FIFA on XM Satellite Radio

[caroles]

Hi out there. For all you FIFA World Cup Soccer fans, XM Satellite Radio has just become the Official Satellite Network for the 2006 World Cup, broadcasting 64 tournament games in Spanish and English. This is a big event for XM and I just thought you would like to know. I'm with XM and was told to find you guys online. Let me know what you think and I'm looking forward to a great and exciting year! :)

[GutBomb]

Hi out there. For all you FIFA World Cup Soccer fans, XM Satellite Radio has just become the Official Satellite Network for the 2006 World Cup, broadcasting 64 tournament games in Spanish and English. This is a big event for XM and I just thought you would like to know. I'm with XM and was told to find you guys online. Let me know what you think and I'm looking forward to a great and exciting year! :)
cool. i'll be busy watching on tv and not subscribing to your satellite radio service but more power to ya!

[Kryptonite]

cool. i'll be busy watching on tv and not subscribing to your satellite radio service but more power to ya!

Don't let me catch you watching ESPN, ok?

[GutBomb]

Don't let me catch you watching ESPN, ok?
where did you get the idea that i am anti ESPN?

[servotron]

I already have XM, and I'm looking forward to listening to the games on my way to work, etc assuming they are live!

I might even have to get the online streaming version so I can listen at work.

Thanks for the heads up!

All you hayta's, get outta here!

[monster]

I already have XM, and I'm looking forward to listening to the games on my way to work, etc assuming they are live!

I might even have to get the online streaming version so I can listen at work.

Thanks for the heads up!

All you hayta's, get outta here!
FYI - streaming is included in your subscription now.

My subscription will be up in January and I will take a comprehensive look at XM and Sirius before deciding where to go for my next contract. This might help sway me a little, but only if it's more than just the games and maybe some call-in shows, etc., like what they are doing with the MLB package.

[Beau Dure]

FYI - streaming is included in your subscription now.

But not on the sports channels. Or the news channels. Just music and comedy.

I need a home unit. I actually thought about getting in my car to listen to BBC for a couple of late EPL weekends -- the BBC site blocks streaming when rights issues are involved.

[monster]

But not on the sports channels. Or the news channels. Just music and comedy.

Yep. Forgot to clarify that.

I need a home unit. I actually thought about getting in my car to listen to BBC for a couple of late EPL weekends -- the BBC site blocks streaming when rights issues are involved.

I was lucky enough to be driving around the final two weeks of the regular season so that was cool. And I have a Roady (and an indoor kit) so FA Cup Final day, I brought it inside since I had a ton of stuff to do around the house.

[Saltenya94]

If you got MLS, Conmebol, Libertadores, Champions matches, CONCACAF. I'd sing up tomorrow. Since you'd only be picking up these signals, there would be no production cost to XM Satellite Radio. I usually pick the online signals. but when to many ppl are listening to for example the BRAZIL - ARGENTINA match, your singal drops for 3-5 mins. So what do you say caroles, can you make this happen. 5 24-hr soccer radio channels. With emphasis on "big" matches, super-derbys, "super-classico" matches, and to avoid - dead air. just rerun big matches.

Heck, just by running 3-4 mexican leauge matches, i'm sure suspription rates would go up the roof. make sure to get MLS.

[geordienation]

If you got MLS, Conmebol, Libertadores, Champions matches, CONCACAF. I'd sing up tomorrow. Since you'd only be picking up these signals, there would be no production cost to XM Satellite Radio. I usually pick the online signals. but when to many ppl are listening to for example the BRAZIL - ARGENTINA match, your singal drops for 3-5 mins. So what do you say caroles, can you make this happen. 5 24-hr soccer radio channels. With emphasis on "big" matches, super-derbys, "super-classico" matches, and to avoid - dead air. just rerun big matches.

Heck, just by running 3-4 mexican leauge matches, i'm sure suspription rates would go up the roof. make sure to get MLS.


Yeah, but what feeds would you be picking up?

If you picked up DC United games, for example, you'd be picking up a production that's not much above college radio.

Similarly, I wonder how much of a market XM has for spanish language feeds of things like MFL or any of the South American leagues.

Realistically, you'd be licencing BBC, Eurosport or Capital Radio feeds for English/European games and the World Cup. Those won't be cheap.

[Saltenya94]

Yeah, but what feeds would you be picking up?

If you picked up DC United games, for example, you'd be picking up a production that's not much above college radio.
I disagree. DCU games are of high quality. ( ~bad considering -> MLS is 10 yrs old = lack of decades of soccer tradition) The only thing to make them perfect would be for them to add a hypnotic & heart-attack inducing Reverb on the PBP guy. A standard in South American Soccer radio. I swear you listen to that Reverb - and you start sweating immediately) :p great stuff.

Similarly, I wonder how much of a market XM has for spanish language feeds of things like MFL or any of the South American leagues.

Realistically, you'd be licencing BBC, Eurosport or Capital Radio feeds for English/European games and the World Cup. Those won't be cheap.
I agree w/you 100%. BBC market is there. Otherwise there would be no Senna sports covering EPL. Yet, I think it be a good test-program for XM Satelite Radio. Getting MFL, MLS, and Copa Libertadores & Copa Sudamericana. CONMEBOL qualifiers. I know I'd sign up and so would an untapped market - that I KNOW they would love to get before their competition does. It would definitely beat sweating out a reaccuring fading signal via internet OR paying $60 for a game on closed-circuit :rolleyes: at the local bar. Just sayin'

[Warren Van Orden]

Realistically, you'd be licencing BBC, Eurosport or Capital Radio feeds for English/European games and the World Cup.
Sirius has been offering about half the EPL matches since early last season. I believe this will continue in August, and is exclusive to Sirius.