I was phoned by someone from Sky last night asking me if I wanted to upgrade my subscription to include the new ESPN channel showing 46 premiership games and joke (sorry, Jock) football next season. It costs £9 per month extra. The difference with Setanta is that you do not have to commit to more than one month. I said no as I reckon I would probably have no interest at all in 3/4 of those 46 games. I wonder why ESPN (and Setanta before them) don't have pay-per-view games like Sky use to have. I am sure there are lots of people like me who would happily pay £7 or £8 to watch 8 or 9 specific matches during the course of the season.
I got ESPN during the week and was watching one of the Prem games from last season. On both sides of the screen there is this annoying as f**K big red ESPN bar. If it's gonna be the same on the live games it's gonna be cancelled after a week! Makes the actual picture about half the size!
[cite]Posted By: Plaaayer[/cite]I got ESPN during the week and was watching one of the Prem games from last season. On both sides of the screen there is this annoying as f**K big red ESPN bar. If it's gonna be the same on the live games it's gonna be cancelled after a week! Makes the actual picture about half the size!
Noticed that on the Russia game I was watching last night. I thought they only did that when games aren't filmed in Widescreen (sometimes you see it on the highlights of lower league matches) - surley this wont be the case for live Premiership matches ?
[cite]Posted By: Plaaayer[/cite]I got ESPN during the week and was watching one of the Prem games from last season. On both sides of the screen there is this annoying as f**K big red ESPN bar. If it's gonna be the same on the live games it's gonna be cancelled after a week! Makes the actual picture about half the size!
It would not surprise me if when they start showing live premiership games the ESPN bar will be used to display corporate logos. American TV has a real problem with the fact that football does not have time-outs, like the big four US sports, which allow for frequent advertising breaks. I remember watching a lot of the 1986 world cup games live on American TV and 50% of the picture (sides, top and bottom) were taken up by budwieser and coca cola advertising banners!
[cite]Posted By: Plaaayer[/cite]I got ESPN during the week and was watching one of the Prem games from last season. On both sides of the screen there is this annoying as f**K big red ESPN bar. If it's gonna be the same on the live games it's gonna be cancelled after a week! Makes the actual picture about half the size!
Noticed that on the Russia game I was watching last night. I thought they only did that when games aren't filmed in Widescreen (sometimes you see it on the highlights of lower league matches) - surley this wont be the case for live Premiership matches ?
LOL - welcome to the wonderful world of American TV Sports Coverage. Trust me, if ESPN's other sports coverage is anything to go by you'll have a clock, animated graphics of the presenters pissing about with a football, a rolling scores/newsflash/fantasy football bar and a bloody stock ticker on there.
I understand that they're picking up Serie A too. Might be tempted to dump Sky Sports and taking this... although would I lose Eurosport if I did this? Don't think I can bear the BBC coverage of the MotoGP
Does anyone know if you have to sign up for ESPN for a certain amount of time, like a year? Or can you get rid of it when you want? I've already got sky sports.
[cite]Posted By: BBClaus[/cite]Does anyone know if you have to sign up for ESPN for a certain amount of time, like a year? Or can you get rid of it when you want? I've already got sky sports.
[cite]Posted By: BBClaus[/cite]thanks. i had already had a look on the website but i found their wording about minimum terms a bit confusing, so thought i'd check on here.
Good thinking. Because the wording on minimum terms on here is far clearer!
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Noticed that on the Russia game I was watching last night. I thought they only did that when games aren't filmed in Widescreen (sometimes you see it on the highlights of lower league matches) - surley this wont be the case for live Premiership matches ?
It would not surprise me if when they start showing live premiership games the ESPN bar will be used to display corporate logos. American TV has a real problem with the fact that football does not have time-outs, like the big four US sports, which allow for frequent advertising breaks. I remember watching a lot of the 1986 world cup games live on American TV and 50% of the picture (sides, top and bottom) were taken up by budwieser and coca cola advertising banners!
If they pick up the NFL rights i might go for it.
;o)