Premiership football on US TV

[Jelly 0]

Hi all

I know is probably been aked before but I am trying to find the cheapest and easiest way of being able to watch ALL of the premiership matches on US TV, and I am stuck. I live in california, and the cable company I am with has a soccer package and that has Fox soccer channel but it doesnt look as though they transmit all of the games. So if anyone knows or can correct me about this then I will be eternally grateful.

This year I dont want to have to go to the local pub at 6.00 in the morning to see them, although maybe for the Euro 2008 I might venture out.

Thanks in advance

Jelly

[paulinespens 3]

I watch the games online on overseas tv stations.

If you pm me I will tell you what program you need on the computer.

[Dr_LHA 3]

I know is probably been aked before but I am trying to find the cheapest and easiest way of being able to watch ALL of the premiership matches on US TV, and I am stuck. I live in california, and the cable company I am with has a soccer package and that has Fox soccer channel but it doesnt look as though they transmit all of the games. So if anyone knows or can correct me about this then I will be eternally grateful.

This year I dont want to have to go to the local pub at 6.00 in the morning to see them, although maybe for the Euro 2008 I might venture out.

Premiership Football on TV here is a mix of 3 things: Fox Soccer Channel, Setanta and Pay-per-view. Fox Soccer Channel is all I have and they're pretty good. They must have shown 20 Portsmouth games last season, and have shown the 1st Pompey game of the season on Saturday. FSC usually show 3 games on Saturday, one on Sunday and several mid week. Its a pretty good service. Setanta is satellite only I believe, Pay-per-view is $20 a game, so not worth it unless its a big game you're interested in.

Last time Euro 2004 was only available as a high price par-per-view event, and the rules are you have to pay the same amount to watch it in the pub to watch it at home. So if you go to the pub, you'll be asked for a $20 cover (or there abouts).

[Jelly 0]

thanks for your replies on this, very helpful to me.

Do you know if the games are shown live on Fox soccer channel or are they always delayed?

thanks

[Dr_LHA 3]

thanks for your replies on this, very helpful to me.

Do you know if the games are shown live on Fox soccer channel or are they always delayed?

Some are live, some are delayed. They also show repeats of games.

[munchkins 0]

We had that Setanta when we moved into our home and basically found it a load of rubbish. We were all primed up to watch Liverpool in the European Cup and within minutes we knew it was last years final they were showing as this years was actually being played !!!!!!!!

We could not believe it and I phoned them and they said "we are playing it now" and I told them that it was last years they were playing and she said how do you k now and I told her how it ended!!!! We cancelled after that as we could hardly ever get Liverpool on and it just appeared to be re-runs

[Trompe le Monde 1,107]

European Cup is on ESPN2 - covered by most basic cable packages!

I have a co-worker who got Sentata to get all the Man U games, but then the broadcast rights went elsewhere and he had several months still left on his subscription.

We feel pretty much covered by Fox Soccer Channel - there is the odd game they don't have that we want to see and then have to decide if we want to cough up the $$$ for PPV

Last time Euro 2004 was only available as a high price par-per-view event, and the rules are you have to pay the same amount to watch it in the pub to watch it at home. So if you go to the pub, you'll be asked for a $20 cover (or there abouts).

Really? I thought the pubs were just greedy.

[Dr_LHA 3]

Last time Euro 2004 was only available as a high price par-per-view event, and the rules are you have to pay the same amount to watch it in the pub to watch it at home. So if you go to the pub, you'll be asked for a $20 cover (or there abouts).

Really? I thought the pubs were just greedy.

Yes, the pubs have to pay the cable/satellite company per customer for per-per-view events. Pretty ridiculous really.

[luv2teach77 41]

I have Setanta Sports through DirectTV. It costs me $14.99 per month and I've been very happy with it so far. I got it mainly for the rugby coverage but know it shows a lot of live or delayed (shown on the same day but in the evening US time) premiership, European cup and European club games. Below is the live schedule I just got off their website. This only shows live games so won't include the delayed games.

The will often show delayed coverage of games around live games which sometimes means being able to watch 2 o3 games in 1 day.

13-Aug-07 Mon 2:45pm

Soccer

Carling Cup Peterborough Utd v Southampton LIVE

14-Aug-07 Tue 2:45pm

Soccer

EPL Tottenham Hotspur v Everton LIVE

15-Aug-07 Wed 2:45pm

Soccer

EPL Portsmouth v Manchester United LIVE

16-Aug-07 Thu 2:45pm

Soccer

Carling Cup Rotherham Utd v Sheff Wed LIVE

17-Aug-07 Fri 5:30am

Rugby Lge

NRL Premiership Storm v Eels LIVE

17-Aug-07 Fri 1:10pm

Rugby

Currie Cup Falcons v Blue Bulls LIVE

18-Aug-07 Sat 12:10am

Aussie Rules

AFL St.Kilda v Fremantle LIVE

18-Aug-07 Sat 3:35am

Rugby

ANZ Cup Canterbury v Wellington LIVE

18-Aug-07 Sat 7:45am

Soccer

EPL Portsmouth v Bolton Wanderers LIVE

18-Aug-07 Sat 10am

Soccer

EPL Tottenham Hotspur v Derby County LIVE

18-Aug-07 Sat 12:20pm

Soccer

Coca-Cola Champs Stoke v Charlton LIVE

19-Aug-07 Sun 2:40am

Aussie Rules

AFL Adelaide v Western Bulldogs LIVE

19-Aug-07 Sun 8:30am

Soccer

EPL Manchester City v Manchester United LIVE

19-Aug-07 Sun 1pm

Soccer

Le Championnat Nice v Rennes LIVE

19-Aug-07 Sun 3pm

Soccer

Le Championnat Marseille v Nancy LIVE

21-Aug-07 Tue 2:30pm

Rugby

RWC Warm-Ups Connacht v South Africa LIVE

22-Aug-07 Wed 12pm

Soccer

EURO '08 Qualifiers Armenia v Portugal LIVE

22-Aug-07 Wed 2:45pm

Soccer

EURO '08 Qualifiers Belgium v Serbia LIVE

24-Aug-07 Fri 5:45pm

Rugby Lge

NRL Premiership Bulldogs v Storm LIVE

25-Aug-07 Sat 12:10am

Aussie Rules

AFL Carlton v Kangaroos LIVE

25-Aug-07 Sat 3:30am

Rugby

ANZ Cup North Harbour v Waikato (RS) LIVE

25-Aug-07 Sat 7:45am

Soccer

EPL Sunderland v Liverpool LIVE

25-Aug-07 Sat 10am

Soccer

EPL Chelsea v Portsmouth LIVE

25-Aug-07 Sat 12:20pm

Soccer

Coca-Cola Champs Sheff Utd v West Brom LIVE

26-Aug-07 Sun 12:10am

Aussie Rules

AFL Geelong v Port Adelaide LIVE

26-Aug-07 Sun 8:30am

Soccer

EPL Middlesbrough v Newcastle United LIVE

26-Aug-07 Sun 3pm

Rugby

RWC Warm-Ups USA Eagles v Munster LIVE

31-Aug-07 Fri 1:10pm

Rugby

Currie Cup Free State Cheetahs v Falcons LIVE

1-Sep-07 Sat 10am

Soccer

EPL Liverpool v Derby County LIVE

1-Sep-07 Sat 12:20pm

Soccer

Coca-Cola Champs Coventry v Preston LIVE

2-Sep-07 Sun 8:30am

Soccer

EPL Arsenal v Portsmouth LIVE

7-Sep-07 Fri 3pm

Rugby

RWC 2007 France v Argentina LIVE

9-Sep-07 Sun 8am

Rugby

RWC 2007 Wales v Canada LIVE

9-Sep-07 Sun 12pm

Rugby

RWC 2007 Scotland v Portugal LIVE

11-Sep-07 Tue 2pm

Rugby

RWC 2007 Argentina v Georgia LIVE

12-Sep-07 Wed 8am

Rugby

RWC 2007 USA v Tonga LIVE

12-Sep-07 Wed 12pm

Rugby

RWC 2007 Japan v Fiji LIVE

12-Sep-07 Wed 2pm

Rugby

RWC 2007 Italy v Romania LIVE

15-Sep-07 Sat 7am

Soccer

EPL Everton v Manchester United LIVE

15-Sep-07 Sat 10am

Soccer

EPL Sunderland v Reading LIVE

15-Sep-07 Sat 12:20pm

Soccer

Coca-Cola Champs Plymouth v Cardiff LIVE

16-Sep-07 Sun 8am

Rugby

RWC 2007 Fiji v Canada LIVE

16-Sep-07 Sun 10am

Rugby

RWC 2007 Samoa v Tonga LIVE

16-Sep-07 Sun 3pm

Rugby

RWC 2007 France v Namibia LIVE

20-Sep-07 Thu 3pm

Rugby

RWC 2007 Wales v Japan LIVE

22-Sep-07 Sat 10am

Soccer

EPL Liverpool v Birmingham City LIVE

22-Sep-07 Sat 12:20pm

Soccer

Coca-Cola Champs Ipswich v Coventry LIVE

22-Sep-07 Sat 3pm

Rugby

RWC 2007 Argentina v Namibia LIVE

23-Sep-07 Sun 8:30am

Soccer

EPL Newcastle United v West Ham United LIVE

25-Sep-07 Tue 12pm

Rugby

RWC 2007 Canada v Japan LIVE

25-Sep-07 Tue 2pm

Rugby

RWC 2007 Romania v Portugal LIVE

26-Sep-07 Wed 12pm

Rugby

RWC 2007 Georgia v Namibia LIVE

26-Sep-07 Wed 2pm

Rugby

RWC 2007 Samoa v USA LIVE

29-Sep-07 Sat 7:45am

Soccer

EPL Manchester City v Newcastle United LIVE

29-Sep-07 Sat 10am

Soccer

EPL West Ham United v Arsenal LIVE

29-Sep-07 Sat 3pm

Rugby

RWC 2007 Scotland v Italy LIVE

30-Sep-07 Sun 9am

Rugby

RWC 2007 France v Georgia LIVE

30-Sep-07 Sun 2pm

Rugby

RWC 2007 South Africa v USA LIVE

6-Oct-07 Sat 7:45am

Soccer

EPL Manchester United v Wigan Athletic LIVE

6-Oct-07 Sat 10am

Soccer

EPL Newcastle United v Manchester City LIVE

7-Oct-07 Sun 7am

Soccer

EPL Arsenal v Sunderland LIVE

20-Oct-07 Sat 7:45am

Soccer

EPL Everton v Liverpool LIVE

20-Oct-07 Sat 10am

Soccer

EPL Arsenal v Bolton Wanderers LIVE

27-Oct-07 Sat 10am

Soccer

EPL Manchester United v Middlesbrough LIVE

28-Oct-07 Sun 8:30am

Soccer

EPL Bolton Wanderers v Aston Villa LIVE

3-Nov-07 Sat 7:45am

Soccer

EPL Arsenal v Manchester United LIVE

3-Nov-07 Sat 10am

Soccer

EPL Wigan Athletic v Chelsea LIVE

10-Nov-07 Sat 7:45am

Soccer

EPL Sunderland v Newcastle United LIVE

10-Nov-07 Sat 10am

Soccer

EPL Manchester United v Blackburn Rovers LIVE

11-Nov-07 Sun 8am

Soccer

EPL Birmingham City v Aston Villa LIVE

24-Nov-07 Sat 7:45am

Soccer

EPL Newcastle United v Liverpool LIVE

24-Nov-07 Sat 10am

Soccer

EPL Bolton Wanderers v Manchester United LIVE

25-Nov-07 Sun 8:30am

Soccer

EPL West Ham United v Tottenham Hotspur LIVE

I'd recommend the Setanta sports channel to anyone wanting to keep in touch with EPL games while living in the UK. Now that Setanta and ITV share the rights to premier league coverage in the UK, the number of games available should be increasing as well.

Mark

[Dr_LHA 3]

Dammit! Setanta are showing the Man U vs Pompey game? If only I could get out of work to watch it down the pub at 2.45pm!

[Dr_LHA 3]

Dammit! Setanta are showing the Man U vs Pompey game? If only I could get out of work to watch it down the pub at 2.45pm!

Yeah, so I ended up skiving off work this afternoon and watched the game down the pub. Luckily I had a good excuse to leave work early as I've been putting in 12-15 hour days for the last week.

A fine deserved 1-1 draw for my lot against United as well.