So for the next month, my productivity will probably be lower, as the Football World Cup and Wimbledon goes on…and since most of the matched for both the tournaments will be webcast live online, even in U.S. (yep! we’re catching up to BBC, slowly) all the better.
— On World Cup, ESPN & ABC are showing most of the matches on TV, and ESPN360, the broadband application, is webcasting the soccer matches (only on Verizon and Adelphia, about which Variety is not that thrilled). Since I have Adelphia, that’s what I’ll be doing on my new-ish Viiv PC. Some more on what ESPN and other are doing online in terms of coverage, read this MarketWatch story.
— Meanwhile, on Wimbledon, MediaZone has bought the U.S. rights, and will be webcasting most of the tennis matches, live. About 150 matches will be webcast live and then archived for on-demand. The cost: $24.95 for tennis fans who pay during the tournament, or $19.95 on an early-bird basis for fans who pay before the matches begin. A day pass will sell for about $5.00. Users in some regions such as China will be able to pay less, but the geoblocking technology will enable MediaZone to keep U.S. fans from accessing the matches through the cheaper territories.
P.S.: I’m sorry, I refuse to call is “soccer”…for me and the majority of the world, it is football. For some time, I tried calling it that, and realized I was deceiving myself…for me, “soccer” is the watered down version of the sport played here in U.S. Ok…I now invited the flames…go ahead.
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