1B4IDie Posted July 1, 2014 Share Posted July 1, 2014 (edited) Olbermann has the kind of delivery that makes you want to slap him with a blackjack but to be fair he does have a Pointkowski. Edited July 1, 2014 by Why So Serious? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrwilson60 Posted July 1, 2014 Share Posted July 1, 2014 (edited) nothing wrong with what he said. Just jokes. If you cant take jokes, you are a fan of the wrong team. I'm tiring of sports highlight show hosts and their mega-egos. It seems these days every highlight must be accompanied by a joke or two, a few witty double meanings regarding players names, and maybe a political comment also. Just my opinion but, when the sports personality becomes larger than the sport the show has jumped the shark. Oh, and Olbermann is a colossal D-Bag. I get the feeling he has a rather high opinion of himself. Edited July 1, 2014 by mrwilson60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. WEO Posted July 1, 2014 Share Posted July 1, 2014 I'm tiring of sports highlight show hosts and their mega-egos. It seems these days every highlight must be accompanied by a joke or two, a few witty double meanings regarding players names, and maybe a political comment also. Just my opinion but, when the sports personality becomes larger than the sport the show has jumped the shark. Oh, and Olbermann is a colossal D-Bag. I get the feeling he has a rather high opinion of himself. Well, he was commenting on soccer.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PromoTheRobot Posted July 1, 2014 Author Share Posted July 1, 2014 Watching ARG/SUI. ARG scores a goal in extra time to go up 1-0. It takes over a minute to restart the game while the clock keeps running. You would think SUI would want every second remaining to tie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbb Posted July 1, 2014 Share Posted July 1, 2014 Watching ARG/SUI. ARG scores a goal in extra time to go up 1-0. It takes over a minute to restart the game while the clock keeps running. You would think SUI would want every second remaining to tie. That stuff is insane. Close but not quite. Most European countries have some form of national public service broadcaster based on our dear old BBC here in Britain. You pay your TV license (I think in the UK one license covers up to 4 TVs in the house) and that funds the BBC - it does not go to other free to air channels and again that is pretty much a uniform pan-European approach that the TV license covers the public service broadcaster only. The BBC has zero commercials on their channels (not just during sport but no commercials period). The other main sports broadcasting free to air broadcaster in the UK (ITV) sell their ads during the World Cup for premium price and the World Cup is protected by law for free to air TV (so they don't have to bid huge amounts against Pay TV services for the broadcast rights). Therefore even after ITV have paid for the broadcast rights the World Cup commercials before games, after games and druing half time more than make up for the cost. The Premier League here is not available on free to air TV... it is shown exclusively by two subscription channels and they make their money on a mixture of advertising revenues and subscriptions (and that is true across most of Europe in respect of their domestice leagues). When a subscriptions broadcaster loses live soccer their subscriptions fall through the floor. You have to remember the NFL has 16 regular season games per team and then 4 weeks of play-offs. The Premier League is a 38 game season.... so lots more games to advertise before, after and during half time of. Very interesting info..................I don't see how US networks are going to make much money on this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbb Posted July 7, 2014 Share Posted July 7, 2014 U.S. TV ratings for the international soccer tournament have collapsed like a writhing midfielder after slight contact with an opponent — with roughly 10 million viewers watching the four quarterfinal games over the weekend. http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/soccer/americans-stopped-watching-world-cup-u-s-team-eliminated-article-1.1857138 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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