, Jon Champion, et al over Arlo White every day of the week. No contest.

Note that I'm NOT talking in any way about the nightly Fox Soccer News/Report show. That's an entirely separate issue, where the Canadian production is certainly sub-par. But thankfully that show did NOT define Fox's coverage of the EPL... the matches and the weekly PL Review Show did that for me.

 

Sorry, I meant to specify that was just FS+. I would guess they had about 2 a month there tops, the rest on FS or ESPN2.
Actually, FS+ wasn't even offered by Comcast, but I thought it was $15 everywhere. Just getting it in your sports pack is a great deal. My sports pack is $8 a month, which I get great value out of for the amount of FS, MLB Network, and NHL Network I watch.

I was talking about the studio hosts...the pre/half/postgame crews. Getting Rob Stone was a pretty good get from the guy they had before him, can't think of his name, but Warren Barton is brutal.

 

Not 100% on this, but I don't think a game being on Mun2 would keep it off PL Extra Time from what I've seen. Games will be available in English somewhere, their availability on a Spanish channel won't change that.

 

Not Arsenal related but do any Directv subscribes have Goltv still? It was dropped from the Sports Pack last year but I'm still interested in picking up the channel.

 

Mun2 is an odd channel. They do English and Spanish programming, and they've aired a US-Mexico game in the past in English. I wonder if we'll get SAP from them at least?


Also, count me among the ones that hated Fox. FSP cost $15 a month for at most a game here and there. No free streaming. And that's without getting into the awful people they employed. Good riddance. I will miss ESPN though - I thought they always did a good job with production.

 

http://fangsbites.com/2013/07/nbc-u...-its-2013-14-english-premier-league-schedule/

57+10+2+61 = 130 -- so yeah, all games in English, Telemundo and mun2 with 27 games also in Spanish

 

NBC Sports' continual promotion of the Prem: http://worldsoccertalk.com/2013/07/...tm_campaign=Feed:+EPLTalk+(World+Soccer+Talk)

 

Those are insane pics of the NYC subway.

If anyone sees a train plastered with "Pick Arsenal" then it belongs in the "Arsenal are mainstream in USA" thread.

 

I would refuse to sit in a Tottenham subway seat.

 

My area is pretty much a Time Warner Cable monopoly. I'll be lucky if they deign to add Premiere League Extra or even Fox Sports 1 before the start of the season. They've even balked at adding the Longhorn Network in Texas for crying out loud. Also, Mun2 is an SD only channel in my area. First world problems, but still.

 

It's a shame that Bobby McMahon will be left behind. He's one of the few analysts i respect.