Football fans are now excited with World Cup Football 2010 coming nearer. This year the tournament will take place in
Though many fans would travel to
FIFA, the governing body of world football, has distributed the TV rights of the tournament among the various television channels across the world. Here is the list of TV channels that are going to cover the tournament live for their viewers.
ESPN Star
(Countries to Cover:
ESPN Star TV channel, a joint venture between the Walt Disney Company and New Corporation, is going to telecast the World Cup matches live for the football fans of Indian sub-continent and other neighboring countries. The channel has a group of football experts who would be sharing their expertise with the fans during the tournament. It is a pay channel.
Doordarshan for Indian Viewers
It is the only free-to-air TV cannel in
Al Jazeera Sports for the
(Countries to cover: Algeria, Bahrain, Yemen, U.A.E., Tunisia, Sudan, Syria, Somalia, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Morocco, Mauritania, Libya, Palestinian Authority, Oman, Djibouti, Comoros, Kuwait, Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan and Iraq )
Al Jazeera Sports is an Arabic language sports channel which covers many sporting events for its viewers. The channel, which was launched by Al Jazeera network in 2003, is very popular in the
ESPN and ABC TV Channels for the English Speaking viewers of United States and Other Countries
(Countries to cover:
ESPN, a popular pay channel in
Spanish speaking people of
CBC, Bold, SRC and Telelatino TV Channels for Viewers in
Football fans in
BBC and ITV (ITV1, STV, UTV) for the
(Countries to cover:
Football fans in
ITV would also telecast the matches live in
RTE (Radio and Television of
People of
TV Channels to Cover World Cup in
Two terrestrial channels, Canal 7 and Telefe, are going to broadcast the World Cup match live in
TV Channels to Cover World Cup in
Rede Globo and Rede Bandeirantes, two free-to-air channels, will show the World Cup matches live for the football fans in
SBS for the Football Fans in
Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) would cover the tournament for the football fans in
CCTV for Viewers in
Chine Central Television (CCTV) would telecast the World Cup matches live for the football fans of
TF1,
Football fans in
ARD, ZDF, RTL and Sky Deutschland in
People in
SuperSport for the Sub-Saharan African Countries
(Countries to cover: Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Ivory Coast, Congo, DR Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea-Conakry, Lesotho, Kenya, Madagascar, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zanzibar, Zambia, Togo, Zimbabwe, Uganda)
South African based sports channel SuperSport is going to telecast the World Cup matches live on several Sub-Saharan African countries.
Some other TV channels would telecast the World Cup Football 2010 matches live in several other countries. Here is a list of those channels:
TV Channels (Free-to-air) | TV Channels (Satellite or Cable or IPTV) | Country |
NHK, NTV, | SKY PerfecTV! | |
RAI | SKY Italia | |
Channel 1 (Hebrew) | Channel 33 (Arabic) | |
RCTI, Global TV | | |
IRIB | | |
RÚV | Stöð 2 Sport | |
MTV | | |
ATV, TVB | Cable TV | |
ERT | | |
GPB | | |
YLE | | |
Mai TV | | |
ERR | | |
TCS | | |
Gama, TC | DirectTV | |
DR, TV2 | Canal 9 | |
CT | | |
CyBC | | |
HRT | | |
Teletica, Repretel | | |
Caracol, RCN | DirecTV | |
Meridiano, Venevisión | DirecTV | |
RAI | | |
VTV | | |
RTSH | SuperSport | |
TF1, | | |
H1 | | |
ORF | | |
Lider TV | | |
BTRC | | |
UT1, ICTV | | |
TRT | | |
TV3, TV7, MCOT9, NBT11 | TrueVisions | |
SRG SSR idée suisse | | |
SVT, TV4 | | |
VRT (Dutch), RTBF (French) | | |
Unitel, Red Uno | | |
BHRT | | |
BNT | | |
TVN | DirecTV | |
RTK | | Kosovo |
LTV | | |
SRG SSR idée suisse (SF) | | |
LRT, LNK | | |
TV Azteca, Televisa | Sky | |
PBS, Melita Sports | | |
RTM, TV3 | Astro | |
RTL | | |
TDM | | |
MRTV | | |
C1 | | |
TRM | | |
TMC | | |
RTCG | | |
NOS | | |
NTV | ESPN Star Sports | |
BTV | ESPN Star Sports | |
TVNZ | Sky | |
Televicentro | | |
Telecinco, Cuatro | Canal+ | |
SBS | SBS Sports Channel | |
SABC | Supersport | |
RTV Slovenija | | |
STV | | |
MediaCorp | StarHub TV (cable), mio TV (IPTV) | |
RTS | | |
RAI | | |
Channel One, VGTRK | | |
TVR | | |
| Era Television (cable), Era Television (IPTV) | Republic of |
TV2 | Viasat (NRK sold the rights to Viasat) | |
RPC, TVMax | Cableonda Sports | |
SNT | | |
ATV | DirecTV | |
ABS-CBN, Studio 23 | Balls | |
TVP | | |
RTP, SIC | SportTV | |
The tv channels mentioned above would cover the tournament for the viewers of particular regions. About the local match timing, football fans should check the local newspaper and TV channels.
doordarshan will telecast all the matches?????????
ReplyDeleteDD?? Oh really man.. that is something!!! no worries to look for availability of those paid channels.. but only if its true.. cheers :D
ReplyDeleteDD ha ha ha ha ha .....
ReplyDeleteDD OMG ! does it even know football world cup is going on??
how about Russia?
ReplyDeleteNorth Korea and South Korea?
Turkey?
fuck you Pakistan PTV HOME not bringing in all football matches live while every month take tax even we never watch this bullshit channel at all
ReplyDeleteI have problems to see the World cup games on Thai TV free Channels,3 and 7. Somebody said its cancelled because of betting,,,,anyone has an answer
ReplyDeleteSun Networks are desbling sports channels while starting sports like world cup Football,cricket etc...
ReplyDeleteA fool can understand,it is to promote Sun Direct DTH.