Another moan, sorry. So, the NBC coverage of the Premier League has been good - up until this season. Now, in an attempt to draw in more subscribers, a lot of the games are being shown on NBC's new streaming service rather than on one of the TV channels. I get the streaming service for free, but it's still a disaster. The games on the streaming service are of lower video quality, I can't record them and watch them when I wake up and they are a lot less easy to fast-forward and rewind etc. I wouldn't have a problem if when there are multiple games being played at the same time, that one of the games is on TV and the others are on the streaming service. But no, that's not the case. Take today. There were 4 games on at different times. In any other season, these would all have been on one or more NBC channels - so it would be easy for me to DVR them all and pick and choose how much of each game I want to watch in full or just to fast-forward to the goals. But nope, today one game was on TV and the others were all on the streaming service (and of the 10 games this weekend, only 2 are on TV and 8 are being streamed). So I don't have that option any more. It sucks. Although there are plenty of other sports going on right now, it's not like they were showing a lot of other stuff at the time of the games. Take Palace vs Man U - this would normally be on TV because Man U are a big team. But nope, this was on the streaming service. And what sports did they air at the time of the game? "Motorcycle action from the American Flat Track racing series". WTF. Not happy. This is on top of NBC apparently having dropped all their rugby union coverage - which is devastating. You used to be able to get one game on TV per week - whether live or on repeat - but apart from one game when they first restarted the Premiership, there haven't been any on since. I really hope this is just a temporary thing due to the sheer quantity of sports going on right now, but I fear this is more permanent.
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