Scheduling always was an issue...
by iudomer (2019-10-01 09:08:04)

In reply to: Fox made strides for Bundesliga, but not enough  posted by spade


where Nascar truck races push the games off FS1/FS2 and onto FSP. The cadence of highlight shows, things of that nature were not regular like NBC did with the EPL.

I think ESPN will put some time/money into their shows. Considering the BuLi produces their own shows that FS1/2 would show at odd times, ESPN+ would just show as is.

Considering what Fox did to make it better than what GOLTV offered, I enjoyed the coverage. ESPN will make it even better.


The scheduling of the Bundesliga is tough
by spade  (2019-10-01 13:05:18)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

Whereas the EPL stretches their games out all over Sat and Sunday, I'd say of the 9 weekly games, 5 are usually all at 0930 eastern which makes it difficult to televise numerous of them, especially if the potential high rating games are at the same 0930 time.

However there is actually more to the scheduling than that and the German fans are not happy with it. I was at a Werder Bremen vs Hertha weekday game last September in 2018 and the fans were pissed because the TV schedulers were forcing games at odd hours of the day, one starting at 6pm making it difficult to make it to the kickoff after work, but so they could televise another set of weekday games again at 8pm. So the entire stadium and Suporters Section was silent and no flag waving for the first 10 minutes of the game and unfurled a banner stating (I'm paraphrasing) "Bunesliga is for the fans, not for the television stations". I'm sure the visual on the televised match was dull and awful, so perhaps they got the message.

It would be like NBC optioning to televise all the ND games at 12 noon because they wanted to show something else later in the day just because they could make more money that way. Football fans would rightly be pissed.