Dish Network Not Showing Any Soccer

That's why I will be dumping Dish this may when my 1-year contract runs out.

 

Are you talking about PPV options or their channel line-up?

 

I had not noticed any decline in their soccer coverage to be honest. I still get Fox Sports World, which for all practical purposes is "The Soccer Channel" (at least as far as I'm concerned) on Dish.

But, I'll be dropping them for entirely different reasons:

a) Don't provided local channels here in Baltimore (DirecTV does)
b) Didn't win a piece of the NFL Sunday Ticket package

Later!

 

I seem to remember reading somewhere that US Soccer had gone to an exclusive arrangement with DirecTV for PPV and such things when the last contracts were renewed -- early 2002 or sometime thereabouts.

Perhaps it had to do with the SEM partnership for soccer broadcasting or something along those lines.

 

I think you get Univision and Galavision on DISH. They show soccer. So does Fox Sports World.

There's tons of soccer on DISH. Just because they don't show the one game you want, it doesn't mean they don't show "anymore" soccer.

Oh, you just wanted to vent. Sorry.

 

Don't you get it? TomJ is obviously a DirecTV executive (or unpaid intern more likely) sent here to subvert the masses towards their product.

 

I recently got DIRECTV and I'm happy with it, but DishNet has the same channels. I read that the only reason Sentana didn't get the Canada game on Dish was a lack of time to get the contract together. The bonus to DishNet is the extra international channels that you can get.

I only got DIRECTV because they offered a good deal and because I didn't need a two satelitte dish to get FSW. I didn't feel like shelling out the extra cash for a two satellite dish when I can get one for free and still get FSW. I know the ShootOut wasn't great on Dish last year, but it could be entirely different this year. Both systems are better than Comcast as far as I'm concerned.

 

this is kind of like someone posting on BS that bergin's site has gone down--can anyone get the link to work???

 

There's lots of soccer on Dish Network.

 

I've had DirecTV for about five years. I don't recall Dish Network having 50% more soccer. Both were about the same. I think Dish Network added FSW about three months before DirecTV did. And I know DirecTV has had the MLS Shootout since it stared during the '97 season. That's why I bought it in the first place.

 

If you follow European football on PPV...then
this guy is right...

Dish didnt show the FA Cup matches that were
broadcast on PPV cable... im not sure about
Direct TV... They have missed out on numerous
friendly internationals that have been on Direct TV
and digital cable PPV. Dish used to cater to the
niche market with all of their international
channels and European PPV football... but it has
declined. On another DBS board it was mentioned
Dish had been tooling with their bandwith so the
amount of PPV channels declined... this I dont
know..

I hope the pendulum swings back to dish...

Cantona---

 

I have been very happy w/ Dish. Especially the PVR. If you don't have this or Tivo, you are missing out on tons. When we are away from home my 3 year old keeps telling me "I want to see it again." It reminds me of my football films watching days when someone or myself would say "Run that back Coach." The PVR is the best thing going.

I have no problem w/ the amount of soccer shown on Dish. FSW shows all the soccer I want to see. Although I do want to see the US vs. Canada on Saturday. Not sure I would pay $20 to see it. I am currently trying to find a local pub that will be showing it.

IIRC, Dish didn't show any PPV of the FA cup until the later rounds. I assumed that was because FSW was showing games in the earlier rounds. And, I think they are showing more of those games this year than last year. At least, I recall watching more of the FA cup games this year than last.

I know that the final, two semi-finals and a couple of the qtr. finals were shown on Dish last year. I was out of town on business and missed all of those. But, I do recall they were on. I even recall starting a thread in B&M requesting info if Dish was offering the same package this year (b/c I was out of town on business at the time). I just think that the package for the final few rounds is still in the works.

 

I agree. For my personal needs Dish has been more than fine. I switched from Directv to Dish a few years ago because Directv didnt have FSW. I watched FSW ESPANOL for a few months before Dish finally got FSW. I really have no desire to see any of the International games or the MLS so maybe that is where other people are finding fault with Dish. I am a huge EPL fan and sometimes I think we see more games here in the states than in England.

 

...i had DISH for about 2 1/2 to 3 years. I switched to DIRECTTV for THREE reasons:

a. the MLS package on Dish only had saturdays, vs DirectTV had midweek and Sunday matches as well

b. DISH did not carry the U-21 qualifying (from SC), Direct did,

c. US vs Canada, DIRECTV only...

three strikes they were OUT

 

I thought he worked for FieldTurf.

 

Oh, I thought you said "Dish Network Not Showing Any Soccer."

Maybe you should learn how to create a thread title that agrees with what you want to convey before you post.

 

The title of this thread is absolutely ridiculous.

Even if Dish is not selling some PPV games that appear on Directv, Dish is still the ***SOCCER*** platform, hands down.

Where on Directv/digital cable can you get games from all these leagues

- Serie A
- la Championnat
- Greek league
- Israeli league
- Portuguese 1a Liga
- Brazilian leagues
- plus international games/UEFA Cup games involving some of these countries?

Notice, I am not talking about an individual cable systems that carry one of these channels. I know cable systems from heavy ethnic communities usually carry channel of that language, but nowhere else can you get all these channels bundled in one system.

Dish's ethnic programming is the vintage soccer hotbed. There are people, like myself, who don't speak a word of Italian subscribing to an Italian channel. The reason? serie A.

Those who mention "ah yes, Dish has univision, telemundo, which has lots of Mexican soccer" completely miss the point. These Mexican oriented channels are not the differentiator of soccer coverage of dish vs directv vs cable, but the ethnic channels are.

Directv may have a few PPV games that Dish doesn't carry, but the total # of European/South American soccer games on dish would easily dwarf Directv's from 8-1 to 10-1.

 

Just look at this weekend. These are the games on channels carried by Dish Network:

- Maritimo vs Benfica
- Belenenses vs Porto
- Perugia vs Inter
- Chievo vs Juventus
- Aigaleo vs Proodetiki
- Iraklis vs Aris
- Akratitos vs Panathinaikos
- Olympiakos vs Skoda

Note, there is no French league fixture this week due to cup games. Plus I don't know what Israeli league games are televised because I can't read Hebrew.

You can't get a sniff of these games on directv. And Dish has this type of advantage practically every week during the season. No PPV games or MLS Shootout Sunday/weekday games are going to make up that deficit.

 

agree with you Rangers re; the satellite system
of choice is still DISH.... but you cannot deny
that Dish has been ignoring some high profile
friend'lys and internationals that before they were
before showing exclusively...so you must question
their long term commitment to football....

Cantona-------------

 

Dish can have 0% commitment of football, yet it's still showing 200-300 more games than Directv and cable. So how is "commitment to football", or "selling high profile PPV friendlies and internationals" related being the soccer platform?

Ans: no correlation.

In the American market, ethnic channels are the way to watch soccer, as people (including Oliver) had seen this 3-4 years ago. That's the bread and butter of televising soccer. This trend will stay on, or until foreign soccer telecasts become mainstream American sports programming, which has no chance whatsoever.

In other words, commitment to ethnic programming is virtually commitment to soccer. As for the high profile internationals, most of the Euro 04 quals of Italy, Israel and France are available on Dish Network (RAI, Israeli Network and TV5) but not on Directv (Spain's home games are also on TVE but TVE is also on Directv para todos so it's not a differentiator). Too bad Portugal didn't have to play qualifiers, otherwise Dish will beat directv by 10 more games because of RTPi. My opinion is that serious football fans can live with official competitions, like France x Slovenia and Italy x Yugoslavia, at the expense of friendlies like Holland x Argentina, USA x Canada and England x Australia.