Comments on: ESPN and Setanta To Team Up To Beat Fox?

By: Jay

Jay — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 04:54:52 +0000

If FSC want to get serious about the EPL here in the US they should re-brand themselves to Sky Sports America.

ESPN should get the US rights for the EPL. Matches can easily be shown on ESPN 2 or ESPN Classic/ESPN 3. They can shift to ESPN once college football is done whoring the saturday fall schedule.

They could easily show a 10 and 130 matchup on Saturdays and 11 on Sunday with no problems. They also have ESPN360 which is a great platform.

By: BD

BD — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 03:38:52 +0000

Sound like a great chance to see EPL in HD and mayb the BIG games on ABC.

By: goohst8

goohst8 — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:02:46 +0000

Check out the schedule during football season. Good luck seeing an EPL game until mid-december. I think this would be terrible for football fans.

By: JC

JC — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 12:47:50 +0000

I love Fox Soccer, but it would be great to get it without having to pay extra for a sports package. Why isn't Fox Soccer a standard package like ESPN?

By: Black Hornet

Black Hornet — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 10:31:25 +0000

I agree that there will be challenges with the EPL on ESPN and in some cases ESPN2 during the football season, but for sure you can bet that a big 4 clash would be carried live somewhere regardless of the season. The only challenging timeslot would be the Saturday late game.

But if they team up with Setanta and use ESPN Classic (unfortunately to show tape delayed) and Deportes (which I'm sure they'll use this to push Deportes onto the English sports tier like GolTV does) they can make it happen. Pus remember – some of these will be using the feed from the games they broadcast in the UK.

I can easily see them moving OTL and Sports Reporters to a different time (or network) to accomodate a Man U vs Liverpool game.