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singhss1
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They didn't show the Ghana vs Tunisia match because of Snooker and now they missed the first 15 mins of the Ivory Coast v Egypt match. Where has the Snooker come from?
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Alexandra Palace.
So you mean to say the Snooker went on for hours. I didn't see it on the EPG hours ago?
They missed the start of Ivory Coast vs Egypt because the snooker overran.
Yesterday afternoon on Twitter they said they wouldn't be showing Ghana vs Tunisia because of technical issues (I presume with the host feed), the snooker was replacement programming
Ok thanks for clearing that up.
1. Any match involving the senior national team
2. Any match which,under local law,must be shown FTA
3. Any other match of national importance.
I don't see how this match falls into any of the three categories and would therefore argue that Eurosport may be in breach of the directive by showing it here.
However I seriously doubt anyone who would go to a match on that Saturday is seriously then going to think: "Oh hang on, South Africa v Cape Verde is on Eurosport, lets stay here instead!"
ITV4 are also showing this game.
The blocked broadcast statute only relates to games under the jurisdiction of UEFA and its national federations
ITV4 and Eurosport are able to show the African Cup of Nations as it's organised by the Confederation of African Football and so falls outside the blackout
Wrong. It it relates to games shown on television in countries under the jurisdiction of national federations which are UEFA members, regardless of where the game is being played.
UEFA say in part 1 of the regulations implementing Article 48
http://www.uefa.com/newsfiles/88494.pdf
Doesn't the ACN as a result fall outside of this as it's neither organised by or takes place under the jurisdiction of UEFA or the FA?
Indeed. I suspect anyone who would give going to a match a miss to watch this probably isn't that committed to their side in the first place
Spot on.
As for being in breech of this or breech of that, who cares? It's on. Arf!
To be fair, it depends what you term as 'pathetic'. They obviously can't show the top, top football, ie top Euro Leagues, CL etc, but when they do show a tournament, be it African Nations Cup, youth tournaments, women's World Cup, don't think they can be accused of being pathetic.
The scant league rights they do hold ie Far East & Asian football, they could be more committed in terms of comprehensiveness of it.
'Pathetic' is a subjective opinion. I'm quite looking forward to watching the U21 Premier League games, when Eurosport shortly becomes available on my platform. But for me too, it will be a 'filler' sports channel. So point taken.
I like a man who stands by his convictions! LOL
If we deem Europsport pathetic for this reason, and I sympathise with the poster's feelings in regards to this, we can also add in ESPN UK and Premier Sports into the same bracket. I had hoped to watch NEC-PSV before Christmas but found that the Brisbane final of the tennis had over-run so I never got any coverage...but the Dutch football was pre-recorded - the tennis wasn't. They aren't going to break away from Andy Murray in the final set of a live tennis match to show Dutch football. Does that make ESPN pathetic?
I suggest not...it is merely the fickle nature of live sport for broadcasters that don't have enough bandwidth to cover all the events they sign up to show
Have to agree. They still seem to be in a broom cupboard and you can hear the flicking of their papers during the offtube commentary. World Cup 1998 shouldn't really be counted as it was in France and Eurosport is a French channel so they were able to have unrivaled coverage.
What do you mean by a French channel? Is British Eurosport a French channel?
I wasn't aware the under 21 premier league games were available and would love to watch them on Eurosport but a google search brought up no information. Do you know when they are on?
I only remember reading it in a TV guide a few weeks ago.
Is it possible that you read about the NextGen series being on Eurosport?