I have very much been enjoying the World Cup, and I do not really follow soccer much outside of WC and Olympics. Fox has done a pretty good job with it, and Mexico-Germany was huge here (California), but while the game has finally started to get some traction, I dont thin we are yet at the place where it will feel like an outrage to most American sports fans if a first round WC match between Brazil and Switzerland is not available on broadcast TV.
On Sun, Jun 17, 2018 at 3:13 PM Adam Bowie <[email protected]> wrote: > Not showing Germany-Mexico to a maximum audience seems like a massive > miss! I know it'll have been on Spanish language TV, but it turned out to > be a big upset and was an excellent game. The Brazil game later on was > pretty good too. > > I'd be interested to know if FS1 is on that many cable packages. ESPN is a > given right? But is FS1 normally in a lower tier or do you have to pay > extra? > > > Adam > > On Sun, Jun 17, 2018 at 5:56 PM Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Sun, Jun 17, 2018 at 12:37 PM daniel anderson < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Kind of surprised about that some Fox stations couldn't figure out what >>> to do about their required E/I programming, since they knew well in advance >>> about the game schedule- i'd given FS1 the morning games, to help Fox >>> stations with their required E/I programming. >>> >> >> FOX also has the US Open golf tournament this weekend. It makes more >> sense for them to show early games on FOX and later ones on FS1. Mexico, >> Germany, and Brazil should be huge audience draws and yet the only OTA game >> they showed today was Serbia-Costa Rica at 8 AM ET/5 AM PT and the >> Germany-Mexico and Brazil-Switzerland are on cable. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TVorNotTV" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
