I fully agree..even last season when ESPN HD was introduced, Astro gave us the Premier League appointed commentators and not Sky ones
So for the big matches, we watched in HD but commentary was not from SKY
Even that sucked..
Cant imagine if all the matches did not get SkySports commentary feed?
If replaced with EPL commentators from the UK then its ok
But not Astro' version please..I pray to God endlessly for this not to be the case and we get Sky commentary

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Added on July 23, 2010, 6:01 pm

The reason i started this thread was for us to discuss the various ways that Astro can use so that there wont be conflict or clashing of games on limited channels from all over Europe next season

I said earlier that Astro had said they have the rights to show all 380 EPL matches LIVE..I was speaking in the knowledge that EPL will still be on ESPN STAR SPORTS..now all the genius people at Astro seem to think they can cram all EPL matches to the Supersport channel that already consisted of Spain La Liga, Italian Serie A, German Bundesliga, French Ligue 1, English Coca Cola Championship and not to mention the domestic cup competitions..they wanna stuff all these into two channels and 1 HD channel? CRAZY!!!

I think unless they setup temporary channels for match days only and probably two repeats, like they did for World Cup, then the end result will be they will prioritise some big matches only..which is stupid of them since before this we could get all the matches regardless of big or small teams playing..

N they wont use Astro Arena since everyone who owns Astro has it..thye will want to suck money from people and put it in the sports package

drop the french league channel, no one really follows French League. Instead, channel 811 and 816 can broadcast English game becoz i think Serie A and La Liga play diff time ryte?

Actually, why don't they open a chn for EPL like how they did for World Cup?

Bro..actually the EPL's own channel is scheduled to launch next month..yup..n guess who the head or the front man of the channel is..yes.. ESPN's own bred John Dykes..he left ESPN to move back to the UK to take up the position at the brand new EPL channel..the channel will be available all around the world but not in the UK itself..n id ont think the channel actually broadcast LIVE matches..probably the usual highlights, preview and special weekly shows as well as classic matches..no word yet on whether Astro will pick up the channel or not..

I know wht u mean by Supersport being the main channel with 3 live matches simultaneously..but try figure this out..before this on a Saturday night Malaysian time u had..

7PM    - EPL ON ESPN
          - EPL ON Supersports
          - EPL ON Supersports 2

10PM  - EPL ON ESPN
          - EPL ON STAR SPORTS
          - EPL ON Supersports 2
          - BUNDESLIGA ON SUPERSPORT

12AM  - EPL ON ESPN
          - LA LIGA/SERIE A ON SUPERSPORT
          - LIGUE 1 ON SUPERSPORT 2

2AM    - LA LIGA/SERIE A ON SUPERSPORT N SUPERSPORT 2

Now the biq question is one of the these leagues will become victim of Astro putting EPL on Supersport..yes it could be Ligue 1 but i have seen the Ligue 1 logo on the Torres advertisements..n i dont think Serie A will be dropped..the Serie A coming soon advertisement is the one i have seen the most times aired..

take a look at this link
JOHN DYKES IS BACK ON SINGAPORE TV SCREENS!!!

see this http://info.singtel.com/node/7211

bro..the point is there is no more EPL on ESPN STAR SPORTS..astro actually won the rights together with ESPNSTAR to show EPL..while EPL will still be on ESPN STAR Sports in most Asian countries like usual (except for Sinagpore that is) we are not gonna get the same feed..Astro has decided to produce their own shows and everything related to EPL..so what u might get on ESPN STAR is highlights on Sportscenter and if we're lucky, Football Focus and Football Forecast..

But the big fact and issue here is there is no EPL matches whether LIVE or delayed on ESPN STAR..all will be on Supersport..so where does that leave us? 5 big European league crammed into 3channels..