By Paul Gardner Martin Tyler, the most experienced of ESPN’s Brit announcers, is billed as the “lead play-by-play commentator” for the World Cup. That’s sort ofOK — Tyler is the best of the bunch, but it would be nice if he did more of what his title proclaims, i.e. play-by-play. I take that term literally, […]
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My World Cup: More Referee – and Commentator – Problems
In the end — and certainly this was not an easy process — Spain squeaked past Paraguay by the same minimal scoreline that it had managed against Portugal: 1-0. The result seems fair– it was Spain that had done most of the attacking, that was looking to score. Paraguay preferred the defensive approach. Whether justice […]
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Bradley and Donovan on Comedy Central
[VIDEO] Want to catch U.S. national team coach Bob Bradley smiling and laughing? Watch him and Landon Donovan on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” as they look back at the U.S. World Cup campaign. Both Bradley and Donovan pick Brazil to win the World Cup. And hostJon Stewart tells Galaxy coach Bruce […]
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World Cup attracts 132 million ESPN consumers
[TELEVISION WATCH] How many Americans in total are following the World Cup? According to ESPN Research+Analytic, 132 million persons aged 2+ — more than twoout of five Americans — have “consumed” World Cup content across all ESPN platforms. Out-of-home viewing — work and viewing establishments — and usage of non-TV platforms — radio,internet and mobile […]
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Donovan stays in the spotlight
Even though the USA is out of the World Cup, Landon Donovan isn’t out of the spotlight. “[I’m] trying to stay in front of peoples’ eyes,” hesaid after stopping off in New York before returning to the Los Angeles Galaxy. Donovan spoke on Tuesday at a forum for the National Conference on Volunteering and Service […]
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Mexico-Argentina broadcast smashes records
[TELEVISION WATCH] Sunday afternoon’s broadcast of the Mexico-Argentina match was the most-watched program ever on Spanish-language television. Almost 9.4million viewers watched the game on Univision. Coverage of the game was the No. 1 program of the week in any language in such key markets as Los Angeles, Miami, Houston and Dallas amongtotal viewers 2+, adults […]
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My World Cup: Two bad calls: blame refs for one, Blatter for the other
By Paul Gardner It was asking too much to imagine that we could get through this tournament without at least one egregious miscall by a referee. And now it’shappened — the screw-up arrived yesterday, stamped “Made In Italy,” and it was Mexico that suffered. With the score between Argentina and Mexico still at 0-0 after […]
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USA-Ghana is most-watched men's game in USA ever
[TELEVISION WATCH] Saturday’s USA-Ghana was the most-watched men’s soccer game ever, averaging 9,455,000 households and 14,863,000 viewers, based on fastnationals. The 1999 Women’s World Cup final between the USA and China at the Rose Bowl averaged more households (11,307,000) and viewers (17,975,000). The USA-Ghana match,which drew a 8.2 rating, is the third highest-rated men’s game […]
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How many folks were watching?
[MY VIEW] Just how many folks were watching USA-Algeria Wednesday morning? Let’s do the math … Totaling the number of the viewers isn’t easy inthis age of multiple platforms, but here’s a start: 6.2 million (ESPN) 2.2million (Univision) 1.1 million (ESPN3.com) 650,000 (ESPN Mobile) That totals almost 10.2million viewers (and doesn’t include those who watched […]
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Viewership records set by USA-Algeria
[TELEVISION WATCH] Wednesday’s broadcast of the USA-Algeria game on ESPN was the the highest-rated and most-watched soccer game in the history of ESPNnetworks, delivering a 4.6 rating (4.0 household U.S. rating), 4,582,000 households and 6,161,000 viewers. Significantly, the broadcast was the highest-rated program of the day on anynetwork among two key demographic groups, males 18-34 […]