Does anyone know the name of that song they play when the announcers are going through the highlights at halftime or the end of the game? I heard it today during the club world cup and they also used it during the Concacaf champions cup.
I remember a while back FSC had French and German league highlights shows. Did FSC give up those rights when they gave away the full games to Setanta? They give 1/2 the Barclays PL games to Setanta and still show Premier League highlights.
no. It was the channel that played it in the background. it's a fast guitar song that i think is used mainly for nfl films season highlight type things.
I have found myself stopping what I am doing from going to the store or going to the restroom when I hear EPL Games broadcast by The One and Only Martin Tyler, Alan Perry, Ian Drake, John Champion, and Robbie Earle doing Color. The best in the business those Lads and one day maybe Dave O'Brian will join that elite list of Football Commentators - NOT- I think FSC should hire Derek Rey who does the Champions League Games on ESPN. He is good.
I'm pretty sure he already has a job that pays a ********load more than FSC ever will. I imagine I probably get paid way more than Face of FSC Max Bretos.
Add who ever was doing the pregame show for the Villa/Tottenham game (Keith?) to the list of people at FSC who got the job just because of the accent. AGBONLAHOR AGBONLAHOR AGBONLAHOR!! Its not that ********ing hard!!
I agree completely. I'm not convinced that Hoolihan has ever watched a full game. He barely knows the names of even the star players. I know FSC doesn't pay very well but surely there are people that know more about the game than these guys like the janitors or some guy they pick up in a pub the night before.
How does FSC not pay alot? There was a thread on here a while ago saying that FSC makes $72 million from cable subscribers alone.
$72M from subscriber fees each year may sound impressive, but after you subtract video rights fees ($9.5M to the FAPL for FSC's half of the EPL alone), the production costs (producers, directors, techs, announcers), the video transmission costs, SG&A costs (sales, general, and administrative, which include the marketing people), equipment depreciation, etc. etc. etc., what is left over as operating profit for FSC is likely to be very small amount. FSC is now a mature TV channel with limited growth prospects (i.e. 3-5% CAGR). With rights fees continue to escalate exponentially (i.e. 20-25% CAGR for a product such as EPL), something else will have to give at FSC for the next EPL TV contract cycle.
Yeah but $72 mil in subscriber fees doesn't include TV adverts/commercials, FSC sponsors, Dish Satellite customers, or the Fox Soccer Shop.
The Fox Soccer Shop is an affiliate type deal with worldsoccershop. Same thing that the big soccer shop uses. not a lot of money involved there really. Sponsors are really bottom of the barrel, and satellite customers are included in that $72m figure. FSC is NOT making big money. Besides, FSC doesn't NEED to pay a lot on salary. They pay what they do, and they are satisfied with what they get for it, and for the most part, we are too, so they would gain nothing by paying out more money.
but they don't need derek rae. they already get as much money as they are going to whether they have derek rae or not. anyone that wants fox soccer channel already has fox soccer channel. getting derek rae would do nothing for their bottom line.
Exactly. Keep in mind that on many cable systems, FSC is on a premium sports pack, as it is on DirecTV. If FSC wants to make more money, they can do one of two things: 1) Force cable companies to put their channel on a standard package. Most likely, the cable companies would laugh at this demand, and FSC would probably end up being dropped all across the country or 2) Get more viewers, then raise rates and advertising fees. As said above, FSC probably isn't going to get milllions more viewers overnight. Frankly, I don't see FSC rapidly expanding their subscriber count unless the USA sees an immigration rush from England(*) or soccer in the USA grows. (*) Sidenote - The immigration rush from Mexico won't help. Most Mexican immigrants are probably satisfied with the Spanish-language channels such as Univision, Telefutura, Telemundo, and ESPN Deportes.
I thought I'd toss this in here, because it's not worth a new topic, but I thought it was amusing. Tonight, FSC showed an "FA Archive" match. The match was described as the FA Cup final from May 11, 2005, between Crystal Palace and Sheffield United. Now, this made me raise an eyebrow. I don't follow English football closely, but still, I think I would have remembered a final where neither club was a big power. So I looked it up. The game wasn't the FA Cup final from May 11. It was an ordinary League Championship match from November 5! (11/5 vs. 5/11.) How the hell can anyone be that stupid and still work in programming? ------RM
Did your on screen programming guide say it was the FA Cup final or did FSC itself say it was the FA Cup final?...My IPG is often wrong. In the US of Eh, 11/5 is usually construed to be November 5 while in the rest of the world (even Canada) it is generally construed to mean May 11.
The two teams didn't play in the FA Cup that year as far as I can tell, so even listing it as an FA Cup Archive match (Final or any other round) is nuts. And they had the FA Cup Archive graphics all over the image. But maybe I missed something in terms of the dates (year not month). Take care.
That's what I suspected at the time, so I checked FSC's online program schedule. "FA Cup Final, Crystal Palace vs. Sheffield United". Now, I only saw the last few minutes of the broadcast, so I didn't hear the introduction to the show, if there was one. But it was "FA Archives", and the graphics included a little silhouette of the FA Cup. ------RM