I picked this up from soccerTV.com this week:
All 64 matches of FIFA World Cup 2006 will be televised in the US LIVE or via short tape-delay in the US in English, Spanish, and Korean.
Soccer United Marketing (SUM), the marketing arm of Major League Soccer (MLS), will present all 64 matches LIVE in English, with no commercial interruptions, on either ABC, ESPN, or ESPN2, in both standard definition and optional high definition. (Cable and satellite TV providers charge extra for ABC HD, ESPN HD and ESPN2 HD.)
Univision Communications will broadcast 56 games live on Univision and 8 games live on TeleFutura, all in Spanish, in standard definition ONLY.
KBS World, a Korean-language subscription channel available via DISH Network satellite TV and digital cable in some areas (such as parts of Los Angeles), will have 56 games live and 8 games via short tape-delay.
TV schedules will be posted on soccerTV.com on or around May 1.
I didn’t get any responses on my question about the SuperBowl broadcast so I’m curious as to whether anyone is planning on a new HD TV purchase in anticipation of the World Cup broadcast. Do I need to keep digging into this or are all of you set?
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I plan on buying an HD TV providing I can get some information about ABC. They are not currently broadcasting in HD in Springfield. I heard a rumor that they were going to start real soon. If I can get all three channels in HD I will be buying a HD TV for sure.
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