EPL Officially to NBC

I believe it's OnDemand >> HD >> Sports >> Premier League Live Matches

 

Still find it obnoxious that they can't stick the games on normal channel numbers. Can't be that hard for them to air on the not in use Extra Innings/Center Ice/League Pass/Direct Kick channels. Sucks not being able to flip around, and the feed was 4 minutes behind for me on Saturday.

 

It makes no sense when the parent company of NBC Sports can't make it as convenient as rival providers.

 

Most forwards will go down in the box when a defender has both hands on the forward's back and pushes. Yes, Suarez goes down way too much in general, but the no call that Howard commented on was a stone-cold PK for me.

 

The boy who cried wolf theory. When a player goes down consistently like someone shot him in the leg he loses all credibility. Even if it is a fault.

 

NBC Universal Presents Unprecedented Coverage Of Premier League's "Championship Sunday" On May 11.

9:00 am ET - Premier League LIVE pre-match show on CNBC featuring Rebecca Lowe, Robbie Mustoe, and Robbie Earle. (Not on NBCSN? What are they showing a Formula One Auto Race that morning? They can't throw that on CNBC? It should be Premier League only on NBCSN on the final day of the season.)

10:00 am ET - Matches on the following channels - NBC, NBCSN, CNBC, MSNBC, USA, Bravo, Syfy, Esquire Network, E!, Oxygen plus Telemundo* and mun2* - *Spanish-language telecast.

12:00 pm ET - Premier League LIVE post-match show on both NBC and NBCSN with Rebecca Lowe, Robbie Mustoe, and Robbie Earle.

http://nbcsportsgrouppressbox.com/2...remier-leagues-championship-sunday-on-may-11/

 

The ten fixtures for the final day --

Cardiff City v Chelsea
Fulham v Crystal Palace
Hull City v Everton
Liverpool v Newcastle United
Manchester City v West Ham United
Norwich City v Arsenal
Southampton v Manchester United
Sunderland v Swansea City
Tottenham Hotspur v Aston Villa
West Bromwich Albion v Stoke City

 

If the games are assigned based on their significance, at this point, it would be fair to say that man utd will end up on Oxygen. If this was Fox, I am sure that they would find a reason why man utd game is still the most important of all 10 games.

 

Pretty sure Newcastle will be on NBC or NBCSN

Thx,

Jay!

 

I just noticed no MOTD on NBCSN for saturday's matches. Really? Couldnt they find another channel to stick it on? Or at least expand sunday's MOTD to 2hrs to accommodate both days?

 

Yes, the Grand Prix of Spain is that weekend.

I'm sure NBC could show F1 on CNBC, but it seems they are prioritizing an actual live sporting event of one of the biggest sports in the world over a studio show.

Why is that a bad decision? Seems smart to me.

 

Because other sports contracts don't count but soccer contracts are written in blood. This one of the things that gets to me most about this forum. MOTD is not on this week because NBCSN has two live NHL games running into the Grand Prix this Saturday night. There would be no issue if we all thought logically but we don't.

 

Its not just this forum. Cycling fans were screaming bloody murder two Sundays ago when NBC Sports didn't show live coverage of Paris-Roubaix, instead choosing to show the Man City-Liverpool game with Paris-Roubaix delayed until the next day. Some of the fans couldn't figure out why Man City-Liverpool was more important than the biggest one-day race on the cycling calendar...

 

I didn't know that there were cycling fans that survived the armstrong crisis. I really thought that had killed them all. Fan means fanatic and I understand that but this forum seems to have warped priorities. even your cycling example is about a LIVE event I was more talking about the people bitching about the ancillary programming.

 

I'm a cycling fan.

 

Good to know I was at one time too. I can't sit through it anymore not enough happens.

 

Wow, that was pretty bush league production from the folks in Stamford. At 83' of SFC-EFC, they lose the UK feed (so they said later)... so what do they do? Put on 2 mins of ads. Hello? In the middle of the match?! No "experiencing technical difficulties" screen?? No throwing it back to the studio team?! I can't even recall the jokers at FOX ever doing anything quite like this.

 

Also no signal for the WBA-West Ham and Stoke - Spurs matches either for the first 15 or so minutes. Of course March-April are always the worst months for satellite disruption.

 

+1

The in-studio host on FOX always was ready at the mic. Also, there's been plenty of games that GOLTV and beIN lost the feed and had B-roll crowd shots ready to play over Ray and Phil's blather.

Thx,

Jay!

 

I recall they used the BT Sport feed earlier in the season when they had technical issues

 

At 72' of LFC-CFC we got a brief gift... 1 minute of failed commentary feed. Just crowd noise. Oh how refreshing. Sorry Arlo. .

 

Thought Tim really came into his own today as an announcer in Man City-Crystal Palace. Consistently gave the game-inside-the-game insight that I want from a commentator. That said, a little biased to (or at least impressed by) Man City. He could work on that. He could stand to watch a Ray Hudson montage to develop a little bit of pep, too.

 

He provides good information. But his voice and tone is sometimes hard to listen to. I know substance should be priority over presentation but this is television after all.

 

I think Timmy will improve over time, and will be a top analyst by the time his playing days are done. I suspect he'll be more 'coachable' than Gujo.

 

I don't think losing the feed was their fault, but mismatched audio seems to be running rampant lately. Both ahead and behind the action.