Awful Announcing
"As the official broadcaster in the U.S. and Canada of Ligue 1 and Coupe de France, the launch of beIN SPORTS and beIN SPORTS XTRA on YouTube TV comes at an exciting time as subscribers will now be able to witness history in the making with Leo Messi recently joining Paris Saint-Germain."
LaLiga is just the latest soccer property added to ESPN+.
Fenerbahçe has complained about beIN for months, including claiming that the broadcaster is altering matches with the replays they provide to officials and producing biased highlights packages. But Fenerbahçe's "beFAIR" warmup shirts have now led to legal action in response from beIN.
beIN Sports had had its broadcast license suspended in Saudi Arabia for the past three years, but that license has now been permanently revoked.
La Liga will reportedly work with EA Sports to add "virtual fans", not just artificial crowd noise.
The network has filed three complaints with the FCC, two of which have been rejected while a third remains in limbo
"They are too long and sometimes the zipper didn't work. I struggled a lot with that. But, in the end, because people were showing it I was conscious that I was under scrutiny when I was doing it!"
This development comes after Comcast also dropped the channel.
According to the FCC, beIN didn't make a strong enough case to require a Comcast rebuttal.
The dispute comes less than two weeks ahead of the start of the La Liga season.
Salisbury will take over afternoons on SportsTalk 790.
Comcast claims this is a negotiating tactic by beIN.
