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Why is Real Madrid vs Barcelona (El Classio) and La Liga not on Fios
BattFamily
Enthusiast - Level 2
‎10-04-2012 05:10 PM

El Classico is one of the worlds premier soccer games, arguably better than the Champions League Final due to the rivalry between Barcelona and Madrid.  Why is fios not carrying this game or any La Liga games this year.  For our family this is important enough to change providers to someone who carries Spanish Football.  Based on the number of Messi Jerseys you see in the USA it is a significant market that Fios is shutting fans out.

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Re: Why is Real Madrid vs Barcelona (El Classio) and La Liga not on Fios
galejandropc
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‎10-07-2012 09:33 AM

Totally agreed. i will switch providers too.

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Re: Why is Real Madrid vs Barcelona (El Classio) and La Liga not on Fios
DamianK1
Enthusiast - Level 2
‎10-07-2012 09:34 AM

I asked myself the same thing. This match gets more tv views then the super bawl and none of the channels o\in USA pick it up? Instead they showing a replay on NBC of the Man U vs Newcastle game, this is beyond my comprehension why. Ridiculous.

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Re: Why is Real Madrid vs Barcelona (El Classio) and La Liga not on Fios
Alex555
Newbie
‎10-07-2012 11:19 AM

Yeah, american TV is awful. All they care about is to charge a lot of money for subscription and fill the time with commercials as much possible.

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Re: Why is Real Madrid vs Barcelona (El Classio) and La Liga not on Fios
bobbo527
Specialist - Level 3
‎10-08-2012 08:56 AM
@DamianK wrote:

I asked myself the same thing. This match gets more tv views then the super bawl and none of the channels o\in USA pick it up? Instead they showing a replay on NBC of the Man U vs Newcastle game, this is beyond my comprehension why. Ridiculous.

Worldwide, you are correct it is the most watched sport, but in the United States you are total wrong. Soccer is near the bottom, nfl, nba, mlb,  college football and college basketbal, NASCARl and the Super BAWL Smiley Very Happy draw 20, 30, 40 times more viewers than Soccer. Sorry but that is a fact.  And since Verizon only services a select number of areas in the United States they don't consider the numbers of viewers they could lose a big deal.

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Re: Why is Real Madrid vs Barcelona (El Classio) and La Liga not on Fios
BarrileteCosmic
Newbie
‎01-17-2013 08:23 AM

I live in NY for over 10 years and every time there is an important match (like Barcelona Madrid) the bars are full of people trying to watch the game. Maybe in certain areas is not as popular as the NBA or Superbawl and they shouldn't show them there, but there are many were it is the most popular sport, so this is a mistake. Not only Americans lives in America.

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