Absolutely. Was a huge part of why I was drawn to the sport. Events just felt much bigger with Bob involved in the coverage.
Hmm… maybe ESPN+ is bumping-up their coverage of Eredivisie this season(?). Or maybe not and they’re just making an exception for the first week: SAT: FC Emmen v Groningen SAT: Vitesse v Ajax SAT: Twente v PSV --- SUN: Feyenoord v Sparta Rotterdam Hard to believe there's any market at all for Emmen v Groningen. Not that I'm complaining, just surprised. Heck, even if I was living in Holland I wouldn't fully expect to find that match on TV given its on the same time as the Ajax match.
4 games per week is where they left off last season. You will always see a match involving the "Big 3" (Ajax, PSV, Feyenoord) and 1 additional match. Here is the ESPN+ schedule thru September 1st - http://soccertvblog.com/eredivisie-tv/ SA
Kind of surprised they don't just show all of them. Does the Eredivisie not film/produce all matches for distribution?
All matches are available on FoxSports in the Netherlands. Not sure if there is a limit of matches produced for the int'l market... SA
I just re-activated my monthly ESPN+ subscription after having suspended it about 6 mos ago. Didn't really miss it much in that time, but now I need it to watch some pre-season matches which are only on ESPN+. So I just have to say THANK YOU DISNEY/ESPN for selling your product this way. It's the way I wish all streaming providers would go. Very customer-friendly. Allowing us to pay for only the months we really need to use your service. Otherwise I would've wasted $30.
NorthBank saying something nice about streaming or a streaming service? And here I thought that Cats trailer was the strangest thing I saw today.
Hahaha. I've generally had relatively nice things to say about ESPN's streaming quality, marketing/pricing, etc. Less so for NBC and the nascent industry as a whole.
$50 per year. So if annual membership was all they offered you would’ve wasted half that (although I suspect most preseason friendlies are on regular ESPN/Espn2).
You missed the essential point of my original post. They charge monthly, and they let you unsubscribe and resubscribe fluidly. That is what I was commending them for. And thus, I saved $30.
To be precise, You saved $50 minus whatever you paid in the last 12 months (which is less than $30 unless you unsubscribed for at least 8 months). As it happens, I am just coming up on my one year renewal next week. Best $50 I think I ever spent. And they didn’t increase their price despite having way more content than a year ago.
I don't subscribe annually. That's the point. Thus $50/yr is irrelevant in my case. My rate is $5/mo, as I suspect it is for quite a few others who do likewise.
I will be the loan wolf here and say I do not care about ESPN+ and glad I am not paying the wall they built around their content. I still have way too many other things to watch as part of my Dish subscription to keep my attention.
Okay, say a monthly subscriber is subscribed for 10 months this year and unsubscribed for 2 months. You would say he saved $10. But he paid $50 during the year (10*5), the same as everyone who paid for the full year. So in reality he didn't save anything.
I'm still just confused as to why someone would subscribe to ESPN+ but give it up for March, April and May
Because my main team is in the first division not the second? Plus they had no more skin in the English cups. And the 3 other teams I watch are all on mainstream TV. Honestly I don't recall a single moment in the past 6 months where I said "man I miss subscribing to ESPN+".
ESPN+ only shows the games from Holland that IMG Media produce for international distribution. IMG most likely added a single game for international distribution this season (which is good for everyone). The KNVB Cup nor the Cruyff Cup are part of that package.
I just noticed that on WatchESPN they are requiring you to sign in as a cable subscriber to watch replays of matches that originally aired on ESPN/ESPN2. For as long as I remember you could replay games on the big two even if you are not a ESPN subscriber. ESPN3 content is still available. Does anyone know if ESPN+ subscribers can watch replays from the big two?