Strong ratings for Cup even with vuvuzelas

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NEW YORK - The World Cup is causing utterly a buzzU.S. television.

Preliminary estimates prove the quadrennial soccer contest is off to a fast begin with viewers, even with the odd, horn-blowing soundtrack that ESPN has sought to minimizeitss.

Saturdays first-round tie by the U.S. and English teams was seen by an estimated thirteen millionESPN, the Nielsen Co. saidSunday. It was the nations most-watched soccer radio programme given the 2006 World Cup last in in between Italy and France, and the most-watched involving the U.S. mens inhabitant group given 1994.

San Diego, San Francisco and Las Vegas were the cities majority meddlesome in the game, according to the Nielsen figures.

A viewership guess for the U.S.-England gamethe Spanish-speaking Univision network was not rught away available.

An estimated 5.4 million people in the U.S. watched the tournaments initial diversion Friday in in between Mexico and the South African home teamUnivision, Nielsen said. ESPNs radio programme of that diversion had 2.9 million viewers.

The first-round contests introduced majority of the universe to the vuvuzela, a cosmetic wail carried in to the matches and blownincessantly by thousands of fans. On television, it sounds as if the diversion is being played prior to a nest of indignant bees.

Its louder at the games than it isthe telecast. ESPN is altering the receptive to advice mixitss to minimize the throng noise, network orator Bill Hofheimer said. The network has supposed it as piece of the ambience and has done no complaints about the vuvuzelas, he said.

The receptive to advice is pushing others crazy, though.

"The consistent worker of poor and discordant cosmetic horns is murdering the ambience of the World Cup," wrote John Leicester, an general sports columnist for the . He wrote that it is drowning out the oohs, aahs and cheers that lend fad to the matches.

Danny Jordaan, the World Cups organizing chief, pronounced that "its a formidable subject but we"re perplexing to conduct it the most appropriate we can."

"I would cite singing," he said.

Plainly, most of the fans take honour in the tradition.

A website informing visitors about South Africa, www.safrica.info, describes the vuvuzelas as "a pleasing sound for the pleasing game."

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