How to watch the World Cup

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This year’s championship is more digitally interactive than ever before. With apps and streaming services, you can keep up with the schedule by many ways. One of them is to tune in to ESPN, ABC and Univision in the US, BBC and ITV in the UK, SBS in Australia and Globo in Brazil.  ESPN will not only present all of the games live on TV via ESPN (43 matches), ESPN2 (11 matches) and ABC (10 matches), it will livestream all 64 games online. Every game will be available via the WatchESPN site and app, which is available for iOS, Android, Kindle Fire, Chromecast and more.

The 10 games that air on ABC will be available via WatchABC.  Univision will air 56 games on Univision Deportes,  as well as via its UD app. The BBC iPlayer and ITV will also be streaming the games for viewers in the United Kingdom, starting with the first match England plays against Italy on June 14. Both services have apps and sites that will stream the matches live.

Canadian viewers can check out CBC, which will stream all of the games live on its site, in addition to replays which will be available on demand.  SBS has secured the rights to stream all 64 games online for Australian viewers, in addition to providing accompanying apps and radio broadcast.

If you love social media, you can keep up with the sport via Twitter by following certain hashtags. The site Fanbrandz has put together a guide to tags you should expect, like #GoSocceroos (for Australian fans), #EmBuscaDoHexa (for Brazilian fans) and #Bleus (for French fans). The official FIFA World Cup account keeps up an active flow of tweets. The World Cup has an official Facebook page that offers behind-the-scenes photos and interviews with soccer stars.  The FIFA World Cup has an official Instagram page where it posts all kinds of photos of players and fans.