I remember doing side-by-side screens during some World Cups. As long as you can pause one because I guarantee the two kickoffs won't be exactly at the same moments. You also run the risk of having one game be five minutes of first-half stoppage and the other being two minutes. There's also the risk of one halftime being a bit longer or shorter than the exact 15 minutes due to teams lollygagging in the locker room.
My work computer is a 34" widescreen that I routinely have two browsers open on, side-by-side. Watching two games is easy with those snapped in place.
That still shouldn't matter. This happened on the final day of the EPL this season. But they simply lengthened the halftime of one of the matches to ensure the City and Arsenal games kicked-off their second halves at the same time. We will find out in about 2 hours if they make the same effort in the Euros.
We've already found out as there have been simultaneous matches the previous two days, and they've made the effort to start the second halves simultaneously.
Oh wow. I guess I didn't realize that second half kickoff was also simultaneous. I mean, it does make sense, especially when the coaches have someone feeding them scores.
fwiw, there wasn't much effort made to have the France and Holland matches kick off their 2nd half at the same time yesterday. The France-Poland 2nd half kicked off about 90 seconds later (unless FOX has a much bigger delay than FS1).
Mentioned this in the Euro thread. Italy-Switzerland is on TUDN right now for those who wan the option to switch channels. Also, tomorrow's England Match will be on TUDN.
The commentators for the Belgium x France match are actually quite good. Where did these guys come from? If they have a flaw it's that they are very biased. Both of them. Would not be surprised if they break into a duet version of La Marseillaise in the second half.
They clearly have favorites but they correctly pointed out the obvious missed foul on France just now that led to a good opportunity.
I did not like them at all. They repeated the same things over and over. And the Play-by-play guy had a major man crush on Saliba with the way he raved about him all game long for club and country. I was like get a room dude.
The CONMEBOL Final will start on FS1 and then move to Fox once tonight's speech coverage finishes. I don't think any providers have this, but how killer would it be if a show was set to record and the system would automatically pick up any bumps like this or even if something got bumped in-event? Game starts on ABC at 3:30. Breaking news happens at 4:41. Game gets picked up on ESPN2 at 4:43. The system picks that up so the recording continues automatically. Someone watching live would have to change the channel. Someone watching the recording would see a flawless transition.
I didn't watch on FOX but am guessing that with the 80-minute delay in the kickoff this issue became moot(?). But that probably made it even worse for those that recorded that match.
Well, most people who DVR footy have learned to add +1hr onto any knockout stage match, so hopefully they would've been fine in this case. Other things that stood out for me about FOX's coverage of the Copa Final were: How they were really quite in the dark about what was happening outside the stadium and at the gates. Wouldn't they have been able to send a reporter w/ camera crew away from the pitch to get first hand info? Jenny Taft would've been good for this, no? The best that FOX could muster was right before actual KO (1+ hour after the troubles) when they briefly showed a social media phone video of the gates being breached, crying children, security offers pushing/punching people, etc. How their audio/video sync got really out of whack for 10+ mins mid/late first half. Audio was like 3-5 seconds ahead of video. John Strong then went largely silent on his PBP during that time so as not to call more attention to the problem (my theory). How their studio team was 100% USA folks. Couldn't they have found some Colombia/Argentina broadcasting talent? Juan Pablo Angel & Melissa Ortiz come to mind.
This is par for the course for FOX - they never said a word about the situation in Qatar in 2022 either, it seems to be corporate policy. Univision was all over it though. They're the absolute worst at all facets (announcers, pundits, production) in covering soccer in this country and sadly we're stuck with them for the major tournaments for at least the remainder of the decade.
True true. Especially since there was no official postgame show on mothership FOX, which is the show I might've been assuming one would add +1hrs to and save the day.
AKA commercials every few minutes. It's the same issue that ESPN ran into when they had UEFA CL back in the day. If they know the ratings are gonna be trash, it's better to run the commercials. If it was the World Cup, it'd be a legitimate complaint...but we gotta keep things in perspective.
https://www.foxsports.com/presspass...-u-s-spanish-language-media-rights-agreement/ Interesting. Glad to see Serie A will broadcast some matches in Spanish the next two seasons.
I'm not seeing any UEFA Nations League matches on demand on the Fox app. Am I missing something or did they make this change? It sucks because I only recently discovered in the grand scheme of things that they were putting some FS+ content on the app for free and on demand.
I wish ESPN Plus still had this they showed every match and you didn’t have to wonder where to find the games.
My free VIX premium sub through Spectrum is coming to the rescue on these as they have the replays (but only up for a couple of days). Although I need to use my Fire stick to watch them as they crap out after a minute on the Roku. The other alternative is to get a 7-day Fubo trial and make sure you cancel so you're not on the hook for $90.