Copa del Rey Final - Friday May 25 - ESPN Deportes & ESPN3.com

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  1. huhe888

    huhe888 Red Card

    Oct 3, 2007
    Copa del Rey Final

    Friday May 25

    3:50pm ET - Athletic Bilbao v Barcelona - ESPN Deportes, ESPN3.com

    (This match will NOT air on GOLTV U.S. according to the latest schedule grid released by GOLTV, Inc. I suspect that Santa Monica Sports sold the U.S. TV rights to ESPN Int'l directly.)
     
  2. jhernandez86

    jhernandez86 Member

    Sep 22, 2004
    Please double check, I think GolTV U.S. also will be showing this game, it was announce by one of their broadcaster, but I am not sure if that change.
     
  3. huhe888

    huhe888 Red Card

    Oct 3, 2007
    GOLTV did NOT buy the U.S. rights to this match.

    (Not a surprise to see GOLTV pass on this one. Friday afternoon before a long weekend with too many people traveling out of town. Not worth it because Real Madrid will NOT be involved. Having just Barcelona is no longer enough.)

    Santa Monica Sports did the deal with ESPN, Inc. directly.
     
  4. NBFootballFan

    NBFootballFan Member

    Jul 29, 2010
    Fredericton, Canada
    Club:
    Manchester United FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Ireland Republic
    Having just Barcelona isn't enough? What do you set the standard for "enough" as? Barcelona are easily one of the five most popular teams in the world. The teams competing are two of only three never to be relegated from La Liga.

    I'll give you the Friday afternoon part, but your whole "Spanish football is pointless unless it's El Classico" is BS.
     
  5. jhernandez86

    jhernandez86 Member

    Sep 22, 2004

    Recently, Apple and Disney and in discussion to bring ESPNGO or WATCHESPN to apple tv, but if you can not wait, you can stream either from your iPhone or iPad to your Appletv and the picture is amazing. And starting in August there is going to be an ESPN+ for the internet, but since they no longer have rights to La Liga, but they are still in the hunt for the EPL.

    Nonetheless, all games on ESPN3 do not have the scoreline at the bottom so viewing the game is amazing.
     
  6. NBFootballFan

    NBFootballFan Member

    Jul 29, 2010
    Fredericton, Canada
    Club:
    Manchester United FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Ireland Republic
    I don't live in American anyway, so I can't stream anything from ESPN. I just hope GolTV Canada buys rights up here. In the past they've only shown it if GolTV US has.
     
  7. huhe888

    huhe888 Red Card

    Oct 3, 2007
    Until FC Barcelona and Real Madrid CF decide to share the wealth, Spanish football will continue to be viewed by a majority of international consumers as a pointless exercise with the exception of el Clasico.

    The decision to eliminate any type of revenue-sharing starting with the last TV contract cycle has turned the Primera Division into a 2-tier competition:

    Clasico Division - Barcelona, Real Madrid

    "Washington Generals" Division - the rest

    The likes of Casillas and Puyol actually understand this, but their bosses are too busy counting money to care.
     
  8. Redbullsnation2012

    May 26, 2010
    Club:
    Manchester United FC
    ESPN2 not showing this?? Might be their last game for a while...
     
  9. huhe888

    huhe888 Red Card

    Oct 3, 2007
    Even if ESPN2 were to take this on short notice early next week, the telecast will probably be in Spanish under the "ESPN Deportes on ESPN2" label.

    Spanish football will NOT attract enough English-speaking consumers (and hence advertisers) in the U.S. as long as Barca and Real Madrid continue to choke the life out of the rest of the clubs.

    Notice that American investors who want to use soccer as a "China play" (i.e. Stanley Kroenke, John W. Henry, Malcolm Glazer) are not touching Spanish clubs. They are buying big English clubs.
     
  10. blackhornet

    blackhornet Member

    Jun 26, 2008
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    think he's talking about the cost of buying the rights for that game which IIRC are separate from the league and the rest of the cup.
     
  11. danielmak

    danielmak Member

    Sep 26, 2004
    off the purple line
    I love that Washington Generals line by Oliver. Great stuff, although I prefer to think about Valencia as hoovering somewhere between the Globetrotters and the Generals, but that could be blind faith.

    Is TVE International airing this game as well? It's always nice to avoid the ticker on Deportes and of course the woman screaming from the sideline every 30 seconds, which has been copied by Fox Deportes on some of the Libertadores broadcasts, adds an interesting twist.
     
  12. huhe888

    huhe888 Red Card

    Oct 3, 2007
    Fernando Palomo and Mario Kempes will call the Copa del Rey Final on site from Estadio Vicente Calderon in Madrid for U.S. audience only.

    (Interesting to see ESPN Deportes willing to spend money to send Palomo and Kempes to Madrid instead of having Ramos and Pereyra call the match off tube from Coral Gables.)

    Copa del Rey Final

    Friday May 25

    3:50pm ET - Athletic Bilbao v Barcelona - ESPN Deportes, ESPN3.com

    Spanish-language audio only at ESPN3.com

    No English-language audio will be offered by ESPN, Inc.

    Palomo tweeted the following photo from the front door of the hotel where he is staying:

    [​IMG]
     
  13. Redbullsnation2012

    May 26, 2010
    Club:
    Manchester United FC
    too lazy to add a english feed and let Darke/Macca call it off of moniter...
    too lazy to give a f*ck if this is the last time they call a big game like this

    thats ESPN, everybody. I'll watch in spanish, but come on, man...
     
  14. huhe888

    huhe888 Red Card

    Oct 3, 2007
    Anyone who doesn't believe that ESPN, Inc. is waving a "white flag" in front of Qatar Media is not paying attention.

    Every "telling" action from ESPN, Inc., including every word spoken by John Skipper every time a reporter asked him about escalating rights fees during the 2012 NCTA Cable Show in Boston, indicates that ESPN, Inc. is prepared to concede the "international club soccer" genre in English in the U.S. market to Qatar Media Corporation and/or FOX Sports.

    Like it or not, Qatar Media is here in the U.S. to stay until 2022.

    Next event: how will Nasser and Youssef react when Comcast plays "GodFather" with them?
     
  15. socceraction

    socceraction Member+

    Oct 20, 2000
    TVEi is showing the match delayed at 10:30pm ET.

    SA
    www.socceraction.info
     
  16. Força Sporting

    Sep 29, 2002
    Club:
    Sporting CP Lisbon
    Nat'l Team:
    Canada
    FWIW, GOLTV Canada will be showing the match with English commentating...
     
  17. huhe888

    huhe888 Red Card

    Oct 3, 2007
    GOLTV Canada (MLSE) is now on its own with regards to Spanish futbol (La Liga, Copa del Rey, and SuperCopa). No connection with GOLTV USA going forward.
     
  18. Força Sporting

    Sep 29, 2002
    Club:
    Sporting CP Lisbon
    Nat'l Team:
    Canada
    Ah, I wasn't aware of that. TY...
     
  19. huhe888

    huhe888 Red Card

    Oct 3, 2007
    For what it is worth, Qatar Media does not have Canadian media rights to La Liga or Serie A and has no intention of buying those rights, according to the unofficial Twitter account @beINSportsUSA
     
  20. Art Deco

    Art Deco Member

    Dec 10, 2009
    Letterboxed inside a 4x3 screen inside a 16x9 withESPN Deportes bars on the sides? You have to be f****ing kidding me. Time to hook up the laptop for ESPN3.
     
  21. jhernandez86

    jhernandez86 Member

    Sep 22, 2004
    I have a jailbroken Appletv with Plex on it, and that is how I am able to see the games on TV at almost HD quality without informercials at the bottom.

    Not HD, but is better than espndeportes in SD.
     
  22. blackhornet

    blackhornet Member

    Jun 26, 2008
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    why would they? When have they ever done that before? That one Clasico? c'mon
     
  23. huhe888

    huhe888 Red Card

    Oct 3, 2007
    The world feed from Santa Monica Sports had a solo English-language commentator. GOLTV Canada took the world feed straight through.

    ESPN.com chose not to offer the world feed to save money and bandwidth.
     

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