What's on the TV/stream/podcast?

Discussion in 'Women's International' started by sbahnhof, Apr 20, 2019.

  1. sbahnhof

    sbahnhof Member+

    Nov 21, 2016
    Aotearoa
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    A new thread to discuss, watch and listen to:

    - Women's football coverage on TV, livestreaming & audio

    - Trying to find a match video if there isn't a thread, or if you don't want spoilers. Ask here!

    - What is the best commentary moment of all time? (v important)

     
  2. sbahnhof

    sbahnhof Member+

    Nov 21, 2016
    Aotearoa
    Women's Football World is starting today on Channel 4 in the UK (Sat. 9.30am), maybe it'll be seen in other countries too...

     
  3. sbahnhof

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    Nov 21, 2016
    Aotearoa
  4. sbahnhof

    sbahnhof Member+

    Nov 21, 2016
    Aotearoa
    ...Or is the best commentary when the Faroe Islands won the World Cup Preliminary? (Yes)

    Faroe Islands - Turkey - 2:1 (11.04.2017)
    - www.youtube.com/watch?v=SX_J_TeHnOs
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    The commentators are literally wearing Faroes jerseys ... :D

    That's a very biased view, blissett! Didn't know you had so much pro-neutrality bias. OK, OK, if you can just take off your non-Faroe hat and be neutral for a minute, what do you think was the best football commentary? Eh? Eh?
     
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  5. blissett

    blissett Member+

    Aug 20, 2011
    Italy
    Club:
    --other--
    Nat'l Team:
    --other--
    I have to admit that the pronunciation of the "r"s and of the long "o" in "Gòòòòòòòòòòòòòòòòòòòòòòòòòòòòòòòòòòòòòòòòòòòòl" was very distinctive (is there anything like a contest for the longest held "o" when a goal is called in South-American commentaries?). :coffee:

    But, please, tell me that this effort didn't go to waste: did Santa Fe manage to actually win the title, in the end, or not? :cautious:
     
  6. sbahnhof

    sbahnhof Member+

    Nov 21, 2016
    Aotearoa
    Women's World Cup TV channels
    - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_FIFA_Women's_World_Cup_broadcasting_rights

    Some of the 'International' ones in English
    [​IMG] Australia: SBS/Optus
    [​IMG] Canada: TSN/CTV
    - Caribbean: DirecTV
    [​IMG] Ireland: RTÉ
    [​IMG] Jamaica: TVJ
    [​IMG] [​IMG] Nigeria/RSA: Supersport
    [​IMG] UK: BBC TV/online

    (U.S. TV is well-covered in the other forums)

    Irish-language TG4 is showing half the games too. As usual, all of the above are likely to be geoblocked outside the country, until someone makes some kind of magical IP-address-changer :confused:

    That would be good, but I kinda doubt it – it would undercut the TV rights that Fifa sells, which seems to be their main focus now. The Fifa TV channel only does 2-minute highlights of games in most tournaments.
    Are you in Canada? TSN's really hogging those rights...


    Sadly that commentator had to do 5 more goals and was hospitalized, nah just kidding, that was the last goal! It sealed the title.


    MyCujoo
    During the recent WAFU tournament I was wishing there was a way to turn off scores on mycujoo.tv – it's informative, but it does presume everyone's already watched every game live:
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    But there was already a good discussion on avoiding the scores:



    Have you heard of Veo? It looks like the MyCujoo website (videos, scores etc), but it's got something I'd never seen before – the camera is totally automated.
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    The emotionless face of our future overlords
    (from Science.KU.dk)

    Invented in Denmark, it's been used heavily in the Danish cup games, Sydbank Kvindepokalen, and some clubs in China and Saudi Arabia have them too. Mostly it's sold as a way for teams to get some game films to study.

    Watching football like this is quite surreal, and a bit dizzying, when the camera is re-focusing, or the algorithm gets confused, or the video buffers. But, if the tech improves, could this be big in the future?

    For example, a game in Copenhagen:
    Fremad Valby - RP 14/5 2019, Veo
    - https://app.veo.co/matches/20190514-fremad-valby-rp-145-2019/
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  7. L'orange

    L'orange Member+

    Ajax
    Netherlands
    Jul 20, 2017
    Is ESPN broadcasting WC matches other than those in which the U.S. is competing? I hope so. We need livestreams!
     
  8. sbahnhof

    sbahnhof Member+

    Nov 21, 2016
    Aotearoa
    [​IMG] TV audiences in the recent club cup finals - in Spain, Real Sociedad's victory in primetime on Telecinco averaged 1.6m viewers and a peak of 2.8 million. The English FA Cup final peaked at 2.2m, up from the 2018 final.

    A few clips are online, interviews with the English champions Arsenal and Eniola Aluko. Another show doing well on UK TV is Britain's Youngest Football Boss about the West Ham women's team.

    [​IMG] Australia's SBS has a charming series, World Cup Fans, people in Australia with a connection to other countries – Japan, Spain and France.

    And the WWC has daily news videos in International Sign language:

    Women's World Cup videos for the deaf and hard of hearing
    - www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0JRKiOfwNU
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  9. sbahnhof

    sbahnhof Member+

    Nov 21, 2016
    Aotearoa
    #10 sbahnhof, Aug 17, 2019
    Last edited: Aug 17, 2019
    Women's World Cup, international TV highlights :cool:

    [​IMG] NRK makes the Caroline Graham Hansen Show


    [​IMG] Record audiences for women's football on French, Dutch, UK and Italian TV:


    [​IMG] [​IMG] A good episode of the Swedish programme Correspondents went to Cameroon, Wales and Brazil to interview some up-and-coming women's footballers, including a crowd scene at the 2019 Champions League semifinal. The episode is "The right to play ball" (first 2/3rds in English).

    [​IMG] And Norway again, a drama show Heimebane about a female coach in the men's league. Is it any good? You can watch it, but will you understand...?
    - https://dramaquarterly.com/home-advantage/
    - https://tv.nrk.no/serie/heimebane/sesong/2/episode/1/avspiller
     
  10. flax

    flax Member

    Feb 8, 2012
    Sweden
    Kind of odd and surprising TV agreement but Mexican Sky Sports have bought the rights to air 2 games from each round of Damallsvenskan for the next 3 years. :confused::geek:
     
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  11. Bauser

    Bauser Member+

    Dec 23, 2000
    Norway
    Club:
    Fredrikstad FK
    I liked the first season of Heimebane as it was a bit refreshing. Football and its culture was the main focus. Unfortunately, football took the back seat in the second season. Identity politics and odd storylines took over.
     
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  12. sbahnhof

    sbahnhof Member+

    Nov 21, 2016
    Aotearoa
    That sounds awesome, I'm gonna binge the heck out of it. (Never mind the large language barrier.) ... It was odd when she said she wanted to fight Alex Morgan*
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    *that was not what she said​

    From that other thread:
    It's mentioned in one of my favourite writings about sport on TV, a fan of the men's Serie A who can't watch it with English commentary because it loses all of the Italian calcio authenticity. Do you think that's true for all leagues? I don't think I'd like the commentators in South America or the Korean league if they stayed calm.
     
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  13. sbahnhof

    sbahnhof Member+

    Nov 21, 2016
    Aotearoa
    Streaming: Football goes OTT
    Uefa has launched the video and streaming site Uefa.tv, which was previously the name for their Youtube channel. The "Over-The-Top" website will have some tournaments live if TV rights are not sold – including the recent U19 Euros, and some Spanish women's league games outside of Spain:
    - http://www.sportspromedia.com/news/uefa-ott-streaming-service-live-liga-iberdrola-rights (Archived)

    [​IMG] Something similar in England:
    Of course it's good that the FA's giving the women's game such support, but how big a difference will this make? Earlier the FA reportedly wanted the games shown on terrestrial TV and had started selling FAWSL rights separate from men's football. The first live game in 2019/20, Man City v Man Utd, is on BT Sport and the FA app – it should do quite well, but it's a shame it won't get a wider audience.

    [​IMG] Over in Germany, the Frauen-Bundesliga will have this season's main games on Friday nights on Eurosport, having previously streamed them on the DFB federation's website on Sundays.

    Maybe even more important than all of the above, Alex Scott was dancing with Gunnersaurus on the teaching-kids-to-dance TV show Super Movers. Don't Try this at home.

    - https://www.premierleague.com/video/single/596200

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  14. flax

    flax Member

    Feb 8, 2012
    Sweden
    #15 flax, Aug 27, 2019
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    Great news for Scandinavian fans!! :D:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

    The Viaplay streaming service will air around 50 matches from FA Women's Super League and 60 matches from Frauen-Bundesliga over the next 3 seasons plus cup finals and over 20 matches from French Division 1 Féminine over the next 2 seasons.

    (Bad news is you need the Sports package that costs around €35 a month)
     
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  15. sbahnhof

    sbahnhof Member+

    Nov 21, 2016
    Aotearoa
    It will be an honour to pay for it, err...

    [​IMG][​IMG] As I mentioned in the AFF Championship 2019 thread but not enough, the coverage of the Thailand–Vietnam final match on Mycujoo.tv has the big "1M", for 1 million page views during the live game. Vietnam's semifinal got 245,000. Presumably some of the site's highest ratings for women's football, and more impressive as the coverage was so basic (single-camera with no commentary).

    There's an interview from 2017 with Mycujoo's Raphael Morgulis about how it all works – sometimes just a phone and a laptop with internet signal.

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  16. sbahnhof

    sbahnhof Member+

    Nov 21, 2016
    Aotearoa
    [​IMG] Hopefully it's a reciprocal agreement, and Swedish viewers will see the Liga MX Femenil...

    I'd like to compose some kind of ode to the Mexican TV commentators, whose excitement makes every game amazing. It's impossible to choose a single highlight, when their level is always turned "up to 10", so let's just say, the entire league is a highlight. Don't forget the radio announcers, who have to speak even faster. But some things, nothing prepares you for...

    Somehow, this commentator turned it up to 11 [​IMG]

    Cruz Azul 3 - 3 Chivas Guadalajara | Apertura 2019 - Jornada 9
    - www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A1-kpJ34yY
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    This may also belong in the Music thread. :laugh:
     
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  17. sbahnhof

    sbahnhof Member+

    Nov 21, 2016
    Aotearoa
    [​IMG] France: Five channels were bidding to screen Euro 2021 on French TV. The winning bid is €13m by Canal+ and TF1, more than double what France Télévisions paid for the 2017 tournament.

    [​IMG] Belgium: The Red Flames' international games will get wider coverage in Belgium on free-to-air TV, in a deal with Proximus and DPG Media.

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    Belgium in 2014 (Stampmedia, cc-by)

    [​IMG] In Spain, the TV trouble is set to run into 2020, with disagreements between the federation RFEF, the Mediapro company, and the clubs.
    Flashpoints included a camera crew being refused entry at Madrid CFF, and Barça TV broadcasting a game and disobeying a court order. The courts have since upheld Barça's right to show its home matches.
    www.panenka.org/miradas/los-entresijos-de-los-derechos-de-emision-en-la-primera-iberdrola, Autotranslated (Archive)

    Other stuff - interviews with female commentator Stephanie Baczyk and journalist Carine Galli, both prominent in men's football coverage.

    [​IMG] And in Scotland, a media analysis of Women's World Cup 2019 found that television there gave women's sport 31% of news stories and 47% of airtime during that month. Less encouragingly, the usual amount on TV is only 12%, and the print media are miles behind. (Archive)
     
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  18. sbahnhof

    sbahnhof Member+

    Nov 21, 2016
    Aotearoa
    [​IMG] Spain: The teams' strike is over, and the TV company Mediapro helped to break the deadlock - but it gets something in return. Its €1.1 million offer was eventually accepted by the players of 11 clubs, who'll each get €100,000/year to help pay wages. The football federation, RFEF, is excluded - it had attempted changes in the league in 2019 that were seen by some as a power-grab. But Mediapro now gets rights to the Copa de la Reina, and to the advertising barriers at the matches! Says RTVE (Archive), "the television operator [Mediapro] will commercialize the matches of said competition and the publicity of the fences that surround the lawn."
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    Mediapro: "Get off my lawn"

    [​IMG] Denmark: The league, Kvindeliga, will be on TV this spring in a new deal between the DBU and channel Sport Live (Archive). Other games will be on kvindeliga.dk. Presumably they'll use a real camera, not the Veo bot. :)
     
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  19. sbahnhof

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    Nov 21, 2016
    Aotearoa
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  20. sbahnhof

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    Nov 21, 2016
    Aotearoa
  21. sbahnhof

    sbahnhof Member+

    Nov 21, 2016
    Aotearoa
    News in recent months

    [​IMG] Champions League goes all-in: The Uefa Women's CL, with its new group stage, will see a change in its TV rights, to be sold more like the men's competitions:

    Uefa centralises Women’s Champions League rights
    https://www.sportspromedia.com/news/womens-champions-league-uefa-tv-rights-sponsorship-format (Archive)

    And the European Women's Championship 2021/22(?) has been bought by the EBU, so most countries in Europe will see similar coverage to that of the 2019 World Cup on public broadcasters. The international deal also contains the youth and futsal tournaments.

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    Mjelde and Miedema at Euro 2017

    [​IMG] Barcelona will launch their own OTT service for fans, featuring their live women's football home games, and "non-live content from the club's other sports assets, including their basketball and roller hockey teams."

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    (RECORDED EARLIER)​

    [​IMG] England: The WSL will aim to sell UK TV rights for £££ next season, after doing deals in Scandinavia (as @flax posted), Mexico and Australia. There's an interesting chat about the FA Player with Rob Mitchell:
    https://www.sportspromedia.com/inte...yer-streaming-platform-rob-mitchell-interview

    Mycujoo.tv is replaying some "Classic" matches at the moment (including women's clubs and internationals in Asia). And so is Uefa.tv, though they appear to have lost the rights to screen any women's games, or they taped over the VHS or whatever.
     
  22. sbahnhof

    sbahnhof Member+

    Nov 21, 2016
    Aotearoa
    [​IMG] A four-year football deal for the South African Broadcasting Corporation:
    https://www.timeslive.co.za/sport/s...-back-on-sabc-after-four-year-broadcast-deal/ (Archive)

    For the women's national team Banyana Banyana only home friendlies are promised. Maybe more importantly for the sport's visibility, "SASOL women's league finals and various SAFA national women's league matches".


    During the women's COSAFA 2018 when Banyana beat Cameroon, fans were complaining that it was only on Kwese Sports online - and South Africa has some of the most expensive internet in the world.
     
  23. sbahnhof

    sbahnhof Member+

    Nov 21, 2016
    Aotearoa
    [​IMG] If you ever wondered, "Are the announcers really at the stadium?", sometimes they aren't - a channel showing a faraway match may find it cheaper or easier to commentate 'off-tube' from a TV studio. Maybe this'll happen often if travel is restricted.

    [​IMG] At the last Oceania senior cup, I was glad the coverage was well-informed rather than, y'know, patronizing af, and yet the comms were done outside the host nation... https://www.gov.vu/en/public-inform...paring-to-play-their-part-in-sporting-history (Archive)
     
  24. sbahnhof

    sbahnhof Member+

    Nov 21, 2016
    Aotearoa
    [​IMG] Football is repairing some previously, er, strained relations

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    Und! The women's Bundesliga is back this Friday, 29 May, with more games on Saturday 30 May.

    Confirmed coverage on TV/online includes 2 games live on the DFB site (probably worldwide), plus the usual channels and some unusual ones, even in the UK and Scandinavia.

    17th match week, 2019/20
    Fri 29 May
    - 12.00 GMT / 14.00 CET - Wolfsburg - FC Köln (DFB TV)
    Fri 29 May - 17.15 GMT / 19.15 CET - Frankfurt - SC Sand (Eurosport/Magenta)
    Sat 30 May - 11.00 GMT / 13.00 CET - Bayern Munich - Hoffenheim (Sportschau/BR24, Viaplay, BBC Alba)
    Sat 30 May - 11.00 GMT / 13.00 CET - Freiburg - Turbine Potsdam (Magenta, Viaplay)
    Sat 30 May - 12:00 GMT / 14:00 CET - Leverkusen - Duisburg (DFB TV)

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    Champions League challenge: Tabea Wassmuth's Hoffenheim take on Bayern
    (img: el_loko, cc-by)
     
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