Probably because it would mean hearing things like "Coming up next is the News at Ten..." or "Stay tuned for a late night Good Morning Britain..." which doesn't make sense, but that's what ITV is apparently doing.
As with most global sports there will be an English language 'World Feed.' Sky's Martin Tyler usually does games on that, and he's one of the very best. Similarly, John Roder is another freelance commentator who works on the World Feed and is a safe pair of hands. Fox could easily take these feeds as part of their rights deal, but obviously the commentary wouldn't be tailored to US audiences e.g. highlighting players with MLS connections. Adam On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 2:57 AM daniel anderson <danielanderson2...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't see why Fox couldn't simulcast ITV's commentary for some > matches.... > > On Wednesday, June 6, 2018 at 5:27:35 AM UTC-4, Adam Bowie wrote: >> >> I did laugh at the author's views of Ian Wright. He does quite a lot of >> football broadcasting in the UK and I like him. He's part of ITV's World >> Cup line-up as noted in the piece. But he's also a regular on the BBC, and >> does work for BT Sport in the UK. >> >> Only having two teams in Russia seems a little light. During the group >> stages there will be up to three fixtures a day, and given the scale of >> Russia, I wonder of the logistics will allow for even one fixture a day to >> be done by one of those two teams. >> >> While plenty of broadcasters do call games "off-tube" as it's known, it's >> always a cost-saving measure. And it only really takes one off-the-ball >> incident to make it clear to viewers. >> >> For live games, both the BBC and ITV, who share the UK rights, will have >> live commentators. Highlights packages from games that a particular >> broadcaster has not shown may be off-tube in Russia. But again, I think >> it's a logistical thing in Russia rather than anything. And that won't >> happen for England games or other big fixtures. >> >> >> Adam >> >> On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 3:19 AM Tom Wolper <two...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> The interesting thing I saw is that only two play-by-play teams will be >>> going to Russia and the rest will cover their games from monitors in the US. >>> >>> >>> http://worldsoccertalk.com/2018/05/27/guide-to-foxs-world-cup-commentators/ >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "TVorNotTV" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to tvornottv+...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
