So We Begin Again....The Brussels Setlist Party Part Uno!

[Leetah]

I'm listening to the belgian radio now..special show with just U2 songs and updates

http://www.stubru.be

 

[Numb1075]

KellyAhern, thanks for the link, is there an english translation on that page?

 

[Diane L]

NSW, in my opinion, Fox's national sports report would never have gotten the ratings of "SportsCenter" because at the time, cable subscribers had to pay extra to get Fox Sports Net programming. (At least they did with Cablevision on Long Island.)

I love Olbermann's work on MSNBC, and think he should stick to the news. But I don't watch "Countdown", or any news program really these days, because hearing about what's doing in DC gets me very down...

 

[Dalton]

Yeah, I work in programming for FSN's national office. Olbermann's era here was interesting. We paid a lot of $$$ to pry him away from ESPN, along with Chris Myers. It did not really translate into better ratings for our National News, which is now defunct, we only do Regional News now. He was.....from what I've heard....difficult to work with.

Dalton, what the hell is FSW??? FOX Sports World? FOX Sports West? FOX Sports Wilmington?

FSW is Fox Sports World BIatch!!

 

[knox]

I thought they were the black sox

Heh. During the 1990s, they had an ad campaign with the slogan "Good Guys Wear Black", which I always found amusing.

By the way, Greg Maddux just recorded the first strikeout by a Cubs pitcher against the Red Sox since 1918.

 

[Leetah]

KellyAhern, thanks for the link, is there an english translation on that page?

I can read German very well...I will translate the updates tonight.

 

[kellyahern]

the server seems to go in and out of service, it works sometimes

 

[Dalton]

he is a Cubs fan, so he isnt the sharpest knife in the drawer

Damn you Chzip. That was gonna be about 4-5 pages worth of fun for me.


Sorry Knox

 

[Chizip]

Heh. During the 1990s, they had an ad campaign with the slogan "Good Guys Wear Black", which I always found amusing.

By the way, Greg Maddux just recorded the first strikeout by a Cubs pitcher against the Red Sox since 1918.

this is probably the only time id ever root for the red sox

and i still feel dirty doing it

 

[No spoken words]

NSW, in my opinion, Fox's national sports report would never have gotten the ratings of "SportsCenter" because at the time, cable subscribers had to pay extra to get Fox Sports Net programming. (At least they did with Cablevision on Long Island.)

I love Olbermann's work on MSNBC, and think he should stick to the news. But I don't watch "Countdown", or any news program really these days, because hearing about what's doing in DC gets me very down...

NY was one of the few places at the time that had FSN on a tier, we were fully penetrated around 1998, so that was not the issue.

The issues were that ESPN's SportsCenter was a name brand by then, people were used to watching, and they were really good, then, at what they did. Also, we were never able to deliver consistency with the scheduling of the NSR, due to our unique set-up. It was a daunting task, and we failed.

The time to attack them would be now, actually....their ratings are slipping a bit, they can be had...too much smarm and sponsored elements, not enough actual highlights.

 

[kellyahern]

I'm listening to the belgian radio now..special show with just U2 songs and updates

http://www.stubru.be

thanks Leetah


*turns in on very softly at work*

 

[menelaos]

I want to be thereeeee..!!!!!!

 

[celia]

whooa Im a bit late to the party....

What time is it out there? Have Snow Patrol finished?

 

[Pop Artist]

If you can read French (which I can read some), U2achtung.com looks like they are updating too, but it might be in their forum - that's where I got my play-by-play for the Euro Elevation shows.

 

[Leetah]

thanks Leetah


*turns in on very softly at work*

Tomorrow

 

[ABEL]

it's times like these when having dial up really really sucks

 

[jbj]

Comcast Sports Net is gonna take over the country. Theyre already in the process.

 

[knox]

Damn you Chzip. That was gonna be about 4-5 pages worth of fun for me.


Sorry Knox

Ruined the fun for me, too. I was going to enjoy spending a lot of time railing against Comi...er, U.S. Cellular Field.

 

[No spoken words]

this is probably the only time id ever root for the red sox

and i still feel dirty doing it

Imagine being me in 1986. 15 years old, the height of my fanaticism over sports. Yankee fan for life, they've not been in the playoffs since I was 9. The Mets and Red Sox meet in the World Series. What to do? Who to root for? It was hard, but I ended up pulling for the Mets. That sucked. That's who was fucked....not North America, not Europe. 1986's version of No Spoken Words was fucked.

 

[kellyahern]

Tomorrow

I haven't listened to this one in a long time

 

[Dalton]

NY was one of the few places at the time that had FSN on a tier, we were fully penetrated around 1998, so that was not the issue.

Mods can he say this?

Dirty.

 

[Diane L]

NSW, I haven't watched "SportsCenter" in a long, LONG time. It figures Cablevision would put Fox on a tier when few others did. The Dolans...grrr...!

Come to think of it, I haven't really watched TV in general lately. Although I cannot WAIT for the Bobby Brown reality series on Bravo later this month...talk about a train wreck...!

 

[Chizip]

NY was one of the few places at the time that had FSN on a tier, we were fully penetrated around 1998, so that was not the issue.

The issues were that ESPN's SportsCenter was a name brand by then, people were used to watching, and they were really good, then, at what they did. Also, we were never able to deliver consistency with the scheduling of the NSR, due to our unique set-up. It was a daunting task, and we failed.

The time to attack them would be now, actually....their ratings are slipping a bit, they can be had...too much smarm and sponsored elements, not enough actual highlights.

sportscenter and espn in general is starting to turn into mtv when it forgot music was what it was supposed to be about

 

[Dalton]

Ruined the fun for me, too. I was going to enjoy spending a lot of time railing against Comi...er, U.S. Cellular Field.

Yeah, I was gonna have a lot of fun comparing it to a public toilet...

 

[No spoken words]

Comcast Sports Net is gonna take over the country. Theyre already in the process.

CSN is a juggernaut, agreed. They are launching RSN's in cities where they do not even have any pro team deals. They are very aggressive. But, the odds are they will make a larger deal with Rainbow or FSN, because FSN has so many pro teams locked up for the long term. The next 2 years or so will be very interesting in regards to the cable-sports TV landscape.

 

[sami0201]

what language do they speak in Belgium?

 

[Diane L]

what language do they speak in Belgium?

French or Dutch, depending upon which region of the country they live in.

 

[Angtre01]

They hit the stage in 15 mins?

 

[Leetah]

what language do they speak in Belgium?

Dutch. and French in some parts, I believe.

 

[knox]

Comcast Sports Net is gonna take over the country. Theyre already in the process.

God, I hope not. Comcast Sports Network sucks the big one. They still get players' names wrong on their in-game graphics, often their statistics as well. A couple weeks ago, a Sox-Angels game ran late, and instead of cutting directly over to the Cubs-Dodgers game in progress (which had started fifteen minutes before), they cut to a full set of commercials, then BACK to the Sox-Angels game for a leisurely postgame wrap-up, before finally getting to the Cubs-Dodgers at the end of the second inning.

Then, against the Blue Jays earlier this week, the Cubs were down by two with Lee at the plate in the bottom of the ninth, when the screen suddenly went a bright shade of purple, and remained that way until well after the end of the game.

I'm not the biggest fan of Fox Sports because they siphoned so many games off of WGN, but at least they did the production properly.