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Where to Watch World Cup 2010 Online

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World Cup 2010 begins on June 11th. ABC TV and ESPN announced that between the two stations all games will be aired. Check your local listings. In addition, there are many places to watch live streams of the games online. ESPN3: All the games will be streamed live on ESPN3.com.

Univision and TeleFutura will cary all the games live, in HD and stream them on UnivisionFutbol.com

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT WORLD CUP ONLINE

The World Cup has now surpassed Barack Obama’s election as the biggest event in the history of the Web. On day 1 of the football championship, the number of Web visitors per minute soared. Even now, worldwide Web traffic is well above normal. The highest peaks since inception of the Net Usage Index for News (August 18, 2005), based on total visitors per minutes. The following data ranks the top peaks, and the corresponding events that were taking place in the world at the time.

Date
Peak Visitors per Minute
Compelling News Event*
Jun. 11,  2010 12,078,868 Day 1 of 2010 World Cup Championships
Nov. 4,  2008 8,572,042 Barack Obama is victorious in historic presidential election
June 22, 2006 7,283,584 U.S. eliminated by Ghana in World Cup
Mar. 20,  2008 7,008,325 Day One of U.S. College Basketball 2008 Playoffs Coverage

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Jake June 23, 2010 at 9:27 pm

Awesome. I’ve been watching the world cup non-stop with these links. Thanks again!

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Jude June 26, 2010 at 1:22 pm

thanks for posting this information. i’m here everyday to watch the world cup. thanks again….

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