The 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil - Australia TV Broadcast Guide
   
May 17 2014

The World Cup coverage in Australia kicks-off with the opening match between hosts Brazil and Croatia at 5:30am AEST on Friday, June 13 LIVE on SBS ONE.

The World Cup on TV in Australia

The Socceroos kick-off their campaign vs Chile at 7:30am AEST on Saturday, June 14 which will be LIVE on SBS ONE. The next Australia match is against the Netherlands at 1:30am AEST on Thursday, June 19 LIVE on SBS ONE, and then Spain at 1:30am AEST on Tuesday, June 24th LIVE on SBS ONE.

All 64 World Cup matches will be live online in Australia. The matches will be available via The SBS World Game website & SBS World Cup app. The live streams will be interactive and enable users to watch matches from six different angles, and up to four feeds simultaneously. Full match replays and the multi-angle replay functionality will be available on-demand. Television coverage of the event will be offered by SBS ONE, SBS ONE HD and SBS TWO.

All matches will be available LIVE with the exception on Match Day 3 of the group stages, where the third game will be premiered on SBS ONE rather than aired live. Australia’s Matches will be aired exclusively on SBS ONE & SBS ONE HD. The matches will also be available via Audio/Radio streaming via SBS Radio.

(Please note that this document will be updated in an on-going basis as new information is released by the broadcasters)



Below is a breakdown of the World Cup broadcast coverage in Australia across all platforms:

Watch the World Cup on TV in Australia:
•SBS ONE, SBS ONE HD and SBS TWO will combine to deliver the World Cup matches live with English language commentary. ONE match for each group on Match Day 3 will be premiered on SBS ONE immediately after the live match ends.
•SBS TWO will broadcast The FIFA World Cup Show live from Rio de Janeiro. The show will be hosted by Les Murray and Craig Foster, and will air every night at 9:30pm AEST with match highlights, analysis, interviews, features and the latest World Cup news.
•NITV will broadcast a one hour match-of-the-day highlights show throughout the tournament at 8:30pm AEST on Saturday and Monday evenings.

Watch the World Cup live online and on-demand in Australia:
•All 64 matches will be available live online via The World Game website. The live streams will offer unique interactivity with multi-streams featuring six unique camera angles. Viewers can watch up to four simultaneous feeds. The website will offer on-demand replays of all 64 matches with the multi-angle functionality.
•All 64 matches will be available to watch live and on-demand on the SBS World Cup App which will offer the same functionality and interactivity as the website. The World Cup app is available for both Android and iOS devices.

Listen to the World Cup on Australian Radio:
•SBS Radio 1, SBS Radio 2, SBS Radio 3 and SBS Radio 4 will combine to offer live audio streaming of all the 2014 World Cup matches in Australia. You can tune into the SBS Radio channels on radio, web or through the SBS Radio apps available for devices on both iOS and Android platforms.
•Australia matches will be available on SBS Radio 1 and SBS Radio 2.
•SBS Radio 3 and SBS Radio 4 will offer multi-language broadcasts of the live World Cup matches.

The SBS World Cup Rights also cover the locations of American Samoa, Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Micronesia, Nauru, New Zealand, Niue, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Vanuatu.

A full Australian broadcast listing of all the matches will be appended to this article, but for specific match details and international listings please visit our 2014 World Cup Section.


Chile vs Australia


Date/Time: June 14, 20148:00am
Competition: FIFA World Cup
Live/Repeat: Live
Venue: Arena Pantanal (Cuiabá, Mato Grosso)

http://www.livesoccertv.com/news/10000/the-2014-fifa-world-cup-brazil-australia-broadcast-guide/

Edited by Joffa: 16/6/2014 10:58:17 AM

the *expletive* final is on at 4pm local time, and 3 am Australia time to accommodate for the Eurocentric audience

Personally I would have preferred a night final so the Australia/ Asian audience can watch it first thing in the morning

but no, the Euro snobs dont want a piece of that thought

Keen4streamz

-PB

Agree it's the biggest load of shit, if they played it at 5:30-6pm local time, all the major markets would have it in favorable slots rather than the middle of the fucking night and East Asia/Australia could at least have it first thing in the morning. Asian Broadcasters from the likes of China, Japan and South East Asia need to start working as a collective in these things like Sky does in Europe.

I personally think Soccer doesnt give a shit about its Asian / Australian market, what with stuff like UCL finals on in the middle of the night, while America is an unfriendly timezone to Australia its great that the Americans play most of their sports at night so we can watch it first thing in the morning - > lunch time over here

Are Australia playing their matches at night time so at least we can watch the Socceroos matches first thing in the morning?

The final is actually on at 5am AEST. The times do suck, but 5am and 8am should be ok (especially since everyone at work seems to be on board)

In an ever globalising world where sport is on 24 7 the so-called world cup or the world's biggest event will lose its lustre by failing to modernise to accommodate for all time zones of the world

Fuck you fifa and sepp blatter

Now im predicting some amazing soccer with ronaldo and messi tearing up the tournament to their euroratings

Too bad I will be sleeping through most of it

I'd rather wake up early in the morning than be stuck at work watching on a shitty stream or listening on the radio, but that's me.

http://www.sbs.com.au/aboutus/news-media-releases/view/id/884/h/MEDIA-RELEASE-SBS-ANNOUNCES-BIGGEST-BEST-WORLD-CUP-PROGRAMMING-SCHEDULE

MEDIA RELEASE: SBS ANNOUNCES BIGGEST & BEST WORLD CUP PROGRAMMING SCHEDULE

Thursday, 29 May

News Release

SBS has today announced its complete slate of programming for the 2014 FIFA World CupTM season with more news, analysis and features than ever before; a show dedicated to the Socceroos and the live online streaming of all 64 matches for the first time.

The programming line-up features key entertainment and factual programming to complement the network’s live and exclusive match coverage and multi-platform offering across TV, online, mobile, tablet and radio.

Helen Kellie, Chief Content Officer, SBS said: “The 2014 FIFA World Cup™ will mesmerise Australians through June and July as the world spotlight shines on Brazil, and at SBS we’ve built a well-earned reputation for our first-class production and presentation.

For over 25 years SBS has brought the World Cup to the living rooms of all Australians and we are incredibly proud and passionate about doing so again this year, with this truly pinnacle global sporting event.

In 2014 we are excited to deliver our biggest, best comprehensive multi-platform programming line-up which will give every Australian the chance to experience the World Cup of a lifetime.

Our programming line-up offers something for all Australians – from live match coverage and news, to new entertainment, movies and landmark documentary series to inspire, challenge and entertain audiences throughout the 2014 World Cup season on SBS.”

Ken Shipp, Director of Sport at SBS said: “For the 2014 FIFA World Cup SBS will be providing more content across more platforms than ever before, making it our biggest World Cup yet. And I'm prepared to say no other media organisation anywhere in the world will offer the depth of coverage SBS will offer."

SBS Media has signed six FIFA World CupTM broadcast partners: Hyundai, Nike, Kia, TAB.com.au, Samsung and TPG.

Adam Sadler, National Sales Manager, SBS Media said: “The response to the FIFA World Cup has been extremely positive and it’s fantastic to have Hyundai, Kia, Nike, Tab.com.au, Samsung and TPG join SBS for what will be the biggest sporting event in 2014. We have been working closely with our partners to develop a number of innovative activations that will come to life during our coverage”.

Andrew Cook, Director of Sales, SBS Media said: “For the first time ever, SBS has secured exclusive broadcast rights across TV, radio, online, tablet and mobile. This means more opportunities for audiences to engage with SBS’s World Cup content and more opportunities for our broadcast partners to align with our exclusive coverage.”

2014 FIFA World CupTM
Every match of the 2014 FIFA World CupTM will be live and exclusive on SBS with over 700 hours of coverage dedicated to the world’s biggest single sporting event. Les Murray and Craig Foster will be based in Brazil, while David Zdrilic and Lucy Zelic will host matches from SBS’s Sydney studio. They will be joined throughout the tournament by former Australian footballers John Aloisi, Jason Culina, Ned Zelic, Clint Bolton, Zeljko Kalac and Aytek Genc. SBS Reporters David Basheer, Scott McIntyre and Vitor Sobral will be pitch side to deliver the latest match news direct from Brazil.

All the latest World Cup news, match highlights, analysis and features can be seen every night in The FIFA World Cup Show (9:30pm Thursday 12 June to Sunday 13 July on SBS 2). Hosted by Les Murray and Craig Foster live from Rio de Janeiro, it provides a look at the colour and excitement from Brazil on and off the pitch with special guests including Brazilian-born SBS lifestyle presenter Fernanda de Paula.

For the very first time, SBS will have a show dedicated to the Socceroos as they aim for World Cup glory. Hosted by David Basheer from the Socceroos training camp in Brazil, The Socceroos Show (6:30pm Thursday 12 June to Saturday 28 June on SBS ONE) will feature exclusive interviews with players and coaching staff plus the latest news and updates from the team.

Mariana Rudan will bring fans a full run down of what happened in Brazil overnight with FIFA World Cup Morning News (from 7am Friday 13 June to Monday 14 July), including match highlights, interviews and the latest reactions from around the world.

Entertainment
SBS’s new daily prime-time entertainment show will see comedian and football tragic Jimeoin go The Full Brazilian (nightly, 7:30pm from Friday 13 June on SBS ONE and SBS Radio 4) with funny clips, sketches and in-studio challenges in front of a live studio audience. Jimeoin will be joined by comedian Nazeem Hussain, the show’s man on the ground in Brazil, as well as musical acts, celebrities, sportspeople and daily catch-ups with SBS football presenters Les Murray and Craig Foster from Brazil.

SBS’s 2014 FIFA World CupTM season gets a whole lot sexier as Sam Pang goes on a journey into the heart of what makes Brasilians the coolest race on the planet in the two-part comedy series, A Pang for Brasil (7:30pm Monday 2 June and 9 June on SBS ONE). Gorgeous, sexy, bold, passionate, great dancers, love makers and incredible footballers, Brasilians are everything that
Sam is not.

Fernanda de Paula rediscovers the food and people she grew up with and uncovers Brazil’s soul in This is Brazil! (7:30pm Fridays on SBS ONE). From the pounding drums of the Afro-Brazilian capital, Salvador, to the floating villages of the Amazon, Fernanda meets the people that infuse everyday life in Brazil with passion.

Fernanda also shares her love of Brazillian cinema with the 31 Days in Brazil (nightly, 11:00pm from Friday 13 June on SBS 2). Fernanda introduces 31 Brazilian films over 31 days with titles including Lower City, City of God and City of Men.

Also on SBS 2 is the reality series Brazil’s Next Top Model (5:35pm Saturdays from 14 June on SBS 2). Hosted by Brazilian model Fernanda Motta and based on the American series, it sees women take part in various challenges, photo shoots and meetings in the hope of becoming Brazil’s next top model.

The best international films go head-to-head across five nights in June when World Movies presents Sex Before Soccer (nightly from Monday 2 June to Friday 6 June on World Movies, Channel 430 on Foxtel). Each salacious film originates from a country competing in the 2014 FIFA World Cup.

Documentary
SBS takes a look at the Socceroos’ historic 2006 FIFA World Cup campaign in the SBS-produced documentary Two Weeks in June (8:30pm Thursday 12 June on SBS 2). Told by the players themselves, including Harry Kewell, Mark Viduka, Jason Culina, John Aloisi and Lucas Neil, it features extensive interviews with the squad and never before seen behind-the-scenes vision.

Welcome to Rio (10:00pm Sundays on SBS ONE) reveals the truth about life inside Rio’s famous shanty-towns, the favelas in a three-part documentary series. With extraordinary access to them this series reveals the favelas to be places of energy, resourcefulness and humour, through the lives of the people who live there.

News
The SBS World News team, headed by Sarah Abo and Brett Mason, will deliver comprehensive reports on the Socceroos campaign and all the other big cup stories on SBS World News (nightly 6:30pm on SBS ONE), radio and online.

Online & Mobile
For the very first time, all 2014 FIFA World CupTM matches will be streamed live online at www.sbs.com.au/theworldgame. The World Game website features multi-angle replay functionality, match stats including heat maps and tactical information, live text commentary, social integration, fantasy football and tipping as well as news, highlights, polls and photo galleries. All matches will be able to be watched on catch up via SBS On Demand. SBS The World game App will be available as a FIFA World CupTM edition with bespoke functionality for smartphones and tablets (iOS and Android).

Radio
SBS Radio will broadcast every game of the 2014 FIFA World CupTM live and exclusive across two dedicated radio stations. Featuring commentary in 13 languages, SBS Radio will be broadcasting in more languages than ever before and the most languages from a single broadcaster in the history of the FIFA World CupTM.

Pop-up radio station SBS PopBrazil (SBS Radio 4), will keep the Brazilian vibe alive with the sounds of 2014 FIFA World CupTM day and night. From samba, choro and bossa nova to straight up Brazilian rock, it will keep the Brazilian party going 24/7.

Tune in on match days to hear a simulcast The Full Brazilian (7:30pm from Friday 13 June) followed by two hours of the hottest Latin American dance tracks and mashups with resident DJ’s Dante Rivera and DJ Libre (nightly, 8:30pm).

Landmark Series
Ground breaking documentary series Once Upon a Time in Punchbowl (8:30pm Wednesday 18 June – 9 July on SBS ONE) premieres during the FIFA World CupTM. Following on from the national award-winning and critically acclaimed series Once Upon a Time in Cabramatta which aired in 2012, Once Upon A Time in Punchbowl is the untold story of how the Lebanese community overcame the odds and found its place in multicultural Australia.

Also premiering on SBS is three-part documentary series, Australia’s Secret Heroes (8:30pm Sundays from 15 June on SBS ONE). After years sworn to secrecy, veterans of the legendary Z Special reveal their extraordinary WWII exploits, as six of their descendants recreate their training based on original declassified manuals.

The sixth season of celebrated genealogy series, Who Do You Think You Are? (7:30pm Tuesdays from 8 July on SBS ONE) comes to SBS, delving into the family history of seven prominent Australians. Andrew Denton, Jacki Weaver, Rebecca Gibney, Lisa McCune, Amanda Keller, Richard Roxburgh, Paul McDermott and Adam Goodes take a journey into their family history in this fascinating chronicle of the social, ethnic and cultural evolution of Australia’s national identity.

Suspenseful four-part political drama Death of a Pilgrim (9:30pm Wednesdays from 11 June on SBS ONE) is based on the real life, still unsolved murder of the former Swedish Prime Minister. Set in the present day twenty years after the assassination, the head of the Swedish National Bureau of Investigation still can’t accept that the crime has never been solved and gathers his best investigators and a new, surprising line of enquiry develops.

Continuing Series
Continuing on SBS throughout the 2014 FIFA World CupTM with all new episodes is much-loved music quiz show RocKwiz (9:30pm Mondays on SBS ONE) as well as Australia’s leading forum for first person stories and debate Insight (8:30pm Tuesdays on SBS ONE) and international current affairs show Dateline (9:30pm Tuesdays on SBS ONE).

The 2014 FIFA World CupTM is LIVE and EXCLUSIVE on SBS from 13 June - 14 July.

The SBS 2014 FIFA World Cup broadcast schedule can be downloaded from here.

#SBSWorldCup | @TheWorldGame | facebook.com/SBSTheWorldGame | sbs.com.au/theworldgame

"SBS Reporters David Basheer, Scott McIntyre and Vitor Sobral will be pitch side to deliver the latest match news direct from Brazil."
For the very first time, SBS will have a show dedicated to the Socceroos as they aim for World Cup glory. Hosted by David Basheer from the Socceroos training camp in Brazil, The Socceroos Show (6:30pm Thursday 12 June to Saturday 28 June on SBS ONE)

So who is calling the Socceroo games for SBS?

I've heard David Basheer is doing them.

FIFA expects World Cup to break TV records


June 4, 2014 3:05pm

The World Cup, which kicks off in Brazil this month, is set for a record global television audience thanks to new technology and fan-friendly scheduling, FIFA's television director Niclas Ericson told Reuters.

The quadrennial tournament is the world's biggest sporting event and some matches, including the final in Rio de Janeiro on July 13, will be broadcast in ultra high definition for the first time.

"We have some reasons to say the audience will increase. We worked very hard on the match schedule and the times we have now, we think will be very good for the football fan," Ericson said by telephone from Rio.

"We think we have very good kick off times for Africa, the Middle East and Europe and will continue to grow the audience there. And as the World Cup is in the Americas, we'll have even better figures from there than ever before," he added.

"Asia has grown very fast in term of viewers and rights fees and I believe that even on paper before the event it looks extremely good to break the records we have."

Ericson would not speculate on numbers, saying FIFA still struggled to audit figures in certain parts of the world, but for the first time FIFA had a rights contract in place with every country or territory and the interest was enormous.

"We know that an opening match featuring Brazil is going to be record-breaking across the world because it is Brazil," he added.

FIFA research, which took a year to produce after the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, said 909.6 million television viewers tuned in to at least one minute of the 2010 final at home.

Some 619.7 million people also watched at least 20 consecutive minutes of Spain's 1-0 extra-time win over the Netherlands in Johannesburg.

More than 3.2 billion people watched live coverage of the 2010 tournament for a minimum of one minute. The average official rating was 188.4 million for each match.

The figures claimed an average increase of between three to eight percent from the 2006 finals in Germany.

By comparison, an estimated global audience of 900 million viewers watched the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics.

Enhanced picture

Broadcasts from Brazil will feature 34 cameras per match with around 3,000 staff involved in the television production. They hail from 48 different countries.

"We want to be in the forefront of how to produce and present football. We also have demands from our clients that we have to deliver a very good product," said Ericson.

"Our media rights are precious for both the client and ourselves because it is the largest revenue source for us and an important media right for broadcasters who are profiling themselves by screening the World Cup."

FIFA said in March that income from television rights and marketing deals ahead of the World Cup had helped drive up its revenues to $1.386 billion.

Protests in Brazil against the cost of hosting the tournament, and corruption allegations surrounding the awarding of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar, have not deterred sponsors eager to be associated with the event.

Three matches in Brazil will be shot and broadcast in 4K and nine in 8K resolution as part of tests by broadcasters, notably Japan's NHK.

The cinema industry standard, also known as ultra high definition, offers a greatly enhanced picture and is expected to become a television standard by 2017.

"We can use the World Cup to drive advances in television technology because with a large platform of broadcasters, anything we want to try, we immediately have reasonable economics around it," Ericson explained.

"We did 3D in South Africa and quickly had a number of broadcasters around the world working with us and participating in the project. For this World Cup we are working with 4K and 8K, and immediately we have broadcasters who say they want to be part of it."

Broadcasters will be offered the chance to deliver expanded content services, seeking to satisfy a growing demand from viewers for a 'second screen' experience.

Apps and web players can be customized by broadcasters and offered to their viewers, who increasingly watch live broadcasts of the games on smartphones or tablets.

"We produce the matches with a lot of cameras, we produce several different feeds and the match footage is a rich service. But we also produce a lot of content outside of the game, which makes for a rich multi-media service offering," said Ericson. - Reuters

http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/364147/sports/football/fifa-expects-world-cup-to-break-tv-records

Good info above re SBS etcetc.....

Those with cable I notice ESPN have complete coverage, anyone confirm this ?
I just checked Setanta's website - looks like they don't have any rights to air.

I'll tell you tomorrow :D

But that raises the question; why are the Japan games on at 11am our time?

looks like it's Martin Tyler:cool: Very nice, I like.

Japan's population
127.6 million

But, who really needs to get up or stay late at some ungodly hour when I can watch a 2 minutes highlights package on a news website?

Ive been doing that when I watch most sports regardless: AFL, Rugby League, its just too long and boring when theres a smattering of highlights in those 2-3 hours