[RhysJR]

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Bit of rarity today in Germany with ARD and ZDF showing a game each. Usually they alternate days when covering major events, but somehow today the 17:00 kick-off was shown on ZDF and the 20:00 on Das Erste (with the 14:00 kick-off on MagentaTV & RTL). It's not totally unheard of for the two broadcasters to show live sport on the same day (e.g. the Tour de France is exclusive to ARD) but an odd occasion when they both show the same event on the same day. A bit hard to grasp that not every game is FTA in the host nation either.

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In the US, there has been some anger that FOX has sublet five games to streaming service FuboTV. The only way to access these games is via signing up for at least a month at the cost of at least $79! For context, previous rights holders ESPN's streaming option (ESPN+) is $9.99 a month, and the Spanish streaming option in the US, Vix, is $6.99 a month.

And to add insult to injury, on Saturday, FOX Sports 1 showed angling over Hungary v. Switzerland. And, as I think we have gathered by the virtue of different broadcasters having differing scoreboards, the core world feed doesn't carry a scoreboard burnt in, so Fubo viewers were without a clock and score for the whole game. Farcical.

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