Big change for this season south of the border: FOX Sports Latin America replaces ESPN Latin America as the rightsholder of the CONCACAF Champions League in Latin America. As for the U.S., CONCACAF continues to place matches involving MLS clubs on FOX Soccer, and matches involving Spanish-speaking clubs with Univision Networks (TeleFutura, Univision Deportes Network, Univision Deportes Dos.) During the group phase, UDN and UD2 will have matches.
Off topic : I am disappointed no one here is carrying any CONCACAF Champions League games especially Toronto FC's when they are usually on. I guess Olympics takes everything over but they still have Sportsnet World & could at least sub-license some matches to Gol TV Canada.
I thought that Fox and Univision bought rights to air any of these games in their language, and they just choose which ones to air out of all of them. You make it sound as if it's CONCACAF's decision. This is a step backard. In 2008, Univ would air many games on free TV. Now all group stage games on obscure cable? Ouch. Plus, FOXLA will probably get lesser ratings than ESPN. And what will they do when CCL games conflict with South American games?
FOX Sports Latin America North Cone will prioritize CONCACAF CCL matches involving Mexican clubs. Having FOX Sports+ available as an overflow channel solves the problem. FOX Sports Latin America North Cone actually draws more viewers than ESPN Dos, which draws more viewers than ESPN Mexico (which has mostly international products.) One way for ESPN Dos to lose even more viewers is to do improvised SportsCenter "Ladies Nights" without proper planning so that the resulting product was a complete embarrassment. Having "Goga" at the SportsCenter anchor desk looking like the Muppets character "Miss Piggy" (last Thursday) is one way to chase viewers away to Central FOX with Maria del Valle in her trademark miniskirt anchoring from a transparent plexiglass anchor desk.
Ok, but you haven't addressed your CONCACAF comment. Don't Fox and Univ have rights to air every single CCL game. but they choose only certain ones? And CONCACAF has nothing to do with that decision?
I believe FOX Soccer is paying very little (if anything i.e. "$1" in rights fee) plus transmission cost for the CCL matches. FOX Soccer will have CCL matches this season: all matches involving MLS clubs (including Toronto) plus both semifinal series and the final. Don't know how much Univision is paying for its slate of matches involving Spanish-speaking clubs, plus both semfinal series and the final. The final should be on TeleFutura if it were to involve a Mexican club.
CONCACAF Champions League matches will also be available on FoxSoccer2Go.com. The matches that air on Fox Soccer (involving MLS clubs) will be delayed until the following morning at 8am, but every other match will be shown live on the service (including matches involving Mexican clubs).
Fox soccer will have the broadcast rights for the next four CCL's and 2013/2015 gold cups. http://msn.foxsports.com/foxsoccer/...12?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=facebook
I'm surprised no one here has mentioned this news, unless I missed it with all the discussion on beIN Sports and the like. I checked the Concacaf board at BS, where someone posted a story on the deal made for Latin America. So this would just be an extension of Fox's effort to control international club events for the entire continent. None of this should be surprising since Fox Soccer is in need of content without rights to regular-season MLS matches. Excerpt below: http://www.concacaf.com/page/ConfederationDetail/0,,12813~2883128,00.html Also mentioned is that Fox has the option of putting digital content on their FoxSoccer2Go platform, although I don't know how that effects this season. Concacaf has made streaming CCL matches available at their website and I also see listings for this week's slate of games there as well. I don't know how long that would be the case. However, I see on the FoxSoccer2Go site listings for next-day on demand of RSL-Tauro, Houston-FAS and Galaxy-Metapan. So it may have unfortunately started. Another thing is that this would be only for English, so Univision may be continuing the Spanish-language coverage on their side.
https://www.bigsoccer.com/community/threads/concacaf-champions-league-tv.1953523/ already mentioned this.
Oh wow. Who needs BeIn when i can watch panama v. Guadalupe or perhaps that Sporting KC v. Joe Public match will quench my thirst for top level football
My disappointment with Fox Soccer was/is not stepping up and broadcasting the away qualifiers for the World Cup. I understand it would have cost them money, but they had nothing live when the US vs Guatemala. If beIN Sports can step up and get the Jamaica qualifier - Fox could have as well.
Fox does not have oil money to throw around. BeIN doesn't care if they lose money, Fox probably does care about losing money.
It must be good to be beIN then. I don't know what they had on the night of the Guatemala game. Probably a re- run of a Champions League game or EPL. How much money did they make that night?
I was talking about Fox Soccer. They were probably showing a replay of the EPL or Champions League up the night of the Guatemala qualifier. How much money was Fox Soccer making on airing either of those that night.
Well the replay cost them nothing since they already paid for the rights, so what ever they made was all profit, even if that was a net of 5 bucks. To show the USA-Guatemala they would have to pay a few hundred thousand for the rights of the game. Maybe if we ask Huhue88 he will say all that Fox had to pay was $1 plus Transmission fees, them fees must be high.
If JJ Mindset is ignoring the OP of the linked thread, as I am, the thread does not appear in a listing for this forum. I've already complained about this in the Customer Service forum, but nobody appears to care enough to fix it.
Well is part of the Ignore feature right. But that does make it more likely for people to start similar threads. Maybe mods can Merge that thread into this one, then again if Huehe has the OP on ignore then he won't see this thread.
My thought was how many people watched it? So you are telling me that every carrier makes money on every program they broadcast? A P & L is filled out for every event. No one ever televises something and loses money? Ever?
Pay 5 bucks for the rights to the game Gets 1 buck from Subscribor fees (allocation of total/2 hour period) Gets 3 bucks from advertising for the game = Company just lost 1 bucks. Or Show a replay of the Championship Pay 1 buck (allocation of total rights/ times you show the games) Gets 1 buck from Subscribor fees (allocation of total/2 hour period) Gets 1 bucks from advertising for the game = Conpany made 1 buck. It all depends on how much the companies are paying for content, and yes companies do lose money when televising something, IBeN sports will lose lots of money the first few years I guarantee it.