Several Premier League clubs announced today changes to their January fixtures so matches can be moved to TV timeslots. As a result, we can infer which matches will be shown on the US soccer TV networks.

January's highlights include:

• Arsenal v Manchester United, Sunday, January 31, 11am ET, Fox Soccer Channel
• Liverpool v Tottenham Hotspur, Sunday, January 10, 11am ET, Fox Soccer Channel
• Birmingham v Man United, Saturday, January 9, 12;30pm ET, Fox Soccer Channel
• Hull v Chelsea, Saturday, January 9, 7:45am ET, ESPN2

Be sure to read the complete TV schedule of Premier League matches shown in the US.

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The Nielsen Ratings are in for ESPN2's biggest match of the season thus far featuring the north London derby between Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur.

Approximately 325,187 viewers watched the game in the United States which represents the third highest viewing figures for ESPN2's coverage of the 2009-2010 Premier League season thus far.

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He was given a stay of execution by his new chairman but I still fear Phil Brown's days are numbered.
Adam Pearson returned to the club two years after his departure, replacing Paul Duffen, who saw the club join the Premier League under his tenure but also accrue alarming levels of debt at the same time. Click to continue reading...

It appears very likely that some or all of the FA Cup matches will be shown on Sky Sports television in the United Kingdom this season. Setanta Sports UK had the rights to the FA Cup last season until they closed its doors this past summer.

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Each day, I scour the Internet looking for fascinating stories regarding the Premier League and share most of them on my Twitter account and my shared items on Google Reader. But I often come across some mouthwatering stories that I save to share with you on EPL Talk instead. Trouble is I often run out of time and I'm not able to post them.

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Fox Soccer Channel and the Premier League today announced that Fox Sports International has won the bidding for the rights to show the Premier League on US television for the 2010-2013 seasons. Fox has also won the similar rights for Central and South America to its associated company, Fox Sports Latin America.

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The Nielsen Ratings for ESPN2's most recent Premier League match have been released. For the October 3rd game between Bolton Wanderers and Tottenham Hotspur, the network achieved a 0.2 rating with an audience of approximately 265,508 viewers.

The Bolton against Spurs game garnered the fifth highest Premier League TV ratings for ESPN2.

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Yesterday, the Premier League announced which December matches have had their kickoff times rescheduled so they can be shown on television worldwide. Even though Fox Soccer Channel, Setanta Sports and ESPN haven't announced which games they'll show for that month, I've been able to deduce which games will be shown on US television by matching up the network's schedules with when the games are shown.

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So much of the focus for the opening of the 2009/2010 season of football has been on the Premier League that it's about time we pay respect and focus on how ESPN's TV ratings are doing for its coverage of La Liga.

Here are the Nielsen Ratings thus far for La Liga games shown between August 31 and September 22, 2009:

1. Barcelona v Sporting Gijon, ESPN, Monday, Aug.

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Something suddenly dawned on me last night. With hundreds of thousands of football supporters visiting this site on a monthly basis, many of us support different clubs and despise our archenemies. But while there are lots of differences between us, there are a few things in common. We all love football that goes without saying.

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Now that the Premier League has launched on ESPN and La Liga TV coverage will debut on September 13, 2009, ESPN are beginning to promote upcoming games on its network with high-energy TV commercials. The first one featuring football supporters singing the "Seven Nation Army" theme by the White Stripes has been playing on the ESPN networks all week and is now available on YouTube.

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Keeping track of all of the ways that soccer fans in the United States can watch the sport on television suddenly got very confusing in the past week with the addition of ESPN2 to the Premier League TV rights package, as well as the glittering array of Champions League matches being shown across Fox's TV networks nationwide.

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What is it about the opening game of the World Cup that makes it more likely for an upset to happen than on the opening day of the Premier League season each summer?

In previous World Cups, Cameroon beat Argentina in 1990, Senegal beat France in 2002, Belgium defeating Argentina in 1982 and so on.

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American football writer Ives Galarcep reports that Bobby Zamora and Jhon Samuel have recieved their Trinidad and Tobago passports after playing for England at the U-21 level. Both will be called into the full national side for this week's critical World Cup qualifer versus El Salvador.

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ESPN has acquired the TV rights to two of the weekly Premier League slots on US television for the 2009-2010 season. Beginning on August 15, 2009, each week ESPN will feature the 7:45am ET Saturday game and the 3pm ET Monday game.

Those two weekly timeslots were previously held by Setanta Sports who in the past had sub-licensed those games from Fox Soccer Channel.

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It's been a few weeks since I've had a chance to update you on the latest news stories affecting English football fans from around the world. So even though some of these stories are stale, most of them have not been covered by the blogosphere and remain topical to us die-hard football fans.

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You've heard by now that ESPN has won the yardsale/auction of Setanta's Premier League TV rights in the UK. For those in the dark, Setanta UK couldn't afford to make the payments they'd promised to the Premier League (basically, they didn't have enough subscribers) and so were stripped of the rights. Click to continue reading...

The English Football Association (FA) has released a statement regarding Setanta UK going into administration.

"The FA will now consider options to find the best platform to broadcast those fixtures contracted to Setanta," said FA Chief Executive Ian Watmore. "These include England home friendly matches, FA Cup ties, England U21 games and the FA Community Shield.

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Breaking news. Setanta UK has gone into administration this morning after failing to make payments to the Premier League and losing the Premier League TV rights in the UK for the 2009-2013 seasons.

The administrator Deloitte said that it would shortly cease broadcasting to customers in Great Britain but would continue to operate elsewhere.

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It's a simple question, yet the question does not have a simple answer.For anyone who has lived under a rock for the past three months, let me sum this story up for you. First, Irish based network Setanta Sports lost one half of its Barclays Premier League TV contract. We quickly saw everyone question if Setanta Sports was going to be a viable network going forward with only one package of games Click to continue reading...

The past several months have been a game of cat and mouse for Fox and ESPN. This year has already seen Fox beat ESPN to the UEFA Champions League TV rights in the United States, Central America and South America. Now, ESPN along with SBS have acquired the TV rights in Australia to the Champions League, Europa League and UEFA Super Cup

According to The Australian, it's not known whether Fox tendered a bid for the Australian rights.

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After announcing that GolTV has renewed its TV rights to the Bundesliga for the next three seasons, a GolTV executive has revealed that the US TV broadcaster is also interested in the TV and/or Internet rights to the Premier League which are up for renewal in the next 30 days for the 2010-2013 seasons.

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On Monday, the Premier League formally send out invitations to the UK networks interested in bidding on the next round of TV rights for the league, for the 2010-2011 to 2012-2013 seasons. If you've been reading EPL Talk for a while, you won't be surprised to read that the invitations were sent to ESPN, Setanta [. Click to continue reading...