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Univision pulling an ESPN

MarcB

MarcB

With 2 World Cup Soccer Games Scheduled for both 930AM and 200PM Eastern, ESPN will carry one game and ESPN2 will carry the other. Univision which carries the games en Espanol is doing the same thing. 1 game will air at 930 and 2PM on Univision and the second game will air on their sister network Telefutura. My only thing is I don't think Telefutura is in as many homes as Univision is. Here in Connecticut Univision is on Channel 18 on Xfinity (Comcast), while Telefutura is all the way up on Channel 296. Telefutura which is Channel 18.3 is not available on COX Cable.
 
Here in the Tampa Bay area, with both on full powered signals (Univision on WVEA and Telefutura on WFTT), we're more lucky -- on Bright House in Pinellas, Univision is on cable 7 and Telefutura is on cable 5, with an anglophone station (MNTV affil WTTA) separating the two at cable 6.
 
They also did this the previous couple of World Cups. I remember in 1998 prior to Telefutura's existence they would simply air the game they didn't show in a condensed 1-hour format after it happened.
 
In Phoenix one game is being aired in HD on the primary (33.1 - Univision) and the second game on 33.2 in SD. There is a noticeable difference in the quality of video and audio between the two signals. Both are en Espanol.

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!! ;D
 
MarcB said:
With 2 World Cup Soccer Games Scheduled for both 930AM and 200PM Eastern, ESPN will carry one game and ESPN2 will carry the other. Univision which carries the games en Espanol is doing the same thing. 1 game will air at 930 and 2PM on Univision and the second game will air on their sister network Telefutura.
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Marc, this is no different than if TBS were carrying one NBA playoff game, and sister network TNT were carrying another... even if TBS had to interrupt an episode of "Family Guy" to carry one of them because the other was running very long...
 
DToTheJ said:
MarcB said:
With 2 World Cup Soccer Games Scheduled for both 930AM and 200PM Eastern, ESPN will carry one game and ESPN2 will carry the other. Univision which carries the games en Espanol is doing the same thing. 1 game will air at 930 and 2PM on Univision and the second game will air on their sister network Telefutura.
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Marc, this is no different than if TBS were carrying one NBA playoff game, and sister network TNT were carrying another... even if TBS had to interrupt an episode of "Family Guy" to carry one of them because the other was running very long...
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And with ESPN that means shuffling everything around (Cowherd on TV nowhere to be found and Mike & Mike were demoted to ESPN Classic one morning this past week)
 
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