Tag: world cup
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The Four Worst Things About FIFA’s TV Coverage of the World Cup
The 2026 World Cup has been pretty decent as a football tournament. I’ll leave aside the politics of the US, Trump and FIFA. The TV coverage has been mostly excellent too, even if during the first semi-final, we got a good look at the Sony mirrorless camera settings that FIFA is using for some of…
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US TV Rights for 2030 and 2034 Men’s FIFA World Cups
If there’s one story in the US media that is coming out of this World Cup, it’s that Fox and the Spanish language Telemundo are having an absolute field day with the enormous ratings they’re generating, even though all the host countries were out by the round of 16. More than 50m people watched USA…
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Televising The World Cup Around the World
Two media stories which have interested me a lot about the World Cup so far. In the UK, we’re fortunate to still have Ofcom’s Listed Events. This is a list of sports events that are considered national events, and must be available to audiences free-to-air. Despite various attempts to either redefine the list, or scrap…