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Re:Radio listening booms while music streaming stalls by eterm on Thursday March 26, 2020 @01:45PM (#22696011)
There's literally no football going on whatsoever but it's only dropped by two thirds?
Re:Radio listening booms while music streaming stalls by SyneRyder on Thursday March 26, 2020 @02:03PM (#22696170)
I'm not a football fan, and yet some of the (Australian) football shows are fascinating right now.

The talk radio station I've started listening to this week has a daily football show, and it's all about salary cut negotiations, trying to fight off the bankruptcy of the entire competition, and finding ways for the league to generate revenue to stay afloat when there aren't any games.

The weekly footy TV show is my favorite though - they still have to do their sponsor reads for the sports betting sites, but without a single football game to bet on, they've started covering betting odds on German Table Tennis. Their struggle to find an hour of content has been hilarious.

Re:Radio listening booms while music streaming stalls by amflare on Thursday March 26, 2020 @01:59PM (#22696129)
Football was already in the offseason, so most of the news is just teams trading players around anyway. Which they can (and are) doing despite covid-19.
Re:Radio listening booms while music streaming stalls by NewBroadcastCo on Thursday March 26, 2020 @02:44PM (#22696553)
This is an aside (and I'm sorry if I'm posting in the wrong place - my first time here)

But... speaking of sports and radio/ streaming: I'm working on an early stage project in the sports streaming space and looking for a technical co-founder. A friend recommended HN as good community to ask in. Any interest/ thoughts/ direction welcome!

Again, my apologies if this is outside forum norms - happy to take feedback.

Thanks for reading

Re:Radio listening booms while music streaming stalls by eterm on Thursday March 26, 2020 @04:18PM (#22697497)
This is the BBC, football refers to what you might call Soccer and it really wasn't in the "off-season", it was approaching the interesting part of the year.