1998 FIFA World Cup broadcasting rights

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
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, Canal 9, ATC, , , ,
Australia	SBS
Austria	ORF	ORF eins and ORF 2
Arab League	Arab States Broadcasting Union (ASBU), Orbit Network	Orbit ESPN
Belgium	Dutch: VRT	Dutch: Eén and Canvas
Belgium	French: RTBF	French: La Une and La Deux
Bolivia	TVB, Bolivisión, Unitel and Unovisión
Brazil	Globo, SBT, RecordTV, SporTV and ESPN Brasil
Brunei	STMB	TV3
Bulgaria	BNT	Channel 1 and Efir 2
Cambodia	TVK	Channel 7
Canada	English: CBC	English: CBC Television
Canada	French: Société Radio-Canada	French: Télévision de Radio-Canada
Chile	TVN, Chilevisión, UCTV and Megavisión
People's Republic of China	CCTV	CCTV-1
Colombia	Inravisión	Canal Uno: PUNCH and JES Canal A: RTI and Datos y Mensajes
Colombia	Caracol Televisión and RCN Televisión
Corsica²	1998 FIFA World Cup TV² RAI	1998 FIFA World Cup TV1, 1998 FIFA World Cup TV2 and 1998 FIFA World Cup TV3²
ItalyRAI 1, RAI 2 and RAI 3
Czech Republic	ČT	ČT1 and ČT2
Denmark	DR	DR1 and DR2
Finland	YLE, MTV3	YLE TV2
France²	1998 FIFA World Cup TV²	1998 FIFA World Cup TV1, 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 1, RAI 2 and RAI 3
Hong Kong	TVB	Cantonese: TVB Jade
Hong Kong	TVB	English: TVB Pearl
India	Doordarshan	Doordarshan National Channel
Indonesia¹	TVRI (Programme 1), RCTI, SCTV, TPI, ANteve, and Indosiar (all matches in live television)¹
Iran	IRIB	Channel 1 and Channel 2
Ireland	RTÉ	RTÉ One and RTÉ Two
Israel	IBA	Hebrew: Channel 1
Israel	IBA	Arabic: Channel 33
Italy	RAI	RAI 1, RAI 2 and RAI 3
Japan	NHK, Fuji Television, TBS, Nippon Television, TV Asahi and TV Tokyo	NHK General TV, Fuji Television, TBS Television, Nippon Television, TV Asahi and TV Tokyo
Laos	LNTV
Macau	TVB	Cantonese: TVB Jade
Macau	TVB	English: TVB Pearl
Latin America	, DirecTV	Channels 530 and 532 of Bein TV Channels 610 and 612 of DirecTV
Malaysia²	STMB	TV3
Mexico	Televisa, TV Azteca	Canal de las Estrellas, XHDF-TDT
Monaco²	1998 FIFA World Cup TV² Telemontecarlo	1998 FIFA World Cup TV1, 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 News (all matches of international broadcast signal)² Telemontecarlo
Myanmar	MRTV	Channel 5
Netherlands	NPO	Nederland 1, Nederland 2 and Nederland 3
New Zealand	TVNZ	TV1 and 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	Telefuturo, SNT, Canal 13, Paraguay TV, , Paravisión, ,
Peru	América Televisión and Panamericana Televisión.
Philippines	GMA Network and Sky Cable
Poland	TVP	TVP1 and TVP2
Portugal	RTP	RTP1 and RTP2
Republic of China	TTV, CTV, CTS and FTV
Russia	VGTRK, ORT	Rossiya 1, Channel One Russia
San Marino	RAI	RAI 1, RAI 2 and 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	TVE (TV1 and TV2)
Sweden	SVT	SVT1 and SVT2
Switzerland	SRG SSR	SF 1 (German), TSR 2 (French) and TSI 2 (Italian)
Thailand	BEC-TERO	Channel 3
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)
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	, Channel 4, Channel 10, Teledoce, UTC, , ,
Vietnam	Vietnam Television	VTV1
Venezuela	Venevisión, RCTV, VTV

Notes:

^ Indonesia screened the tournament simulcast via 6-national free-to-air terrestrial television stations. It was broadcast simultaneously by 1-national state-owned public free-to-air terrestrial television station (TVRI) and relayed by the 5-national private commercial free-to-air terrestrial television stations (RCTI, SCTV, TPI, ANteve, and Indosiar). They provided Indonesian sports commentary on all 64 matches.
^ It is a joint venture of TF1, France Télévisions and TV5Monde.
^[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[]

References[]

2

1

3

[1]

v t FIFA World Cup
Tournaments	Uruguay 1930 Italy 1934 France 1938 Brazil 1950 Switzerland 1954 Sweden 1958 Chile 1962 England 1966 Mexico 1970 West Germany 1974 Argentina 1978 Spain 1982 Mexico 1986 Italy 1990 United States 1994 France 1998 South Korea–Japan 2002 Germany 2006 South Africa 2010 Brazil 2014 Russia 2018 Qatar 2022 Canada–Mexico–United States 2026 2030 2034
Qualification	1930 1934 1938 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1970 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022
Finals	1930 1934 1938 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1970 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018
Squads	1930 1934 1938 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1970 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018
Final draw	1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018
Broadcasters	1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022
Bids	2014 2018 and 2022 2026 2030
Statistics	2002 2006 2010 2014 2018
Team appearances	AFC CAF CONCACAF CONMEBOL OFC UEFA
Overall records	All-time table Goalscorers top goalscorers finals goalscorers hat-tricks own goals Managers Opening matches Penalty shoot-outs Player appearances Red cards Referees Winning players Winning managers
Miscellaneous	Awards Balls Controversies Economics Fan fest Films History Mascots Music Notable matches qualifying Organisers Stadiums Final stadiums Trophy Video games World Champions Cup
Notes: There was no qualification for the 1930 World Cup as places were given by invitation only. In 1950, there was no final; the article is about the decisive match of the final group stage.

v t 1998 FIFA World Cup
Stages	Group stage Group A Group B Group C Group D Group E Group F United States v Iran Group G Group H Knockout stage Final
General information	Qualification Seeding Squads Discipline Officials Broadcasting Terror plot

v t 1998 FIFA World Cup finalists
Champions	France
Runners-up	Brazil
Third place	Croatia
Fourth place	Netherlands
Quarter-finals	Argentina Denmark Germany Italy
Round of 16	Chile England Mexico Nigeria Norway Paraguay Romania FR Yugoslavia
Group stage	Austria Belgium Bulgaria Cameroon Colombia Iran Jamaica Japan Morocco Saudi Arabia Scotland South Africa South Korea Spain Tunisia United States