I thought this was an interesting piece, on the World Cup facing off against the NFL. There's no competition of course, but there's also barely any overlap.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/nov/23/world-cup-2022-qatar-soccer-nfl-football-tv-ratings But in the midst of this was a reminder that FIFA gave the North American rights holders a roll-over for the next tournament in return for them not suing FIFA for moving from summer to winter: "In 2015, Fifa rewarded Fox, Telemundo, and Bell Media (Canada) with a third cycle of World Cup events in a no-bid deal to avoid facing lawsuits from their decision to shift the World Cup in Qatar from the sweltering summer heat to a winter kickoff. Reports suggested Fox paid a 10% increase of $467m on its current deal for 2026 broadcasting rights, netting an extra 24 games at a discount price as the expanded North American edition jumps from 32 to 48 teams and 58 to 80 matches." The 2026 tournament would otherwise have been massively more lucrative if it had gone to an open tender. (The extra games are another bit of FIFA nonsense. Yes - more teams get to play, but the new system becomes open to "gaming", with teams potentially in the position of being able to "agree" a mutually beneficial result in early stages. This is why the final group games in the World Cup kick off simultaneously. There was a famous case in 1982 between West Germany and Austria played, safe in the knowledge that a 1-0 Germany win would see both sides through to the next round. Germany went 1-0 up in the first ten minutes and then both sides played a gentle kick-around to see out time. They both progressed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disgrace_of_Gij%C3%B3n for more.) Adam On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 9:46 PM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < [email protected]> wrote: > Whilst shopping for an unrelated book, I looked Jennings up, and found a > couple of titles of his on a cheap-used-tome site: > > https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-dirty-game-uncovering-the-scandal-at-fifa_andrew-jennings/14446182/item/54375378/?gclid=Cj0KCQiAg_KbBhDLARIsANx7wAwruJobogNkV6UufkmdDTKGmSXgJJbcTXd2O4qF82X60al2eEOAmr8aAnnaEALw_wcB#idiq=54375378&edition=59028775 > > https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/foul-the-secret-world-of-fifa-bribes-vote-rigging-and-ticket-scandals_andrew-jennings/937302/item/44018262/?gclid=Cj0KCQiAg_KbBhDLARIsANx7wAwZACGd7Y5O0E3r1cpkgO334ZfTaWDsUm_TEbHsYoBEsjEWKi-6i-kaArFlEALw_wcB#idiq=44018262&edition=56832654 > (links) > IYC. > B > > Adam Bowie, in part, Nov 22nd: > >> These days, there are loads of good books and documentaries about the >> history of FIFA and its general corruption. A series I've not seen just >> dropped on Netflix last week. But I first read about all of this years ago, >> via a fantastic British journalist called Andrew Jennings, who died at the >> start of this year. Over nearly 30 years, he wrote books about corruption >> within the IOC and FIFA, and generally made himself a complete pain, >> working on TV docs and writing for newspapers alongside his books. I doubt >> that his work is easy to come by in the US, and much of it will have been >> supplanted by now, but if you do find a book, they're very readable. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/23fdbd1f-ddca-4534-a625-cfd403013281n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/23fdbd1f-ddca-4534-a625-cfd403013281n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAD_sJGDhuFvbRFj62%3DaaBr5ttVgnGuy%3DoXc2tvTyzaVEjt3%2B1Q%40mail.gmail.com.
