EPL: Want to follow games online

[sanariot]

You can try this site (http://www.radio-now.co.uk/listen_football.htm) to try to find a webcast. Most of them will probably lead to Fill in the Blank "World" broadcasts, but at least all of the links are on one page. You might get lucky.

[DAKCrew]

www.football365.com for the text ticker. The next match they are going to have is Man yoo vs West Brom

[kevruth]

If you are interested in which clubs have PTV websites goto: www.officialfootballsites.com This is PTV's site. I have a subscription to one of the club's "world" subscriptions that gives me access to ALL of PTV's live match commentaries all in one place. You receive score updates as well as statistics. And if your club is getting their pants beat off them you just click on another match and listen to it instead.

I would highly recommend checking the audio commentaries at www.socceraudio.com. Warren Van Orden has put together the best information of audio commentaries for all leagues around the world.

Kevin Rutherford

[Peakite]

Originally posted by BrianCappellieri
You can listen to Bradford matches for free (for the time being).

They haven't got their "World" service set up yet.

Listening to Palace-City right now.
According to the latest on the Halifax site, only clubs with the 'world' service will offer commentary, as it would defeat half the point if you could just tune into someone elses commentary - so we won't get it as they wouldn't get enough signups. You can hardly tune into an alternative PTV site anyway for most of the season, but still......

I'd expect that to apply to everyone else as well.

[Warren Van Orden]

Originally posted by Luan
According to the latest on the Halifax site, only clubs with the 'world' service will offer commentary, as it would defeat half the point if you could just tune into someone elses commentary - so we won't get it as they wouldn't get enough signups.

Probably this was the intent. A fly in the ointment is the fact that originating broadcasting stations have an interest in the same audio. When clubs offered it for free, the broadcasters seemed to think it was just fine. Some matches were streamed by both the club and the broadcaster.

Now that the clubs, through the "World" sites, are charging, it is apparent that the rights are not exclusive, and are often available from the originating broadcaster. The largest of which is BBC, where Nationwide league broadcasts have been streamed from Live Five, Live Five *EXTRA*, and some local/regional BBC stations.

(For the Premier League things are almost the opposite, there are virtually no over the air broadcasts that are streamed by the broadcasters to the internet, but very few teams with "World" or other pay packages. While it has proven dangerous to predict before the fact, it looks very much like the majority of the Premier League teams will continue to offer free match commentary when the season kicks off this Saturday.)