{"id":1011826,"date":"2026-06-03T08:56:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T03:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1011826"},"modified":"2026-06-03T09:10:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T03:40:45","slug":"zee-launches-sports-channel-unite8-sports-after-mib-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/03\/zee-launches-sports-channel-unite8-sports-after-mib-approval\/","title":{"rendered":"Zee launches sports channel Unite8 Sports after MIB approval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Leading broadcaster Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (ZEEL) on Tuesday announced the launch of its sports broadcasting portfolio under the &#8216;Unite8 Sports&#8217; brand after receiving the necessary approvals from the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. <\/p>\n<p>The development comes a day after the company announced an eight-year partnership with the world soccer body, FIFA, to broadcast all matches, including World Cup 2026, in the Indian market. <\/p>\n<p>Four channels &#8212; Unite8 Sports 1, Unite8 Sports 1 HD, Unite8 Sports 2 and Unite8 Sports 2 HD &#8212; have gone live across more than 500 cable and distribution platforms nationwide, said a company statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Leading broadcaster Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (ZEEL) on Tuesday announced the launch of its sports broadcasting portfolio under the &#8216;Unite8 Sports&#8217; brand after receiving the necessary approvals from the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. The development comes a day after the company announced an eight-year partnership with the world soccer body, FIFA, to broadcast all matches, including World Cup 2026, in the Indian market. Four channels &#8212; Unite8 Sports 1, Unite8 Sports 1 HD, Unite8 Sports 2 and Unite8 Sports 2 HD &#8212; have gone live across more than 500 cable and distribution platforms nationwide, said a company [&hellip;]<\/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-1011826","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\/1011826","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=1011826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1011854,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011826\/revisions\/1011854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}