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January 12, 2010

Goodbye Setanta. Hello Fox Soccer Plus (via @epltalk)

Filed under: ESPN, Fox, Premiership, Soccer, TV, UEFA Champions League — Tags: , , , — webadmin @ 6:51 pm


 

Fox Soccer Plus will begin showing Premier League games on the weekend of March 6, as well as FA Cup quarter-finals and Serie A. The Premier League has yet to finalize the TV schedule, so it’s not known at press time which matches will be televised. Also, Fox Soccer Plus will be broadcast in HD.

Fox Soccer Plus will be offered to video providers across the country and be available to viewers as a premium service. No price has been specified but I wouldn’t be surprised if the monthly fee would be $15.

I still want to see how games are partitioned (I would hope that FSP isn’t just like Setanta) but it seems like I will upgrade to HD around March 1!

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May 29, 2009

Proof that ESPN Hates the Beautiful Game



 

John Anderson, the typical Sportscenter knob who stumbles through Champions League highlights and names and terms, finally admits – ON ABC’S YOUTUBE CHANNEL – that he hates footy. Are you kidding me? And you want ME to support watching any soccer on ESPN?!? Or any Disney properties?

Fuck That! Come on FSC and Fox!



YouTube – Hating the Beautiful Game

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April 23, 2009

Snakes on a Monkey Fighting Plane

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the Edited For TV version

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April 22, 2009

Is it just me or …

Filed under: Fox, TV — Tags: , , , , — webadmin @ 3:17 pm


 

… does Gary Gnu from the Great Space Coaster remind you of Glenn Beck?

it’s possible this was his inspiration. Him or Steve Doocy

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April 15, 2009

What the Tea Parties should REALLY be about

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Offshore Tax Havens: A State-By-State Breakdown Of The Cost To Taxpayers

A Senate report estimated in 2008 that the United States loses up to $100 billion a year in tax revenue to offshore tax havens (PDF). In a report released Wednesday, the U.S. Public Interest Research Group offers a state-by-state breakdown of the cost to taxpayers of tax revenue lost to “shell companies and sham headquarters” in places like Switzerland and the Cayman Islands.

The practice soaks dutiful taxpayers in every state for hundreds of millions of dollars, according to U.S. PIRG. The citizens of New York and Texas shoulder over $8 billion a year, and the good people of California are on the hook for an extra $11 billion.

but it’s awesome that Fox News (and no doubt Lipton) is coming up with brilliant ideas to punk people into protest.

Million Man March – nice one.

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April 5, 2009

Why I’m glad that FSC won the UEFA Champions League rights away from ESPN



 

Details of FOX Sports/ Setanta UEFA Champions League Packages | Major League Soccer Talk

# Fox Sports Net will air 16 Tuesday matches from the qualifying rounds in August until the semifinal. Areas without an FSN owned station will probably see the matches on an FSN affiliate like CSN or Sun Sports, for example.
# Fox Soccer Channel will show two live games per week and three games on tape delay during the group stages.
# Setanta will have two live games each week during the group stages.
# FOX is looking into the possibility of using on site commentators from the international feed.
# FSC will have live pre and post game shows as well as a daily 30 minute wrap up show.
# The final for each of the three seasons of this package will be shown on Fx in HD. Fx is in as many homes nationally than ESPN 2
# Setanta will be re-launching its broadband product next month with enhanced video quality.

Despite the fact that ESPN2 is in more households, is on the analog/lower tier of most cable offerings, and is in more hotels, The detail overlooked here is that as an overall broadcasting strategy we need to look at this more as ESPN, ESPN Classic, and ESPN Deportes vs FX, FSN, Fox Soccer Channel and Fox Sports en Espanol. FSN will be used much like ESPN2 is used now – to show the first choice live game and is available is just as many homes as ESPN2, though not as many hotels. And FSC’s distribution is comparable to ESPN Classic, and better than ESPN Deportes – which has to be purchased with a Spanish Pack on most systems. Plus FX (where the CL Final will be shown) and some of the regional FSNs have HD channels – and FSC is supposed to be accelerating their HD timetable to the end of this year, not next.

I think this is a net positive for soccer fans. It’s yet to be determined whether or not it helps the popularity of the sport. But I do know that all those people who bought ESPN Deportes for Champions League coverage will soon be cancelling. After all the talk about ESPN raising their profile in the sport and even chasing the European market, they ended up lowbidding on the UK Prem rights and apparently on the US and Latin American CL rights. I expect similar with the US Prem rights. Which means they’d be out of the soccer business in the US with the exception of the World Cup and USMNT. ESPN Deportes suddenly becomes worthless for footy-crazy english-speaking viewers.

If Fox Sports as a collective does this right, they could do something for the sport which ESPN couldn’t because of all their other commitments. Given the fact that there are not a lot of competing live programming at 19:45 GMT on weekdays across the FSN network, there’ll be no danger of losing games because of the World Baseball Classic or the Masters or some other sport this demographic cares about. FSN has a lot of pre-produced content that can be moved around easily. The same goes for FX – so no worries about other programming running over and interfering with the start – esp for that Saturday CL final. Can you imagine if there’s a college baseball game that pinches the start of the CL final!?!?

Also, I doubt the Fox brains will homogenize and ruin production (or that UEFA will let them) with overly NFL/MLB-ized graphics and features and crap – something ESPN seemed ready and willing to do (remember the Beckham cam?). If indeed they take the CL International feeds instead of having Max Bretos call the games then we would only have to suffer through a pregame show – which I doubt will be that bad. The other good thing is that Derek Rae would be a spectacular get for FSC to call games wherever games need to be called. No more distracting ticker with Brett Favre and Alex Rodriguez nonsense. No more ruining the upcoming taped game with ill-timed highlights. And no more chopping off time from tape-delayed airings.

On top of it, who’s to say that grabbing these rights wouldn’t mean that FSC/Fox Sports Intl. couldn’t be an exporter of content to other countries (Caribbean, Australia, South Africa) in the future? Who says that Presspass-type show couldn’t be “acquired” and produced by Fox and run given exposure in one of those various timeslots on the FSN networks – like before Best Damned and after The [insert college football coach name here] Show? I’m sure Bobby McMahon and Fox Football Fone-in segments could be packaged together into something creative.

Of course Rae could also go to GolTV and improve their rag tag bunch. And he could still work for ESPN for the World Cup. What else is he going to do in Bristol? I bet he won’t even broadcast the CL Final on-site like he did last year. OK – I understand he has other work for ESPN Intl, but still.

But the thing I’m most salivating over is possibly being able to, in the group stages and round of 16, going 4-wide with the TVs in the man-cave with different simultaneous LIVE matches on FSE (w/SAP), FSC, FSN and Setanta!! IN ENGLISH!!!

THAT would not suck.

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November 14, 2006

OJ Simpson to Sorta Confess on TV?!? FOX Does It Again!!



 

Is it possible for a company to go to hell? How about maybe charging them as an accessory to murder. They can’t retry OJ, but they can try FOX! Get Vanatter to smear some blood on the FOX backlot or Furman to slur Solomon Wilcots or the guy from 24. Or Apu! Macaca Apu – that’ll do it. Where’s Sargeant Stacey Coon to crack some skulls when you need him? Where’s Rodney? Where’s Reginald? Where’s Ice T???

Oh man alive, I never thought Man vs Beast could be topped, but who better to do it than the biggest pariah EVAR on the most shameless network EVAR!! Well, biggest pariah this side of Salman Rushdie. Whatever happened to him anyways? I wonder if he’ll be a correspondent for the new Al Jazeera English network with my new babe crush Ghida Fakhry. But I digress…

The man went detating people caps, claims he didn’t do it – claims it took him 15 minutes to get from Rockingham to Bundy at 2 in the morning (it took me 4 mins at 11pm), hasn’t paid the Goldmans a dime from the civil judgement, has his money in the Caymans, stole cable, had steak knives hidden from him at Mortons, dated some girl who was doing drugs with Pedro Guerero, was involved in a missing cat incident while assuring local cops by saying “don’t worry, I’ll handle it” (HAH!!), had his poor daughter so mentally beat down that she had to call 911 sobbing to find some support, and wanted to star in a ripoff of MTV’s Punk’d where his tagline to the unsuspecting victim…err… prankee was going to be …. wait for it … “You’ve been Juiced!” Yeah – Nicole and Ron got juiced too – and Jack Lalaine wasn’t even involved!

I won’t even get into his abject disinterest in participating in the civil rights efforts in the late 60’s – he never ever claimed racism until he bit off more than he could chew with the murders, his picture was darkened on Time magazine, and his trial was turned into a referendum on race relations and the LAPD. The only reason he got off is that, societally, the LAPD was even worse than he was!

But just when you think you’ve relegated him to the 8-Mile of society where he can stay tucked away like your neked pictures from that drunken night at school or that nasty wart on your shoulder, he comes storming back like Mel Gibson from on top of that hill (ok, so maybe a bad analogy) and now is going to make watching Fox on November 27th and 29th like making the walk of shame.

Well you know what – if I can curl up in front of the tele to have that age-old question answered (who CAN pull the airplane faster – an elephant or 40 midgets…err.. small people) then surely I can peep Orenthal the rock toting murderer get loose on his alleged hypotheticals on whether he sliced up first or down. I hope the host of that TV show has a bodyguard and chain mail armor underwear.

OJ – America’s most notorious train wreck!!!

O.J. Hypothetically Confesses on FOX
Simpson didn’t do it, but if he had, this is how he would have, or so he says

Thank heavens for double jeopardy. On Monday, Nov. 27 and Wednesday, Nov. 29, O.J. Simpson, acquitted murderer and NFL Hall-of-Famer, will star in a two-part FOX special sensitively titled “O.J. Simpson: If I Did It, Here’s How It Happened.” We’ll let that sink in for a second or two. Publisher Judith Regan and Simpson will have a no-holds-barred interview in which he, among other things, “tells for the first time how he would have committed the murders if he were the one responsible for the crimes.”

“This is an interview that no one thought would ever happen,” says FOX’s reality programming guru Mike Darnell. “It’s the definitive last chapter in the Trial of the Century.” Although Simpson was acquitted of murdering Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, he was later found responsible for both murders in a civil suit. At the time, he was ordered to pay $33.5 million in restitution to the families of the victims, a penalty that remains outstanding. The special is perfectly timed around the release of Simpson’s book “If I Did It,” which will be released on Nov. 30.

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