{"id":331608,"date":"2026-06-11T03:45:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T03:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/331608\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T03:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T03:45:12","slug":"dallas-host-city-media-center-opens-for-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/331608\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Host City Media Center opens for World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The time has finally arrived for those who have worked for years preparing for the FIFA World Cup. <\/p>\n<p>North Texas FIFA World Cup Organizing Committee President Monica Paul says this is much more than just an event for North Texas. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m excited, I&#8217;m proud, nervous a little bit as well,&#8221; Paul said. &#8220;When you&#8217;ve been working on something for nine years since 2017.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She says this is also something for all international fans coming through the Metroplex over the next five weeks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think maybe there are some misconceptions too, here, of what is the DFW area, what is Dallas, what is Fort Worth,&#8221; Paul said. &#8220;I want our international visitors to experience all of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>North Texas organizers held a Grand Opening for the Dallas Host City Media Center Wednesday. The facility will serve as a hub for all local broadcasters working the event on a local level. <\/p>\n<p>The Dallas Host City Media Center is directly across Griffin Street inside the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center from where the International Broadcast Center is located. <\/p>\n<p>The International Broadcast Center is a hub for all three countries hosting the 2026 FIFA World Cup which gets underway Thursday in Mexico City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The time has finally arrived for those who have worked for years preparing for the FIFA World Cup.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[20313,102,104,103,17174,109],"class_list":["post-331608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-2026-fifa-world-cup","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-dallas-texas","tag-downtown-dallas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}