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Wednesday, June 9, 2010
As I continue to try and get you hyped for the 2010 World Cup, I want to advise you that you are about to be engulfed by soccer whether you want to or not. ESPN is paying $100 million for the rights to two World Cups and two Women’s World Cups through 2014, so you can expect the coverage to be deep!
Among ESPN (44 games), ESPN2 (10 games) and ABC (10 games), all 64 games will be shown live; all will be available in high definition, and all will be streamed on ESPN3.com. Twenty-five games will be carried in 3-D.
That sentence basically sums it up, World Cup soccer is going to be all over the place and I can’t wait. According to EPLTalk.com, “ESPN has lined up 166 hours of re-aired World Cup matches that will be shown on ESPN Classic and ESPN2. All 64 games will be re-aired generally between 6pm to midnight ET each day. In addition to all of the World Cup games and re-aired games, expect to see a gigantic amount of World Cup features, news, documentaries and analysis on the ESPN family of networks.” It doesn’t mention it in the EPLTalk posting but I also know some of the SportsCenter’s and World Cup programming will originate live from South Africa.
If you are stuck at work and can’t catch the games on TV, you can watch all the games aired on ESPN and ESPN2 on ESPN3.com. The 10 games that will be aired on ABC won’t be available on ESPN3.com.
Wait, there’s more…TV and internet won’t be your only options. The World Cup games will also be available on the radio. All of the World Cup games will be broadcast on National ESPN Radio, and select games will be aired by your local ESPN Radio affiliate. I know the ESPN Radio station in Dallas will be broadcasting all of the United States and Mexico games along with a few select others.
If after reading all of that you don’t understand the magnitude or importance of the World Cup, I guess you will never get it. It is the world’s biggest sporting event and is important to so many countries around the world. It all gets started Friday morning with South Africa vs. Mexico on ESPN. If you would like to see the entire World Cup TV Schedule Go Here.
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