I hope it's not too early to start this, but the fixtures came out this morning so I figured I would.
Tough start for United. @ Swansea, Chelsea, @ Liverpool, Crystal Palace, @ Man City. Could give Moyes' doubters a lot of ammo early on or it could shut them up.
On a related note, I'm going to be in London the weekend of Oct 5th so I was pleased to see a pretty good matchup of WHU @ Spurs come out for that weekend. Does anyone know when the final kick-off times/days are typically set? Want to make sure I don't plan something for Sunday and then find out the match was moved.
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Usually closer to the date when the CL/Europa schedule comes out
some are easy to spot though
I can say right now that the 3rd week of the season
United/Liverpool and the NLD will likely be moved to sunday for Sky
Not a sure thing anymore. For the first time since the establishment of the EPL, another broadcaster has first choice over a number of matches. There is a possibility that BT Sport may have first shot at one or both of those fixtures. If they do, then they will be broadcast mid day on Saturday.
Sky have 20 'first picks', BT have 18. But it seems that Sky pick which rounds (weeks) they get the first picks.
edit: Valo, you should find out pretty soon - certainly well ahead of your visit when the match takes place. If not broadcast live in the UK (it almost certainly will be broadcast) then kick-off will be 3pm Saturday (assuming Spurs don't play a Thursday Europa League game 2 days earlier).
If the match is televised, ko times will be 12:45 or 5:15 on Saturday or 1 (ish) or 4:05 Sunday or 8 PM Monday.
Not a sure thing anymore. For the first time since the establishment of the EPL, another broadcaster has first choice over a number of matches. There is a possibility that BT Sport may have first shot at one or both of those fixtures. If they do, then they will be broadcast mid day on Saturday.
Sky have 20 'first picks', BT have 18. But it seems that Sky pick which rounds (weeks) they get the first picks.
edit: Valo, you should find out pretty soon - certainly well ahead of your visit when the match takes place. If not broadcast live in the UK (it almost certainly will be broadcast) then kick-off will be 3pm Saturday (assuming Spurs don't play a Thursday Europa League game 2 days earlier).
If the match is televised, ko times will be 12:45 or 5:15 on Saturday or 1 (ish) or 4:05 Sunday or 8 PM Monday.
I read on a West Ham forum someone saying that according to the daily mail that Sky and BT will announce thief live broadcast schedule on July 8th. I can't find a link to this story.
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Interestingly, there are a lot of days where they'll be showing four matches, and one day where they'll be showing five. The matches are split between TSN, TSN2, and TSN.ca. I wonder whether the TSN.ca matches will be free or require a special subscription?
Also, what does this mean for Sportsnet? In the past I have subscribed to Sportsnet World Online because it would guarantee me the ability to see every single Norwich game live. If it wasn't on TSN or Sportsnet, it would be on the online product. Sportsnet obviously has the rights to fewer games this year, so it will be interesting to see if they maintain the pricing of their online product, or reduce it to reflect the reduced schedule. Plus, with their acquisition of The Score, they now have SN, SN1, SN360 (The Score) on cable, plus SNWL as a premium channel.
The kicker is that they're making 30 matches available "exclusively" on Sportsnet World Online. So even if you have the premium cable channel, and even though Sportsnet has a bunch of other cable channels, you'll still need to subscribe to the online product to see those 30 games live. I would hope that they'll reduce the price, because $25/month is a lot anyway, but especially considering there will be fewer Premier League matches available on it. I'd even settle for having the matches repeated on World later in the day like in past years.
Hopefully the TSN.ca matches that are available online are being done so for free, otherwise this new cable deal, with way more channel capacity, will result in two premium subscriptions to get the same amount of matches as past seasons.
^ True. My main thing (as you're probably well aware of by now!!) is to see Norwich play live, which I have become accustomed to being able to do for the past few years. I can even swallow the $25/month for that, so as long as TSN isn't charging a premium for their online matches, I shouldn't whine too loudly as I'll be dropping the same amount of money each month. It will just be a bit frustrating if I'm paying the same price, for fewer total matches, and using it less often (due to TSN picking up more matches).
But, again, I'm forking out the same money for the "top priority" games. I was just hoping that more TV channels would mean less reliance on the premium stuff. But my folks come around with breakfast each week, so I can't cheap out and sacrifice the family tradition!
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Sunderland/Fulham is the only match on Sportsnet World (channel 154 on shaw) this weekend??
Saturday matches:
5:45am - Liverpool/Stoke is on TSN (channel 21)
8:00am - Arsenal/Aston Villa is on Sportsnet (channel 27)
8:00am - Norwich/Everton is on TSN (channel 21)
8:00am - Sunderland/Fulham on Sportsnet World (channel 154)
8:00am - West Brom/Southampton does not appear to be available on my television, but apparently it is available on tsn.ca - is this free?
8:00am - West Ham/Cardiff does not appear anywhere either, but apparently it is available on sportsnet.ca - again, is this free if I already subscribe to Sportsnet World through Shaw?
10:30am - Swansea/Manchester United is on Sportsnet (channel 27)
In years past, Setanta, channel 154, would play matches like the two that we're missing out on tomorrow on tape delay later during the day. Can anyone tell me what the story is here?
Crystal Palace/Spurs and Chelsea/Hull are both on live on TSN Sunday morning.
Manchester City/Newcastle is on live on TSN Monday afternoon.
The midweek match between Chelsea and Villa is on Sportsnet World.
the top 5 are really unpredictable this year. It's amazing because it's the only top league in Europe where the top 2 are not set in stone (Barcelona and Real in Spain, Bayern and Dortmund in Germany, Juventus and Milan in Italy). Very interesting and extremely difficult to predict this year.
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