1998 FIFA World Cup broadcasting rights

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FIFA, through several companies, sold the rights for the broadcast of the 1998 FIFA World Cup to the following broadcasters.

Television broadcasters

Country	Broadcaster	Television
Albania	TVSH
Argentina	Artear, Televisión Federal, Grupo América, Telearte, SNMP, Teletreinta, Argentina Televisión, Lujan Cable Visión S.A., Holding Córdoba de radio y televisión	Eltrece, Telefe, América TV, Channel 30, Argenvisión, Channel 23, El CW
Australia	SBS
Austria	ORF	ORF eins and ORF 2
Arab League	Orbit Network	Orbit ESPN
Belgium	VRT	Eén and Canvas
	French: RTBF	La Deux
Bolivia	TVB, Bolivisión, Unitel and Unovisión
Brazil	ESPN Brasil
Brunei	STMB	TV3
Bulgaria	BNT	Channel 1 and Efir 2
Cambodia	TVK	Channel 7
Canada	English: CBC	English: CBC Television
	Société Radio-Canada	French: Télévision de Radio-Canada
Chile	Megavisión
China	CCTV	CCTV-1
Colombia	Inravisión	Canal Uno: PUNCH and JES Canal A: RTI and Datos y Mensajes
	Caracol Televisión and RCN Televisión
Corsica2	TF1, 1998 FIFA World Cup TV2 RAI	TF1, 1998 FIFA World Cup TV2 and 1998 FIFA World Cup TV32
Czech Republic	ČT	ČT1 and ČT2
Denmark	DR	DR1 and DR2
Estonia	ETV
Finland	YLE, MTV3	YLE TV2
France2	TF1, 1998 FIFA World Cup TV2	TF1, 1998 FIFA World Cup TV2, 1998 FIFA World Cup TV3, 1998 FIFA World Cup TV4, 1998 FIFA World Cup TV International and 1998 FIFA World Cup TV News2
Georgia	GPB	1TV
Germany	ARD and ZDF	Das Erste and ZDF
Greece	ERT	ET1, NET and ET3
Hungary	MTV	MTV1 and MTV2
Holy See	RAI	RAI 3
Hong Kong	TVB	Cantonese: TVB Jade
		English: TVB Pearl
India	Doordarshan	Doordarshan National Channel
Indonesia1	matches in live television)1
Iran	IRIB	Channel 2
Ireland	RTÉ	RTÉ Two
Israel	IBA	Hebrew: Channel 1
		Arabic: Channel 33
Italy	RAI	RAI 3
Japan	Nippon Television, TV Asahi and TV Tokyo	Nippon Television, TV Asahi and TV Tokyo
Laos	LNTV
Macau	TVB	Cantonese: TVB Jade
		English: TVB Pearl
Latin America	Bein TV, DirecTV	Channels 530 and 532 of Bein TV Channels 610 and 612 of DirecTV
Malaysia2	STMB, NTV7	TV3, NTV7
Mexico	TV Azteca	Canal de las Estrellas, XHDF-TDT
Monaco2	TF1, 1998 FIFA World Cup TV2 Telemontecarlo	international broadcast signal)2 Telemontecarlo
Myanmar	MRTV	Channel 5
Netherlands	NPO	Nederland 3
New Zealand	TVNZ	TV2
Norway	NRK	NRK1 and NRK2
Paraguay	TV Acción, TV Cerro Corá, Tevedos, Teledifusora Paraguaya, SICOM TV, Hispanoamérica TV, Canal 5 TV Color, Caacupé Cable Visión S.A., Holding Paraná de radio y televisión	Canal 13, Paraguay TV, La Tele, Paravisión, Canal 25, RTV
Peru	América Televisión and Panamericana Televisión.
Philippines	GMA Network and Sky Cable
Poland	TVP	TVP1 and TVP2
Portugal	RTP	RTP1 and RTP2
Russia	VGTRK , ORT	Rossiya 1, Channel One Russia
San Marino	RAI	RAI 3
Singapore	STMB	TV3
Slovakia	STV	STV1 and STV2
South Africa	SABC	SABC 1, SABC 2 and SABC 3
South Korea	KBS
Spain	RTVE	TV2 )
Sweden	SVT	SVT1 and SVT2
Switzerland	SRG SSR	TSI 2 (Italian )
Taiwan	TTV, CTV, CTS and FTV
Thailand	Television Pool of Thailand
Turkey	TRT	TRT 1, TRT 2 and TRT 3
United Kingdom	BBC and ITV	BBC One and ITV3
United States	ABC, ESPN (English) and Univision (Spanish)
Ukraine	UT-1 and 1+1
Uruguay	Tevetres, Monte Carlo Televisión, Sociedad Anónima Emisora de Televisión y Anexos, Sociedad Televisora Larrañaga, SODRE, Franco-Hispano TV, Canal 8 TV Color, Canelones Cable Visión S.A., Holding Rivera de radio y televisión	UTC, Uruvisión, Canal 27, STV
Vietnam	Vietnam Television, Ho Chi Minh City Television	HTV9
Venezuela	Venevisión, RCTV, VTV

Notes:

1. sports commentary
   on all 64 matches.
2. ^ It is a joint venture of TF1, France Télévisions and TV5Monde.
3. ^[1] ITV did not use the official FIFA live feed. Instead, they took their own camera equipment over to France and shot the matches from the opposite side of the pitch of the FIFA feed cameras. This seen the station use their own on-screen graphics and enabled U.K. viewers to see the Vauxhall billboards (U.K. arm of General Motors).

Radio broadcasters

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