Or it means more time for the clueless commentators to eloquently and cluelessly expound upon their mistaken impressions and beliefs or to give mistaken impressions of players or referees or even what is showing in the background. I will still use mute a lot of the time regardless of where I watch.
I have a feeling HBO and Turner is going to talk about things I do not want to hear about. I hope when they are broadcasting a Men's match they stick to what I am tuning in for... ...US Men's news and analysis on the field. All of the Off the field cackling hen talk about the team or Women's team will make me tune in to Telemundo faster than a speeding bullet.
Telemundo and Peacock's airing of Telemundo seems like the only way to go. Available on broadcast and/or a single stream service. Is that correct?
I get Telemundo. … who doesn’t it’s over the air. I also get Universo with FUBO but no TNT so I’ll be learning more Spanish Thank you US soccer for sending us back to the 90s!!!!
So I now have: Peacock - Premier League Disney package (ESPN+, Hulu, Disney+) - La Liga, Bundesliga, FA Cup, non soccer stuff Paramount+ - Serie A, Champions League YouTube TV - normal TV Netflix - non soccer stuff HBO max - national team Probably will get Apple for MLS Somehow avoiding Prime at the minute Crazy but I guess this is how everyone wants to attack Comcast, AT&T, etc.
Everyone is desperate for content that attracts and retains. I expect consolidation fairly soon, though. Don't forget that USMNT friendlies are on Turner and HBO ... but Nations League is Paramount, and Fox has the Gold Cup. That's right -- three services needed since the Gold Cup will almost certainly be on Fox Sports App or FS1/2.
Unless HBO Max gets another soccer league I don't see many people getting HBO Max solely for the national team when many already have Peacock for the Prem, and a lot of those people would be fine with just watching friendlies in Spanish(potentially only ~1/2 of the friendlies in Spanish if they have TNT/TBS already)
I have HBOMax already as part of my wireless plan with AT&T. It's actually TNT and TBS that are the problem for me. I have Fubo to watch live sports (soccer, hockey, and football), but it doesn't have TNT and TBS among its basic cable type channels. I know I've turned on the TV to watch a hockey game a few times, only to realize that it's on TNT, and I don't get it. But Fubo does have a good selection of Spanish-language channels, so I figure I can find most USMNT TNT/TBS games there.
Yeah, I think there has to consolidation fairly soon. It seems like many of the streaming services aren't doing well after their initial growth period. In my uneducated opinion, I'd bet on Apple and Amazon making it through, since they make a ton of money from other stuff and can stand losses from their streaming services for a while. Not sure about the others.
In June 2022, Nations League had the Grenada match on ESPN+ and the El Salvador match on FS1. Paramount+ only had the TV rights in 2021, unless they have retained the TV rights for the Nation League playoffs only. It would definitely be simplest for US fans if the March 2023 Nations League matches are split between Fox and HBO Max, or go to either one or the other.
Disney has the catalog to survive. HBO has been such a wonderful content creator, but this Discovery thing may kill that.
Paramount+ still has the Nations League but the US group matches in 2019 and 2022 were not part of it, though I've never seen an explanation why. I watched a bunch of random Caribbean games there last June. Definitely won't be Fox.
The announcers on Telemundo always have great nicknames for our guys though. Bradley was the Bald Eagle, young(er) Pulisic was the Golden Boy, Jermaine Jones Jr was *always* JJJ
So I'm a streaming noob really. I love getting reamed by Comcast every month. It's fun! Now, as an HBO subscriber with xFinity, it appears I get HBO max as, well. However, currently, the app won't seem to load through the 'ole TV. Not sure why. Seems to connect fine through laptop though (like I just pulled up the women's game from last week just now fine). Don't really love having to hook up the computer to the bigger screen but whatever. I'm really fine to watch Telemundo. I enjoy a Spanish match, but it is still preferable to be able to understand what's going on a bit more. And yeah, going back to the '80s seems like not the best USA soccer experience. Here's the thing. I usually watch games via my DVR as 4 out of 5 matches I can't (or prefer not to) watch during the scheduled time. So as a streaming noob, my question is...can I DVR HBO Max? If not, are the games available to stream basically immediately on delay, like if the game starts at say 8 EST, will I be able to stream it from the beginning starting at like 10 EST? I'll DVR Telemundo for failsafe in any case.
The women's games are available on replay on HBO Max right now. I didn't check how quickly they were up.
I have been told that all matches will be available on HBOmax in very short time after the match ends. I have also verified that for at least one match I was able to join an in progress match and watch from the beginning. Although I do not like all these separate services now needed for soccer streaming it does seem that the TBS/TNT/HBO combo is one of the best functioning. Who knows, I "might" even watch a movie or two on HBO and therefore make it a better value. I do wonder if matches on TNT/TBS are also available on HBOmax. I tried to find out but the amount of conflicting and different info is rather astounding. I will wait and find out during the next match. I hope it is as it is easier for me to use HBOmax than it is to stream TNT/TBS. FWIW: I found that Fubo TV does not have TBS or TNT so I switched to Sling which does have those channels. I do not use actual streaming or over the air TV much at all. But I need it for USA (Premier league) and it is sometimes easier to use ESPN from a service like Sling than it is to use the ESPN app(s). It is too bad that there really is no unified soccer streaming service. It would make things easier.
After further research I have discovered that Hulu+live TV is better for me than Sling. It is a VERY close call. I have also found out that the matches on TBS/TNT are not going to be simulcast on HBOmax. Maybe that will change. Along with that I tried to find out if matches on TNT/TBS will be available on a delayed basis on HBOmax and that I cannot find out. The match coming up against Colombia will be the one that determines if we have delayed availability on HBOmax for TBS/TNT matches. I do not think we will but I cannot be sure from what I have found. - - - - - - - - - - One further partially unrelated question: Is it my old brain misremembering things or did searches used to (4-5 years ago or more) provide more and better directly related data. I find it very very hard (using DuckDuckGo or Google) to sift through the massive number of "hits" from even a simple search like "how to watch USA soccer on TV in the USA." Such searches often returns huge numbers of sometimes unrelated results and quite often it returns the same web site multiple times. I don't like to use Goggle for searching as they prioritize results based on some random things that have no relationship to what I am looking for. I have at least five different search engines that I use fairly regularly and DuckDuckGo is usually the best but sometimes just to find something valid I have to use one, or more, of the others. It gets frustrating fast.
HBO Max has easily surpassed Netflix in the quality of its library. Just get HBO Max + Peacock + Hulu Plus + maybe FOX Sports subscriptions depending on what you need there, and you should be good. Still much cheaper than the cable packages no one was really complaining about on here 10 years ago.
This is where I am. Like tonight, I'll watch the English broadcasts when they are on TNT. But in no way, shape, or form will I subscribe to another streaming service just for English-language national team broadcasts. I'll gladly use my Peacock subscription and/or Telemundo to watch those games. I don't see where Warner Brothers Discovery thought they would get a big bump in revenue by having these matches. I was predicting that NBC/Peacock/Telemundo was going to get this whole deal since it could be a good cross-promotion/complement with their Premier League coverage and they could use some additional properties. But obviously I was wrong.
I like Kyle Martino, at least. Not the coverage overall, but he's probably my favorite analyst in the booth.
i like that he isnt a complete fed sycophant, but then again holden wasnt either when he started. did martino call games before? i only remember him doing studio stuff. but the other guy seemed fine, i didnt pay super close attention to them. they were saying stuff and not being jackasses and maybe thats enough.
I thought he was pretty bad. Stylistically, he lacks energy and interest. He's just offhandedly reacting, not really analyzing. He also doesn't seem to have done any homework -- from the start, there were just things that are wrong or just lazy. He called Paul Arriola "a tidy player." Love Paul, but tidy is not him. "No one knows what a handball is" in a game with like four handballs in the box. I know people really liked him back in the day, but this seems like a paycheck to him.
I only watched the Pre-Game and it was okay. I like the way it was produced and looked better to me on TV than what ESPN does and about the same as FOX. And I may be biased towards Colombian-American women from South Florida but give me more of Melissa Ortiz.
people want to cord cut..this is where that gets you and I also get a kick out of I hate fox coverage...I hate espn...boycott them...now complain about everything being all over the place.