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Social media reports that Fox was a couple of seconds late back from 2nd hydration break with their coverage and missed some of the action. Breaks are “powered by Power Ade”
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Turns out it’s rather light on statistical depth - took 8 minutes to display something other than the starting XI, and 20 minutes to display the data.
Once the 20-minute mark passed, the screen alternated between the two at the bottom.
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Some examples of broadcasters with a little bit of creativity around non-Latin languages.
Not sure why JTBC (full SK rightsholder) went out of their way to make a separate scoreboard, while sublicensee KBS could just tweak the official design and still looks better.
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I notice that JTBC put Mexico on the right of the scorebug, making it South Africa @ Mexico.
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Hong Kong - Chinese translation for graphics outside of the main scoreboard. Had a couple of reporters in US too
Also caught flack online for not airing the Mexico opening ceremony on both ViuTV and paid Now, plus introducing ads during hydration breaks (HK is accustomed to ads only appearing in halftime since ATV in the 90s)
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Actually, the teams are ordered in terms of where they are on the field.
So in the first half, Mexico defending the left-side net and South Africa defending the right-side net, making the scoreboard Mexico vs South Africa. Then they swapped sides in the second half and so did the scoreboard.
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A look inside our FOX studio home for the 2026 FIFA World Cup 🤩@RobStoneONFOX | @CarliLloyd | @clint_dempsey | @stuholden pic.twitter.com/BhGmQY5q0I
— FOX Soccer (@FOXSoccer) June 12, 2026
Meanwhile somewhere in this studio
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We are truly living in the dumbest possible timeline.
The top is the actual Fox broadcast. The bottom is a viral X post that claimed that Fox had to explain what “down to 9 players” means.
(The post was colored that way because I’m not giving it an ounce of legitimacy.)
It has since been picked up by a number of news sources, including in Australia (none other than News Corpse, obviously. Fact-checking is the thing they do after publication.)
Fox now suddenly had a reputation they didn’t deserve. But that’s the internet - no one gives a damn about whether it’s true, it’s just apparently funny. And that’s all that was needed.
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RATINGS! 7.2 MILLION people watched the #WorldCup opening game in the UK last night, as Mexico beat South Africa.
— sᴜᴘᴇʀ ᴛᴠ (@superTV247) June 12, 2026
The second game between South Korea and Czechia kicked off at 3am, meaning figures won’t be released until tomorrow — 2am is the cut-off for overnight ratings. pic.twitter.com/RxHxZ59e7R
No spoilers page from BBC
… how do you find out what’s happened overnight at the World Cup without any spoilers?
Well, we are giving you the chance to do that via World Cup Highlights - BBC iPlayer.
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That’s incorrect.
5.9 million for the full coverage (7.50-10.35pm). 6.6 million for just the match. 7.7 million at peak.
Also ITV’s no.1 program of the year in 16-34 demo with 861k.
I don’t think the actual ‘down to 9 players’ is needed especially when it was 3 red cards in the match. I saw plenty making fun of that and not the fake one.
Except the thumbnails do have spoilers like “cards” and pics of players clearly happy with the outcome. ITVX meanwhile just use text based “MEXvRSA Highlights” thumbnails that giveaway nothing at all.
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In Germany, the World Cup is broadcast in UHD and with the players’ positioning on the field plus other live data during the match itself.
Que pasada.
— GRADA B pro (@GradaBpro) June 12, 2026
En Alemania, el Mundial se retransmite en UHD y con la disposición de los jugadores en el terreno de juego además de otros datos en directo durante e propio partido.
Es directamente un videojuego.pic.twitter.com/EHUy04Yuz5
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The contrast between the broadcasters couldn’t be more stark.
Oh well, ESPN 2030?
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Aren’t they meant to be back 30 seconds or something before the restart?