by RoyalChicagoFC »
27 Feb 2008 22:53
Right then: Saturday's match away to Boro is not scheduled to screen in the States. Opportunities to see highlights will fall:
--during regular match programming on FSC throughout the weekend
--on the Super Sunday+ highlights and commentary show that runs on FSC for 90 minutes from 1:00 PM
--on the weekly Premier League Review Show that screens first-time on FSC from 8:00 PM Sunday
(all times Eastern)
As of now, the City match on the following Saturday 8th March is not scheduled to screen in the States. It may, however, be added as the U.S. platforms sort out that weekend's schedule, which is currently in a shambles due to fixture rearrangements associated with the FA Cup Sixth Round ties scheduled for the weekend of 8/9 March. So as soon as I learn anything, I'll talk about it here
UPDATE Thursday 28 Feb-- With the Cup situation now sorted, there will be just three (3) Prem games going on Saturday the 8th; RFC-MCFC has been scheduled to screen on both FSC (which now lists it as a same-day delayed screening from 4:30 PM Eastern) and Setanta US (which now lists it as a same-day delayed screening for 2:00 PM). So we're still in limbo, but we're closer to knowing what's up
U.S. platforms have the combined capacity to show three matches simultaneously and do so as a matter of routine at 10:00 AM on Saturdays, so it wouldn't surprise me to see Setanta add this as a live match on its Xtra channel (in lieu of Sunderland-Everton, which is currently listed to screen on Xtra from 10:00 AM Eastern on the Saturday but in fact has been moved to the Sunday). Anyway, it'll be on here same-day, and possibly live; we still await definitive word as to where and when and expect to know soon
Please note that most of the U.S. will move clocks forward by one hour overnite on 8/9 March, so from the perspective of this side, things will happen an hour later than normal beginning on Sunday 9th March and continuing thru the end of Saturday 29th March, at which time the UK and EU make the switch to summer time
As noted previously, the match away to Liverpool on Saturday the 15th is scheduled to screen live on FSC from 11: 00 AM Eastern, and the home match with Birmingham on Saturday the 22nd is set for a same-day delayed screening from 8:00 PM Eastern on FSC.
Nothing is posted beyond that, although the match away to Arsenal on Saturday 19th April has been moved to a 12:45 PM BST kickoff, which means that it is all but certain to screen live here on Setanta US from 7:45 AM Eastern
To see all of the above plus other listings of interest in a handy day-planner format, please see the first post to this thread