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http://epltalk.com/2...league-2013-16/

Huge news for American footie fans! NBC have acquired the rights to broadcast Premier League games in America! Don't worry, no tape delays!

85 million dollars a year is a ridiculously huge amount of money for a non-US based sports league that airs early in the morning in America. Who says soccer isn't popular in the US?

NBC will no doubt do a better job than FOX Soccer or ESPN in making the PL more mainstream and less nichey. Might have a lot more American Chelsea fans in the near future lol.

Edited October 29, 201213 yr by kitierkatba

This will be crazy, also means more mainstream cable broadcasts for football hopefully. We pick up the channels here in Canada but for the most part none of the games are televised. Some of the sports broadcasters carry them here but they are often on specialty channels. Like today's Man U vs Chelsea match was while the Merseyside derby was broadcast. Very strange. Anyways this is good tidings indeed for the EPL.

As the Associated Press

reported Sunday, NBC plans to air six games per weekend across its television stations. The current plan is to show up to three games on Saturday, two on Sunday and one on Monday afternoon, plus midweek games when they come along.

Read more: http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/thegoalkeeper/NBC-Sports-president-of-programming-Jon-Miller-discusses-the-networks-deal-for-English-Premier-League-broadcast-rights.html#ixzz2AqFsxvMq

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Apparently they out paid 3 times more than anyone else...Great news then for us this side of the Atlantic although I can watch most if not all of the games live anyway. My brother in law in the UK can't believe the amount of games we see here live...however I guess with the good news comes the bad...who the hell is going to be the colour commentators and analysts in the US studio's, right now it's barely tolerable...

I love the american pundits, there are so funny to listen to. I use to mute the tv while streaming but now i have found an american link i dont, some of the things they say are funny.

Good for the league, good for the sport.

Generally speaking, US commentary is free of a lot of baggage and favouritism you get on UK commentary. There's also a sense that a lot of the half time pundits knew next to nothing about football before they were paid to talk about it which gives it an entertaining atmosphere.

This has got me thinking about the competition in the Championship this season. As I understand it, clubs will get more money and therefore the parachute payments for any team going down will increase. Whoever comes up this season will make a record amount of money for a promoted team. It may mean Bates thinks twice about selling Leeds. Also, whoever goes down this season stands to be replaced by teams who will get more money and better parachute payments (if they fail to stay up). Could be a costly relegation battle! (not that it wasn't already...)

So basically Fox have nothing to show in terms of football?They already lost Serie A and Ligue 1.

Yep FSC may just go away.

Doesn't Fox still have the CL matches?

Also, excuse my ignorance, but what channels will show the games? on Saturday's their surely not going to oust College Football, and certainly not the NFL on a Sunday (although I'd imagine those games are over before the NFL begins). And what about when ESPN have the early game, and then there are two consecutive games on FSC on Satrudays, how will NBC do this?

Also, Fox had "Soccer Plus" in some areas that allowed more games to be shown. Will NBC be able to offer anything similar?

Surely that money will help with financial fair play. Maybe a drop in the bucket but still. And the increased coverage (compared to La Liga in Bein Sport) will further help solidify the English football fanbase in America.

The money involved probably says more about the importance of live sports to cable television than about ratings which are still puny, I attribute a lot of this to the time the games air in America (early morning).

BUT considering how soccer haters in America love to crow about how "nobody watches soccer in America" it's worth noting how NBC paid a fortune for the rights. Surely 85 million a year proves how soccer continues to grow in America.

I'm sure if 10 years ago someone told American tv industry experts that a network would pay 250 million over three years for a non-US based sports league they'd have called him mad.

Good for the league big time.

It also means more streaming opportunities for those 3pm games that we cant see on tv.

Win win

They are calling it NBCSN.

I'm optimistic that if they spend 85m USD that there will plenty of matches.

Great news!

Will this mean more kick off times are moved? Have they said anything about this?

I hate NBC for what they've done to Community so I can't treat anything they ever do in positive light ever again.

Any updates on this? Will every EPL game be broadcasted live?

Any updates on this? Will every EPL game be broadcasted live?

 

Here's some good info. 

 

http://epltalk.com/2013/04/23/everything-you-need-to-know-about-nbcs-coverage-of-the-premier-league-2013-16/

 

 

 

Q: How many games will be televised?

A: All 380 games will be presented live on television. Roughly six of the matches will be shown live on NBC Sports Network and NBC each weekend, while the remaining four will be made available to participating TV providers via Premier League Extra Time. All games will be streamed live for web, mobile and tablet users on the NBC Sports Live Extra service, as long as your TV provider has an agreement in place to provide the service to you.