BBC's World Cup TV matches to be shown online

0 Comments | AFP, June, 2006

LONDON (AFP) — World Cup games that will be shown on BBC television will also be available live and free-to-air to British Internet users at the same time, the London-based broadcaster announced.

"We know a lot of online viewing is done in the office, so we suspect this will allow people both to do their job and to keep up with the very latest action from Germany," said BBC director of sport, Roger Mosey.

Games in the tournament, which starts on June 9, are to be televised by both the BBC and British commercial broadcaster ITV.

The Internet deal means all of the BBC's games in the group stages will be shown, including England's opener on June 10 against Paraguay, plus the corporation's rights to those fixtures in the knock-out stages.

The BBC has...