ESPN Soccer Thread

Discussion in 'TV, Satellite & Radio' started by Lovac1, May 20, 2016.

  1. unclesox

    unclesox BigSoccer Supporter

    Mar 8, 2003
    209, California
    Club:
    FC Barcelona
    I feel the complete opposite. I quite appreciate the way he says the names with precision because they are so exact and I enjoy knowing how to correctly pronounce names from the many different languages I know nothing about. It's clear he does his homework on learning the correct pronunciations.

    To this day it bugs the hell out of me when, for example, the UK media still refer to Argentina's 1986 goalkeeper as Nery "PUMP-i-doe" when the correct pronunciation in his native Spanish is "poomp-EE-doe".
     
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  2. InterFan76

    InterFan76 Member

    Mar 20, 2012
    Hamburg,NJ
    Club:
    FC Internazionale Milano
    Nat'l Team:
    Italy
    Does anyone use the Amazon fire cube to stream? I constantly get buffering when watching on the espn app through the cube. Does anyone else have this issue?
     
  3. Redbullsnation2012

    May 26, 2010
    Club:
    Manchester United FC
    I'm not watching on ESPN app nor do I have the FireTV cube. Maybe try hard-wiring it?
     
  4. bostonsoccermdl

    bostonsoccermdl Moderator
    Staff Member

    Apr 3, 2002
    Denver, CO
    I have always thought he has been a bit much. Too formal for my liking and he needs to be reminded he is covering a sports event, not giving a lecture at a prestigious university.
    He goes over the top with his choice of words and the the manner he pronounces them in general..
     
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  5. daniloni

    daniloni Member+

    Tottenham Hotspur
    United States
    Jul 17, 2013
    Oakland, CA
    Club:
    Atlanta
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    This seems too relevant to pass up:
     
  6. Kryptonite

    Kryptonite Fancy Title Here

    Apr 10, 1999
    Columbus
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Just out of curiosity, who has the Euros in Spanish? (This is 100% curiosity.)

    There are two games being played now. Univision, Unimas, Telemundo, Universo, Galavision, ESPN Deportes, TUDN, GOL TV and the ESPN app all seem to not have the live rights.

    I'm guessing nobody.
     
  7. drt2k3

    drt2k3 Member

    Jul 1, 2005
    Wilmington, NC
    Club:
    Wilmington H.
  8. NorthBank

    NorthBank Member+

    Arsenal; NYRB
    United States
    Mar 29, 2006
    Connecticut
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    #2058 NorthBank, Jun 28, 2021
    Last edited: Jun 28, 2021
    It's quite impressive the pedigree and depth of the talking heads ESPN has hired for their in-studio team during the Euros. They must've shelled out some serious cash to do that. The list of great names they've employed is so long I can' even begin to type it. And we're only at R16!

    p.s. All the more impressive and expensive if the studio is in Bristol CT, as it appears to be.
     
  9. Kryptonite

    Kryptonite Fancy Title Here

    Apr 10, 1999
    Columbus
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States

    Just like the World Cup, when they want to invest, they do a bang-up job. Heck, look at their American sports too. They do that "Full Circle" or whatever they call it when they show a game on a ton of different channels via different cameras/angles.

    What I don't understand is this: We know the US channels can broadcast via studios, as many NBA/NHL/MLS teams did last year during the worst of the pandemic.

    I wonder what the broadcasters see in sending announcers to cities and having them go all across the country. I'd imagine it might be easier for them vs on a TV, but someone is also spending a lot of money and it probably comes from our TV bills.

    Could Turner/Disney/Sinclair/Comcast charge providers less if they kept their announcers in studios?

    Ok, for championship games, All-Star games and other big stuff...I can see for NASCAR and golf, they'd want to send people. But why not just send one sideline reporter to your typical regular-season game and save money?
     
  10. danielmak

    danielmak Member

    Sep 26, 2004
    off the purple line
    I'm so happy in general about ESPN+ but especially happy with the app that has saved me from the weather fools. It's like these guys just wait around to interrupt broadcasts. That has happened at various points during this competition as Chicago has been hit with tornado warnings, storms, and light rain. Each time I could skip the local ABC and jump to the ESPN app.

    It's also interesting that the alternative feed broadcasts started with ESPN commentary but after about 3 or 4 games they switched to UEFA feed commentary. The 4 screen thing is unwatchable for me personally, but nice to know that if the TV will function as radio there are some choices.
     
  11. NorthBank

    NorthBank Member+

    Arsenal; NYRB
    United States
    Mar 29, 2006
    Connecticut
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I guess we know who will be sucked into a tornadic vortex when the next F4 hits your town. Obit will read "Daniel was happily streaming a soccer match when he met his unfortunate demise".
     
  12. HomietheClown

    HomietheClown Member+

    Dusselheim FC 1971
    Sep 4, 2010
    Club:
    --other--
    I also live in Chicago and the local News alerts have sucked for decades when watching sports.

    I could understand it back in the day but Now with Mobile phones I think it is a bit excessive.
    At least double box it or PIP. Or since there are sub channels put the game on the Sub channel 7.2 or something and scroll a crawl on the bottom of the screen that you are putting it on the Sub channel.
     
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  13. Kryptonite

    Kryptonite Fancy Title Here

    Apr 10, 1999
    Columbus
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States

    They do have a requirement (I think FCC) to alert their viewers as to weather/other situations. If they don't warn, they could lose their license...and it may be a part of the requirement to warn via public airwaves.

    It sucks that it means breaking in to live sports, but with the ESPN app, that's the workaround. At least my affiliates try not to break in unless there's an active tornado warning (or something equally serious), but the downside is that there's obviously no way to split things into zones. If the far north part of the viewing area has the warning and it's obviously clear and calm in the southern part of the area, then the people down south are upset.

    Keep in mind that not everyone has a smartphone or may not have an internet device at the ready. For elderly people, a TV may be the best way to get out warnings. It's what they've known their whole life.

    The game that comes to mind is the USA WCQ the same day military operations started following 9/11. Some people (myself included) saw full-screen news coverage. Others got a split-screen. If the app or even ESPN360 was a thing then, it wouldn't have mattered. Unfortunately, it was before ESPN360. The alternate ESPN/ESPN2 channels were around then, but couldn't have been used. (Those channels were for when ESPN was showing two things at the same time, such as their regional college football coverage in the late afternoon slot.)
     
  14. HomietheClown

    HomietheClown Member+

    Dusselheim FC 1971
    Sep 4, 2010
    Club:
    --other--
    #2064 HomietheClown, Jun 30, 2021
    Last edited: Jun 30, 2021
    I knew everything you said before you said it.

    Which is why I said they should at least put the sporting event on a Sub Channel with something on the bottom telling people to go to that channel and alerts.

    I am not advocating to not alert people.
    It is just a bit antiquated to have the warning fill up the whole channel screen and a weather man giving you a long monologue
     
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  15. BocaFan

    BocaFan Member+

    Aug 18, 2003
    Queens, NY
    If its easy to avoid alerts then alerts become useless.

    Soccer isn’t the most important thing in the world.
     
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  16. HomietheClown

    HomietheClown Member+

    Dusselheim FC 1971
    Sep 4, 2010
    Club:
    --other--
    No one is arguing that it is the most important thing in the world.

    The argument is that is it old fashioned and useless to have a tv channel filled with alerts and weathermen telling people what to do for hours in an age of technology.
     
  17. Kryptonite

    Kryptonite Fancy Title Here

    Apr 10, 1999
    Columbus
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    But just because you have a smartphone, laptop and all sorts of apps doesn't mean everyone does. If the game is on TV, then it's on someone's app. If we demand games be on TV, no matter what, I'd suggest contacting the FCC to change the law.

    A tornado warning, where lives are at stake, is much more important than some game that can be accessed otherwise.

    The subchannel for the game (or even any regular programming) is a good idea...if it can be done.
     
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  18. HomietheClown

    HomietheClown Member+

    Dusselheim FC 1971
    Sep 4, 2010
    Club:
    --other--
    As I said, I understand the law and why it is in place and the urgency as to why they do it.

    No one is saying a game is more important. That is a strawman argument.
     
  19. NorthBank

    NorthBank Member+

    Arsenal; NYRB
    United States
    Mar 29, 2006
    Connecticut
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    #2069 NorthBank, Jul 6, 2021
    Last edited: Jul 6, 2021
    I've been experience a lot of buffering and overall poor video quality when streaming Euro matches (like right now with ITA-ESP semifinal). Usually in the past I've found that ESPN has been the best quality streaming platform so this is a bit surprising. I'm wondering if the problem is local to me or if there's a general issue with ESPN streaming lately.

    Edit: I clicked the video icon "Choose Your Broadcast" and I switched from ESPN (logged in via my TV provider) to ESPN+ (which I also have an account for). And it was rock solid after that. So apparently ESPN uses different streaming technology/platform for ESPN+ vs the other stuff? If so, why would they do that, when ESPN+ is superior quality?!

    Edit2: Unfortunately the ESPN+ feed does not include any halftime studio analysis. Hello? What is the frigging rationale there?

    p.s. More clunky, fragmented, dysfunctional, user-unfriendly streaming dogs us. Maybe by 2025 they'll figure things out.
     
  20. BocaFan

    BocaFan Member+

    Aug 18, 2003
    Queens, NY
    Did you try unplugging and plugging your TV back in again?

    The only streaming app I find more reliable than ESPN's is Netflix and it has remained reliable throughout this tournament for me.
     
  21. NorthBank

    NorthBank Member+

    Arsenal; NYRB
    United States
    Mar 29, 2006
    Connecticut
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Hahahaha

    Actually today I'm choosing to watch on TV, partly because of it's vastly superior reliability to any streaming platform. But I agree with you that ESPN+ & Netflix are very solid. And yesterday, my small-sample-size experiment, seemed to indicate that ESPN+'s streaming infrastructure is different (better) than the regular ESPN's.
     
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  22. NaBUru38

    NaBUru38 Member+

    Mar 8, 2016
    Las Canteras, Uruguay
    Club:
    Club Nacional de Football
    Semi-OT: ESPN has renewed its Wimbledon deal.

    The linear channels will have 140 hours of live matches (so 10 hours per day). The remaining matches will be on ESPN+.
     
  23. InterFan76

    InterFan76 Member

    Mar 20, 2012
    Hamburg,NJ
    Club:
    FC Internazionale Milano
    Nat'l Team:
    Italy
    You are right I’m watching the euro final not logged it the streaming is beautiful today. I had issues since my internet provider switched to Altice and I thought it was the provider.
     
  24. Kryptonite

    Kryptonite Fancy Title Here

    Apr 10, 1999
    Columbus
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
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  25. Kryptonite

    Kryptonite Fancy Title Here

    Apr 10, 1999
    Columbus
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Altice recently lowered their speeds because the competition had speeds slower than them. To be fair, customers are locked in to current speeds until they change, but it seems very strange that they'd lower speeds. Usually, customers are locked in to speeds when those speeds get retired and faster ones are introduced.
     

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