FIFA World Cup on ABC

Country

United States

How it feels

This series is the ABC television network's coverage of the FIFA World Cup soccer tournament. It shows the matches and highlights from the World Cup games broadcast to American audiences from 1970 through 2014.

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What happens

FIFA World Cup on ABC is the branding used for presentations of the FIFA World Cup produced by the American Broadcasting Company television network in the United States. ABC first broadcast World Cup matches in 1970, when they aired week-old filmed highlights shown on ABC's Wide World of Sports. ABC next broadcast the 1982 FIFA World Cup Final. Beginning in 1994, ABC was the official American network broadcaster of the World Cup up through 2014. ABC also broadcast the FIFA Women's World Cup in 1999 and 2003; Fox took over the American World Cup TV broadcasts in 2011, which took effect in 2015. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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