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exploded mummy posted:UFC has the exact same issue, but their rates aren't reduced as much as WWE. I think Meltzer the other day said that TV money is up (and hiding PPV losses).
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Harnarayan Singh, he of the amazing Punjabi NHL goal calls, made his English broadcast debut last night for Sportsnet. He looked so amped up, it was awesome.
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Fox will outfit referees with cameras during the B1G championship game and have live feeds from them. Neat.
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Cash Monet posted:That is a terrible idea and I'm for it. They've done ref-cams in hockey for a couple years now and it rules, but i'm sure it helps that they're skating and gliding. Unless they're gonna have stabilizers of some kind I'd imagine it's going to be shaky as hell for someone running.
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DJExile posted:They've done ref-cams in hockey for a couple years now and it rules, but i'm sure it helps that they're skating and gliding. Unless they're gonna have stabilizers of some kind I'd imagine it's going to be shaky as hell for someone running. It'll probably be for goal-line situations and maybe refs trying to dig bodies out of a pile for possession. Unless they get that 4.0 40 ref I can't imagine it'll be used for actively chasing a dude down.
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C. Everett Koop posted:Unless they get that 4.0 40 ref This would own. Imagine some side judge out-running a WR along the sideline on a deep ball
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DJExile posted:This would own. Imagine some side judge out-running a WR along the sideline on a deep ball I'm pretty sure I saw this with a ref and DeSean Jackson to make sure he didn't drop the ball before the line
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Niwrad posted:It's bizarre to me that they haven't figured this out. Just make sure you have an extra late game or two each week. https://twitter.com/GallesKraco3/status/804520721477210112 Speak of the devil. There's just got to be a better model than this....
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FuzzySkinner posted:https://twitter.com/GallesKraco3/status/804520721477210112 Chiefs-Falcons, Dolphins-Ravens, Lions-Saints, Eagles-Bengals and 49ers-Bears will all be varying levels of fun, good or competitive idgi
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Spoeank posted:Chiefs-Falcons, Dolphins-Ravens, Lions-Saints, Eagles-Bengals and 49ers-Bears will all be varying levels of fun, good or competitive idgi They're at the same time. NFL typically has 8-9 early games and then 3-4 late games. Why not space them out more so that it's easier to follow? Easy solution is to have West Coast teams get the late afternoon game when they are on the road in the Central time zone. For instance, the Bears-Niners should be a late game. Not only does it balance the day but Niners fans don't have to watch their team play at 10 in the loving morning.
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Oh I misread it as "look at all this trash on at the same time"  And 10 am games own. West Coast football experience is great.
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Get rid of Thursday night and do Sunday doubleheaders on both channels.
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Spoeank posted:Oh I misread it as "look at all this trash on at the same time" It's pretty great, only MNF and TNF start in the middle of my commute, living in mountain time was the sweet spot.
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Spoeank posted:Oh I misread it as "look at all this trash on at the same time" Unless you root for a Big Ten team and have to wake up by 9am almost every Saturday 
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MourningView posted:Unless you root for a Big Ten team and have to wake up by 9am almost every Saturday La Liga has 6 am EDT games, at least the Premier League has the decency to not start before 7:45
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MourningView posted:Unless you root for a Big Ten team and have to wake up by 9am almost every Saturday 
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Speaking of La Liga, why the hell is El Clasico on at 7:15 a.m. PT this week? I need those 11:45 a.m. start times to accommodate my Saturday morning hangovers.
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Benne posted:Speaking of La Liga, why the hell is El Clasico on at 7:15 a.m. PT this week? I need those 11:45 a.m. start times to accommodate my Saturday morning hangovers. That is bizarre. I thought Spain played games really late at night. Isn't that what they do? Weirdly late like after their late dinner or whatever?
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algebra testes posted:That is bizarre. I thought Spain played games really late at night. Isn't that what they do? Weirdly late like after their late dinner or whatever?
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Spoeank posted:Oh I misread it as "look at all this trash on at the same time" Yeah, while I'm not a fan of the current NFL product? I wouldn't say any of those games are bad. In fact..I'm bummed I won't be able to see a lot of them. Niwrad posted:They're at the same time. NFL typically has 8-9 early games and then 3-4 late games. Why not space them out more so that it's easier to follow? Easy solution is to have West Coast teams get the late afternoon game when they are on the road in the Central time zone. For instance, the Bears-Niners should be a late game. Not only does it balance the day but Niners fans don't have to watch their team play at 10 in the loving morning. You got 12 games this Sunday on the networks. By the time 4:30 or so hits? 66 percent of them will be done. I think the goal would be to cut that number down to 50 percent. The model itself feels very dated. You don't get anything in terms of choice, and it feels like the NFL is still using broadcast rules from when the Dumont Network was a thing.
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algebra testes posted:That is bizarre. I thought Spain played games really late at night. Isn't that what they do? Weirdly late like after their late dinner or whatever? Crazy Ted posted:Not always. They tend to space their games out more during the day. You'll never guess why! These are both true, but I'm still scratching my head at the early start. For soccer laymen in this thread, El Clasico is the semi-annual grudge match between Barcelona and Real Madrid. It's routinely the biggest global ratings draw in club soccer, and La Liga usually does a good job scheduling it late enough to get the most eyeballs around the world. Putting it on so early, while making it compete with the meat of the EPL slate, is such an odd decision to me. Benne fucked around with this message at 10:46 on Dec 2, 2016 |
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I guess there is only one marquee EPL game (City v Chelsea) so maybe they figure El Classico will outdraw the rest of the Big Team v Little team games or whatever. Crazy Ted posted:Not always. They tend to space their games out more during the day. You'll never guess why! It's so they can have siestas, right? 
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algebra testes posted:It's so they can have siestas, right?
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FuzzySkinner posted:https://twitter.com/GallesKraco3/status/804520721477210112 NFL needs to learn from March Madness opening weekend and space those out at like 15 minute intervals. That way you can jump from the end of one game to the next all through the day.
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Bird in a Blender posted:NFL needs to learn from March Madness opening weekend and space those out at like 15 minute intervals. That way you can jump from the end of one game to the next all through the day. 
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Didn't La Liga start doing really odd game times to accommodate the Chinese market or something like that?
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Crazy Ted posted:Maybe the joke's on you since you root for a B1G T1N team I didn't ask for this life. We all have our crosses to bear and mine is dragging myself out of bed hungover to watch two teams exchange a combined 75 punts
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Henchman of Santa posted:Didn't La Liga start doing really odd game times to accommodate the Chinese market or something like that? Possible. I usually go to a pub to watch Arsenal in the morning and if El Clasico is going on I'll grab lunch and stick around. I was planning on doing that since I figured El Clasico was like a 2:30 start time.
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Benne posted:Speaking of La Liga, why the hell is El Clasico on at 7:15 a.m. PT this week? I need those 11:45 a.m. start times to accommodate my Saturday morning hangovers. I think it's because La Liga wanted to put a big game in the traditional Premier League multi game window as competition
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Bird in a Blender posted:NFL needs to learn from March Madness opening weekend and space those out at like 15 minute intervals. That way you can jump from the end of one game to the next all through the day. I like the idea, and this something that needs to be encourage. Josh Lyman posted:But then Fox and CBS wouldn't be able to do their halftime segments. http://deadspin.com/5678805/the-chuckling-idiots-of-nfl-pregame-shows-a-video-compilation WE CAN'T MISS OUT ON THAT FUN! (seriously..the NFL has the worst coverage in all of sports..)
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:I think it's because La Liga wanted to put a big game in the traditional Premier League multi game window as competition Yep. The game was originally scheduled for Sunday night local time.
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Fox is in a bad spot with UFC but they are slowly positioning themselves as the place for soccer. Granted NBC owns the premiere league but fox has Bundesliga, all UEFA, and they now have the next World Cup. They also have carried things like COPA and still split MLS with espn.
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soggybagel posted:still split MLS with espn. What does this have to do with soccer
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Idea for soggybagel: tell the Fox guys to consider rebranding Fox Soccer Plus as FS3 and integrate their programming with one another.
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all-Rush mixtape posted:Idea for soggybagel: tell the Fox guys to consider rebranding Fox Soccer Plus as FS3 and integrate their programming with one another. and stop making it a premium channel, there's no reason to watch it besides the aussie rules grand final
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Vertical Lime posted:and stop making it a premium channel, there's no reason to watch it besides the aussie rules grand final Let me tell you about Multimatch 90.
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I wouldn't be surprised to see NBC come hard after UFC, not only for their sports channel but also to maybe position at least one program with wrestling. MMA and wrestling generally both do better ratings when paired together, much to the chagrin of some fans.
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Magic Johnson and Michael Wilbon are back on "NBA Countdown" because..... reasons?
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