texgator
02 Jan 2004, 09:18 AM
Originally posted by Hattrix
Say, Nancy, aren't you a moderator? And doesn't this site have a policy against posting spoilers? Why do you suppose that is?
Back to communicating with people who have some sense, FSW does a very poor job of concealing results. This past week during the Arsenal game they showed results of every league game that had already been played. These results were not Sky Sports graphics; they were Fox graphics. They did this even though two of these games were to be shown later in the week. That was STUPID. From a marketing perspective, they cost themselves a large amount of veiwers who would otherwise have watched the feed of the game to find out the score.
In 1998 a friend of mine had a business outing the day of the World Cup final. He taped the game and carefully avoided any contact with TV or radio that day. The moment he walked into his apartment, his fool roommate asked: "Can you believe France won three nothing!?!?"
Few things in life are as dull as watching a soccer game when you know the result. One would think "America's Soccer Channel" would understand the importance of hiding the outcome of games they intend to show later in the week.
FSW is a great resource at times, but they do a lot of things wrong. Why, for example, do they continue to show the same two games for a week? Is it that cost prohibitive to broadcast some other contest several days after it was played? And why can't they figure out their broadcasts more than a couple days in advance? The Direct TV info box has TBD up there all the time, SoccerTV.com only goes a day into the future, and the FSW site is jampacked with spoilers that make it almost impossible to find their schedule without also eliminating the reason for the search.
But really, we should just get used to spoilers.
A few things.......I believe it is pretty pointless to avoid spoiling games that will be shown on a multi day delay. They (FSW) are probably thinking that many of their viewers will watch FSW Report sometime during the week and have the results spoiled anyway. I understand avoiding the spoiler on SDD, but a game that is played on Sat. that is delayed until Wed.?? Come on, man, most of us, somehow, somewhere will have the result spoiled. Hell, all you have to do is glance at an updated table and you will know the result.
Also, FSW has their entire week's schedule, and next weeks, and future weeks (if you know the trick) available on their website. Sometimes, for real business reasons, they don't actually know what game is being broadcast until 2-3 days before the matchday. Sometimes this makes it impossible to update the on air programming guide. GOL TV was having the same problem, got it fixed, but the last few weeks have been back to "equipos se annunciar" on all matches. BTW, Soccertv.com goes 8 days in the future, not one, without spoiling any results.
Say, Nancy, aren't you a moderator? And doesn't this site have a policy against posting spoilers? Why do you suppose that is?
Back to communicating with people who have some sense, FSW does a very poor job of concealing results. This past week during the Arsenal game they showed results of every league game that had already been played. These results were not Sky Sports graphics; they were Fox graphics. They did this even though two of these games were to be shown later in the week. That was STUPID. From a marketing perspective, they cost themselves a large amount of veiwers who would otherwise have watched the feed of the game to find out the score.
In 1998 a friend of mine had a business outing the day of the World Cup final. He taped the game and carefully avoided any contact with TV or radio that day. The moment he walked into his apartment, his fool roommate asked: "Can you believe France won three nothing!?!?"
Few things in life are as dull as watching a soccer game when you know the result. One would think "America's Soccer Channel" would understand the importance of hiding the outcome of games they intend to show later in the week.
FSW is a great resource at times, but they do a lot of things wrong. Why, for example, do they continue to show the same two games for a week? Is it that cost prohibitive to broadcast some other contest several days after it was played? And why can't they figure out their broadcasts more than a couple days in advance? The Direct TV info box has TBD up there all the time, SoccerTV.com only goes a day into the future, and the FSW site is jampacked with spoilers that make it almost impossible to find their schedule without also eliminating the reason for the search.
But really, we should just get used to spoilers.
A few things.......I believe it is pretty pointless to avoid spoiling games that will be shown on a multi day delay. They (FSW) are probably thinking that many of their viewers will watch FSW Report sometime during the week and have the results spoiled anyway. I understand avoiding the spoiler on SDD, but a game that is played on Sat. that is delayed until Wed.?? Come on, man, most of us, somehow, somewhere will have the result spoiled. Hell, all you have to do is glance at an updated table and you will know the result.
Also, FSW has their entire week's schedule, and next weeks, and future weeks (if you know the trick) available on their website. Sometimes, for real business reasons, they don't actually know what game is being broadcast until 2-3 days before the matchday. Sometimes this makes it impossible to update the on air programming guide. GOL TV was having the same problem, got it fixed, but the last few weeks have been back to "equipos se annunciar" on all matches. BTW, Soccertv.com goes 8 days in the future, not one, without spoiling any results.