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  Anonymous

  2 years ago

  The NFL sell it's radio broadcast for every game, they offered it for free a few years back, but have sold them for almost three years now. I think MLB and NBA do the same.
  
  
  nico
  
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  Anonymous

  2 years ago

  myp2p run an outstanding espn360 video feed with english commentary, dont know why youd rather listen than watch, its brilliant
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  MJ

  2 years ago

  Unfortunately common sense doesn't take precedence over contractual obligations, licensing rights, and financial reasons. That's just how it is. Companies have to go by the book to prevent being sued and risking monetary loss and if that affects a few customers, so be it. The BBC's main focus isn't American listeners so they could probably care less if people over here can't listen to a U-21 game, their primary focus is appealing to the English people because they are the ones who pay for all of the broadcasts they listen to in some form or another.
  
  
  English U-21 internationals have to be blocked because of the same reasons full internationals do. The fact that the U-21 team isn't the senior team means nothing; the FA is still their governing body and the only difference is that the team's players are younger. That doesn't exempt them from contractual obligations or anything of that sort.
  
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  Allen

  2 years ago

  Before reading MJ's comment my thought was "...or worse". I mean, what if no one owns those youth level rights & the BBC is simply blocking them because they don't have the explicit permission to broadcast them outside of what's stated in the contract.
  
  
  I'd love to see the federations to not charge money for broadcast rights to their games and let whomever wants to broadcast them.
  
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