Damn I keep missing words. It's an age thing. American VAR expert Christina Unkel gives ITV edge over BBC at Euro 2024
Aha. I thought it might be her that you were referring to. Unkel has been good on CBS. And it’s nice to see ITV being “brave” enough to hire someone from a “non-footballing nation“, and a woman at that!
.@TelemundoSports says it will televise all 24 Olympics men's group stage games and 16 of 18 women's group stage games next month.Every game will also be on Peacock.NBC hasn't announced its English-language game broadcast schedule yet. pic.twitter.com/uMRE8mnf8o— Jonathan Tannenwald (@thegoalkeeper) June 17, 2024
Peacock has also been running $20 for a year as a promotion and I think $3 per month as a different promotion this year. Keep your eyes peeled for deals around the Olympics too.
🇵🇱📺 Polish TV is revolutionizing sports broadcasts with computer vision technology, featuring:— FIFA-style radar overlays— Player recognition— Pass distance measurement— Ball speed and trajectory tracking during shotsAbsolutely amazing... 😲👏 pic.twitter.com/8Pr952an50— CentreGoals. (@centregoals) June 17, 2024
https://t.co/A5McSMdC1j pic.twitter.com/wNONgUcNsf— Sports TV Ratings (@SportsTVRatings) June 13, 2024
USL announces Spanish-language deal with TelevisaUnivision https://worldsoccertalk.com/tv/usl-announces-spanish-language-deal-with-televisaunivision/ Should be interesting to see what sort of numbers the USL telecasts get on TUDN. The coverage isn't weekly, and now there's a near two month gap until the next broadcast.
Probably an MLS hater who thinks the soccer watching audience is just itching to see anything that isn't MLS.
I only know of the Euro matches on FS1. Slovenia - Denmark 933k. Poland - Netherlands 636k and the friendly USA - Brazil 682k on TNT (Is it just me or is this quite low for this level of friendly involving USMNT??) Argentina - Guatemala 267k on Fox Deportes
OK got more stuff. Mystery of low USMNT rating on TNT solved. 1.1 million more on Telemundo. So actually a huge rating for this match. Add 166k on TruTV as well. And 147k more on Universo. WOW. Argentina vs Ecuador had 187k on Fox Deportes Mexico vs Brazil had 1.5 million on Univision and 249k on TUDN USA vs Colombia had 709k on Telemundo and 611k on TNT And after Clark MLS now definitely trails another league in popularity - as WNBA games NOT involving Clark on ABS now get ~ 1 million views.
MLS TV ratings are irrelevant given that most of the games kick off simultaneously and Fox is a secondary broadcaster. Apple will be looking at the average engagement between 7:30 pm and 1 am Eastern.
As the NBA deal showed, national TV is still the big money maker in this country. Though there is nothing comparable to MLS Season Pass in any other sports so the comparison is now murky.
Obviously that didn't work for MLS, which now has the 6th highest domestic TV revenue of any soccer league. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_...league_broadcast_deals_by_country?wprov=sfla1
It didn't work because almost nobody was watching the local broadcasts. Now Apple TV has all the local broadcasts in one place, but I fail to see how that would drive more eyeball toward them. The success of Apple TV seems like it was first driven by promotions such as the TV deal and then by some dude named Lionel. Doesn't matter, MLS is getting paid regardless, but there is still concern for the long term future. Viewership number need to continue to be grown, be that on Fox or Apple.
It's doing just fine and will continue to do just fine. It'll be interesting to see what the next step will be once we hit the early 2030s.
Can you provide a reasonable explanation of why people didn't watch when they could for "free" as part of their cable packages, but now want to pay separately for it? I know the numbers are currently fine, but nobody ever explained how it could be for any reason other than getting it free, or for Messi.
It was difficult in Houston to watch the local coverage. They were on an assortment of local low-power stations, alternate OTA network channels, and an RSN, exclusive to one cable provider, that would shift Dynamo games to their alternate channel or tape-delay them. So "free" if you could tune in your antenna or had the right cable provider with nothing going on with the basketball and baseball teams.