The 2023 MLS TV thread

Discussion in 'MLS: News & Analysis' started by NFLPatriot, Jan 6, 2023.

  1. NFLPatriot

    NFLPatriot Member+

    Jun 25, 2002
    Foxboro, MA
    Club:
    New England Revolution
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    https://www.mlssoccer.com/season-pass/

    It says "Subscriptions start on February 1, 2023". I assume that means that, whenever you sign up, your year runs through Jan 31, 2024.

    No clue as to what content will be available, but if I had to guess, I'd say the pre-season match between CLT and DCU on Feb 1st will be the "launch" match.
     
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  2. Crew96Fan

    Crew96Fan Member+

    Jul 27, 2013
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Taylor Twellman announced via Twitter that he was leaving ESPN. I'm assuming this means he will be joining the broadcast teams for Apple.
     
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  3. mbar

    mbar Member+

    Apr 30, 1999
    Los Angeles, CA
    Club:
    Los Angeles Galaxy
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    On the one hand...BOOOOOOOO... on the other at least its a sign we might start hearing about the "talent" Apple is hiring soon.
     
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  4. ThreeApples

    ThreeApples Member+

    Jul 28, 1999
    Smurf Village
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Either that or Turner Sports' national team coverage. That begins with a WNT match on Jan. 17, and four WNT/MNT matches this month, with so far no information or promotion about how that's going to work. US Soccer website has no broadcast information listed for any of those games.
     
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  5. nick p

    nick p Member+

    Jul 11, 2009
    Baltimore Maryland
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    It will be interesting to see Twellman outside of ESPN
     
  6. Fighting Illini

    Fighting Illini Member+

    Feb 6, 2014
    Chicago



    Three World Cup games but no NBA, NHL or MLB tells an interesting sort of story.
     
  7. FoxBoro 143

    FoxBoro 143 Member+

    Jan 18, 2004
    MA
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I wonder if he can get some sort of MLS/Fox combined deal, since it is assumed that the MLS/Apple venture will produce the FOX games. In this scenario, TnT could be involved with MLS, World Cup 26, Gold Cups, Concacaf Champions League and any other content Fox might have. It seems pretty obvious why he left ESPN, who now have basically none of the soccer properties in his wheelhouse and he would just languish with them for the next 4 years.
    I think he will probably end up doing MLS Streaming and maybe MLS on FOX as an extension of that contract, but most likely not any of the other FOX content as they already have a good roster of analysts/color guys.
     
  8. TheJoeGreene

    TheJoeGreene Member+

    Aug 19, 2012
    The Lubbock Texas
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    Germany
    Kentucky Derby at 88 is interesting. Horse Racing, like auto racing, has been undergoing a bit of a resurgence but I still didn't think anything would crack the top 100.
     
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  9. FoxBoro 143

    FoxBoro 143 Member+

    Jan 18, 2004
    MA
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I think we'll start seeing more impressive numbers for all "made for gambling" events.
     
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  10. MisterB1968

    MisterB1968 Member

    Feb 27, 2008
    New Castle, DE
    Club:
    Manchester United FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Hopefully whoever is in charge of the MLS whip around broadcasts happened to catch this FA Cup goals show, because they need to do the complete opposite of this. They aren't showing games, they just have guys talking in a studio and then just show a ten second clip when a team scores, its terrible to watch.
     
  11. sitruc

    sitruc Member+

    Jul 25, 2006
    Virginia
    I had no interest in watching any games, but saw that option and opened it and was very disappointed.
     
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  12. JasonMa

    JasonMa Member+

    Mar 20, 2000
    Arvada, CO
    Club:
    Colorado Rapids
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I tuned in for the second half and was unimpressed
     
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  13. wantmlsphilly

    wantmlsphilly Member+

    Aug 2, 2006
    Philadelphia, Pa.
    Club:
    Philadelphia Union
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
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  14. TheJoeGreene

    TheJoeGreene Member+

    Aug 19, 2012
    The Lubbock Texas
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    Germany
    Further interesting movement around the FAST streaming options. One of the shows that HBO Max had cancelled and then completely removed from the service, will be on Tubi starting 2/1. The show, which I literally didn't know existed until reading this, is called Generation. I'll never watch it as nothing about it seems interesting to me (except J. August Richards having a recurring role), I am interested in if this kind of thing could become a trend.

    There's no indication that it will get more seasons, but we're now seeing a FAST provider take a chance on a teen show from the HBO family and I assume we'll see more like this if it actually does well.
     
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  15. Yoshou

    Yoshou Fan of the CCL Champ

    May 12, 2009
    Seattle
    Club:
    Seattle Sounders
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Isn’t what your talking about syndication? :)
     
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  16. crookeddy

    crookeddy Member+

    Apr 27, 2004
    Streaming syndication. Yes, HBO said their shipping most of their cable speed to fast providers. Not sure if that's only streaming or if they'd sell to a traditional TV channel. Westworld is obviously the big fish from those options.
     
  17. TheJoeGreene

    TheJoeGreene Member+

    Aug 19, 2012
    The Lubbock Texas
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    Germany
    Kind of, but syndication typically required 100 episodes of a show and didn't require using a completely different service. This is a single season of 16 episodes and I think this is the first original streaming show to leave one provider to go to another (except for Cobra Kai which was a completely different situation), especially one of the FAST providers.

    It makes me wonder if there's a role for those FAST providers to play in sports broadcasting beyond whatever MLS was doing with Pluto.
     
  18. ThreeApples

    ThreeApples Member+

    Jul 28, 1999
    Smurf Village
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
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  19. ThreeApples

    ThreeApples Member+

    Jul 28, 1999
    Smurf Village
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
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  20. mbar

    mbar Member+

    Apr 30, 1999
    Los Angeles, CA
    Club:
    Los Angeles Galaxy
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
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  21. morrissey

    morrissey Moderator
    Staff Member

    Feb 18, 2000
    West Los Angeles, Calif
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    How can that be - the Galaxy team isn’t there, are they?
     
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  22. FoxBoro 143

    FoxBoro 143 Member+

    Jan 18, 2004
    MA
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    We'll, they certainly weren't going to have an entire roster of new people that would need to be introduced to the league. It was assumed all along that folks from previous national and local coverage would migrate over.
    I wonder how many people are still in consideration, surely they don't have anywhere near enough PbP folks, unless the analyst's and studio people are going to do both.
     
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  23. An Unpaved Road

    An Unpaved Road Member+

    Mar 22, 2006
    Club:
    --other--
    How many English accents? That's how you know a commentator is the real deal.
     
  24. newtex

    newtex Member+

    May 25, 2005
    Houston
    Club:
    Houston Dynamo
    This is why I mostly reject Twitter as a news source.
    Please give names and not twitter handles.

    Drives me crazy when they do this for U.S. Open Cup scores.

    Yes, I'm old!
     
  25. newtex

    newtex Member+

    May 25, 2005
    Houston
    Club:
    Houston Dynamo
    Here is the MLS release that includes some bio information:

    https://www.mlssoccer.com/news/appl...unveil-broadcasters-for-mls-season-pass-x1835

    Analysts
    Kyndra de St. Aubin
    Maurice Edu
    Lori Lindsey
    Danielle Slaton
    Taylor Twellman
    Marcelo Balboa
    Sébastien Le Toux
    Sacha Kljestan
    Bradley Wright-Phillips
    Diego Valeri

    Hosts
    Liam McHugh
    Jillian Sakovits
    Tony Cherchi

    Play-by-Play
    Max Bretos
    Steve Cangialosi
    Jake Zivin
    Pablo Ramírez
    Frederic Lord
     

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