{"id":1008633,"date":"2026-05-19T09:41:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T04:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1008633"},"modified":"2026-05-19T09:42:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T04:12:46","slug":"fifa-media-rights-officials-visit-india-where-no-world-cup-broadcast-deal-is-yet-signed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/19\/fifa-media-rights-officials-visit-india-where-no-world-cup-broadcast-deal-is-yet-signed\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA media rights officials visit India where no World Cup broadcast deal is yet signed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DELHI, &#8211; FIFA media rights officials are visiting India this week, three sources said, ahead of next month&#8217;s World Cup for which \u200cfootball&#8217;s ruling body \u2060has \u2060not struck a broadcast deal with India due to differences over pricing. <\/p>\n<p>Millions of football fans \u200bin India risk not being able to watch the tournament due to a deadlock over broadcast \u200brights. China Media Group, the parent of China&#8217;s state broadcaster, agreed a World Cup broadcasting deal last week to end a standoff over TV rights there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DELHI, &#8211; FIFA media rights officials are visiting India this week, three sources said, ahead of next month&#8217;s World Cup for which \u200cfootball&#8217;s ruling body \u2060has \u2060not struck a broadcast deal with India due to differences over pricing. Millions of football fans \u200bin India risk not being able to watch the tournament due to a deadlock over broadcast \u200brights. China Media Group, the parent of China&#8217;s state broadcaster, agreed a World Cup broadcasting deal last week to end a standoff over TV rights there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008657,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008633\/revisions\/1008657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}