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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJust tuned in to MSNBC. Where's Joy? All I see is UK soccer everywhere!
demmiblue
(36,833 posts)KewlKat
(5,624 posts)femmocrat
(28,394 posts)I'm disappointed, but I'll cope. I'm flipping back and forth between CBS and ABC. There are worse things!
Zoonart
(11,844 posts)Why is there a soccer match on MSNBC? Has this ever happened before? Any sporting event on MSNBC. What's up?
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,829 posts)Damned annoying.
pennylane100
(3,425 posts)My son once flew from California to North Carolina and back after the game, just to see them play.
OnDoutside
(19,949 posts)pennylane100
(3,425 posts)I bet tickets to that will be worth the crown jewels.
OnDoutside
(19,949 posts)Bet that'll be full too !
TheBlackAdder
(28,179 posts)Gidney N Cloyd
(19,829 posts)Ace Rothstein
(3,150 posts)All 10 games are scheduled at the same time and NBC uses all of their networks to broadcast them.
Zoonart
(11,844 posts)mcar
(42,287 posts)So all the games start at the same time. Matches are being shown across the NBC network spectrum.
Mike Nelson
(9,949 posts)...by NBC. They have other channels covering soccer. If Joy takes a holiday, a sub should fill-in. MSNBC should be an all-news channel - not a part-time sports channel.
Codeine
(25,586 posts)to cover all of the games today. Last day of the league all games get played simultaneously.
malaise
(268,844 posts)They said something about updates and that we'd have M$NBComcast back up later. I thought it was just a local issue.
Blue_Adept
(6,397 posts)A couple hours without the same things being said over and over and over and over on a Sunday morning.
MSNBC has covered sports before and ran Olympics and other events as part of their overall ownership by NBC.
Take it as a great opportunity to get away from the news for a bit. I saw some angry tweets about it and was like, if this is making you angry, you need to reevaluate things a bit.
flotsam
(3,268 posts)Just flip it over and ask yourself how happy you would be if you were paying for ESPN or Fox Sports and when you went to the channel there was nothing but a political debate.
Blue_Adept
(6,397 posts)Never anything but. Especially on the weekends.
You may just not be seeing the furor as someone else mentioned it on Twitter. There's actual anger.
It's like when your cable goes down for ten minutes and you have people demanding that they're credited for it on their bill. It's an overreaction.
Ace Rothstein
(3,150 posts)It is one weekend, folks. You can tune back in a few days from now.
Tipperary
(6,930 posts)This furor is cracking me up.
TheBlackAdder
(28,179 posts)Mariana
(14,854 posts)The contract with NBC says every Premier League game is to be shown live. There are nine such games being played today, and because it's the final week of the season, all are being played at the same time. That means NBC has to pre-empt everything on nine channels for roughly two hours to broadcast all these games. It's halftime now, so it will be over in less than an hour.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,294 posts)Man. City won it weeks ago; the only question for them is whether they'll break a record or 2 more. There's one question about which teams qualify for which European competition, and a mathematical chance that one team currently in a relegation position could get out of that.
If it's not a legally binding contract, this really would be a weekend to talk about politics rather than soccer.
Cartoonist
(7,314 posts)Is that I don't get Bravo so that I can't watch Tottenham.
Ace Rothstein
(3,150 posts)bluecollar2
(3,622 posts)Spurs won.
(I'm a Liverpool fan)
Cartoonist
(7,314 posts)Fun to watch
bluecollar2
(3,622 posts)Philistines...
bluecollar2
(3,622 posts)And Chelsea is down 3-0 to Newcastle on NBCSN
What's the problem?
YNWA
OnDoutside
(19,949 posts)RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)I got up early (well, earlier than I wanted to), just for Joy -- WHAT a disappointment.
Thanks for asking so I could find out what's what.
Gothmog
(145,046 posts)procon
(15,805 posts)I'd turn to the golf channel for political commentary.