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Any Station Offering Extensive Coverage of World's Biggest Sports Event?

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Barry

With the World Cup set to get underway today, I wonder whether there will be any play by play, or at least extended discussion of the games on stations in New York.
I would expect that this will occur on at least one of the Spanish language stations, perhaps WPAT FM. But I am not aware of any plans for extended coverage in English. According to the Los Angeles Times, the ESPN radio station there will be covering every game played by the U.S. and Mexican teams. Will any similar programming be available here?
If not, at least the games will be available on Sirius XM.
 
I remember listening to a few World Cup games in 2006 on 87.7, the audio of the ABC station in Philly. Now that it's digital, that's not happening anymore.
 
Nick said:
I remember listening to a few World Cup games in 2006 on 87.7, the audio of the ABC station in Philly. Now that it's digital, that's not happening anymore.
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Man that's one thing I do miss, picking up WPVI's audio from the shore when I wasn't in front of the TV or watching the webstream.
 
As part of ESPN obtaining the USA rights to broadcast the World Cup on TV & radio:

http://espn.go.com/espnradio/show?showId=espnradioworldcup to hear all games online - check "station directory" tab to see both FIFA World Cup channels in case 2 games overlap each other.

Some of these games (such as the matches the U.S.A. team is involved in, such as Saturday's game vs. England) will air on 1050 ESPN Radio (WEPN) New York. Looks like games will air on weekends and other "non-critical" hours. There's also a "FIFA World Cup Weekly" 1 hour show airing a couple of times (late night/early morning).

1050 ESPN's weekly schedule: http://espn.go.com/new-york/radio/schedule

Saturday 6/12/10: 7am Korea-Greece; 9:30am Argentina-Nigeria; 2pm USA-England
Sunday 6/13/10: 7am Algeria-Slovenia; 9:30am Serbia-Ghana; 2am Germany-Australia
 
Imagine if the final were on a weekday afternoon. I can't imagine ESPN booting Michael Kay to air the game. In that situation, they'd be better off bumping the coverage to Radio Disney/1560 AM. Maybe they can pay "The Apple"/970 AM to air it. Who knows, maybe they might get better ratings than what they would normally air at that time...
 
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