FIFA World Cup 2010 in South Africa
- ITV to broadcast 32 live games through tournament including England’s two opening games in peak time
- Adrian Chiles leads an ITV World Cup team including Marcel Desailly, Patrick Viera, Edgar Davids, Kevin Keegan, Gareth Southgate, Lucas Radebe, Andy Townsend, Robbie Earle, Jim Beglin and Craig Burley.
- ITV.com launches a new dual screen experience for the World Cup – ITV Live – combining action replays, real-time statistics, voting tools social networking
- World Cup programming includes the new James Corden’s World Cup Live on ITV1 and ITV4
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ITV1 and ITV1 HD kick off coverage of the 2010 FIFA World Cup from South Africa, with live coverage of from the opening game on June 11th through to the World Cup Final on July 11th. England’s opening two games, against the USA on June 12th and Algeria on June 18th, will both be broadcast live on ITV1 and ITV1 HD.
Adrian Chiles will front ITV’s coverage of the World Cup, with Matt Smith also presenting some games and highlights programmes. They will be joined by a team of experts that includes Marcel Desailly, Patrick Viera, Edgar Davids, Kevin Keegan, Gareth Southgate, Lucas Radebe, Andy Townsend, Robbie Earle and Craig Burley. For ITV’s coverage of the opening ceremony and match, the team will also be joined by another of South Africa’s great sporting legends, Francois Pienaar.
ITV’s World Cup coverage will be presented from a specially constructed studio overlooking Johannesburg’s stunning Soccer City, the venue for matches including the opening game and the Final, and the skyline of South Africa’s largest city. ITV’s live World Cup coverage and highlights will be anchored from the studio, whilst ITV’s commentary team including Clive Tyldesley, Peter Drury and Jon Champion, will live at the match venues. ITV1 will broadcast a comprehensive one-hour highlights programme on every tournament match day.
ITV Sport’s Gabriel Clarke will be based with the England camp; Ned Boulting and Kelly Cates will report the latest news throughout the tournament across South Africa; and Jim Rosenthal will be based inside the match venues for the big games where he will be joined by special guests. ITV Sport’s reporting team will be working with outside broadcast technology allowing them to report live into programming at any time.
For the first time, all of ITV1’s live games will be broadcast in full ‘native’ high definition on the new ITV1 HD channel, available on the Freesat, Freeview, Sky HD, and Virgin Media platforms.