Fox Soccer Channel and ESPN have been busy in preparation for next summer’s World Cup.
According to SportsBusiness Daily, Fox will be airing two shows. One, “Ticket To South Africa” will feature post-match analysis of the day’s World Cup games. Two, in the run up to tournament, Fox will show “Passport to South Africa,” which will be a mini-series featuring the history of the World Cup.
ESPN, meanwhile, have been spending a lot of money and resources in preparation for next summer’s World Cup. Read the following article to better understand how much of an investment they’re making in fiber technology.
In other World Cup news, ESPN will broadcast the World Cup draw live on December 4, 2009 although the network has yet to decide which channel to show the draw. Univision meanwhile will be broadcasting their coverage online as well as on television.
For all of the details, read the very detailed article from Multichannel News.
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Where can you go to get tickets for 2010 World cup soccer in Africa?
Visit fifa.com for more information.
Cheers,
The Gaffer
Was very excited to become a new ‘football’ fan when I saw ESPN was going to be broadcasting the World Cup. Managed to CHOKE DOWN ONE game but had to turn the volume COMPLETELY OFF because of that bullshit buzzing sound.
Nice going FIFA – I’ll never watch another South African anything that allows those idiots in the stands with those things.
Shame on you, ESPN
They can take their soccer with its weird noise and GO TO HELL!!!!!!!!
What is Fox Soccer Channel TV Schedule For the World Cup starting in June 2010 in South Africa? Thanks.
Fox Soccer Channel will not be showing the World Cup in the United States. Only ESPN and ABC will. The TV schedule is at http://www.worldcupbuzz.com/world-cup-tv-schedule/ Enjoy!
Cheers,
The Gaffer
We were wating for this World Cub broadcast for weeks. Now due to this horrible buzzing noise, we cannot even watch the games.
We are earnestly requesting you to stop the noise so that we can enjoy the games.
ESPN or FIFA, do something about the horrible buzzing sound. ESPN, i know you paid tons of money to showcase this event and sell advertisemnts. With this noise, many watchers are going to watch with the sound turned off. Either filter it out so we can hear the crowd and the announcers, or talk to FIFA about banning the horns at the stadium.
The buzzing sound has made the games unwatchable. The World Cup should never be played in South Africa again.
I just finished shutting it off. No way I want to listen to that stupid noise at the end of the day. What a joke!
I tried watching the first 2 games but that droning noise drives me crazy. My girlfriend agrees & we will not be watching any more games if this continues. This is unfortunate since the world cup is only played every few years. I imagine people didnt see this one coming.
If you are one of the people in the stadium that is making that annoying buzzing sound, PLEASE STOP. You have taken stupidity to a new level. What you guys are doing is not cute or creative, everyone around the world hates it. Do not be surprised if you continue this and world cup never ever ever ever comes back to your conuntry.
Going deaf world cup fan
that bee noise is driving me crazy.i cant even enjoy the game,cant hear the commentators.please filter the sound
how unfortunate that soccer fans managed to spoil soccer for us. World cup is only every 4 years, it takes so much for teams to make it there. I cant stand watching with that studpid buzzing horn. these are the words best teams, and we are missing out. FIFA BAN THE DAMN HORNS. And Brazil thanks for starting this studpid fad. Now please collect all of them and keep and play them at all your local games and elections.
Hi all,
I am watching the world cup on french channels here and we are having the buzz noise as well. From where is that noise coming???
Won’t be watching many games unless they can do soemthing about that damned droning noise!
Surely there is a way for ESPN to stop the noise so we can enjoy watching the games.
How in the world the organizers accept this horrible noise. I am watching the games in mute mode, but I am thinking of just turning the TV off.
South Africa has Ruined the World Cup with that incesant buzzing noise. !!!It is horrible!!! They can stop this bullshit …now!!
Put the announcers in a soundproof room so we don’t have to hear that beastly noise! Do something now.
Watching the games on Univision. The buzzing is less and, even though I don’t understand Spanish, the announcers are more entertaining.
THE NOISE IS AWFUL…someone twitter it and hopefully the word will get out… IT TOTALLY RUINS THE VIEWING EXPERIENCE when watching games on TV!! FIFA…DO SOMETHING IN A HURRY!!!
ENGLAND VS USA tonight…the viewers will complain and you need to capture this market early on!!! FIX THE ISSUE
Whiners! You’d think the world revolves around you and your desires. This isn’t tennis. And it’s BS that the announcers cannot be heard because of the drone. I can hear them just fine. STFU and turn it off then. It won’t be anyone’s loss but your own.
looks like you are in a minority of one dude. Enjoy your bee hive, I am going to watch something vastly more entertaining anyway, reruns of American football, without the beehive.
And I quote:
“the only annoying sound of the vuvuzela, is the sound of someone complaining about it.”
And actually, anyone who attended American football games in the 1960′s remembers these (admittedly before they were banned). I owned a blue one. So yes, to me there’s a certain nostalgic charm.
Blow on, South Africa, blow on!
Blow on South Africa it is the craziest estatement I have ever heard
stop it
your culture is much better than bothering a wall of fans
stop the stupid noise
whiners??? Yes, ESPN does revolve around us and so does ABC because our money pays the ads and if your customer doesn’t like it – shut it off. It’s annoying as hell and 5 potential soccer fans just turned it off because its stupid and juvenile and NO, we aren’t missing out on anything. THEY are missing out on viewers, ad dollars and potential fans. The 60′s???? The EFFIN’ 60′s??? ARE YOU KIDDING! 50 years ago?? Yea, why we dont hear them anymore – they were stupid then and they are stupid now.
“THEY are missing out on viewers, ad dollars and potential fans.”
Rubbish. Pure and simple. Only in your far fetched sense of reality could this be even remotely considered as factual.
Oh, and guess what? It’s not gonna stop. Because of this, I suppose your head will explode while stuck up your arse. As I said, blow on South Africa!
“It’s annoying as hell and 5 potential soccer fans just turned it off because its stupid and juvenile and NO, we aren’t missing out on anything. THEY are missing out on viewers, ad dollars and potential fans.”
All of five football fans turned it off? Right. And 5,000 more turned it on. (See, I can spout unsubstantiated numbers too.) Net gain to ESPN/ABC. As a matter of fact, I hope those 4,995 viewers just enjoyed USA and England playing to a draw as much as I did.
Deal with the horns or turn it off. But to think that FIFA and broadcasters will ban the vuvuzela given that it’s such a part of SA football culture is naive. And immature. Just like your fixation on my comments about the horns being used at 60′s American football games. Earth to Micheal: “I am older than you.”
“It’s annoying as hell and 5 potential soccer fans just turned it off because its stupid and juvenile and NO, we aren’t missing out on anything. THEY are missing out on viewers, ad dollars and potential fans.”
All of 5 potential fans turned it off? Right. And 5,000 more turned it on. (see I can spout unsubstantiated numbers too) Net gain to ESPN/ABC. I hope these 4,995 viewers enjoyed USA and England playing to a draw as much as I did.
To think that FIFA and the broadcasters will ban the vuvuzela, something so much a part of SA football spectator culture, is naive. And immature. Just like your comments about the 60′s, which I only mentioned to illustrate the history of the horn. Earth to Micheal: “I am older than you.”
I have to admit. I cannot watch the games with the annoying buzzing sound.
Don’t blame it on the fans. I heard this buzzing sound oon ESPN long before the worldcup, maybe a year ago. this buzzing has nothing to do with the horn at all, and if you goolge this issue, you’ll see that people have complained about it for years. It is the technology to blaim
Another reason why AMERICAN football is better than soccer, you wont hear this crap in the USA
WOW! Searched on Google to find out more about the annoying noise at the World Cup and see that I’m not alone!! Its horrible! Something needs to be done fast. I cant watch any more.
Well add a 6th, and I’m sure not the last, to turn off the buzz. My friend had just convinced me to start following this world-wide event but the noise has COMPLETELY turned me off. It’s just BAD culture, business, technology, planning – whatever you call it – IT STINKS. I will not watch as long as the BUZZ is present.
What a colossal blunder to allow that buzzing during the coverage. I am not a huge soccer fan but was looking forward to watching and getting into it. LOL Not now. What a joke. Everyone is making fun of ESPN.
The noise is there and annoying (learnmedia). Be honest with yourself about it. That said, I do admire the time you have spent defending your own opinion with such tenacity! If I was able to have that much time and heart to spend dismantling another person’s point of view, I would consider myself an “arse” (aka ass, depending which side of the pond you’re on).
Therefore, you are either: old (i.e. your bringing up football from the 60s, and I’m still not sure if you mean USA football, or futball), or else you are just grumpy (i.e. because you are old and can’t hear the noise so you don’t understand what everyone else is talking about), or maybe, you are just bored and need something to complain about.
Either way, I too respect other cultures, so each to there own. So next time try not to preach and act as though you are some kind of humanitarian for South Africa after blatantly disrespecting another persons personal belief and view.
AND YES, THESE HORNS ARE DISTRACTING from us watching another tie game. I MISS NFL FOOTBALL!!!!
wow – just got some free time away from the kids and wife, sat down figured i’d watch some world cup… couldn’t last more than 2 minutes with that annoying buzzing noise… it’s so bad – now i’m going out to do yardwork instead and will just enjoy the NBA Lakers v Celtics tonite
Also watched something other than soccer-cannot take the annoying buzz. Is it the horns or something else?
I was just starting to enjoy soccer and trying to understand it when I tuned in ESPN’S World Cup Soccer and heard this constant awful buzzing noise. I tried watching it on MUTE, but gave up after a few minutes.
What does ESPN plan to to about it? It’s really discouraging for new fans like me.
I remember this pathetic drone from the 70′s when Pele was playing.
Probably when the world cup was being hosted in south america.
It is just about bearable if you forget about it and it becomes a sort of world cup ambience – but when you focus on the damned drone it makes watching unbearable.
The world cup officials and that moron above going by the name learnmedia need to get their act together.
I would bet that moron learnmedia is half-deaf from repeated working in a loud factory. He probably can only just hear the drone so his opinion is indeed an opinion of ONE.
BTW oh mighty learnmedia, countless viewers are turning off the football (soccer to you) because of this pathetic unnecessary joke of a drone and your drone just adds to the irritation
its funny actually. They pushed the media real hard to try to get people to watch fifa because americans are not big on soccer…then they let fans play those stupid horns, and now no one wants to watch!! I MIGHT be willing to watch some soccer if not for that buzzzzzzzzzzzz. No thanks. The yankees are on, and they score much more than soccer, without the noise.
The buzzing noise at the soccer world games is ridiculous, cant the networks cancel it out some how so the TV listeners dont have to hear it.
Horns really degrade TV viewing of the beautiful game !
Ban the darned vuvuzela. I have been waiting for 4 years to watch the World Cup, and now I can’t watch it. That noise is just so annoying. Ridiculous. If you can’t ban it, at least put a filter on it, so it isn’t heard on TV. I use noise canceling headphones on airplanes so that I don’t have to hear that sound. Can’t the same technology be applied to the games on TV?
we here in Japan just pretend we have bees. It is good to have bees and soccer don’t you think?
well , i cant believe fifa and indeed the organisers are doing nothing about that awful bee noise , its entirely ruining the pleasure of watching , every one hate it ..plssss stop it fifa
@learnmedia you are a complete and utter tool if you think that sound is even remotely enjoyable or endearing. I am nearly half deaf myself but even so, I can not watch the matches without the TV muted because the sound gives me a massive headache. I can assure you that if you or anybody else were to use one of those wretched noisemakers around me while I was attending an (American rules) football game, you would quickly find it lodged in your rectum.
FIFA really needs to do something about those things. Respecting the local culture is one thing but not when the local culture is completely ruining so many people’s enjoyment of the game.
For everyone who is complaining about the buzzing sound, get over it. It just goes to show how spoiled everyone is. Everything has to be so perfect that we can’t learn to tolerate anything that is not to our liking, even the most insignificant things.
@guy I would hardly call that infernal buzzing “insignificant” when it’s giving some of us massive headaches.
Don’t get so upset everyone, soccer is crappy with buzzing horns or without. Manchester United is the ONLY cool team to watch on TV here in the U.S. But the crocdile dundee buzzing horns are an epic FAIL.
Please STOP THE VUVUZELAs! You’re ruining your own show. The biggest buzz right now is not about the venue or the matches, its about the annoyance the horns bring.
Bssssssszzzzzzzz – making people deaf and this is a great concern for me thinking of my son flying to S.A. next Friday to watch Australia : Serbia. My mother from overseas rang me this afternoon, telling me about ear plugs being sold out in Johannesburg and surroundings due to the bee noise in the stadiums and that I should tell my son to buy some ear plugs BEFORE he leaves. That’s just unbelievable!!!
oh yea, forgot something: We watch some of the matches on SBS (in Australia) and the buzzing sound is there as well, so I guess it has nothing to do with ESPN. That’s just the horns from the majority of fans. Don’t know what got into them but I guess part of their excitement to be there plays some sort of role. People get a little bit crazy when excited. I’m glad that I’m not going to S.A. I was thinking though to visit Brasil in 4 years because I haven’t been to South America yet and this would be a nice reason (especially for my boys who just looooove soccer). Now that I’ve read that the horn buzzing idea might originate from Brazilian soccer fans, well, I’m not so sure anymore of flying there anymore……
These annoying horns are probably made in China and slathered with some cancer-causing paint. Maybe these morons with their double-digit I.Q.’s will have their lips fall off before World Cup 2014.
Ban the stupid horns – they are wrecking the World Cup
CNN just had a piece on it. And FIFA says “relax…it makes the games sound African”. Ya…. “A.Frican” irritating thing to watch. The organizers are saying that we should stop trying to euopeanize everything!
I’m from Canada and I’d like to tell them where to put these horns.
Turned it OFF. The buzzing horns were awful! Won’t watch again.
I can’t believe how IRRITATING that noise is. I watched 5 minutes of it and that was enough. Count me out too!
I’ve never been a soccer fan, but I thought I would watch a little of the WC games. Big mistake! After a minute, I hit the mute button, and then a few minutes later, tuned into another program. Those horns must be what they use to make people confess to crimes they haven’t committed.
I don’t understand how the people in the stands can enjoy the game with this awful noise. For that matter, if you’re blowing on one of those obnoxious horns constantly, how can you even watch the game?
This will just confirm Americans’ opinion that any sport where players fall to the ground in fake agony when they are barely touched and where the game can end in a 0-0 tie, is not much of a sport.
LOL. Just having moved and not having my TV hooked up for the last 2 weeks (I’ve been busy with work anyway) kept me out of the loop. I’m a HUGE fan of ALL sports and watched pretty much every match of the ’06 WC. I just BINGed the buzzing noise and quickly found this “venting” thread. You all crack me up. I understand both sides of the issue. The buzzing noise is DEFINITELY annoying but it is there and if the networks filter it out (I’ve designed digital audio filters before and it’d be a piece of cake for ESPN / ABC to minimize it) you miss out on what is really happening at the event.
So I say watch, listen, and appreciate the local and world sports culture you are fortunate enough to be experiencing – even if it is really annoying.
I watched the end of the Kiwi / Slovak match this morning and it was a VERY exciting finish. Worth dealing with the buzz!
Cheers! GO U.S.A.!!
:p
Blow all you want, but for TV, just filter out that band of sound.
i was looking so forward to world cup…….watched for less than 5 minutes and flipped it off…..we went to watch the houston dynamo game last night…..it was so nice……i’m finished with world cup as long as that annoying crap drones on
I Hate the noise they are making it totally takes away all of the attention on the game it sounds like a huge nest of Killer Bees .What were they thinking Never go back to there
I think that all of you landon donoputa fans (americans) are wimps. Just shutup and deal with the noise, or turn off your tv. And by the way, espn doesn’t care if a few people stop watching the world cup. They’re still making a shitload of money.