NBC Sports will debut a Premier League Breakaway show on New Year’s Day that will feature live action from eight EPL matches being played concurrently during the 10am-Noon ET timeslot. The programming is part of NBC’s plans to televise an unprecedented 30 Premier League matches during 7 days of the holiday season.
Premier League Breakaway will feature a NFL RedZone-like look-ins to eight matches including Southampton vs Arsenal, Liverpool vs Leicester, Manchester City vs Burnley and five other Premier League games. Producers will go from game-to-game whenever an exciting moment or goal happens in the match, allowing viewers to be able to take in all eight games without missing any major action.
Rebecca Lowe will guide the program as it cuts from match to match to follow the most important stories with minimal interruption.
The eight matches in Premier League Breakaway will feature seven of the Premier League’s top 10 goal scorers, including Arsenal’s Alexis Sanchez (9 goals, fourth-most in BPL) and Queens Park Rangers’ Charlie Austin (11 goals, third-most in BPL), as well as Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard and Manchester City midfielder Yaya Touré. At the end of the telecast, Premier League Breakaway will feature a comprehensive recap of all the action.
In addition, NBCSN will present Stoke City v. Manchester United at 7:45 a.m. ET and Tottenham v. Chelsea at 12:30 p.m. ET on New Year’s Day.
Lowe will be joined by U.S. Men’s National Team midfielder Kyle Martino and former Premier League footballer Robbie Mustoe for Premier League Live pre- and post-match shows.
For viewers who want to watch any of the eight games uninterrupted, they can watch their game live on NBC Sports Live Extra and/or Premier League Extra Time.
Hats off to NBCSN for willing to try something different in its Premier League coverage. Other than Boxing Day and the final day of the Premier League season, you never get all 20 Premier League teams playing on the same day, so the New Year’s Day debut of Premier League Breakaway is perfect timing to see how the format works.
With so many games (8) being played simultaneously, it’s usually impossible to follow all of the action during 90 minutes. But with Premier League Breakaway, it’s the ideal concept to stay on top of all of the action, highlights and goals as they happen around the league. Plus for those who want to watch the full 90 minutes of their team, they can too.
NBC’s schedule of Premier League matches from December 26-January 1 is as follows:
Friday, December 26 (Boxing Day):
Chelsea vs West Ham, 7:45am, NBCSN and NBC Sports Live Extra
Manchester United vs Newcastle, 10am, NBCSN & NBC Sports Live Extra
Burnley vs Liverpool, 10am, NBC Sports Live Extra
Crystal Palace vs Southampton, 10am, NBC Sports Live Extra
Everton vs Stoke, 10am, NBC Sports Live Extra
Leicester vs Spurs, 10am, NBC Sports Live Extra
Sunderland vs Hull, 10am, NBC Sports Live Extra
Swansea vs Aston Villa, 10am, NBC Sports Live Extra
West Brom vs Manchester City, 10am, NBC Sports Live Extra
Arsenal vs QPR, 12:30pm, NBCSN & NBC Sports Live Extra
Sunday, December 28:
Spurs vs Manchester United, 7am, NBCSN and NBC Sports Live Extra
Southampton vs Chelsea, 9:05am, NBCSN and NBC Sports Live Extra
Aston Villa vs Sunderland, 10am, NBC Sports Live Extra
Hull vs Leicester, 10am, NBC Sports Live Extra
Manchester City vs Burnley, 10am, NBC Sports Live Extra
QPR vs Crystal Palace, 10am, NBC Sports Live Extra
Stoke vs West Brom, 10am, NBC Sports Live Extra
West Ham vs Arsenal, 10am, NBC Sports Live Extra
Newcastle vs Everton, 11:15am, NBCSN & NBC Sports Live Extra
Monday, December 29:
Liverpool vs Swansea, 3pm, NBCSN & NBC Sports Live Extra
Thursday, January 1 (New Years Day):
Stoke City vs Manchester United, 7:45am, NBCSN & NBC Sports Live Extra
Aston Villa vs Crystal Palace, 10am, NBCSN & NBC Sports Live Extra
Hull vs Everton, 10am, NBCSN & NBC Sports Live Extra
Liverpool vs Leicester, 10am, NBCSN & NBC Sports Live Extra
Man City vs Sunderland, 10am, NBCSN & NBC Sports Live Extra
Newcastle vs Burnley, 10am, NBCSN & NBC Sports Live Extra
QPR vs Swansea, 10am, NBCSN & NBC Sports Live Extra
Southampton vs Arsenal, 10am, NBCSN & NBC Sports Live Extra
West Ham vs West Brom, 10am, NBCSN & NBC Sports Live Extra
Spurs vs Chelsea, 12:30pm, NBCSN & NBC Sports Live Extra
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Real Football
January 1, 2015 at 11:00 am
NBCSN’s Breakaway coverage of simultaneous games is BRILLIANT!
I am an avid fan, and I watch most games every week. But let’s face it, Americans want action and scoring, and most won’t watch 1-0 games.
Rebecca Lowe is an outstanding announcer, and she knows the EPL so well she manages the switches between games and grounds and players with consummate skill.
And in this format, something happens almost every minute.
SportsCenter is so popular because it has lots of highlights. But NOBODY shows highlights from every game in real time.
Try this format for a few weeks. I predict your ratings will skyrocket
olderfanca
January 1, 2015 at 10:58 am
Don’t like this format. We have enough mutlitasking muck with all the technology. I can see why they are doing it. To appeal to non-Premier League fans and pull them in on New Year’s Day. They are going to get mixed reviews on this contraption.
GallipoliVC
December 23, 2014 at 11:43 am
I like this idea, it is also very similar to Fox’s MULTIMATCH90. If anyone can do it right, it will be NBC. Having watched the Fox version I must say quite a number of goals were shown live. They usually break in on set pieces and counter attacks. NBC will likely stay with a match for several minutes if nothing else is going on. I do wish they only use this once or twice a season and not every day. Though, a dedicated channel would work.
Adam
December 23, 2014 at 8:44 am
Agree this is a dumb idea. Make dedicated channel for this crap and leave NBC-SN for a real game. Hope it fails so they don’t do this anymore.
Nosferatu
December 23, 2014 at 4:34 pm
I wasn’t a fan of the Multimatch 90 thing on Fox, and this will only cause a potential problem for me with this on NBCSN–on Time Warner I only get five Live Extra channels (one of which is in SD), which means that during the 10 a.m. spot, three games will be unavailable (instead of two, if they didn’t do this Breakaway thing).
If there are multiple games I want to watch, I set the DVR. The Live Extra games don’t have a spoiler scoreboard on the screen, which allows this to work.
Smokey Bacon
December 22, 2014 at 8:38 pm
Not a fan of this idea. Agree with brother yes page. Either have a red zone channel or don’t bother. Keep NBCSN for the marquee game.
yespage
December 22, 2014 at 4:21 pm
This would be better as a gimmick on its own channel, not NBCSN.
Daniel
December 22, 2014 at 4:11 pm
There is ABSOLUTELY no reason whatsoever that NBC cant show every game on a different channel during the ENTIRE season.cmon who is going to be watching cnbc or usa network or oprah network christmas day or and othe day when all the matches are on????
goatslookshifty
December 22, 2014 at 3:57 pm
I just began to notice. So all these Twitter/Facebook commentators are going to have hashtags and webtags attached? Not to mention they look like adverts instead of actual comments. Might be time for Goatslookshifty to retire.
Christopher Harris
December 22, 2014 at 9:45 pm
The hashtags are not needed, but comments from Twitter are integrated into the comments on the site, to give readers a more complete view of the conversations about a specific article.
Eplnfl
December 22, 2014 at 12:22 pm
The only thing we can say is well done NBC.
goatslookshifty
December 22, 2014 at 12:00 pm
Waste of time. This type of technology isn’t designed for football. As the famous Brian Clough quote goes, “It only takes a second to score a goal”. Goal scoring opportunities can happen in a instant. I hate to be the producer trying to predict when one is going to happen. Rest assured, he won’t have to worry about Hull City.