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/ 2861 days agoFOX Sports removes Lothar Matthäus from World Cup coverage
Billed by FOX Sports' World Cup producer as "one of Germany’s all-time elite players, he brings invaluable knowledge and experience to our telecasts," legendary soccer player Lothar Matthäus has been removed from FOX Sports' World Cup coverage without spending a single minute on set. When FOX Sports announced their studio talent in April, Matthäus was […]
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/ 2861 days agoTelemundo beating FOX in World Cup TV ratings battle
Despite being available in far fewer homes in the United States, Telemundo is generating more viewers across television than FOX Sports after the first five days of the 2018 FIFA World Cup tournament. Telemundo is in more than 53 million homes in the United States. FOX Sports, who have been broadcasting games on the over-the-air […]
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/ 2862 days agoBrazil-Switzerland scores 8.4 million viewers on FS1 and Telemundo
Sunday's World Cup match between Brazil and Switzerland averaged 8.4 million viewers across FS1, Telemundo and NBCSN in the Seleção's first game of the tournament. The Spanish-language broadcast of the game was watched by 4,350,000 viewers across Telemundo and NBCSN, while FOX Sports averaged 4,086,000 viewers for a game that was televised on FS1 instead […]
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/ 2862 days agoMexico-Germany World Cup game tops 11 million viewers
Mexico-Germany delivered more than 11 million viewers across Telemundo Deportes and FOX Sports combined in a World Cup game that broke several records for both broadcasters. Telemundo's live coverage of the World Cup game between Mexico and Germany averaged 7.12 million viewers, making it the most-watched sporting event ever in the history of the Spanish-language […]
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/ 2862 days agoFOX adds Clarence Seedorf to resuscitate World Cup coverage
In an obvious attempt to try to boost disappointing World Cup tactical analysis by FOX Sports' studio talent, the US English-language broadcaster has hired Clarence Seedorf to join the FOX team for the duration of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Seedorf will be based in Moscow and will offer his tactical nous to the pre-match, […]
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/ 2863 days agoWhy the World Cup is better on Telemundo
After watching FOX Sports' coverage of the 2018 World Cup for the first three days of the tournament, I've given up on their poor, dumbed-down coverage. Instead, I've switched to watching the World Cup games on Telemundo, and I'm loving every minute of it. Even though I don't speak Spanish, the differences in watching World […]
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/ 2866 days agoStream the World Cup in English and Spanish with PlayStation Vue
With millions of Americans tuning in to watch the 2018 FIFA World Cup, one of the best ways to experience the tournament is with a free trial, a leading legal streaming provider. Don't be fooled by the name. With PlayStation Vue, you don't need a PlayStation video game console. PlayStation Vue is an Internet-based live […]
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/ 2866 days agoWhen will World Cup games re-air on television?
With all of the weekday World Cup games happening during office hours in the United States, one of the biggest questions going into the tournament is where viewers can watch replays of games on television. Compared to previous World Cup tournaments on US television, this one will have fewer games available that will re-air on […]
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/ 2867 days agoFOX’s World Cup commentators for group stage of Russia 2018
FOX Sports has announced the assignments of commentators for the group stage of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. With only two lead commentators out of six in Russia (while all of the others will be calling games off a TV screen from a studio in Los Angeles), it'll be interesting to see how much of […]
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/ 2869 days agoWorld Cup previews, key players, predicted lineups & more
As part of World Soccer Talk's coverage of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, senior writer Matt Jones has taken the last few weeks to write a preview for each of the 32 countries participating at Russia 2018. Each preview contains: • Predicted lineup, • Who's in the 23-man squad, • TV schedule for each team, • Analysis of the […]
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/ 2869 days agoFOX’s World Cup coverage schedule and entertainment shows
From June 14 to July 15, FOX Sports will broadcast all 64 World Cup games live across their networks (38 on FOX, 26 on FS1), but what will their schedule look like for all of the shoulder programming — i.e. the pre-match, post-match and entertainment shows? Judging by the first 4-5 days of FOX's World Cup […]
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/ 2869 days agofuboTV announces unprecedented World Cup streaming coverage
fuboTV has announced details about their 2018 FIFA World Cup programming, which will live include FOX, FS1, Telemundo and Universo — the four networks in the United States that have the exclusive rights to broadcast the World Cup games — plus several other additions that soccer fans will love. Most newsworthy, fuboTV will also include bonus feeds […]
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/ 2871 days agobeIN SPORTS to televise World Cup 2026 Vote on Wednesday
beIN SPORTS will broadcast a live show on Wednesday, June 13 that will feature live updates and reactions to FIFA's decision on whether 2026 World Cup will be awarded to the united bid of USA, Mexico and Canada or Morocco. The coverage, which begins at 6am ET on beIN SPORTS, will feature analysts and reports […]
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/ 2873 days agoTelemundo 2018 World Cup commentator schedule for group stage
Telemundo has announced the assignment of commentators to the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Featuring a world-class team of announcers who will be based in Russia calling the games from the host country, the commentators include Andres Cantor, Sammy Sadovnik, Miguel Gurwitz and others. They'll be flanked by an equally talented lineup of co-commentators. Read the […]
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/ 2873 days agoESPN's SportsCenter to broadcast nightly World Cup editions
ESPN has announced that it will broadcast a nightly one-hour World Cup news and discussion show on every match day of the tournament, which will give soccer fans the opportunity to listen to and watch expert analysis from the breadth of ESPN soccer talent. Primarily airing on ESPN2 at 5pm ET each night, anchors Max […]