I hope not. It is finally blowing up over here, due in part to their excellent coverage. Plus, Rebecca Lowe. Outside of Sunday Night Football, NHL, and a handful of PGA Tour events they don't have the widest array of broadcast rights for live sports. It has to be the fastest growing market in the country sporting wise.
NBC is all in on golf which is perfect for soccer as the coverage times never interfere. More NBC games would definitely be an upgrade but apparently the ratings aren't better than the cartoons and slightly homosexual home shows that they have on during those time slots.
NBC knows how to add a touch of class to their sports coverage, bringing a bit of gravitas to the event they are covering. FOX just seems like such a trainwreck in comparison, across the board. CBS is in between for me.
I honestly don't think Fox has any producers on staff. Cameramen, anchors and maybe a board operator or two just show up, take a few shots from the flask and make it work.
Not sure why but I hope Warren Barton dies a slow death. How that man is still on the air is a crime. All being said, BeIN sports is by far the worst. Reminds me of setanta back in the day. They have way too many leagues in competing time slots. I feel bad for Serie A as they never win over Barca/RM.
Yeah that shit is criminal. Why hog up rights for that many leagues with no real plan on how to televise more than 5% of the matches? They basically just bought the rights so they could air Barca, Madrid, Juve, and PSG.
Fox has no idea how to broadcast sports (lets show the bands after every play during BCS games instead of replays) except maybe NFL. Not sure how anyone can have complaints about NBC as long as we don't get Geoff Cameron or Guzan working with Arlo. The documentaries and behind the scenes stuff just shit on anything Fox ever did.
In terms of NBC games I think it largely depends on their other commitments (like college basketball or Notre Dame football). One of the reasons the EPL is awesome is that it doesn't conflict with other sports except shitty noon college games and even then it's over by like 2:20. 11 am Sunday games that finish right before the NFL works perfectly.
The west brom documentary they did was really well done. As much as I hate ESPN, hopefully they start covering it more. That will grow the game faster than anything else unfortunately.
ESPN WC coverage was great because you'd get Steve McManaman's meltdowns over England with everyone else (especially Michael Ballack) trying their best to keep their shit together.
NBC is hands down the best way to cover the Premier League. FOX would be a Manchester United game every week with the rest behind an archaic streaming paywall and studio coverage of Alexi Lalas talking about Sunil Gulati instead of any coverage of other games.
New contract started this year: Under a six-year agreement announced Monday that starts next season and is worth about $1 billion, NBCretained the rights to the Premier League through the 2021-22 season. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/11/...-to-premier-league-in-six-year-deal.html?_r=0
This for me. My comfy couch is in the room with the XBox and I have gotten super comfy on it on more than one occasion only to be reminded that I can't watch the matches back there.
I vividly remember having to wait hours to watch most of the premier events from the last Olympics. 100m finals, 200m finals, and a whole bunch of the swimming finals were all delayed. It was bullshit.
But it looks like they've abandoned the tape delay so it's not really a big deal anymore. http://fortune.com/2017/03/28/nbc-winter-olympics-live-broadcast/
I know for the last two Olympics I watched almost any soccer game I wanted to. I also got into a few other events and just had to dig. Like for the games yesterday, they have shit on all those obscure channels that you'd otherwise never even watch.
I think a big part of it too was that they also delayed coverage for different time zones. So if something was happening live at 7:00 pm on the east coast we'd have to wait until 7:00 pm on the west coast to actually watch it, which was three hours after it had happened. Doesn't matter anymore though.
I was home on disability last Olympics and watched a ton of shit live during the day. All the swimming heats
Chromecast lets you stream all the EPL matches? I'm not familiar with any of the Fire sticks, chromecasts, etc
you just have the nbc app on your phone or tablet or computer and you cast the screen to the tv just click the icon i circled top right and it plays on your tv. you can then close the app and use your phone/tablet for whatever and it streams in the background
Ah so same principle as Apple TV. Just started using one recently to help a less tech inclined person get started with it. Cool.
If you have Apple TV, you can watch the games in the the NBC app without streaming from your phone/tablet/laptop
I love NBC for EPL but the NBC app on fire tv is shit. I can never find men in blazers, goalzone or MOTD. It's fine for watching games though. Just wish they would make additional content easier to find