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FuzzySkinner posted:I'm mixed on that. I follow him too, and he's a provocateur in the since he will talk almost insane amounts of trash at opposing fans without it getting too personal
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So Sky in the UK are in the process of re-branding all of their sports channels as thus: https://twitter.com/Cricket_Ali/status/884354650689896448 And oh my god, we're getting a First Take/Undisputed/Speak For Yourself clone for the Premier League!
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DJExile posted:holy poo poo that is going to be spectacularly bad I mean, we kind of already do have them, the Sunday Supplement on Sky is just four journalists going over the week's headlines, while the Monday Night Club on Radio 5 veers towards hot take-ism, especially if Chris Sutton or Steve Claridge are the player guests and a particulary combative journalist is also on
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Peanut President posted:From pages ago but how mad are rugby people that they're on the same channel with American Handegg and Pro Wrestling? sporting synergy or something, though none of those share a competing timeslot, so it works
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Over in the UK, John Motson is retiring after 50 years commentating on football, primarily for the BBC. For most Americans, you'll know him as the commentator who notes that there is a really serious problem before the match started during the Hillsborough 30 for 30. For us Brits, we're wishing he'd hung his mic up a long time ago as he's been clearly past his best for a long time now
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So there's rumours that [url=http://awfulannouncing.com/international/amazon-reportedly-looking-bid-english-premier-league-uk-media-rights.html]Amazon could try and pick up all seven of the TV packages for the Premier League that will be up for sale in the next few months. This is either going to be good in that Sky subs will finally come down to an acceptable level if they lose some or all of their packages, and ditto for BT Sport, or it's going to jack the price of their subs right up to keep what they have. My gut feeling is that Sky will fight tooth and nail to keep their Sunday games and the Saturday early game, BT will keep the Saturday late game while Amazon hoovers up the rest
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The only thing Amazon can't do is take all of the seven packages on offer, I'm pretty sure that's set in stone. But just having them around as a lingering presence is spooking Sky and BT, especially as Sky has staked almost their entire company on the Premier League, and losing that or jacking prices up for the same games or keeping prices the same while having less games could lead to a customer revolt
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The Six Nations falls in that sweet spot between the Super Bowl and March Madness where gently caress all really happens in American sports
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iospace posted:Well uh, you have the Daytona 500... and yeah I got nothing else for major events. for a second I was trying to think if there was something I'd missed and would look foolish over
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The BBC is currently in the process of broadcasting a two hour radio documentary about Kaepernick & the protests and it's fascinating stuff, if also slightly terrifying edit: Jason Whitlock has been featured, and oh my god I see what y'all say about him ShaneMacGowansTeeth fucked around with this message at 20:13 on Oct 11, 2017 |
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The very first segment he was on, and they used him four times, he said almost verbatim: "Look, I'm not here to say whether anyone is black enough but... *runs off a dozen reasons why Colin Kaepernick isn't in fact black at all". Another time he said that Trump isn't a white supremacist scumbag but just a troll, and in the last one he said with a straight face that Kaepernick isn't being blackballed, he's just a really poo poo quarter back but which point even Mark Chapman, who presents the UK's NFL programming on the BBC and genuinely loves the sport, started wondering out aloud about Whitlock's credentials about anything
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Pretty sad day in the UK if you watched the NFL or NBA on Sky in the last ten or fifteen years https://twitter.com/NFLUK/status/919853785635270656
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I've got a question about NFL half time shows. During the game we got yesterday in the UK, at half time of the Rams @ Eagles games, they went to the "VISA Half Time" show, but obviously Fox has other games on in that same window, so do they just cut to that show from each game no matter what time they reach the half?
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Thanks for that, it's been something that I've wondered how they manage to do, especially as obviously here in the UK we don't get the half time shows that Americans do
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ElwoodCuse posted:The Hillsborough one is powerful but difficult to watch. The first part of the Hillsborough is like a disaster movie, where you see all these horrible decisions made that lead up to the tragedy, and the second just makes you get actually angrier and angrier at the sheer injustice of it all. But some of the crowd footage, and especially the footage which looks like it was taken from just above the Leppings Lane terrace is just undeniably grim.
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A quick reminder with all this talk of blackouts is that no football of any kind (even European football) can be shown in the uk between 2:45pm and 5:15pm on a Saturday. This led in the past to the frankly ridiculous broadcast of a Real Madrid vs Barcelona game which kicked off at 5pm, where the first fifteen minutes consisted of nothing but a shot of the half-time pundits watching the game on tablets (turned away from the cameras) and commentating on it until 5:15
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:lmao, what the reason for that? Drunken hooligans? allow me to quote Wikipedia: "In the 1960s, Burnley F.C. Chairman Bob Lord successfully convinced fellow Football League Chairmen that televised matches on a Saturday afternoon would have a negative effect on the attendances of other football league games that were not being televised and as a result reduce their financial income. As a result, the FA, Premier League and Football League do not permit English matches to be televised live between 2:45pm and 5:15pm on a Saturday within the United Kingdom. Until recently, the FA Cup Final was an exception and had been broadcast at 3pm on a Saturday in May; however, in 2012, the FA Cup Final was moved to 5pm."
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EvanTH posted:lol what the heck it's really not going to matter as pretty soon the Premier League is going to have 9 potential live broadcast windows, so only one game will be played at 3pm on a Saturday
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I can actually the first few sentences of an Awful Announcing story and know whether it's Andrew Bucholtz writing it or not because boy does he like writing almost double the words than are actually needed to get the story across
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GobiasIndustries posted:Why did Mike & Mike get broken up again? I mean it was real bad most of the time but was it that or did they get sick of eachother or something else or all of the above? A quick scan through Awful Announcing's archives leads to believe that they saw more of a future with Greenberg on TV than on the radio so made the move to split them. Everything else seems to be both denying leaks stating that they hate each other, and then pretty much nothing after that
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And somehow https://twitter.com/awfulannouncing/status/1001571350010449920
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Vertical Lime posted:some premier league games will now be amazon-only in england It's a full week's worth of midweek fixtures at the start of December and every game on Boxing Day
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I'm all for streaming, but taking Boxing Day football off of TV is going to piss a lot of people off
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Mahoning posted:From the sounds of it, those games were going to be off broadcast/cable TV regardless, as the Premier League was basically offering that package to streaming services only. which is also weird because Boxing Day has always been a big day for football, as it's generally the one day of the year where every team from the Premier League down to the depths of the bottom of the pyramid will all play on the same day
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The BBC have just updated the package details and it seems Amazon get the entire 10 match Boxing day program plus "10 bank holiday matches", which means they get 10 games spread over the August Bank Holiday, New Years Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday and the early May Bank holiday, rather than an entire midweek round of fixtures
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Island Nation posted:No need to worry. Awful Announcing is writing a 3000 word article and a 3 minute video on the tweet as we speak. and if it's Andrew Bucholtz, it'll be 3000 words constantly re-phrasing the exact same sentence in different words
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If you get ESPN+, you'll get early round FA Cup games between teams you might have heard of and teams you will definitely think are made up, in stadiums which are little more than four concrete banks and a tin roof. Totally worth it imo
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Benne posted:ESPN+ picked up the FA Cup, which means that the final will go from airing live on broadcast FOX to a streaming paywall Is there not a provision where they can put it on the big ESPN? Because I think a midday ET kick-off at the end of May might actually draw viewers
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And in further "two countries separated by a common language" news https://twitter.com/awfulannouncing/status/1031026720516784129
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Edward Mass posted:I remember when someone said that eSports would be bigger than the NHL. They were dumb. Sky Sports over here have been showing FIFA tournaments to fill the endless gaps on their football channels due to the summer break and I just have no idea why anyone would want to watch people watching people play a video game
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https://twitter.com/Local4News/status/1037812085600776193 A chair! They had a fight over a loving chair!
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I think Sky in the UK may have set some sort of record for analysts and talent in a broadcast. You have Neil Reynolds hosting, Solomon Wilcots and Rob Ryan as primary analysts, all four guys from the Around The NFL podcast as secondary analysts, two guys from PFF as tertiary analysts and Pete King popped up for a segment. It's just too many voices for a two game broadcast
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I should attached this earlier, but Rob Ryan's suit game is on point What that point is, I couldn't tell you
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Rob Ryan is masterfully trolling with his wardrobe choices while working on british TV
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Sad day for Brits of a certain age who watched Serie A in the 1990s https://twitter.com/OfficialBHAFC/status/1051527457692626944
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MourningView posted:It has somehow only become even more baffling that someone let him run a football team because they thought he sounded smart on TV that team was the Detroit loving Lions, of course it makes sense edit to get around the double-post: https://twitter.com/SkySportsNBA/status/1051834935986794497 ShaneMacGowansTeeth fucked around with this message at 15:04 on Oct 15, 2018 |
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Well the four man booth for the Eagles@Jags game wasn't terrible, and whoever was directing traffic in there did a superb job of not having four competing voices talking over each other, as well as bringing in both sideline reporters. Mooch was probably the worst of the four, Eisen took a few series to get into a groove, but Michael Irvin was practically revelatory. No bombast, just calm methodical analysis when called upon
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