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rafaelj

02 Dec 2004, 10:16 PM

What's up with Fox Sports World?

after taking away the Sunday game, they gave up first choice to Setanta for the Saturday match - which is really bad enough - but for the last weeks I noticed that even when Setanta didn't pick the 'top' match, FSW would go to a weird choice - and every week it's Hertha Berlin ... so this week again: instead of Nürnberg-Bayern we get Hertha-Gladbach which is number 9 against number 15 - WHY? WHY? WHY? - is someone at the FSW office in L.A. a secret Berlin fan? - I haven't seen a 'top' match on FSW in weeks - What is going on??

Please write to FSW and demand better choices for our money (I only got DishTV so that I could have Sat morning Bundesliga): programming@foxsportsworld.com

Bayrene83

03 Dec 2004, 05:44 AM

This is really pissing me off. I have written to FSW on numerous occasions and they seem to ignore the complaints. I can’t understand why they don’t show bayern games. When was the last bayern game they showed? And btw in there anyway to get setanta? Thanks

blazsovszkyc

03 Dec 2004, 09:58 AM

I wrote a few times and all we need to do keep up!! This is unbelievable :(

03 Dec 2004, 10:19 AM

When I was in LA, I purposely subscribed to FSW just for Bundesliga matches, and if this is the trend I will cancel it.

wolfsburgh

03 Dec 2004, 12:52 PM

I've asked this before, but is it in fact the case that FSW only gets second choice of the Saturday games? And if Setanta does have first choice, is it the case that they will tend towards games featuring Latin Americans?

Personally, I'm delighted that I don't have to watch Bayern week in and week out. Variety is the spice of life, so they say. That being said, the Hertha/Gladbach game is an odd choice. If Setanta has first choice, it is probably fair to assume that they grabbed the Leverkusen/Wolfsburg game, since that appears to be the best of the Saturday match-ups. But "better" games than Hertha/Gladbach (and I say this as a Gladbach fan who is delighted that I get to see them for the first time under Advocaat tomorrow) include Hamburg/Hannover (which has the added advantage of featuring both US and Canadian players) and maybe even the FCN/Bayern game (assuming it's in Nuremberg). I'm afraid that the Hertha/Gladbach game may be a rather dour affair.

Anyway, if FSW gets to pick and choose its games (with limits), maybe we should encourage them to include on their website a "viewer's choice" poll each week for the game its audience would most like to see, and then occasionally (not all the time, lest it become Fox Sports Bayern) broadcast the reader's choice.

On balance, though, I'm just happy that we get one almost-live game per week (even if it is a second choice). At the top of the my wishlist would not be a "first choice" game but to get the Sunday game back (even, again, if we have to take a backseat to Setanta's broadcast preference).

robbydee

03 Dec 2004, 12:53 PM

This really pisses me off. Bayern is NEVER on. Are there any other ways to watch Bundesliga games other than FSW?

Also ... how can I watch Champion's League games in America? Anyone?

Bayrene83

03 Dec 2004, 12:59 PM

This really pisses me off. Bayern is NEVER on. Are there any other ways to watch Bundesliga games other than FSW?

Also ... how can I watch Champion's League games in America? Anyone?

you can watch all bayerns CL games on their website. you would have to get FCB champions or you can subscribe to Uefa.com and watch all the CL matches. as far as the bundesliga goes. i wish that bayerns website finds a ways to broadcast the full matches

MRschizoid21

03 Dec 2004, 01:01 PM

rafaelj

03 Dec 2004, 01:45 PM

You can watch all Champions League matches of the week on uefa.com - there's an annual subscription fee of $35, but as of 4 p.m. you have a choice of either quick highlights (1 min), extended highlights (10 mins) or the whole match - you only need the (free) Real Player and preferably DSL or cable modem.

The Bayern website offers an annual subscription too - but they use Windows Media Player and they have the matches encoded at a higher bit-rate so you need a much faster connection. I prefer Real Player because if Window Media Player has connection trouble, the audio just keeps going with a frozen image, Real Player is much better to handle.

The only problem with both is that you have to find a way to navigate to the page without seeing the result of your match - I usually open the window for that page in the morning, make it so small that I can only see the part with the choices of which video to see and then at 4 p.m. I just refresh the page.

Stalteri Rules

03 Dec 2004, 04:25 PM

This really pisses me off. Bayern is NEVER on. Are there any other ways to watch Bundesliga games other than FSW?

Also ... how can I watch Champion's League games in America? Anyone?

We watch Champions League games on TSN (The Sports Network) in Canada, and the announcer always talks about what's up next on ESPN, so maybe they show the odd game. We get 2-3 games every two weeks. Good luck... and I like the suggestion of buying a ticket to Europe!! Definitely authentic!

scorpio81

03 Dec 2004, 04:52 PM

yes this is indeed becoming too much...

it really hurts that theyve shown only two bayern games so far...

if they fail to show the bayern-stuttgart game this month, thats all she wrote, for me...

scorpio81

03 Dec 2004, 04:58 PM

as good as the other shows are on this channel, im a bayern fan, and i dont care much about watching city vs villa live especially when the great bundesliga matches are being sacrificed, unlike previous years...

i dont even get back from work in time to catch the bundesliga highlights show which is at a simply horrible time...

something has to change - theyre literally holding us ransom cos we've got no choice here in the US

Smiley321

03 Dec 2004, 05:20 PM

Shut up you philistines, they're finally responding to my letters castigating them for preferring Bayern to Gladbach.

Bayern4Life

03 Dec 2004, 05:35 PM

According to soccertv.com, FSW is gonna show Bayern VFB next saturday. Have you guys realized that everytime they show a Bayern game (only twice), its always away. Hopefully this will change on the 11th.

shutoutj

03 Dec 2004, 06:21 PM

Why should we have to see Bayern all the time? There are actually people that don't like Bayern.
By the way, they've shown:
Hamburg v. Bayern
Werder Bremen v. Bayern
Dortmund v. Bayern
Gladbach v. Bayern

already four this season, and they're showing them play Stuttgart next week.
I'd rather watch the Bundesliga teams that actually DEVELOP most of their talent.

blazsovszkyc

03 Dec 2004, 06:39 PM

Bayern4Life, soccertv had Nurnberg_Bayern until yerserday! and they changed it, so it's a long way until next Saturday, and I want all the antiBayern people here to know that even though I am Bayern supporter I do want to see other games too, but this weekend the Bavarian derby should have been more apropriate to be shown rather than Hertha-M'gladbach. Herthe was 4 times on FSW in 5 or 6 weeks. Let's hope next week we can watch Bayern-Stuttgart

lamcam

03 Dec 2004, 07:17 PM

I'm sick of watching Hertha Berlin everyweek. Hope FSW will show other games in the future.

blazsovszkyc

03 Dec 2004, 07:44 PM

Do you guys remember the first weekend in the Bundesliga this season? Allan Hopkins announced that we won’t have the Sunday game anymore and from now is QALITY over QANTITY!!!! Now we have the quality and quantity too

Catfish

03 Dec 2004, 10:16 PM

I'm sick of watching Hertha Berlin everyweek. Hope FSW will show other games in the future.

AMEN! Hertha Berlin has only Marcelinho (who actually IS worth watching), but remember Hertha Berlin is 9th and BMG is 15th.....not exactly a really stunner of a match in store for us fans of the Bundesliga. Oh well, I really want top of the table matches and especially the Dortmund vs. Schalke 04 derby this week.....the most famous derby, so I have heard, in all the Bundesliga.

PileD

04 Dec 2004, 07:01 PM