With the Summer winding down, we thought we would take a look at the coverage of American soccer in the United States. Tonight, we will start by looking at “mainstream” national media, with a focus on ESPN, Sports Illustrated, The Sporting News and other outlets. Not surprisingly, ESPN is at the head of the class, [...]
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With the Summer of Soccer in full swing, the Wall Street Journal is the latest mainstream publication to provide coverage of the Beautiful Game’s recent burst of popularity. The article discusses the Confederations Cup run, the big crowds watching soccer live this summer and of course the youth participation rate. The article also includes quotes [...]
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A recurring theme of this blog is the importance of soccer businesses interacting with soccer fans. Whether it be MLS franchises, WPS, US Soccer or soccer media, we frequently advocate for open lines of communication between fans and those in charge. Through the years, American soccer officials (from all leagues and teams) have done an [...]
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The big story in American soccer is the return of David Beckham to MLS and the Galaxy lineup. As we have on a number of prior occassions, we thought we would blog about the business of the TV coverage of an important American soccer game. As is typical, FSC started with a 30 minute pre-game. [...]
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Yesterday we posted the following: There are a couple of interesting TV notes surrounding US soccer this week. The most significant is the announcement that the English rights to the USA/Mexico World Cup qualifier belong to……Telemundo. According to Mr. Goff, Telemundo will show the game in Spanish on its main channel and in English on [...]
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There are a couple of interesting TV notes surrounding US soccer this week. The most significant is the announcement that the English rights to the USA/Mexico World Cup qualifier belong to……Telemundo. According to Mr. Goff, Telemundo will show the game in Spanish on its main channel and in English on “mun2″ a station available in [...]
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A while back we wrote about the “war of words” between the New York Yankees and MLS Commissioner Don Garber. MLS-Daily has taken the baseball/soccer attendance analysis to a new level with a clever look at year over year attendance between MLB and MLS. The comparison is instructive because it shows the challenges of drawing [...]
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On a day when American soccer fans are busy celebrating the USMNT victory over the Red Fury of Spain, we thought we would take a quick look at coverage of the big win opn outlets around the country. Online, the victory has been the top sports story of the day, with the game getting first [...]
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It has been a very busy last few days in American Soccer. The Confederations Cup has moved through the group stage, MLS is reaching the halfway point, Superliga is under way and the WPS is moving forward in its inagural season. The big soccer business controversy of the week occurred on Wednesday night when the [...]
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