I am also happy they used the feed for the Juve game. Did they do the same for the Lazio game? I can only pray that Christian Miles is not anywhere near the Roma game. Every time he Mexes touches the ball I want to kick my TV in when Miles turns Mexes into an Irishman (McShays). Given the teams that are likely to feature on FSC's coverage of Serie A there's no reason they shouldn't have access to a UK feed for every game. Let's hope they go with those feeds. Gol seems to be in and out with the feed. Last week Kelly and Lindsay were calling the Bayern game. Take care.
Ah, this is good to hear! I didn't plan on watching any Serie A matches this season, as I expected Bretos & Co to do all the announcing. If they're using Euro-based announcers, the commentary will actually be GOOD on Serie A matches this season! Gol TV and FSC's in-studio announcers really do suck pretty bad. Never stop talking, over-hype everything, and randomly change the way they pronounce names. I'd include ESPN's in that, but I think Wynalda's not that bad (doesn't yell at me, doesn't constantly talk, and doesn't try to use fake accents on foreign names). I really don't enjoy the feeling of being "lectured" by Bretos, Sullivan, Shoen, etc, when trying to enjoy a game.
Yeah they used the International feed for the Lazio v Torino match. Good game as well. Now if GOLTV could begin using the International feed announcers for La Liga and Bundesliga games.
Who was that supremely awful guy doing the PBP for the Inter-Udinese match? Lord, give me back Sammy Sadovnik on GOL TV.
so you were gonna prive yourself of Serie A because of the FSC announcers? Mute and internet radio are your friends. I mean, yeah they suck, but I wouldn't go that far. Unless you're not a big Serie A fan, that is.
Is there any reason why they are showing a live mid week Argentine league game this week ? They never do that. Its not River vs Boca either.
Perhaps, like me, he also subscribes to RAI through DISH Network. If the choice is FSC's "talent" or RAI's then it's a no-brainer for me. However, I do like to sample the occasional Europe-based PBP because sometimes you find a real gem, a guy or a team who are not only knowledgeable but also real fans & able to inject a sense of humor into the proceedings. Too bad this is a FSC megathread or I'd crack on the GolTV guy calling Scheisse 04 "Schalk-ee Oh-Four." Man, that grates. No need to adopt a fake accent but it's really not that hard to say "Schalk-uh." And it really should be part of a professional broadcaster's toolbox to have people you can ask about how to pronounce non-English words so as to avoid advertising your ignorance to the world.
I've never been a fan of Serie A. My first exposure to it was with Bretos doing commentary. I never made it through an entire match. This was a few years ago, before GolTV had some of the matches, and FSC had some. But even so, mute is not something I'd use. I want to hear the crowd (especially for big league matches), not hear nothing. What I don't quite get, and I need to figure out how to fix it, is why both GolTV channels I have are in English. I have the sports pack (FSC and GolTV, along with some college sports channels) and the Spanish pack (GolTV, FSWE, Telefutura, ESPN Desportes), and even on the Spanish pack, GolTV audio comes through in English. I find that I enjoy listening to Spanish announcers over poor English announcers (Schoen, Dean, Sullivan, Bretos), even though I don't speak but about 15 words of Spanish, simply because whatever innane things are being said I don't understand, so I can just focus on the match (and the crowd/atmosphere). With Bretos and Schoen, try as I might, I can't help but pay attention to the moronic things they say (and the fact that they never shut up), and eventually just turn the game off. For the most part, it really does seem like it's an American thing to talk non-stop, and nearly shout over the match, with fake excitement. The Vitale style, I guess. And the fake-accented names seems an American thing, too. And both seem rather stupid.
For the EPL games, I can tolerate them not having the real announcers until the kick off and cutting them off the second when the half time whistle is blow. The only thing I can't stand is when they show the starting line-up, they don't show the substitutes bench. I watched the Man Utd vs. Tottenham match ,and they did not show that to me for the entire game !!
I'd give FSC's coverage of Serie A this weekend a big They used the Rome-based English announcers for the matches and the picture and audio quality was top-notch. The only criticism I'd give is their continued failure to show matches LIVE. Someone has to tell FSC that it's entirely possible to start a broadcast 5 minutes to kickoff so you can get all the pre-match BS out of the way before the actual start of the match. GolTV seems to have figured that out why not FSC?
Especially for the Saturday & Sunday 2:30 PM ET games, which are preceded by the end of the English 12:15 PM ET game and the end of Super Sunday Plus, meaning they could do so easily.
I give them two,three,four,heck fk it - all fingers up. Just caught my first game and still cant believe it.. Way to go FSC.. Many Thanks.. Go to hell goltv...
I feel like I must have been watching FSC in a parallel universe or something, reading all of this praise. The Inter match I watched was narrated by some guy who couldn't get more than three words out without an awkward pause, so that his match commentary was something like this: There's a pass to ... [long pause] ... the wing where ... [long pause] X [for "X" insert the name of any player whose name might conceivably be hard to pronounce, and mis-pronounce it] ... [long pause] ...I enjoy a PbP person who sticks mostly to naming the players and letting the visuals carry the action, but that's not what was happening here. This was someone who had trouble with the English language, and not, I would add, because English was his second language ... he sounded like a generic FSC Anglo. Much as I dislike Max's tortured histrionics or Sullivan's oddball accented commentary, at least they can string more then three words together at a time, and show some excitement in the process. This guy was like an amateur.
Long pauses... sounds good to me. I like hearing the crowd and the game and just getting the bare essentials from the commentary. But, of course, I will be watching Serie A on RAI International unless FSC shows a Palermo match that isn't on RAI.
Like I said, I like the minimalist approach to PbP, too ... but this person wasn't being quiet, he just didn't know how to talk. Which is kinda important for an announcer.
Can their FSC logo and sponsor in the top right corner be any bigger ? jeez , im watching the Villa Chelsea match right now on the Score which has the ticker at the bottom instead of FSC which has a billboard on the right corner can we tell them to make it smaller or atleast move it to the bottom right corner where its less distracting
I must say that doesn't bother me really. Kudos to FSC for allowing the commentator to wrap up the second half instead of having the FSC guy jump all over him as soon as the final whistle blows.
Does anybody know why FSC is showing the Tottenham/Arsenal game at 8:30am EST on Saturday but proposing to show the West Ham/Middlesbrough game at 10:30am EST, only running until 12 noon before Chelsea/Blackburn? 830am - Arsenal/Spurs 1030am - West Ham/Boro 12pm - Chelsea/Blackburn
This is my explanation, the West Ham/Boro match starts at 10:00am. It will not be live at 10:30am, it will be on a 30 minute delay. And since the Chelsea/Blackburn match doesn't actually start until 12:15pm they might actually be able to fit the West Ham/Boro match in. And if not they will just show the Chelsea/Blackburn match on a delay. Which is not unusual for FSC since almost all their matches are on a 5-10 minute delay anyway. I guess they figure what's another 10-20 minutes of delay?