{"id":1515,"date":"2017-02-26T21:17:53","date_gmt":"2017-02-26T12:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=1515"},"modified":"2017-02-26T21:18:21","modified_gmt":"2017-02-26T12:18:21","slug":"opening-weekend-glitches-plague-j-league-broadcaster-dazn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/02\/26\/opening-weekend-glitches-plague-j-league-broadcaster-dazn\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening weekend glitches plague J.League broadcaster DAZN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>J.League broadcasters DAZN suffered major technical stumbles during\u00a0the league&#8217;s opening round on February 25 and 26, drawing harsh criticism from observers and marking an ominous start to the recently-launched 10-year, $2 billion partnership.<\/p>\n<p>Fans\u00a0without access to local television broadcasts were faced with delays of up to two minutes, frequent buffering and skipping, and occasional\u00a0service outages.<\/p>\n<p>These problems culminated on\u00a0Sunday evening, when subscribers\u00a0were unable to load\u00a0the channel featuring Gamba Osaka vs Ventforet Kofu as other sports remained accessible.<\/p>\n<p>While a stream for the match was eventually established on a channel reserved for Japanese men&#8217;s volleyball as well as on the Perform-owned football website Goal,\u00a0these measures were\u00a0only announced by the league and DAZN midway through the second half of the dramatic 1-1 draw.<\/p>\n<p>After issuing a short apology on their official homepage, the J.League posted the entirety of the match to their YouTube channel.<\/p>\n<p>Users on Twitter were quick to pile on throughout the day, including one fan who spotted\u00a0a buffering screen at a DAZN booth outside of Roasso Kumamoto&#8217;s home ground of Egao Kenko Stadium:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">DAZN\u30d6\u30fc\u30b9\u3067\u666e\u901a\u306b\u6b62\u307e\u3063\u3066\u3066\u30ef\u30ed\u30bf <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wQzydzhEwK\">pic.twitter.com\/wQzydzhEwK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \u3069\u3064\u3044@ (@dotui) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dotui\/status\/835731126098374656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 26, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, fans of J2 side Zweigen Kanazawa\u00a0were greeted by occasional black screens at a public viewing of their team&#8217;s 1-0 away defeat to Ehime FC:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">PV\u4f1a\u5834\u3082\u307e\u3055\u304b\u306e\u2026<br \/>\ud83d\ude31\ud83d\ude31\ud83d\ude31<\/p>\n<p>\u7686\u3055\u3093\u3001\u304a\u75b2\u308c\u69d8\u3067\u3057\u305f\u203c\ufe0f<br \/>\u73fe\u5730\u7d44\u3001\u6c17\u3092\u3064\u3051\u3066\u5e30\u3063\u3066\u6765\u3066\u4e0b\u3055\u3044\u2764\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HwWZhQhaBg\">pic.twitter.com\/HwWZhQhaBg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Z\u5973\u308a\u3048 (@rie894) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rie894\/status\/835806250117943297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 26, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Both the J.League and DAZN have struggled to win over customers with\u00a0the online-only approach, a dramatic departure from previous longtime broadcaster SkyPefecTV. Pre-season promotions included extensive FAQs explaining the ins and outs of the service for fans who have long been accustomed to satellite boxes.<\/p>\n<p>The J.League&#8217;s international broadcasting rights also remain in limbo, with\u00a0an announcement yet to be made in regards\u00a0to where fans outside of Japan can watch the new season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J.League broadcasters DAZN suffered major technical stumbles during\u00a0the league&#8217;s opening round on February 25 and 26, drawing harsh criticism from observers and marking an ominous start to the recently-launched 10-year, $2 billion partnership. Fans\u00a0without access to local television broadcasts were faced with delays of up to two minutes, frequent buffering and skipping, and occasional\u00a0service outages. These problems culminated on\u00a0Sunday evening, when subscribers\u00a0were unable to load\u00a0the channel featuring Gamba Osaka vs Ventforet Kofu as other sports remained accessible. While a stream for the match was eventually established on a channel reserved for Japanese men&#8217;s volleyball as well as on the Perform-owned football website Goal,\u00a0these measures were\u00a0only announced by the league and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/02\/26\/opening-weekend-glitches-plague-j-league-broadcaster-dazn\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;Opening weekend glitches plague J.League broadcaster DAZN&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":1516,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[393,204,127],"class_list":["post-1515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-japan","tag-dazn","tag-featured","tag-j-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}