July 16 – Almost a year before the inaugural expanded 32-team Club World Cup, FIFA has invited bids for rights to broadcast the 63-game tournament in the Americas, Asia, the Middle East & North Africa.
The tender effectively ends what for some time looked like being an all-markets bid from Apple for broadcast rights that would have underpinned the tournament. The tender announcement comes weeks after Bloomberg reported that talks between FIFA and Apple about global broadcast rights for the June 15-July 13 event in the United States had stalled.
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