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According to a report by John Elizondo News 4 in San Antonio, Baylor and UTSA's football game on Sept. 8 in San Antonio will be aired lived on an exclusive broadcast via Facebook.
According to Elizondo, the production of the game will be in the hands of the CBS Sports Network.
Part of the Conference USA, Baylor nor the Big 12 had a hand in the decison making process for the contest to be aired on Facebook.
Baylor opens the 2018 season against Abilene Christian on Sept. 1 at McLane Stadium at 7 p.m. CT. That contest will be aired live on Fox Sports Southwest.
ShooterTX said:
Sad to say that Facebook is beating Amazon and Netflix to the table. I would much rather see those streaming services do this, as they have experience streaming high quality video which is hours in length. I've only seen FB stream cell phone & Web cam quality crap.
I'm curious, has Netflix ever streamed live content? I know Amazon has done it before.
boognish_bear said:ShooterTX said:
Sad to say that Facebook is beating Amazon and Netflix to the table. I would much rather see those streaming services do this, as they have experience streaming high quality video which is hours in length. I've only seen FB stream cell phone & Web cam quality crap.
I'm curious, has Netflix ever streamed live content? I know Amazon has done it before.
I know YouTubeTV has some live sports coverage.
CorsicanaBear said:
The problem is playing home and home with Conference USA. If we play at their house, they own the TV rights. CUSA Tier 1 rights have been sold to CBSSports Network. CBSS has a further contract to show some number of their games on Facebook.
The game will not look bad, it will use CBSS cameras, crews, on air talent. I don't know if FB has the streaming infrastructure in place, but I would presume they do.
The bad parts are 1) having to give up any information to FB/have an account/give them any permission to know anything about you 2) their constant efforts to get you to engage with the game (give them further information). Even if you're able to disable the flying emojiis that bubble up from the bottom with every like or dislike of a play (a point that is not entirely clear), you still won't escape the social media reporter. Its like a sideline reporter (a totally worthless concept in its own right unless total eye candy) except reporting, you know, the ever important social media aspects of the game.
I can see it now, "Coach, you're behind in positive tweets from female influencers in the 18 to 25 bracket, what half time adjustments do you need to make?"
I know the advanced stats guys will love it. "We only lost on points, we were ahead on social media."
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Think of the upside........when we lose (almost) no one will hear about it.
CorsicanaBear said:
Man wouldn't it be great if we could watch football on Facebook? Said no one ever.
It's an idea right up there with those video games from a few years ago mounted over urinals that were controlled by your "stream".
Joe Waco said:
Just ran across this tidbit...interesting
Facebook owns exclusive rights to the World Surf League, so I've watched live events pretty regularly on it.
Don't really have any complaints about it. You can hide the comments/reactions and hook it up to the TV so it's just like watching a sporting event on any other app.
Grizz Air said:Joe Waco said:
Just ran across this tidbit...interesting
Facebook owns exclusive rights to the World Surf League, so I've watched live events pretty regularly on it.
Don't really have any complaints about it. You can hide the comments/reactions and hook it up to the TV so it's just like watching a sporting event on any other app.
How exactly does it work? Like how do you get to the page streaming the game? Do you just search "baylor utsa football" on facebook? Or how do you get there?
