Thought some may find this interesting.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/201...ularity#p1

From the article . . "The plan is for FS1 to be the funny, irreverent, less serious sports channel. Among other things, that involves hiring a couple of Canadian pranksters to anchor the network’s flagship program and building another show around Regis Philbin."

Regis Philbin . . REALLY . . that sounds disgusting . . why would I watch that ??

Meh. Regis Philbin, Canadians and 60 employees ought to really kill ESPN. Hats off for the effort at least.

I would not watch Regis Philbin regardless of channel. FOX better hire a few more Erin Andrews if it wants to compete lol

The same man who gave you the dancing FOX robots will be running the network. Yay.

This makes as much sense as taking the #1 late night host Leno off the air.

(07-18-2013 01:35 PM)GoApps70 Wrote:  This makes as much sense as taking the #1 late night host Leno off the air.

Proof that reaching #1 requires very little actual talent. Good riddance to the chin...

Regis's show is going up against Around the Horn and PTI. Fox will eventually put a dent into ESPN's machine.

FS1 has mostly crap for game choices.

They've got zip from the SEC, nada from the ACC, second pick of the Big XII, nothing from the Big 10 except the title game, Pac-12 title game and seconds on regular season games.

Of the five power leagues, in regular season they have zero content from 43 of the 65 teams. Zip from the American, MAC, Sun Belt and apparently MWC. They've got CUSA in a $7 million per year contract that was signed when Houston, SMU, UCF, Memphis, ECU, Tulsa, and Tulane were still the league.

NFL? nothing

NHL? nothing

NBA? nothing

MLB? some games starting in 2014 but regular season baseball is proven laggard in drawing viewers.

They will be big in soccer and do have the UEFA Champions League which is the best of the best of club football and will have the next World Cups, but viewers prefer the national leagues and NBC has the big draw (English) and splits Major League Soccer and the US men's national team with ESPN, while beIN has Spain's La Liga, Italy's Serie A, France's Ligue 1.

UFC and racing will be a lot of their content.

So if you don't have the events people want, be uh entertaining!

(07-18-2013 02:30 PM)MissouriStateBears Wrote:  Regis's show is going up against Around the Horn and PTI. Fox will eventually put a dent into ESPN's machine.

How exactly? Which viewers are going to tune in to watch Texas San Antonio vs Old Dominion over Alabama vs Mississippi State?

(07-18-2013 02:35 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  

(07-18-2013 02:30 PM)MissouriStateBears Wrote:  Regis's show is going up against Around the Horn and PTI. Fox will eventually put a dent into ESPN's machine.

How exactly? Which viewers are going to tune in to watch Texas San Antonio vs Old Dominion over Alabama vs Mississippi State?

Id turn the utsa odcc game on if utsa was winning.

(07-18-2013 02:32 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  FS1 has mostly crap for game choices.

They've got zip from the SEC, nada from the ACC, second pick of the Big XII, nothing from the Big 10 except the title game, Pac-12 title game and seconds on regular season games.

Of the five power leagues, in regular season they have zero content from 43 of the 65 teams. Zip from the American, MAC, Sun Belt and apparently MWC. They've got CUSA in a $7 million per year contract that was signed when Houston, SMU, UCF, Memphis, ECU, Tulsa, and Tulane were still the league.

NFL? nothing

NHL? nothing

NBA? nothing

MLB? some games starting in 2014 but regular season baseball is proven laggard in drawing viewers.

They will be big in soccer and do have the UEFA Champions League which is the best of the best of club football and will have the next World Cups, but viewers prefer the national leagues and NBC has the big draw (English) and splits Major League Soccer and the US men's national team with ESPN, while beIN has Spain's La Liga, Italy's Serie A, France's Ligue 1.

UFC and racing will be a lot of their content.

So if you don't have the events people want, be uh entertaining!

This conflicts with the information in the article:

(07-18-2013 02:35 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  

(07-18-2013 02:30 PM)MissouriStateBears Wrote:  Regis's show is going up against Around the Horn and PTI. Fox will eventually put a dent into ESPN's machine.

How exactly? Which viewers are going to tune in to watch Texas San Antonio vs Old Dominion over Alabama vs Mississippi State?

Fox will get content. Just give it time.

(07-18-2013 12:12 PM)MG61 Wrote:  Thought some may find this interesting.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/201...ularity#p1

Is Conference USA with Fox now, or are they still with CBS Sports?

(07-18-2013 02:35 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  

(07-18-2013 02:30 PM)MissouriStateBears Wrote:  Regis's show is going up against Around the Horn and PTI. Fox will eventually put a dent into ESPN's machine.

How exactly? Which viewers are going to tune in to watch Texas San Antonio vs Old Dominion over Alabama vs Mississippi State?

Probably more folks than would watch an Arkansas State vs ULM over Alabama & Mississippi State due to population differences in the team markets & Bama vs MSU won't play as strong outside the SE market. The San Antonio Metro area has over 2 million people & the immediate Norfolk, Va area has around a quarter million.

(07-18-2013 03:08 PM)GaStPanthers Wrote:  

(07-18-2013 12:12 PM)MG61 Wrote:  Thought some may find this interesting.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/201...ularity#p1

Is Conference USA with Fox now, or are they still with CBS Sports?

Both.

(07-18-2013 02:56 PM)GaStPanthers Wrote:  

(07-18-2013 02:32 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  FS1 has mostly crap for game choices.

They've got zip from the SEC, nada from the ACC, second pick of the Big XII, nothing from the Big 10 except the title game, Pac-12 title game and seconds on regular season games.

Of the five power leagues, in regular season they have zero content from 43 of the 65 teams. Zip from the American, MAC, Sun Belt and apparently MWC. They've got CUSA in a $7 million per year contract that was signed when Houston, SMU, UCF, Memphis, ECU, Tulsa, and Tulane were still the league.

NFL? nothing

NHL? nothing

NBA? nothing

MLB? some games starting in 2014 but regular season baseball is proven laggard in drawing viewers.

They will be big in soccer and do have the UEFA Champions League which is the best of the best of club football and will have the next World Cups, but viewers prefer the national leagues and NBC has the big draw (English) and splits Major League Soccer and the US men's national team with ESPN, while beIN has Spain's La Liga, Italy's Serie A, France's Ligue 1.

UFC and racing will be a lot of their content.

So if you don't have the events people want, be uh entertaining!

This conflicts with the information in the article:

Fox Broadcast. I've seen nothing that says the NFL will allow any of their games to move to Fox Sports 1. Surely you don't think Fox Sports 1 is going to have over 100 NFL games and a Super Bowl.

(07-18-2013 03:12 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  

(07-18-2013 02:56 PM)GaStPanthers Wrote:  

(07-18-2013 02:32 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  FS1 has mostly crap for game choices.

They've got zip from the SEC, nada from the ACC, second pick of the Big XII, nothing from the Big 10 except the title game, Pac-12 title game and seconds on regular season games.

Of the five power leagues, in regular season they have zero content from 43 of the 65 teams. Zip from the American, MAC, Sun Belt and apparently MWC. They've got CUSA in a $7 million per year contract that was signed when Houston, SMU, UCF, Memphis, ECU, Tulsa, and Tulane were still the league.

NFL? nothing

NHL? nothing

NBA? nothing

MLB? some games starting in 2014 but regular season baseball is proven laggard in drawing viewers.

They will be big in soccer and do have the UEFA Champions League which is the best of the best of club football and will have the next World Cups, but viewers prefer the national leagues and NBC has the big draw (English) and splits Major League Soccer and the US men's national team with ESPN, while beIN has Spain's La Liga, Italy's Serie A, France's Ligue 1.

UFC and racing will be a lot of their content.

So if you don't have the events people want, be uh entertaining!

This conflicts with the information in the article:

Fox Broadcast. I've seen nothing that says the NFL will allow any of their games to move to Fox Sports 1. Surely you don't think Fox Sports 1 is going to have over 100 NFL games and a Super Bowl.

My takeaway from the article is that Fox has spent the last 3 or so years building up their arsenal in programming to air. So no, I don't believe FS1 will be airing over 100 NFL games and a Super Bowl - but it seems like FS1 will have the ability to air, and might air, NFL games on FS1 - which is contrary to your point that FS1 doesn't have anything to offer. Also, the article mentioned that they are working to get the Thursday night NFL games off of the NFL Network and onto FS1.

Also wanted to point out this from the article:

Quote: The real lure will be college football matchups from the Big 12 and Pac-12 every Thursday night...

This causes me some concern, as I'm thinking the casual football fan is going to be more likely to watch a B12 or P12 game on FS1 on a Thursday night rather than a Sun Belt game on ESPN on a Thursday night.

If Fox Sports 1 is actually going to show a single game ever you might think they would include that in their press releases.

Read their press releases. They talk about college sports, soccer UFC, racing, and next year baseball. All they ever say about NFL is having a highlights and pre-game show.

So they are publicly talking about their future plans to air baseball but keeping the NFL secret.