“If you build it, they will come.” The line has become such a mainstream part of popular culture in this country, it’s almost cliché. In the 1989 film Field of Dreams, Kevin Costner’s character Ray Kinsella hears a voice that utters those words, and it leads him to build a baseball field in an Iowa […]
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Soccer Media Watch
The 24 Club World Cup matches TNT Sports televised with English commentary averaged 458,000 viewers
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USA-Mexico Gold Cup final viewers
Fox drew almost as many viewers as Univision did for the 2025 Gold Cup final.
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The value of radio sports broadcasting endures: MLS should rethink its audio-delivery strategy
I love radio. I worked in radio for many years. I listen to radio (mostly on my phone or on satellite in the car). You can call it audio. You can call it streaming. What I hope you won’t be calling it in the near future is irrelevant. It feels like some in the soccer […]
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USA-Mexico final sets Gold Cup English-language viewing record
Mexico’s 2-1 win over the USA in the 2025 Gold Cup final averaged 3.73 million viewers on Fox, the most-watched English-language audience in Gold Cup history.
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USA-Costa Rica on Fox sets viewing record
The USA’s shootout win over Costa Rica in the Gold Cup quarterfinals averaged 1.9 million viewers on Fox.
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Watch: Andrés Cantor with the call: ‘It’s Messi time’
Andrés Cantor, doing the DAZN broadcast in English, calls Lionel Messi’s winning goal for Inter Miami.
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Kevin Egan: MLS 360’s ‘traffic cop’ on his dream show, global play-by-play, and his Irish roots
Kevin Egan is in his second full season as host of MLS 360 on Apple TV’s MLS Season Pass. It’s a five-and-a-half hour show on Saturday nights that drops in on each of the games being shown live at the time. Egan and his co-hosts start with the first game in the Eastern time zone […]
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Dax McCarty on stepping off the field and into the studio, TV’s ‘shot clock,’ and criticizing former teammates
Dax McCarty is prompt. He joins the Zoom call right on time. He is ready. The microphone is in a good place. The lighting is good. He knows this conversation is not just to capture the written word but for audio and video. The first question is a softball (with apologizes if you think I’m […]
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Soccer Media Watch: Club World Cup broadcast crews, new UEFA Women’s Champions League home
DAZN and American broadcasters TNT Sports (24 games on TNT, TBS and truTV) and TelevisaUnivision (18 games on Univision, UniMás and TUDN) have announced studio and match commentators for Club World Cup, which kicks off on June 14. Play-by-play voices for English-language will Include Luke Wileman, Tony Husband, Andres Cantor and Kevin Egan. English-language analysts […]