Telemundo Presents Its Programming For Russia

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

The Telemundo network presented this Wednesday the programming for the World Cup in Russia next year, which will give all its 64 matches and which will be covered by a team headed by the renowned sports narrator Andrés Cantor.

Those responsible for the chain assured in a conference call with the press that they will offer more than 500 hours of programming throughout the tournament, which will start on June 14 and end on July 15 with the grand final to be played in Moscow.

"I have no doubt that we will break records," said Cantor, who accumulates behind him the coverage of nine world cups and is the main face of the team that Telemundo will move to Russia to live the competition live.

Along with the Argentine journalist will appear, among others, his colleagues from Telemundo Deportes Sammy Sadovnik, Ana Jurka, Miguel Gurwitz and Karum Mendiburu. The analysis will be provided by former soccer players such as the Mexican Carlos Hermosillo, the Argentine Juan Pablo Sorín, the Uruguayan Sebastián el Loco Abreu, the Chilean-Argentine Claudio Borghi and the Costa Rican Rolando Fonseca, in addition to the Colombian Juan Pablo Ángel and the Mexican Manuel Sol.

The responsibility of judging the work of the referees will be borne by former Argentine colleague Horacio Elizondo, who was the referee of the 2006 World Cup final in Germany in which he showed the red card to the French star Zinedine Zidane for giving a header to the Italian Marco Materazzi.

The chain pointed out that 56 of the 64 meetings can be seen live on Telemundo and the remaining eight on the Universo channel. In addition, all can be followed by the application and the Telemundo Deportes website.

To this is added a daily program, in prime time, in which each World Cup will be analyzed and commented.

Telemundo, which in 2011 managed to snatch for the first time from its rival Univision the broadcasting rights in Spanish of a World Cup, claims to have bet strongly to achieve historical audience numbers, both on television and on digital platforms.

In this sense, its managers pointed out that the absence of the United States from the World Cup, after its resounding failure in the qualification stage, they do not expect to affect interest in the largest sporting event on the planet.

The starting gun for the World Cup before the ball rolls will take place on Friday in Moscow with the draw for the 8 groups that will include the 32 countries that will play the first phase.