Cornejo said season tickets for the Apertura season are “99 percent sold out.” The change to weekends is already reaping benefits. Now fans can leisurely cross the border, spend the afternoon shopping, get an early dinner, gamble at the Caliente casino adjacent to the stadium, even stay the night. It was hard enough coming from San Diego it was essentially impossible from Orange County and Los Angeles. Another: Moving most home games to Saturday and Sunday nights from Fridays, when both sides of the border are knotted in rush-hour traffic.
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Amid a dispute over carriage fees, Dish and Sling dropped Univision channels when their contract expired at the end of June.Įnglish-language TV commentary is one way of realizing the club’s bi-national vision. 29 game at Monterrey (which will also air on Fox Sports), all of Tijuana’s road games will be televised in the States on Spanish-language Univision and its affiliates, which is good news unless you have Dish Network or Sling TV. The same will apply in the rest of Southern California on Fox Sports Prime Ticket or Fox Sports West.įSSD also has been regularly airing a one-hour “Xolos: Tijuana’s team” documentary written and directed by Saint Augustine High alum Chris Cashman. Fox Sports Arizona has announced that it will, showing the Xolos on tape delay when there are conflicts with baseball’s Arizona Diamondbacks. Regional Fox Sports affiliates also can air Xolos games. “We think it makes a big difference for fans to watch in their language of preference.” We felt the offer from Fox Sports was the better one for what we want to do. “With our TV deal was expiring with TV Azteca, we had opportunities with Fox Sports and another competitor in the United States. “We’ve been trying to grow the brand in the United States, from San Diego and expanding north and east,” said Roberto Cornejo, the club’s deputy general manager who is a Francis Parker High alum and oversees its U.S. The same is true for home games of Liga MX’s Monterrey club. Two games will be shown on delay due to conflicts with Padres baseball, and one will be on Fox Sports West instead of FSSD, but all of them will be streamed on the Fox Sports Go app as well. They’ll also be in Spanish in the United States on Fox Sports Deportes, and in Mexico on Fox Sports Latin America.Īnd, they’ll be shown locally in San Diego on Fox Sports San Diego. It was more of a quiet experiment than a full-fledged campaign to go bilingual.īut it is now, with a unique multiyear broadcast contract with Fox Sports on both sides of the border.Īll Xolos home games will be shown live nationally on Fox Sports 1 or Fox Sports 2, beginning Saturday against Chivas on FS1. It was possible to hear Xolos telecasts in English last season, in a sort of reverse osmosis method by using your TV’s SAP (Second Audio Program) button originally designed to provide Spanish dialogue on English-language shows. The screen in your living room is considerably smaller, but now you’ll be able to watch the Xolos with English-language commentary.
And across from the banks of restaurants and luxury suites, construction continues on more suites, a terrace and eventually a massive 164- by 78-foot video board (or a 2,179-inch diagonal screen). There are 300 LED televisions at concession stands and elsewhere. The most transformational change, however, might be off it.Įstadio Caliente has been technologically upgraded by Cisco Systems and Mexico Internet Exchange with 430 WiFi access points, miles of fiber optic cables and a dedicated control room to monitor bandwidth efficiency.
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