Every so often, we take a look at how various media are covering soccer in the United States. We’ll start with Forbes Magazine, which conducted a lengthy interview with Commissioner Garber and posted more than 30 minutes of the discussion on its website. Given the nature of the publication, the questions and answers have a [...]
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Every so often, we provide a business blog of big matches broadcast on US television. Typically, those games are on the Disney family of networks, so we thought we would look at some of the business aspects of the FSC telecast of the USA/Paraguay. The match was preceded by a studio pre-game show, presented by [...]
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Over the last year or so, we have discussed MLS’ efforts to measure the value of its television exposure through various local and national broadcasts. Through the website criticalmention.com, MLS tries to alert media to the “value” of its presence on various television programs. Since a few weeks have passed since we last checked in [...]
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Another full weekend in MLS brought the start of FSC’s Friday night matches, the absence of a league game on ESPN and competition from the USMNT. As we do every Monday, here are some business stories from late last week and the weekend that we haven’t yet hit. We will finish up with a rough [...]
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In January we wrote about the spread of Groupon as a means for MLS franchises to sell tickets. We also promised to keep track of efforts to sell tickets through Groupon in 2011. One of our readers let us know that the vaunted Seattle Sounders marketing machine has joined the list of MLS teams selling [...]
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We have avoided comment on the Chad Ochocino story until today, but after the start of his trial, we feel an obligation to weigh in. At its core, this is a business story. Sporting KC pulled out all of the stops to provide media access and coverage of the four day trial. The team was aggressively [...]
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Unfortunately, WordPress software was down for most of the evening making it difficult to put up some new content. The plan was to right about the surprising lack of new jersey sponsors in MLS. When Commissioner Garber made his bold statement last November suggesting that most teams would have sponsors in 2011, fans did not [...]
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Last week, we posted our first entry in an ongoing series on the art of broadcasting soccer. Today we are fortunate to have some thoughts from renown soccer broadcaster Dave Johnson on the art of play by play. Mr. Johnson is the voice of DC United and is the radio voice of the Washington Wizards. [...]
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Week One is complete, so as we will do every Monday, here are some business thoughts on the weekend that was. For fans of MLS, it was a great weekend of games, with matches kicking off from 6:30-10:30 ET on Saturday night. The free preview of Direct Kick, combined with MatchDay Live and FSC brought [...]
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Thanks to one of our readers for letting us know that Red Bulls’ tickets for their home opener against Seattle this weekend are being offered at a 40% discount through TravelZoo. The tickets are priced in three different ranges and start at $16 for the highly anticipated match. We wrote in January about the success [...]
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