There will be no reason to miss any 2010 World Cup soccer action — live or rebroadcast in prime time. Stuck in your satellite-radio-equipped car? Every game's available. No satellite radio? If you get ESPN radio 710, you'll get every U.S. and Mexico game live.
In your office cubicle? Streaming video is your friend. Both ESPN and Univision are streaming almost every game.
Don't worry about high definition. All the games on ESPN and Univision will be broadcast in HD. ESPN is doing 25 games in 3-D for the five of you who have 3-D-capable televisions and the goofy glasses.
This isn't the Olympics in another way. ESPN and Univision will have studio shows by the dozens: pregame, postgame, at halftime.
Want to keep up with the action on your mobile phone? There are both paid and free apps aplenty, even from networks that aren't televising the World Cup.
For example, Turner Sports has something called SportsNOW that will allow fans to get live match scores, highlights, standings and statistics, and even — as if this were the NCAA basketball tournament — live, updated brackets. And, to quote a public-relations release on the product, "Fans can update their Facebook and Twitter feeds with their thoughts on tournament action and player highlights, read other fans' comments and trash-talk directly from the app."
And who doesn't think the World Cup needs more trash talk?
So here's a quick-hit media guide to the World Cup:
Television
ESPN and Univision will begin coverage Friday morning at 6:25 a.m. for the 7 a.m. kickoff match between host South Africa and Mexico.
ABC will have the U.S. opener against England on Saturday at 10:30 a.m. The other U.S. first-round matches will be on ESPN — against Slovenia on June 18 at 6:30 a.m. and against Algeria on June 23 at 6:30 a.m.
ESPN offers 166 hours of game coverage, and besides showing every match live, will replay every match during prime time on ESPN Classic and ESPN2, mostly between 3 p.m. and 9 p.m. PDT.
Univision will nearly match that coverage for Spanish-speakers.
Radio
ESPN will have three teams of radio announcers and every game will be available on ESPN radio. It depends on your local ESPN affiliate as to whether you'll get every game.
The Los Angeles ESPN affiliate, 710, is going to air every U.S. and Mexico match, for example. The three ESPN radio teams are JP Dellacamera and Tommy Smyth, Glenn Davis and Kyle Martino, and Ross Dyer and Shep Messing.
Sirius and XM satellite radio will have every ESPN broadcast too: channels 235 and 236 on XM and 213 and 214 on Sirius. There also will be German broadcasts on XM 237 and Sirius 215; Japanese on XM 238 and Sirius 216; Portuguese on XM 239 and Sirius 217; Arabic on XM 243 and Sirius 218 and Korean on XM 244 and Sirius 219.
Sirius XM will also have a daily studio show hosted by international soccer star Giorgio Chinaglia and U.S. Soccer Foundation founding board member Charlie Stillitano at 4 p.m. PDT (Channel 125 for Sirius and 241 for XM).
ESPN Radio will also have a "World Cup Today" soccer special at 3 p.m. daily hosted by Doug Brown, Chuck Wilson and Dellacamera.
Studio shows
ESPN will offer 230 hours of studio shows including daily previews and wrap-ups. The studio hosts are Chris Fowler, Bob Ley and Mike Tirico, and there is a team of six analysts and eight reporters who will be contributing. Univision plans pregame and postgame shows. Alexi Lalas is the only American studio analyst.
Univision plans pregame and postgame shows.
Fox Soccer Channel will have a daily show at 1:30 p.m. PDT with analysis from Andy Gray of Great Britain's Sky Sports, former U.S. midfielder Christopher Sullivan and former Newcastle United and England national team member Warren Barton. The show will be hosted by Richard Keys of Sky Sports.
On the Web
A recent Nielsen survey said 21% of people around the world plan to follow the tournament via streaming video on mobile devices. Every match will be streamed live via ESPN3.com and UnivisionFutbol.com
Source: Los Angeles Times
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