{"id":653074,"date":"2026-05-07T05:16:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T05:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/653074\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T05:16:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T05:16:18","slug":"asia-soccer-fans-sweat-on-broadcast-rights-as-world-cup-nears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/653074\/","title":{"rendered":"Asia soccer fans sweat on broadcast rights as World Cup nears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong \u2013 Swathes of soccer-mad Asia from China and India to Malaysia and Thailand are yet to confirm broadcast rights for the biggest-ever World Cup with kick-off barely one month away.<\/p>\n<p>Unsociable match times in the region are\u00a0one of the reasons why hundreds of millions of fans have been left sweating about whether they can watch from their sofas.<\/p>\n<p>Football&#8217;s showpiece is being co-hosted by the United States, Canada and Mexico and begins on June 11 when the Mexicans face South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hong Kong \u2013 Swathes of soccer-mad Asia from China and India to Malaysia and Thailand are yet to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[5806,49,48,14990,561,82],"class_list":["post-653074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-asia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fifa-world-cup","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}