I still remember a visit to New York in '00s which clashed with the North London Derby - Arsenal v Spurs. I had to do a fair bit of searching to find a bar that was showing the game live and was open at 7.30am since it was a 12.30pm k/o in the UK! It being New York, there was such an establishment. Today that match would be on main NBC.
So at the weekend my football/soccer-loving aunt in New York was able to watch Arsenal v Man Utd on NBC, and that it comes with an actually really good commentary team in Arlo White (ex-BBC) and Lee Dixon (former Arsenal/England and still working for ITV in on FA Cup and England fixtures in the UK). BTW The reverse is essentially true in the UK with US sport, although it's nearly all on subscription sports channels. The only free-to-air games I can think of are the Superbowl and a couple of the London NFL games which are on the BBC. The rest of the Beeb's NFL coverage is reduced to highlights. Even random live US college lacrosse is buried away somewhere on a channel here. Adam On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 9:33 PM Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote: > I guess this is a comment on what US networks think about soccer and how > valuable a property it is for them. The two teams are Liverpool and > Manchester City. They are currently ranked first and second in the Premier > League and the team in third is unlikely to catch either. A couple of weeks > ago they played a league game against each other that aired on USA as NBC > paid a ton of money for Premier League rights. A week later the two played > in an FA Cup semifinal and that was streamed on ESPN+. Now they are both > semi finalists in the UEFA Champions League and the semifinal games are on > CBS tomorrow and Wednesday. So if they both win they’ll play each other a > third time and it will be on CBS. > > -- > 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]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJE-FiGKy7b49NHX8TD7cE7Erw2-VcfxUWVGOS46dJwGE_U3gA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJE-FiGKy7b49NHX8TD7cE7Erw2-VcfxUWVGOS46dJwGE_U3gA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAD_sJGDYRDseJDbzJorsHhR6%3DOqs86yHmnJuSMNkytKJWZNqMQ%40mail.gmail.com.
