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FAO US based Reds : New channel in place of Setanta

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Fox Soccer Plus, scheduled to debut on March 1, has released TV schedules for the first three weeks of its programming, giving soccer fans a glimpse of what they can expect on the new soccer network.

Fox Soccer Plus will show two live Premier League games each weekend as well as two on delay in addition to live games during mid-week. Not surprisingly, the schedule of Premier League TV games is very similar to the Setanta US schedule. On Saturdays, Fox Soccer Plus will show one of the live 10am ET games as well as two Premier League games on delay during the mid-to-late afternoon. On Sundays, Fox Soccer Plus will show the early 8:30am ET kickoff.

Outside of the Premier League, Fox Soccer Plus will show a live Serie A game each week at Noon ET as well as a Coca-Cola Championship game on some Saturdays at 2pm ET.


Elsewhere during the week, the 24/7 programming schedule features reruns of Premier League, Serie A, Champions League, Argentine league, Fox Soccer Report and Sky Sports News, as well as additional soccer shows. When available, rugby matches will be shown as will live FA Cup matches (and reruns).

One noticeable difference between the programming schedules of Fox Soccer Plus and Fox Soccer Channel is not that FSC+ will not show any infomercials. Fox Soccer Channel typically shows five hours of infomercials from 6am-11am ET on weekdays. The lack of infomercials on Fox Soccer Plus comes at a price though as the channel will be available as a premium service (expected to be $14.95 per month).

The big two questions remaining about Fox Soccer Plus will be which TV providers will carry the channel and what Fox is planning on doing with the online rights to the games shown on Fox Soccer Plus. After correspondence with DirecTV, it looks likely that Fox Soccer Plus will be availabel on the satellite provider beginning March 1. But as far as the online rights are considered, it’s quite possible that those games will only be available on television instead of the Internet for the rest of the season.

That’ll upset a lot of soccer fans especially when you consider that several big matches will only be available on Fox Soccer Plus during the first few weeks of its programming including Chelsea versus Manchester City or Stoke in the FA Cup on March 7, Manchester United versus Fulham on March 14 and, most important of all, Manchester United versus Liverpool on March 21.

View the latest updated US TV schedule for games featuring Premier League teams, which includes Fox Soccer Plus-related listings.

http://www.epltalk.com/fox-soccer-plus-reveals-weekly-programming-schedule/16008

I have comcast and as of now they dont carry fox soccer plus.
 
As much as I already pay for cable, and as popular as the EPL is becoming here, and I still have to pay for channels to watch the good games. Wonderful.
 
[quote author=Karl Hungus link=topic=39086.msg1061159#msg1061159 date=1267293069]
As much as I already pay for cable, and as popular as the EPL is becoming here, and I still have to pay for channels to watch the good games. Wonderful.

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That's a bizarre statement. The EPL's popularity has made you pay more money to watch the good games? Of course it has.

The real problem is the fact that you have to buy a billion other channels you don't give a shit about, to get one channel that you do.

So Setanta US is dead completely?
 
Shouldn't it be the other way around? I mean Liverpool vs United is a primo game, even people who are fans of neither team still want to watch that game, so it should be on the most easily accessible network, I should have to pay extra money to watch Wigan vs Birmingham, or some shit. The ratings that the first game will get should pay for itself whereas the second game is shit so you would expect the rating to be low, and hence make people pay extra to see it, so they can cover their losses.


Not sure about Setanta though, I guess at least this new channel will be easier to get than Setanta though, which was impossible to get without satellite.
 
Do you guys not do cable cardsharing? I thought it was quite widespread in the US now that dedicated box had come out?
 
[quote author=FoxForceFive link=topic=39086.msg1061418#msg1061418 date=1267358772]
Do you guys not do cable cardsharing? I thought it was quite widespread in the US now that dedicated box had come out?
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What, what, what???
 
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