| qatar "won" the rights to the 2022 world cup, then they spent $200 million to advertise themselves on barcelonas jerseys for the next ten years. after that they bought paris st. germain in the french league and started scooping up talent for them, and finally theyve launched a new soccer channel and have been aggressively buying up broadcasting rights around the world. for the us market, they now control rights to the italian, french and spanish leagues. not a bad thing on the face of it (for me as its only available at the moment via satellite) but i cant see with only one channel how theyll manage scheduling conflicts. all three leagues were broadcast on separate channels last year so there were games from each league broadcast live simultaneously . anyway, the station is beIN Sports owned by the good folks at al-jazeera. i guess i should be happy that the new NBCSports channel wasnt in the mix.
excellent primer on the state of la liga (the spanish league) as barcelona and real madrid dominate the rest of the field.
wow. i just realized that all the ads are promos for the network. maybe without cable the prospective audiences were too small to appeal to advertisers. i tweeted to one of the announcers (and the network) telling him his partner was "terrible." to his credit he responded by laughing and saying that he was "not that bad" which is not exactly a ringing endorsement. they all talk too much. im watching a game right now with the sound off but id prefer it with the ambient crowd noise and little else.
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anyway, the station is beIN Sports owned by the good folks at al-jazeera. i guess i should be happy that the new NBCSports channel wasnt in the mix.
- dave 8-18-2012 9:27 pm
excellent primer on the state of la liga (the spanish league) as barcelona and real madrid dominate the rest of the field.
- dave 8-18-2012 10:26 pm
wow. i just realized that all the ads are promos for the network. maybe without cable the prospective audiences were too small to appeal to advertisers.
i tweeted to one of the announcers (and the network) telling him his partner was "terrible." to his credit he responded by laughing and saying that he was "not that bad" which is not exactly a ringing endorsement. they all talk too much. im watching a game right now with the sound off but id prefer it with the ambient crowd noise and little else.
- dave 8-19-2012 7:21 pm