{"id":1010220,"date":"2026-05-27T09:30:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T04:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1010220"},"modified":"2026-05-27T09:32:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T04:02:53","slug":"zee-in-race-for-fifa-broadcast-deal-launches-unite8-sports-channels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/27\/zee-in-race-for-fifa-broadcast-deal-launches-unite8-sports-channels\/","title":{"rendered":"Zee in race for FIFA broadcast deal; launches Unite8 Sports channels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zee Entertainment Enterprises on Tuesday said that it was in talks with the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) to broadcast and stream the FIFA World Cup 2026 matches in India. The company also said that it was launching Unite8 Sports, a dedicated portfolio of sports channels, as it sought to expand its presence in sports broadcasting. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnite8 Sports will encompass emerging formats, marquee properties and high-engagement content,\u201d Zee said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zee Entertainment Enterprises on Tuesday said that it was in talks with the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) to broadcast and stream the FIFA World Cup 2026 matches in India. The company also said that it was launching Unite8 Sports, a dedicated portfolio of sports channels, as it sought to expand its presence in sports broadcasting. \u201cUnite8 Sports will encompass emerging formats, marquee properties and high-engagement content,\u201d Zee said in a statement.<\/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":[62,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1010220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010220","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=1010220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1010238,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010220\/revisions\/1010238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}