English Premier League - U.S. TV - October 2010

Nice to see that the Monday game on ESPN3.com a few weeks ago was only a "one time thing." What programming on Monday afternoon on ESPN2 is so important that they can't show an EPL game they have the rights to?

 

The Monday games will probably return during the winter/spring (January-May), although since teams still involved in Europe will rarely appear, there IS a possibility that ESPN will write those games off and keep them online-only.

UK-televised games from Christmas through Round 37 seem to be announced 1-2 months in advance.

 

all Arsenal matches are on FSC. Nice.

Take that, FS+ (that I don't have)!

 

I also don't subscribe, but will definitely do so in November and December as the following matches will be on FS+:

Sunday, Nov. 7: Arsenal vs. Newcastle United
Sunday, Nov. 14: Arsenal at Everton
Sunday, Nov. 21: Arsenal vs. Tottenham (another forum lists this match on both FS+ and ESPN2, so I'm not sure about this one)
Sunday, Dec. 26: Arsenal vs. Chelsea

 

is there a site thats free of watch live the game?

 

No. Don't steal content.

 

Interesting - isn't the better game usually on FS+ in this timeslot?

no 3 minute delay, eh?

 

http://static.foxsports.com/content...1/Week40-October10-FSC-Clean1285093075388.pdf says there is a Serie A game on before and makes it seem like the coverage will start at 11:00, not 10:55.

 

How I love America, where people would rather watch people talk about sports than actually watch sports.

 

This has been moved to 1:30pm GMT - 9.30 AM ET on police insisteance.

Hope it's still going to be televised live here in the USA.

 

Was it?

However, I can't wait for Bassmasters tomorrow morning.

Thx,

Jay!

 

You have just reiterated my biggest pet peeve. And it is nowhere more apparent than on the Spanish-language channels. When ESPN had the CL, Deportes would constantly chop the first 5 minutes from the 2nd half of games, yet would easily show 15 minutes worth of pre-game, half-time, and post-game junk. They had a 2 hour slot so there was no reason to chop 5 minutes from the game itself. They could have just cut highlights of previous rounds from the pre-game. There was never a need to cut commercials, just their announcers talking about the game(s) and instead actually show the game(s). But the worst offender by far is FSE. Again, they have a 2 hour slot for every game, and yet unless one watches Copa Libertadores or Copa Sudamericana games live/records the game live, there is no way to see a complete game because every re-broadcast will be edited (3-5 minutes from each half). Again, if they need commercial time, cool. But don't cut the game, just cut the analysis from the pre-game, half-time, and post-game.

And then there are the news shows that repeat ad nauseum on Gol and FSC and yet the early Europa League Gol TV game airs 1 time or FSC will air an EPL game 1 time.

 

ESPN2's coverage of Sunderland v Manchester United looks like it's just getting underway now. ESPN2 has college football set for 12 noon ET.

The broadcast window for Sunderland v Manchester United was set for 9:55 AM ET to 12 PM ET. I'm guessing that someone picked this game, not realizing there were 15 minutes of pregame at the stadium.

Luckily, I have ESPN3.

 

There was an unscheduled extended pregame due to a pipe being broken
in the Manchester United locker room causing a flood. For some reason they
decided to delay the kickoff for this - Ian Darke brought up why couldn't the
players still come out and play.

Because the match didn't kickoff until 10:17 am ET - theres no way the
match will end before 12:00 pm ET. Since ESPN2 has a college football
game scheduled for 12:00 pm ET - expect this match to be moved to ESPN
Classic once 12:00 pm ET hits. No way the football game doesn't start on
ESPN2 at 12:00 pm ET. Better to piss off the low number of soccer fans
compared to the many number of football fans. I have ESPN Classic so I'll
be able to switch over - if they don't switch over to there and just tell us
to go to go online to ESPN3 - then thats ok with me as well.

Looks like we get no studio for the 9:55 am ET games - they had Darke
and McMannaman (who are unseen and at the stadium) cover the first half
highlights and scores of other games being played.

No mention yet of whats going to happen once 12:00 pm ET hits.

LB...

 

This is shaping up to be a classic battle - especially since in this case I would rather see the Miami-Clemson game than listen to the dulcet tones of one Ian Darke. I think if this were another college football game bleeding over, the Miami-Clemson game would start on Classic/broadband until the previous game finished. I can't wait to see what happens as either result will please me - one for short term and one for the long term.

 

My prediction, along with the others, is that the game will continue on ESPN3 and hopefully ESPN Classic. Hopefully they'll run a ticker on ESPN2 informing viewers what to do. It's strange that they didn't START the game on ESPN Classic as well.

There is no way that ESPN delays NCAA football in this situation.

 

My prediction, along with the others, is that the game will continue on ESPN3 and hopefully ESPN Classic. Hopefully they'll run a ticker on ESPN2 informing viewers what to do. It's strange that they didn't START the game on ESPN Classic as well.

There is no way that ESPN delays NCAA football in this situation.

FWIW, i'm following the match on ESPN3 with no sound, while watching college football pregame on TV.

 

What the hell. I'll go out on a limb and say ESPN2 will stick with the EPL to its conclusion. Once that final whistle goes, off they go to college football.
Eh, I have nothing to lose, right?

EDIT:
Literally seconds after I post, the scroll comes on.

 

It's official... ESPN hates college football!

 

Karma is a bee-atch.

 

And I quote...

"Right now, back to soccer."