It has not been decided who will broadcast the World Cup, which will be held in the US, Canada, and Mexico in a month, live in India and China.
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Even if the biggest tournament in world football is the World Cup, it may not be watched by a third of the world's population. It has not been decided who will broadcast the World Cup live in India and China, which will be held in the US, Canada and Mexico in a month.
Those countries have not yet reached an agreement with FIFA, the world's top football body, regarding the live broadcast of the tournament. Since India and China have a third of the world's population, football fans there may miss out on watching the World Cup live. The population of both countries is 2.88 billion. It is considered unusual that an agreement has not yet been reached on the live broadcast of a tournament as big as the World Cup. In the past, live broadcasts of World Cups would have been scheduled months in advance, or even years in advance on special occasions.
If we are to believe the local media in these two big Asian countries, FIFA and the broadcasters are still in talks, but the price has not yet been decided. FIFA has also officially told organizations such as Reuters and the BBC that talks are underway. The points of the talks are kept confidential. But FIFA does not want to say more than that.
According to FIFA, it has so far signed contracts with 180 territories for live broadcasting. But contracts are yet to be signed with some other major countries, including India and China. FIFA wants to show the World Cup on Chinese Central Television (CCTV) and its initial price was $300 million. But now FIFA has reduced that price and made an offer.
The new price is now $120 million to $150 million. The Beijing Daily published news to this effect on Friday. The newspaper also reported that Chinese football fans are not very interested in this World Cup, which is why China has not qualified for it. Therefore, according to him, the time of the live broadcast may also have made many people uninterested.
The matches of this World Cup to be held in North America will be held at midnight according to Chinese time. FIFA and China had already signed an agreement for the live broadcast of previous World Cups long before the start of the competition. FIFA had announced that it had signed an agreement with CCTV for the live broadcast of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups in November 2017.
Some Chinese media outlets said that the agreement could be announced in the next few days. India's situation is even weaker and there are no talks about live broadcasts there. Although football is very popular in some African countries such as Egypt, Algeria and Tunisia, the fact that the World Cup matches will be held at midnight is also considered a problem.
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