ABC and ESPN to broadcast 2006 World Cup in HD

ABC and ESPN will broadcast their fourth straight World Cup next year and will televise all 64 games in High Definition (HD). The networks will not decide until after the draw on Dec. 9 how to split the games among ABC, ESPN and ESPN2. All games of the tournament, which will be played in Germany from June 9 to July 9, will be broadcast live. For the 2002 World Cup, in Japan and South Korea, 58 games were televised live, with the final on ABC, 16 on ESPN and the rest on ESPN2. Because of the time difference, games were on during the middle of the night on the East Coast.

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