{"id":13013,"date":"2012-06-11T18:48:45","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T01:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/06\/11\/asian-football-broadcast-problem-hits-iran\/"},"modified":"2012-06-11T18:48:45","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T01:48:45","slug":"asian-football-broadcast-problem-hits-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/06\/11\/asian-football-broadcast-problem-hits-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian football broadcast problem hits Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; float: right;\" alt=\"IranFans\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IranFans.jpg\" height=\"211\" width=\"320\" \/>PFDC &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iranian TV broadcast of Iran&#8217;s upcoming World Cup qualifier against Qatar in Tehran&#8217;s Azadi stadium on Tuesday is in heavy doubt after Iranian state television IRIB and the Asian Football Confederation&#8217;s (AFC) exclusive marketing partner &#8220;World Sports Group&#8221; (WSG) couldn&#8217;t agree on a price for the Iranian matches yet.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>The World Sports Group, who obtained the full TV rights from the AFC, demand $22 million for the broadcasting rights of Iran&#8217;s matches over the next four years, a sum IRIB is not able or willing to bring up. <\/p>\n<p>Similar problems had occured with Iran&#8217;s recent qualifier in Tashkent, locking out millions of fans from watching a TV broadcast.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Same problem in South Korea<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>However, the problem is not limited to Iran. While in recent years many Asian sports channels broadcasted live matches and re-runs of the Asian World Cup qualifiers, this time around barely any match of the competition is shown on TV for a wider international audience due to unrealstic demands from WSG.<\/p>\n<p>Recently South Korean channels KBS, MBC and SBS recently failed to show South Korea&#8217;s World Cup qualifier in Qatar after WSG demanded astronomic $52 million for Korea&#8217;s matches until 2016, after the channels had paid only $21.5 million for all matches in the past six years.<\/p>\n<p>Sports Channel JBTC stepped in and obtained the rights for just two qualifiers for an unannounced sum. <\/p>\n<p>In Iran, however, there is no other broadcaster besides the state television available. <\/p>\n<p>So far, only Qatar&#8217;s Al Jazeera Sports Channel obtained the rights for Iran&#8217;s game, but will only broadcast them in a few countries in the Middle East, keeping the vast majority of Iranian fans locked out. <\/p>\n<p>The millions of potential viewers in and outside Iran seem to be stuck without an option to legally watch the match and instead will turn to a popular alternative: free illegal livestreams on the web. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PFDC &#8211; TEHRAN, Iranian TV broadcast of Iran&#8217;s upcoming World Cup qualifier against Qatar in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":12124,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":8180,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}