Plan to air World Cup now in doubt
published : 4 Nov 2022 at 08:55
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Post Reporters
A government plan to purchase the rights to broadcast the 2022 Fifa World Cup is in doubt after some National Broadcasting and Telecommunication Commission (NBTC) board members disagreed.
Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon on Wednesday said Thai football fans would be able to watch World Cup matches live because the government would buy the event's broadcasting rights.
The 2022 World Cup in Qatar will be played from Nov 20-Dec 18.
With the tournament less than three weeks away, fans were concerned as no broadcasters in Thailand had shown an interest in securing the rights to air the matches.
Gen Prawit said the government would use the NBTC budget to buy the rights to air all of the games.
An NBTC source the chairman of the NBTC board proposed taking 1.6 billion baht from its research and development fund to buy the broadcasting rights.
However, some board members disagreed and called on the NBTC Office to conduct a study on whether the proposal will be economically viable, the source said.
All 10 Asean countries, except Thailand, have secured broadcasting rights for the 2022 World Cup, at a cost of US$38 million (1.4 billion baht) for 64 matches.
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- board: a group of people who have the responsibility of managing important business or government activities - คณะกรรมการ
- broadcast rights (noun): the legal right to sell and control who can watch a television broadcast -
- broadcaster: a person whose job is presenting or talking on television or radio programmes - ผู้กระจายเสียงทางวิทยุหรือโทรทัศน์
- broadcasting (noun): the sending out of a programme on television or radio - กระจายเสียง,กระจายข่าว
- budget: an amount of money able to be spent on something - งบประมาณ
- in doubt: thinking that something is probably not true or that it probably does not exist - ความสงสัย
- rights: the legal right to control the production and selling of a book, play, film, photograph, piece of music, performance, etc. - ลิขสิทธิ์
- secure (verb): to get or achieve something - ได้มา
- tournament: a competition for teams or single players in which a series of games is played, and the winners of each game play against each other until only one winner is left - การแข่งขัน
- viable: able to work as intended or able to succeed - ซึ่งใช้การได้ (แผนการ, คำแนะนำ) ซึ่งประสบผลสำเร็จได้
