I subscribed peacock premium only for the EPL. $25/year.
Football = football
American football = handball
Football = football
American football = handball
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Apple Reportedly Planning Bid for English Premier League Streaming Rights
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Massive news! This is the only organised sports league that I take active interest in.
'Daily Mail' and 'without citing sources' should tell you all you need to know. It is a lying daily propaganda print and no one should believe a word that is printed in it.
To encourage people to go to the games rather than sitting in their homes to watch it. In the UK people typically support their local team and the stadium is usually less than 15-20miles away so getting there isn't that difficult. But the fact there is the thriving black market for illegal streaming services that relay streams from outside the UK back into the UK for people to watch whatever game they wish shows that it's not really working.
Great except the team my family follows , Liverpool, have got their own website going and so all the equipment and all the subscriptions are now worthless , sky etc
Hope apple can get round this
Hope apple can get round this
It would be fantastic if Apple were to wrestle EPL from Murdoch's Sky as it would cause the whole Sky empire to come crashing down. Sky is propped up by cable TV style deals as Joe Six Pack wants to watch soccer on television. If Apple kills the connection then Sky subscriptions will collapse. That would be a great thing.
Errrr….Liverpool FC (.tv) doesn’t have any individual broadcast rights to show live PL games, only youth and pre-season matches with interviews and then only if you have a subscription. Don’t think they even have the domestic cups.
Please don't mix up our beautiful game of handball, which is very popular around the world, with this American football, I never saw any excitement in! Right now we have the world cup of handball with countries from all "living" continents. So many things, sport, city names etc US just copied from the original European things, sport and cities etc. Us is kind of Chinese in that way.
Rupert Murdoch doesn’t own Sky and hasn’t done so for many, many years.
Of the English speaking countries in the world (which are the only relevant ones since we are talking about the English language here):Fixed that for you
UK - Football
Ireland - Soccer
Australia - Soccer
New Zealand - Soccer
South Africa - Soccer
Canada - Soccer
USA (bigger population than all the above combined) - Soccer
The cost of Apple TV is going to skyrocket. You have MLS, Friday Night Baseball, and possibly EPL. That's a lot of sports and money to be collected. Or will apple join the sports betting craze and get back to promoting sports betting apps that people complained about a few months ago.
I feel like the Olympics are prime for a streaming service. Tons of sports on at the same time, you could watch whatever you want whenever you want. I think Peacock did some of that, but I think it was not promoted well (at least IMO).
I've never understood why this isn't a bigger deal here in the US. I absolutely LOVED playing this in PE classes when I was in school.
Only Americans could come up with something where you dress up in riot gear, throw and catch a ball with your hands and call it football…
What annoys me most about NBC Sports vs Peacock streaming is that Peacock has the best user interface now with a running recap of key moments and NBC Sports has none of that. And the NBC browser view is so outdated. I wish the two platforms would merge into one with the same experience for both.
That what the Super League was all about but these so called fans were stupid and short sighted enough not to see it. Or they just love to watch 3rd rate games.