Bad news folks, the Sunday game (against United) is on Fox Soccer Plus.
Many cable companies do not carry this new channel as they are still in negotiations with Fox.
Please contact Fox and request that they show the game on the regular Fox Soccer Channel.
http://msn.foxsports.com/feedback
Request that the show the game on the regular Fox Soccer instead of Fox Soccer Plus because your cable provider does not carry it.
If they get enough requests they might switch it.
Please inform any other football fans that you might know (even Man Utd fans) :-)
YNWA
-Antoine
Thanks for the heads up, Antoine! Btw, if I had to pick, which is better, FSC or Setanta?
Setanta is no longer available, Fox Soccer Plus replaced Setanta.
From what I hear Comcast isn’t getting it anytime soon.
I went ahead and made the request–somehow managing not to gripe about how they don’t show enough Reds games, even!–but have only received an automated response thus far.
As well, it’s my understanding that these schedules are set up months in advance, so I wasn’t aware they could ever be changed, but hey, it’s definitely worth a shot, right? :)
I sent them a message and got the following response:
Hello,
I’m Adam, part of the FOXSports.com Customer Service team, and I’ve been reviewing the issue that you contacted us about.
Thank you for your note regarding the game FOX Sports has selected for your area.
Please understand that there will always be fans that would prefer to see a different game. That said, we work diligently each week to identify which are the best game or games to broadcast to each market in the U.S., and we use several tools to accomplish this, including historical ratings data for similar game choices, playoff implications, rivalries, anticipated competitiveness and input from local sources. Our only goal is to draw the biggest possible audience, so we believe, given the information at our disposal that the game we’ve selected is of interest to the greatest number of people in your area.
We appreciate your point of view and will consider it in the future.
Best regards,
FOX Sports