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Tennis over MLS?
August 27, 2005
I cannot wait for the day when soccer on tv will pre-empt other sports. I do not understand why ESPN and other large sports providers continue to show tennis or billiards instead of MLS games, the US Open Cup or even EPL. I’d be willing to bet that ad revenues from soccer would be much higher than for billiards, and definately comparable to tennis. With so many immigrants in the U.S. who are lifelong soccer fans, I’d assume that the Nielsen numbers for a soccer match would be quite high.
My rant today stems from the fact that an MLS game was pre-empted today by the Pilot Pen tennis tournament on ESPN. ESPN is showing some silly pre-season college football thing, while ESPN is showing commentary from a tennis event. I don’t have digital cable, so I can’t get Fox Soccer Channel, and I don’t understand Spanish, so I can’t watch the Barcelona vs. Juventus game. Just silly. And annoying.
Posted by paul at August 27, 2005 03:08 PM
Comments
Christa said on August 28, 2005 09:09 AMhm thats funny cause im almost sure we watched the game together last night on tv....
Paul said on August 28, 2005 09:43 AMYeah... ummm... I think maybe the MLS website had the game time wrong. But still, MLS is ignored by major media much too much.
anne said on September 9, 2005 12:45 PMhey pUAL.
i kinda gave out briguy's website address to my homeroom class. oopsssssss so can you stop using this website?
thanks.
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