2022 Fifa World Cup

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Thailand

The Sports Authority of Thailand (SAT) and National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) have been taken to court over claims they failed to ensure broad coverage of the 2022 Fifa World…
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Australia

Australia’s first Fifa World Cup win in 12 years pulled in huge ratings for public-service broadcaster SBS on Saturday.
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Asia-Pacific

Local sources say that Fifa’s sales team is already active in the region for sales to the 2026 tournament – to be held across the US, Mexico and Canada – and has been speaking with media companies to ‘warm up’ the market ahead of negotiations next year.
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United Kingdom

UK commercial broadcaster ITV claimed its biggest audience this year, and best Friday viewing figures in more than a decade, for its coverage of England’s 2022 Fifa World Cup group game against United S…
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Saudi Arabia

TOD, the official streaming platform of the Fifa World Cup in Saudi Arabia, and all the Middle East and North Africa, has been blocked in Saudi Arabia from the beginning of this year’s tournament in Q…
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USA

Highly anticipated World Cup match draws record-setting American audience
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Vietnam

Vietnam was the second-last market in which Infront was to agree a deal for the tournament under its mandate covering 26 Asian markets in the eight-year period from 2015 to 2022.
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France

An average audience of 12.5 million people tuned into French free-to-air broadcaster TF1’s coverage of the 2022 Fifa World Cup match between France and Australia.
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USA

Viewership for initial matches paces far ahead of 2018 tournament
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Latin America

Mountrigi has profited from its Fifa media rights investment across the 2019-22 cycle, but is expected to earn far more from its rights to the 2026 Fifa World Cup held across the US, Mexico and Canada.
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MENA

BeIN Media Group will broadcast 22 matches of the Fifa World Cup on its free-to-air beIN Sports channel in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) region
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USA

Qatar Airways, the state-backed airline, will sponsor Fox Sports' coverage of the 2022 Fifa World Cup in the United States, it has emerged
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USA

Live-streaming audio service TuneIn has secured an agreement with Fox Sports to simulcast the network's English-language commentary in the United States of the upcoming Fifa World Cup in Qatar
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Global

Football’s global governing body has detailed World Cup coverage and fan experience plans for its Fifa+ streaming service ahead of the tournament’s kick-off in Qatar on Sunday.
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Morocco

SNRT, Morocco’s free-to-air public broadcaster, has reached an agreement to broadcast 10 matches from the Fifa World Cup.  The matches will include those of the Moroccan national team. 
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Spain

LaLiga's OTT platform LaLigaSportsTV and its channel for public establishments, LaLigaTV Bar, will both show all matches from the 2022 Fifa World Cup through the Gol Mundial service
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Spain

Spain’s competition watchdog, the Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC), has set out advertising restrictions that public broadcaster RTVE will have to follow for its coverage of th…
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USA

Comcast-owned entity eyes sizable gains from extensive event coverage plans that include live streaming of every 2022 Fifa World Cup match in the United States. Bob Williams reports.