how many people will watch the world cup on televison?
338224
AROUND HALF THE GLOBE!!!! 3 BILLION... CHECK THAT NUMBER!! AMERICANS... ITS THE BEST SPORT IN THE WORLD!!
1179486
I don't think the country is being converted, and frankly don't think it will ever be popular than the major American sports. That being said it's popularity has indeed grown lately. ESPN is playing most of the World Cup matches, and the national sports news reports on the scores from the matches. It was not this way a few years ago, so it is gaining at least some popularity.
534437
yes, there will be several channels transponding the games. i have two satellites that i receive, hotbird and astra. both have lots of free channels, italian, spanish, french and german. if you don't care about the language (I assume not, i don't!) you will be able to see most of the games. search in advance for the following channels (german) ARD, ZDF, RTL, SAT1. i'm pretty sure, that here we get most important games. they are free of charge. if you need the frequencies, give me an email. i get them out of my tv and mail them to you.\nhappy worldcup to all football fans in the world!!! hope you enjoy the games and may the best team win!!
1000606
try watching online:\nhttp://www.chiff.com/recreation/sports/world-cup-2006.htm\nWorld Cup On the Web\n-Online, ESPN360 (http://broadband.espn.go.com/broadband/EBB2/web/shellMain )  will simulcast every match of the 2006 FIFA World Cup that is televised on ESPN and ESPN2 from Friday, June 9 through Sunday, July 9. Also featured will be a live webcast program, including pre-match, halftime and post-match segments, along with exclusive interviews with players, coaches and analysts.\n-BBC will also provide live streaming video for selected games at BBC Sports(http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/world_cup_2006/default.stm )  along with four-minute highlight packages from every single game of the tournament on demand.\n-NDTV is an Indian site that's also webcasting (http://www.ndtv.com/sports/fifa/default.asp  and  http://www.ndtv.com/ndtvvideo/default.asp  )\n\nhttp://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/\nhttp://soccernet.espn.go.com/section?id=worldcup&cc=5901\n\n**SORRY ABOUT THE BAD LINKS BEFORE - THEY SHOULD WORK NOW**
305213
ofcourse The World Cup !!!\nJust ck the number of viewers to get an idea...
1108340
the world cup is the largest and the most watch.  The olympics is very big as well
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try watching online:\nhttp://www.chiff.com/recreation/sports/world-cup-2006.htm\nWorld Cup On the Web\n-Online, ESPN360 (http://broadband.espn.go.com/broadband/EBB2/web/shellMain )  will simulcast every match of the 2006 FIFA World Cup that is televised on ESPN and ESPN2 from Friday, June 9 through Sunday, July 9. Also featured will be a live webcast program, including pre-match, halftime and post-match segments, along with exclusive interviews with players, coaches and analysts. LIMITED WEB PROVIDERS\n-BBC will also provide live streaming video for selected games at BBC Sports(http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/world_cup_2006/default.stm )  along with four-minute highlight packages from every single game of the tournament on demand.\n-NDTV is an Indian site that's also webcasting (http://www.ndtv.com/sports/fifa/default.asp  and  http://www.ndtv.com/ndtvvideo/default.asp  )\n\nhttp://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/\nhttp://soccernet.espn.go.com/section?id=worldcup&cc=5901\n\n**SORRY ABOUT THE BAD LINKS BEFORE**\n**THEY SHOULD WORK NOW**
342298
ABC, ESPN and ESPN2 will show every game of the World Cup!
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Asia : ESPN Star \nAlbania: Digit-Alb \nArgentina: Torneos y Competencias, DirectTV \nAustralia: SBS \nBelgium: Kanaal 2 & VT4 \nBosnia and Herzegovina: PBSBiH \nBrazil: TV Globo \nBulgaria: BNT Channel 1 \nCanada: English - Rogers Sportsnet, TSN, & CTV (HBS International feeds with British voiceover will be aired. BBC/ITV feeds will NOT be used due to cost); French - RDS; Italian, Portuguese, or Spanish - Omni 1 (CFMT-TV 47 Toronto); Cantonese or Mandarin Chinese - Omni 2 (CJMT-TV 69 Toronto); Broadband Internet - rogers.com \nChile: Megavisión, TVN, RED Television \nChina: CCTV-5 \nCosta Rica: Repretel \nCroatia: HRT \nCzech Republic: Česká televize \nDenmark: shared between DR1 and TV 2 \nEstonia: ETV \nFinland: YLE \nFrance: TF1, M6, Canal+, Eurosport France \nGermany: ARD, ZDF, RTL Television and Premiere \nGreece: ERT1, NET \nHong Kong: Cable TV Hong Kong \nHungary: RTL Klub \nIceland: Sýn \nIndonesia: SCTV \nIran: IRIB \nIsrael: Most matches only on pay-per-view. The opening match, and matches from the quarter-final and onwards, will be broadcast by Channel 2 and Channel 10, with the latter broadcasting the final. \nItaly: Sky Italia\nIreland: RTE \nJapan: (Japan Consortium system,all network broadcast) NHK,Nippon TV(NTV),TBS,Fuji Television,TV Asahi,TV Tokyo,SKY PerfecTV!(satellite) \nKosovo: RTK \nLithuania: Lietuvos Radijas ir Televizija \nMalaysia: Astro channel: 8 channels dedicated exclusively to the World Cup. \nMexico: Televisa \nMiddle East: ART World Cup Channel \nNetherlands: Television and radio by Nederlandse Omroep Stichting \nNew Zealand: Sky TV and TV One \nNorway: NRK and TV2 \nParaguay: SNT \nPeru: Andina de Televisión \nPoland: shared between Polsat and TVP \nPortugal: SIC and SportTV \nPuerto Rico: Univision Puerto Rico \nRomania: TVR1 and TVR2 \nSerbia: RTS \nSingapore: Starhub Cable TV \nSlovenia: shared between RTV Slovenija and Kanal A \nSpain: La Sexta and Digital Plus \nSouth Korea: Cable TV \nSweden: \nTV: shared between SVT and TV4  \nRadio: Sveriges Radio \nSwitzerland: SF2 (German), TSR2 (French), TSI2 (Italian) \nUnited Kingdom: \nTV: \nHigh-definition: BBC HD, ITV via Telewest \nStandard definition: shared between BBC, ITV and UKTV G2 \nRadio: BBC Radio Five Live, talkSPORT 1089/1053am & DAB Digital Radio \nUnited States: \nTV: \nHigh-definition: English - ABC HD, ESPN HD, ESPN2 HD \nRegular-definition: English - ABC, ESPN, ESPN2; Spanish-language coverage on Univision and TeleFutura; German-language coverage on Setanta Sports USA; Korean-language coverage on KBS World; French-language coverage on TV5Monde Etats-Unis; Farsi-language coverage on T3 Time \nBroadband Internet: English - ESPN360.com \nRadio: XM Satellite Radio (English and Spanish); Futbol de Primera radio syndication (Spanish) \nVietnam : FPT, VTV and HTV
1019789
if you mean the world cup, it's 4.
720606
Heck yes! I'm definitely gonna watch the World Cup!! Hopefully i'll be partying while watching it! :P
1088860
Practical business strategy. It's the same in a lot of place. \n\nI don't like it but only if FIFA sell the broadcast right only to public TV (Broadcast company where no subscribtion needed) we still have to live with it... since Public TV can't outbid Pay TV/Cable TV
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All the TV rights for the world cup belong once to Direct TV, and then when they Bankrupted in Europe Sky bought all the rights.  All games are supposed to be exclusively for Satellite/Cable subscribers (actually it is supposed to be pay-per-view), however some countries had come to an arrangement with Sky so they can broadcast National Team Games but not the whole World Cup.  There is no broadcasting Internet site TO THIS MOMENT that has an arrangement to broadcast live games.  And i think it will not happen.  So if you don´t want to miss a game, pay for satellite TV or stay with the few games your local TV Network will broadcast.
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ESPN360 braodcasts the World Cup matches LIVE, provided you are accesing through a BROADBAND connection:\n\nhttp://www.espn360.com
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You need to pay for live feeds at ESPN or BBC.\n\nhttp://www.worldcup2006news.net
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IF I HAVE ENOUGH MONEY..BUT I DONT WANT TO WATCH WOLRD CUP, THE TRUTH IS I WANT TO WATCH WORLD CUP..thee..hee
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maybe will eurosport and too much channel