Thought I’d start a thread for Euro 2024 as the qualifiers start this week. Any info on the English/Spanish broadcasts? Doesn’t Fox and Univision hold the rights?
Yes, it's FOX & Univision in the US with the rights. FOX will sublicense most matches to FuboTV but expect the bigger matches to be on Fox - like Italy vs England this Thursday which will be shown on FoxSports-1. SA
I'm seeing a TON of games across FS1, FS2 and FS+ live and rebroadcast (probably some delayed as well.) I'm also seeing all "sizes" of matches from Italy vs England, Spain vs Norway, Serbia vs Lithuania, Belarus vs Switzerland, Armenia vs Turkey and I think one match even includes Lichtenstein. Too bad the timing doesn't work out. One of these games could have made a nice doubleheader with MLS, but I'm sure the contract with MLS/Fox/Apple demands an exclusive window.
Here is the full US TV listing for March 23-28, 2023: https://worldsoccertalk.com/uefa-european-championship-tv-schedule/ SA
I know this is kind of a dead time in the calendar, but I was disappointed not to see any matches on Univision/UniMas. Hopefully as we get further along in the qualifying cycle they will put some of the marquee matchups on OTA.
ESPN losing the Euro qualifiers rights is a major bummer except for people who already have Fubo as their primary streaming service. For anyone with cable or a different streaming provider (Sling, YouTube, etc.), hard to justify adding Fubo at $75+/month. For Spanish speakers or people who don't need English commentary, there is a much cheaper alternative: Vix/Vix+ at $7/month or $60/year (T-Mobile customers get a free year): https://vixplus.com/plus https://www.t-mobile.com/tv-streaming/vix-plus-deal From past experience, the service is reliable for live matches but spotty for replays: some games are not always available, others get taken down quickly (within 2-3 days). We'll see over the next few days whether there's been some improvement on that front.
thanks for tip on T-Mobile, between free MLS, MLB and now ViX my cell phone bill has been highly subsidized
I'm not paying for Vix+ to watch first round of group play for the qualifiers, but I'm not above looking at the free game. Today that was Portugal v. Lichtenstein. I couldn't watch live. The replay is on the (Roku) app, but when you try and watch it, it won't load.
Again, major letdown from Vix on replays. Only 2 games from yesterday listed as available on app or web site: Italy-England and Portugal-Liechtenstein--and, as indicated by Roti2000, Portugal-Liechtenstein is not loading on Roku app or web site. The replay problems were a shame in the spring, but not much to complain about given that Vix was free then and you just assumed they were testing stuff for the launch of the pay service. Now that we are paying subscribers, we deserve better.
Another issue I'm having with ViX on Roku is that it doesn't remember my account info from day-to-day, I had to re-enter it on two different Roku devices today after logging in yesterday. This is some BeIN Connect-level incompetence with the app.
Fox in love with their old tricks: running a newscrawl during games aired on delay that feature spoilers for the game being shown. I still can't figure out why they decided that a full screen should rightfully be used during live action but the newscrawl is needed for a delayed game. Same sport, same type of viewers, same viewer interests (full screen). And they can't seem to get the balance right with the stadium sounds. Too many games sound like the crowds exist in a metal tube.