GolTV Bundesliga Show

[treece73]

Last night I saw the Bundesliga news magazine type show that GolTV airs and I have to say that it is one of the best produced soccer shows I have seen on TV. Very good content and presentation. So much of what I see on the soccer channels available to me seem very Mickey Mouse and low quality; Premier League World obviously being the exception. GolTV News needs a set designer. That show is hard to watch. Not very pleasing to the eye. More distracting than anything. A lot of busyness going on there.

But back to the Bundesliga show. They had a piece on Bayern's training facilities and they are pretty amazing accomodations. I was just reading in "Bloody Confused" how surprised the author was upon touring Old Trafford to see how meager Man U's facilities are. Obviously not the case in Germany.

[bigredfutbol]

I could be wrong, but I was under the impression that the Bundesliga show was actually a German show dubbed into English/Spanish? It's been awhile, but it seemed to me that it wasn't a GolTV 'production.'

And yes, "American Soccer" looks like a first-year Broadcasting major's class project.

[treece73]

You're right. It was "American Soccer" that I was thinking of. However, whatever the Bundesliga show is that I watched, it most definitely is not dubbed. The host speaks fine english.

[unclesox]

According to the end credits, the show, called "GOAL! The Bundesliga Magazine" is produced by the DFL (Deutsche Fußball Liga) and recorded in the studios of ProSiebenSat.1 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProSiebenSat.1_Media), the huge European media conglomerate based in Munich.
The show is recorded in English (with a dubbed version available in Spanish) and hosted by Niels Jäger. Well, the first couple of shows anyway. In the past it was regularly hosted by Desmond Squire.
Every week on the show they mention features you can read up on at the Bundesliga's website. Here's a link (http://www.bundesliga.de/en/liga/goal/index.php) to that page.

[bigredfutbol]

You're right. It was "American Soccer" that I was thinking of. However, whatever the Bundesliga show is that I watched, it most definitely is not dubbed. The host speaks fine english.

According to the end credits, the show, called "GOAL! The Bundesliga Magazine" is produced by the DFL (Deutsche Fußball Liga) and recorded in the studios of ProSiebenSat.1 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProSiebenSat.1_Media), the huge European media conglomerate based in Munich.
The show is recorded in English (with a dubbed version available in Spanish) and hosted by Niels Jäger. Well, the first couple of shows anyway. In the past it was regularly hosted by Desmond Squire.
Every week on the show they mention features you can read up on at the Bundesliga's website. Here's a link (http://www.bundesliga.de/en/liga/goal/index.php) to that page.

Yeah, that sounds right--my memory failed me. What I got right was that it wasn't a GolTV production. I suppose I knew that from the credits...and the better-than-cable-access production values.

[treece73]

Thanks for the info guys. In any case, the show has done it's job. It has piqued my interest and I will definitely be tuning in to Bayern Munich vs Hamburg tonight.

[Chims]

Yeah, it looked to me in the few minutes that I caught that it was not a GolTV production. Very nicely done and a first-class show.

I know that we're lucky to have all of these soccer networks, but I just can't watch some of their home-grown shows, such as "American Soccer". I tolerate "Fox Soccer Report" just on the days when Bobby McMahon is on, but I figured out last night that you can get most of his analysis from his blog :)