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Univision Announcing Assignments for World Cup Round of 16

Univision has provided its announcers for the Knockout Round of 16 for the World Cup. It starts today with Brazil vs. Chile and Colombia vs. Uruguay. For USA vs. Belgium on Tuesday, the network will utilize Jorge Pérez-Navarro, Diego Balado and unfortunately Marcelo Balboa who continues to provide some strange analysis no matter what language […]

USA-Germany Gets 2nd Highest Rating for Men’s World Cup Match on ESPN

Soccer continues to score for ESPN. The USA-Germany game on the Mothership scored a 6.7 rating, better than the 6.3 for USA-Ghana on Sunday. Viewership on ESPN was 10,771,000 and on WatchESPN, the online service had 3.2 million unique viewers. That is pretty amazing when you get down to the numbers. At its highest peak, […]

ESPN/ABC World Cup Announcing Assignments for World Cup Round of 16

The Round of 16 in the 2014 FIFA World Cup begins on Saturday. The all-South American matchups of Brazil vs. Chile and Colombia vs. Uruguay kickoff the Knockout Round of the World Cup on ABC. Then ESPN takes over the matches for the rest of the Round of 16 through Tuesday including USA vs. Belgium […]

Another Strong Overnight Rating for USMNT on ESPN

ESPN has scored once again for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. The USA-Germany game played at noon ET received a 6.3 overnight rating, the third highest for a men’s World Cup match on ESPN. In the last quarter-hour, ESPN saw the rating peak at a 9.5. WatchESPN which had troubles yesterday in handling the traffic […]

World Cup Announcing Assignments for June 26, 2014

Well, we conclude Group Play with the last four matches before we go to the Knockout Round on Saturday. The big game is of course USA vs. Germany which will air on ESPN, Univision and Univision Deportes. Game time will be noon ET, but ESPN will have one hour of pre-match coverage starting at 11 […]

World Cup Announcing Assignments for June 25, 2014

Just one more day of Group Play after this and then it’s the Knockout Round of 16 on Saturday. It’s going to feel really strange not to have a game on Friday after having at least three games every day since the beginning of this World Cup. But we still have simultaneous windows for today […]

Univision Gets Big Viewership for Mexico-Croatia

The World Cup viewership records keep falling for Univision. On Sunday, Univision/Univision Deportes saw a combined viewership of 6.5 million for USA-Portugal, the most ever for a U.S. Men’s National Team game on the networks. On Monday, Univision saw another record for a World Cup Group Stage game when Mexico-Croatia averaged 7.1 million viewers. With […]

World Cup Announcing Assignments for June 24, 2014

Once again, four games in two windows for the last matches in Group Play. Italy vs. Uruguay and Costa Rica vs. England make up the games in Group D. In Group C, it’s Japan vs. Colombia and Greece vs. Côte d’Ivoire. ESPN/ESPN2 will make up the English language combo covering simultaneous games in each window. […]

USA-Portugal on Univision Reaches 6.5 Million Viewers

While ESPN is making the headlines on its viewership for USA-Portugal in the World Cup, Univision did quite well too. ESPN saw an audience of 18.2 million viewers. Univision/Univision Deportes reached 6.5 million which brings the total audience to an amazing 24.7 million viewers. Univision says its audience in the key 18-49 demographic was 3.6 […]

USA-Portugal Becomes the Most-Watched Soccer Game Ever in U.S.

This is amazing. The US men’s soccer team is resonating with viewers. With the US tying Portugal yesterday and the game in a very attractive late-afternoon timeslot on the East Coast (6 p.m.-8 p.m.), the match drew very extremely well. You want to talk numbers, the game averaged 18.22 million viewers outdrawing the previous record, […]

ESPN Scores Monster Overnight Rating for USA-Portugal

ESPN’s strategy of promoting and maintaining resources for an event that’s in a lame duck year is paying off. The USA-Portugal game struck a huge overnight rating, a 9.1 making it the highest-rated men’s World Cup game on ESPN/ESPN2. The highest-rated markets are all on the East Coast, Washington, DC, Columbus, OH, Boston, New York, […]

World Cup Announcing Assignments for June 23, 2014

We’ve reached the last stages of Group Play. The final games in each group will be played simultaneously so obviously having two networks is quite advantageous as is the case with ESPN and Univision. Games will be played at noon and 4 p.m. ET. Both ESPN and Univision will take the opportunity to have half-hour […]

World Cup Announcing Assignments for June 22, 2014

The second round of Group Play ends on Sunday with a tripleheader on ABC/ESPN and Univision/Univision Deportes. On Monday, the third round begins with simultaneous games in one window. And it can lead to a lot of exciting play especially if you remember four years ago when the US beat Algeria 1-0 just after England […]

World Cup Announcing Assignments for June 21, 2014

We’re in the final six games of the second round of Group Play. Tripleheader today on ESPN and Univision/Univision Deportes. Games will be played in Belo Horizonte, Fortaleza and Cuiaba. Argentina and Germany hope to cement their places into the next round with wins today. We have the announcers for ESPN/ESPN Radio and Univision/Univision Deportes. […]

ESPN Scores Goals with World Cup Viewership

Having the most-watched game of the first 23 World Cup matches certainly helps and ESPN is using that to run to the bank in viewership for the beautiful game’s ultimate event. ESPN says it has reached more than 65 million people since the World Cup began on June 12. It’s been averaging a 2.3 rating […]

Viewership for 2014 FIFA World Cup Spiking Upward

Both ESPN and Univision are seeing increased numbers for this year’s World Cup. Univision has had four of the five most watched games of the tournament through Wednesday’s games. ESPN has the most watched (USA-Ghana) thus far and it’s looking to Sunday’s USA-Portugal game to possibly top the viewership. Through 20 games, ESPN’s ratings on […]

World Cup Announcing Assignments for June 20, 2014

Ok, the tripleheaders are dwindling down as the second round of Group Play is ready to end this weekend. Then it will be simultaneous doubleheaders starting on Monday. But before we get ahead of ourselves, we have three more tripleheaders through Sunday. ESPN/ESPN Radio and Univision/Univision Deportes will be busy today with games in Curitaba, […]

ESPN TV and Radio World Cup Announcing Assignments Through June 26

We have the announcing assignments for the ESPN Family of Networks from Friday, June 20 through Thursday, June 26. This will mark the end of Group Play as on Monday, there will be simultaneous games from each group both at noon ET and 4 p.m. So there will be four games between Monday, June 23 […]

World Cup Announcing Assignments for June 19, 2014

We go to Day 2 of the second round of Group Play. Once again, it’s a tripleheader on ESPN and Univision. Games will be played in Brasilia, São Paulo and Natal and be in Group C and D. As they did in Rio on Wednesday, Ian Darke and Steve McManaman call the 3 p.m. ET […]

World Cup Announcing Assignments for June 18, 2014

Another tripleheader of games for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. Games in Group A and B today. games are spread from Porto Alegre to Rio de Janeiro to the steambox that is Manaus. Here are the games with the announcers for ESPN/ESPN Radio and Univision/Univision Deportes. All times are Eastern. 11:30 a.m. Australia […]

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