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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[edit source]

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, Canal 9, ATC, Channel 30, Argenvisión, Channel 23, El CW
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
	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
	French: Société Radio-Canada	French: Télévision de Radio-Canada
Chile	TVN, Chilevisión, UCTV and 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 1, RAI 2 and RAI 3
Hong Kong	TVB	Cantonese: TVB Jade
		English: TVB Pearl
India	Doordarshan	Doordarshan National Channel
Indonesia1	TVRI (Programme 1), PITV (Programma 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
		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
		English: TVB Pearl
Latin America	Bein TV, 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	TF1, 1998 FIFA World Cup TV2  Telemontecarlo	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 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, Red Guaraní 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 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)
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	Channel 3, Channel 4, Channel 10, Teledoce, UTC, Uruvisión, Canal 27, STV
Vietnam	Vietnam Television, Ho Chi Minh City Television	VTV1, VTV3, HTV7, HTV9
Venezuela	Venevisión, RCTV, VTV

Notes:

1. ^ 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 PITV Natiowide broadcaster (both Satellite transmission in PAL and DVB-S) 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. PITV used Digital Video Broadcasting Satellite (DVB-S) to transmit all Matches in 3 feeds was used by MediaPI to reduce signal interruption at Palapa C2.
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).