Comments on: ESPN & ABC to Televise Euro 2008 Matches in US

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 04:45:00 +0000

They had HD for the World Cup, so I don’t see why they wouldn’t have it again for Euro 2008. Particularly, if they are sending announcers out there. And you know what that means more

DAVE O’BRIEN!!!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 21:39:00 +0000

Oliver Tse, if you are correct (source?) this is great news. We won’t be tortured by baseball commentators on Euro’08! And we get to watch the torunament for free, instead of paying $200 on p-p-v.

By: Oliver Tse

Oliver Tse — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 21:01:00 +0000

ESPN International was the business unit of ESPN that did the Euro 2008 TV contract for both the U.S. and Latin America.

The production of Euro 2008 for U.S. consumption will be handled by ESPN International's production team.

That means the ESPN Australia/ESPN New Zealand soccer announcers that we in the U.S. hear when we watch the UEFA Champions League on ESPN2 and ESPN Classic, i.e. Derek Rae, Tommy Smyth, Adrian Healey, Seamus Malin, Janucz Mihallic, etc. will be in the mix if they are still employed by ESPN by 2008.

By: mike

mike — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 04:37:00 +0000

Good news, but will the games be in HDTV??? Please say yes!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 00:03:00 +0000

Anybody BUT Balboa/O’Brien. These guys are footballing retards!
The Shamus guy who is the commentator for the 5 pm ESPN Classic Champions League games is not bad. Derek Rae is tolerable. Tommy Smith has an annoying voice, but he is quite entertaining.
Come on-there must be 3-4 good journalists in this country who will not force the audience to turn down the volume while watching football.