Comments on: Justin.tv Rains On FA & Setanta’s Parade In England’s 4-0 Win Against Slovakia

By: inke maria

inke maria — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 18:32:10 +0000

Why I can’t see anything picture when I open some channel in justin.tv ?

By: lig tv

lig tv — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 18:36:47 +0000

thanks

By: justin tv

justin tv — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 15:06:17 +0000

okey

By: John

John — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:10:15 +0000

On Saturday I posted this…
“(Although for whatever reason they did neglect to show the Ireland game, but maybe redeem themselves slightly as they will show Italy-Ireland on Wednesday).”

Due to Setanta’s incompetence, or just a will to shaft people who want to watch Ireland play, the will now not being showing Italy-Ireland on Broadband PPV contrary to their Broadband PPV guide as of Saturday.

Arseholes !

Justin.tv did you say?

By: YAWN

YAWN — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 02:38:57 +0000

Um Justin TV????? They are just the newest site that allows people to catch sports on their computers…. I know of about 20 other spots you could have watched the England match online ……. Don’t blame justin – they just allow a platform for people to broadcast.

By: SSReporters

SSReporters — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:41:49 +0000

Gaffer, I’d rather not be caught between a rock and a hard place.

I’d have to PAY to watch England play on Setanta Sports. If I don’t want to do that, your proposal about the FA creating a stream type of thing that viewers would be willing to pay for is not much better.

The objective isn’t to appease the fans, it’s to appease their wallets. That’s why I love justin.tv and whatnot because it can’t be stopped.

By: eplnfl

eplnfl — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:58:35 +0000

Hal;

The point well made. Even if the Prem tripled the MLS amount they would take in a mega amount. It crosses my mind that the big teams do not the Wigans, Blackburns, and Hull City’s of English football to collect the cash for that.

By: hal

hal — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:42:55 +0000

Despite the things MLS gets criticized for, one thing they do well is offer all games live not on ESPN, FSC, or Telefutura online and they do carry the archives of all games. The entire season can be viewed in 800k streams for less than $20 for a full season. A real bargain.

If the Premiership did something similar for a reasonable price I’d bet a lot would sign up.

By: eplnfl

eplnfl — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 01:04:30 +0000

Lud, you are so right if you can get a game for say the i-phone app price of .99 cents. The EPL or channel with the rights would have a landfall given the volume they would create.

This site and Gaffer’s writing on the media as it relates to football serves the interest of the fan to get the powers to be to realize the needs of the fans. Yes, they do read what goes on here. All the major American sports have reached their status because of free TV ( ok, you can say MLB was big before TV but it was free radio back in the day), football/soccer will flourish in America as it appears more and more on free TV or the basic sports cable such as ESPN.

By: Lud

Lud — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:17:22 +0000

I’m in college and can’t afford cable or satellite, so the internet is the only way for me to view international soccer games. If I could afford it I would much rather pay and watch it on my TV screen instead of unreliable, grainy feeds. I think that justin.tv is doing more good than harm for soccer as it opens up another avenue to people who would otherwise do without. I agree with your article and think that Sky would do well to set up a site like ESPN360 and make a little change off the ad revenues instead of the zero dollars they are pulling in letting the pirates do it.