United Kingdom: BBC & ITV extend their broadcasting rights for the 2026 & 2030 World Cups

The British public broadcaster BBC and the free-to-air television group ITV have extended their rights to broadcast the 2026 and 2030 World Cups in the UK, announced FIFA on 17/12/2024.

"The two broadcasters will share the rights equally, splitting matches between them, including a shared final, ensuring continued free-to-air coverage of the FIFA World Cup. The BBC will show live TV coverage and highlights across the BBC TV Channels and iPlayer, with live audio commentary also being broadcast on BBC Radio 5 Live and 5 Sports Extra. ITV will deliver free-to-air coverage of live fixtures across ITV1, ITV4 and ITVX, plus highlights and exclusive content on ITV Sport social accounts," said the governing body.

FIFA launched a call for tenders for the broadcasting rights to the next two editions of the Men's World Cup in the United Kingdom on 03/04/2024. The deadline for submitting bids was Monday 29/04/2024. The 2022 World Cup was broadcast by the BBC and ITV in the United Kingdom. They acquired these rights at the same time as those for the 2018 World Cup, on 07/06/2014.

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