{"id":67,"date":"2006-09-03T11:05:23","date_gmt":"2006-09-03T10:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=67"},"modified":"2009-09-26T10:56:20","modified_gmt":"2009-09-26T09:56:20","slug":"five-us-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=67","title":{"rendered":"FIVE US update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I posted a while back about Five&#8217;s plans to launch a new Freeview channel dedicated to American programmes (one of two new channels, the other being Five Life &#8211; dramas, soaps and the like).<\/p>\n<p>Having speculated that this might result in MLB moving away from terrestrial TV, I&#8217;m pleased to say that this will not be happening (unless, of course, FIVE ever plan to ditch MLB altogether &#8211; fingers crossed they don&#8217;t!).  A press release from 25 August states that FIVE US will air between 16.00 and 01.00.  This will obviously rule out switching the Sunday and Wednesday night games.<\/p>\n<p>Much as being on FIVE can cause frustrations at times (leaving play-off games early etc!!!), it&#8217;s in the interests of all baseball fans that MLB retains a presence on terrestrial TV.  Otherwise it is very difficult to attract newcomers to the sport.  The team on FIVE do a fantastic job bringing MLB to British viewers, and long may it continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted a while back about Five&#8217;s plans to launch a new Freeview channel dedicated to American programmes (one of two new channels, the other being Five Life &#8211; dramas, soaps and the like). Having speculated that this might result in MLB moving away from terrestrial TV, I&#8217;m pleased to say that this will not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[24,553],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball-coverage","tag-five","tag-mlb-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4214,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/4214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}