Saying the Spanish stations are getting a lot of viewers because of the poor ESPN announcing overlooks that fact that the Spanish audience is more into soccer than the anglo crowd is and also overlooks all the people who watch the games on the Spanish stations simply because they don't have cable.
If the non-Spanish-speaking viewers were wanting to avoid the ESPN announcers I would think they would be more likely just to turn down the volume rather than switch to a station where they can't understand the language at all.
Nah. You gotta hear the crowd, that's part of the experience. And... it's one thing I think ESPN has done pretty well. The crowd's been mixed way up, so you can hear them, and there's been a couple of matches where the commentators actually shut up during some of the more intense moments.