{"id":2433194,"date":"2026-05-26T19:36:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T19:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2433194"},"modified":"2026-05-26T19:36:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T19:36:41","slug":"zee-entertainment-in-talks-with-fifa-on-world-cup-broadcast-rights-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/zee-entertainment-in-talks-with-fifa-on-world-cup-broadcast-rights-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Zee Entertainment in talks with FIFA on World Cup broadcast rights in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>May 26 (Reuters) \u2013 India\u2019s Zee Entertainment is in talks with FIFA to stream and broadcast the 2026 World \u200bCup in the country, the company \u200csaid in a statement on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The announcement, which provided no financial details, comes as talks between a Reliance-Disney joint venture and the \u200cfootball \u200bbody are at a \u2060deadlock, just weeks before \u2060the tournament kicks off on June 11.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 FIFA, which had initially sought $100 million for broadcast rights for the 2026 \u200band 2030 World Cups in India, was last looking for no less than \u2060about $60 million, Reuters had \u2060reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The expected amount still \u200bfar exceeds the $20 million offered by Reliance-Disney, \u200bled by billionaire Mukesh Ambani\u2019s Reliance.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Sony \u200calso held talks but decided not to make an offer for FIFA rights for India.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 FIFA has concluded agreements with \u2060broadcasters in more than 180 territories globally, it said previously.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Zee Entertainment disclosed its talks \u2060with FIFA \u200cas part of its launch \u2060of Unite8 Sports, a dedicated \u200bportfolio \u200cof sports channels to strengthen \u200bits sports \u2060offerings to consumers.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 India accounted for 2.9% of the global linear TV reach of the World Cup in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Abhirami G in BengaluruEditing by David Goodman and \u200bTomasz Janowski)<\/p>\n<footer class=\"entry-footer\">\n\t<\/footer>\n<p><!-- #entry-meta -->\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v10.0\" nonce=\"bPXgwOha\"><\/script><script>\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '2334850053441200');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.1049thewolf.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 26 (Reuters) \u2013 India\u2019s Zee Entertainment is in talks with FIFA to stream and broadcast the 2026 World \u200bCup in the country, the company \u200csaid in a statement on Tuesday. \u2022 The announcement, which provided no financial details, comes as talks between a Reliance-Disney joint venture and the \u200cfootball \u200bbody are at a \u2060deadlock, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2433195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2433194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Zee-Entertainment-in-talks-with-FIFA-on-World-Cup-broadcast.JPG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2433194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2433196,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433194\/revisions\/2433196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2433195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2433194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2433194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2433194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}