MLS tries this whole Soccer Saturday thing out...Like how NFL everyone knows is sundays, etc... Then why is the Cup Final on a Sunday? The superbowl isn't magically played on a saturday? (I know the answer to my own question, Television) But it still makes no sense...even my friends that never watch soccer the phrase Soccer Saturday has caught on, a few times this season they've called (I have the shootout package) and would be like want to go to this party tonight and I'm like nah, I'm watching MLS, and they go, oh ya, soccer saturday i forgot...etc... It makes sense to me, why not have the Cup on a Saturday, Americas day for Soccer?!?! Also, about soccer saturday and TV, heard rumors that univision could pick up MLS again next season? anyone know anything on that, also...ESPN Deportes, could MLS get on there? and what about ABC Family, MLS is a family type sport, or they want to be at least...and ABCFam has been showing alot of baseball lately... That would give "us" a lot of options from the television standpoint...more MLS on TV would be great... ABC (3 Games a year) ABC Family ESPN ESPN2 (26 games a year) ESPN Deportes Fox Sports World Univision Thats 7 "stations" right there that COULD have MLS... Its all business and I have nothing to do with what MLS does with their television packaging...just makes alot of sense to me...we already have games on ABC and ESPN2... ABC, ESPN and ESPN2 could all have games until college football starts...Thats almost 20 weeks worth of free space on saturdays...the first 20 weeks of the season... ABC Family and ESPN Deportes need programming, why not give them MLS all season long... Fox Sports World should be a no brainer and I've always wondered why MLS isn't on there, it makes no sense to me... Univision, if ESPN Deportes got MLS Univision wouldn't be needed, but I heard that rumor from 4 different people who aren't reliable at all, hah, thats why I posted it here... Just my view on all these situations...I could get flamed for any number of my complaints, ideas, wondering, etc. on this thread, but thats not what its for so please don't... What do you all think...
I really don't know much about the whole subject and MLS' reasoning of having the game on sunday. I don't think changing the day of one game a year will mix people up. And I certainly would like to see MLS on more channels. Though the family channel would give MLS even less exposure than ESPN. But i would still like to have it on all of those channels. I would still want the weekly game on ESPN and then maybe if one of those others could have a weekly game and the other show games periodically, that would be great. I really don't know much about the way it all works though.
It's real simple. ABC has contractual obligations to show college football on Saturday, games whose ratings blow those of MLS Cup out of the water. They have no contractual obligation to show anything on Sunday. They *could* show the game on Saturday on ESPN, but...
they have contractual obligations to show college football on Saturday, games whose ratings blow those of MLS Cup out of the water. Sachin
I'm sure they're stats that answer this one way or the other, but I would guess that more people are likely to be watching TV on Sunday afternoons than on Saturday afternoons. Granted, the NFL games are stiff competition, but at least there are only two of them to compete against, whereas a typical college game day might have 5 or more games on at the same time. (I just hope we don't decide to launch an invasion against Iraq on Sunday. Bush has a tendency to mis-time those kind of things...)