Starting this weekend, the free Roku Sports Channel will air eight NWSL Sunday night games. In 2027, Roku will broadcast 25 Sunday night matches.
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JP Dellacamera on a career driven by the love of the game
When JP Dellacamera put down his headset at the end of the 1986 Men’s World Cup, he had no idea if he would ever work another World Cup. After 40 years and 17 more World Cups, Dellacamera put that headset down for the final time. He continues to call soccer on television, just no more […]
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Jared Fox on Sirius XM’s World Cup approach: Entertain and inform
A World Cup that feels like it’s 24/7 needs media that are the same. Sirius XM might not be totally live around the clock for five straight weeks, but it is dedicating its Sirius XM FC Channel (157) to the tournament: broadcasting all the games and sprinkling in soccer talk on some of the music […]
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Tyler Terens on his fast track to World Cup play-by-play and the ‘goofball’ stunt that started it all
At 32, Tyler Terens will be the youngest of the Fox Sports announcers working games at this summer’s World Cup. He will be teamed with former U.S. international Maurice Edu, calling at least seven games during the tournament, including at least one round-of-32 knockout game. He talked with Soccer Media Podcast’s John Shrader about this […]
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U.S. Soccer has named Dan Helfrich as chief operating officer
Dan Helfrich led Deloitte Consulting (85,000 employees and $20 billion in revenue) as chair and chief executive officer.
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After almost 40 years, Andrés Cantor remains true to himself and his audience
Cantor called games on Univision during the 1990, 1994 and 1998 World Cups. He called all the games solo.