Just announced: USWNT vs Argentina (in Louisville, KY.) Wednesday 10/30 at 7pm TNT, TruTV, Max, Universo and Peacock. It sure is nice having every friendly on basic TV channels. We've definitely come a long way.
Alex Morgan announced a pregnancy and her retirement on Instagram. This Sunday will be her last game.
Who was it who said that as far as she was concerned the USWNT should consist of ten lesbians and Alex Morgan? I wonder whether she thinks they should go find another straight girl or just sign up another lesbian. Modern life is so complicated.
The u20 women's team is currently losing to DPRK (North Korea) 1-0. That is not a headline from a North Korean News service. North Korea heavily invested in the women's game and is good I guess.
The previous game was absolutely bonkers. There's some shades of USA v Algeria 2010 in that scoring summary. (Obviously they won, but it took the shootout.)
The 2025 SheBelieves Cup has been announced: US vs Colombia 2/20/2025 8pm Houston US vs Australia 2/23/2025 5pm Glendale, Arizona US vs Japan 2/26/2025 10:30pm San Diego All games on TBS, Universo, Max and Peacock
Fox, NBC reportedly submit bids for Women’s World Cups… but not ESPN. CBS could be a dark horse entrant. Of course, if NBC gets it, Peacock could have every game (in addition to NBC and USA) plus bonus coverage. Paramount+ has more subscribers than Peacock.
MOAR GAMES! Saturday April 5, 2025 vs Brazil in SoFi Stadium (LA) 5pm TNT, TruTV, Universo, Max and Peacock April 8, 2025 vs Brazil in PayPal Park (SJ) 10:30pm TBS, Universo, Max and Peacock
I think "mixed reactions" is the right term here. Obviously, they had a disaster of a situation with the boxing stuff. My biggest issue was seeing the result pop up before I saw the start of the final round...such is typical with streaming. I think I had a brief pause, but I don't remember experiencing any major issues. (I started watching the undercards at one location and then changed locations for the Paul-Tyson fight.) Of course what's great about streaming is that coverage won't be delayed because of something else or rushed at the end. If they want to do a 20-min postgame, they can. If postgame goes an hour, so be it. And yeah, seeing the results pop up is gonna be a huge negative. "BREAKING NEWS: US Women's National Team Beats ______ 2-1" and they're down 1-0 in the 88th on your screen....that's not fun. The easy fix? Ignore other screens (including message boards and group chats) during games.
I want to say that I'm watching both NFL Christmas Day games on Netflix, and in addition to the broadcast teams doing a fine job, I haven't had any of the issues with streaming/buffering that they had with the boxing event.
Are these Netflix exclusive commentators or are they using dudes from another network? Is a network producing this and it’s just streaming on Netflix? Everything they’ve tried to do live has been a total disaster, wouldn’t surprise me if someone else is actually producing.
Ah, so probably just a CBS production team but streamed on Netflix. It’s shocking that Netflix can’t figure out how to produce and stream their own shit.
Studio desk looks Amazon TNF with a Netflix shield added and a lot of the production value feels NBC-ish. Probably an all-hands-on-deck coordinated by the NFL.
The first game had voices that I recognize from CBS. The second game sounds like the guy who calls college football for NBC.
Crazy Netflix can’t figure it out. Surely you just copy what the other guys do. With the money they have it should just be plug and play.
I'm not sure what you're getting at here. Are you saying they should spend a ton of money and put together crews to air TWO GAMES instead of just borrowing existing crews?
I’m saying if they want to do live events regularly they should invest in infrastructure because it’s smarter in the long run. Every live event they’ve done themselves has glitched out, it’s a trend. A streaming company should be able to, ya know, stream stuff. Kinda need it if they move into more live sports.
But don't they use a lot of independent contractors for stuff these days? They employ producers who hire jobbers and rent sets and put together crew's for an event, but they try to avoid having a bunch of.people.on salary who they don't need 40 hours a week for 50 weeks a year.
This is the broadcast team. It's everyone. A friend who is smarter than me says the way live streamed events are sent to your device is different than a recorded one. It sounded akin to bandwidth, but I didn't really all understand it. To basically summarize it is significantly different on a technical side to have 1 million people watch a recorded show vs 1 million watching a livestream.