RIP: Fox Football Friday?
Steven Cohen announced on yesterday's World Soccer Daily that FFF will not be returning to Fox Soccer Channel next season. He didn't go into details but said that they would be on FSC in some fashion but that there would be "more people involved." I wonder if this has something to do with the rumors that Setanta satellite telly has picked up some or all of the Premiership games for next season. In any case, it doesn't bode well for the upcoming season. More news to come as I hear it.
posted by gatorbob @ 10:23 AM
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i'm quite concerned about the fsc coverage this season. given the premium that i pay for digital cable, i can't see continuing to shell out the cash for vastly reduced content.
i encourage all fsc subscribers to take a moment and make that sentiment abundantly clear to your cable outlet.
Absolutely! What I'm hoping is that Setanta has picked up all the premium matches that have been on PPV basis - which I rarely cough up for anyway - and leave the rest for us on the channel.
Nick and Steven have commented fairly regularly about how the FSC suits view their show as to "Anglocentric" for American audiences, which makes me think that they'll be sticking Max Bretos alongside them more often or perhaps just have an expanded Soccer Saturday thing with Nick and Steven on board. I could live with either.
I just found this on the net.
English Premier League on FSC for 06/07
http://eplleague.blogspot.com/
Fox Soccer Channel Makes Changes to EPL Coverage
If you've been reading the EPL Talk Blog the past week, you'll notice that we've been talking a lot about Fox Soccer Channel's impending coverage of the 2006/2007 Premiership season.
We can now confirm that FSC has changed their schedule regarding coverage of matches. Their typical schedule will now be:
Saturdays
10am ET -- Live Premiership match
12:15pm ET -- Live Premiership match
3pm ET -- Tape delayed Premiership match
Sundays
11am ET -- Live Premiership match
Mondays
3pm ET -- Live Premiership match
The 10am ET match on Saturday mornings used to pay-per-view, so that's a huge bonus to be able to watch that match and have it followed by the one at Noon -- for four hours of live Premiership coverage.
Most of us know that the majority of Premiership matches are played at 10am on Saturday, so it'll be interesting to see if FSC shows the results of the matches near the end of the 10am broadcast (except, hopefully, for the 3pm tape-delayed match -- so the pleasure of watching the 3pm isn't ruined).
The other benefit is being able to see the Sunday match live at 11am ET rather than the tape delayed time of 1pm ET. Bravo to FSC!
Remember where you read it first! More details to come about the 7:45am Saturday matches, the 8:30am Sunday matches and the midweek games.
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Well, that's okay then, isn't it? Thanks for posting that, Dave. It eases my nerves about the upcoming season.
It looks good. I don't know about the early Saturday games but this is good.
Usually, the big match is on Sunday at 11. We will be able to see it.
Well done Davey. Top reporting. I feel a lot better having read this. Cheers.
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