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New Delhi: Ending months of agony for Indian football fans, Zee has announced that it has sealed a deal with FIFA to telecast the World Cup that gets underway this month.

That India would have to miss watching the World Cup being played across three countries in the Americas had seemed a real possibility, with JioStar (now merged with Disney and Hotstar) not willing to pay up what FIFA had put forth as broadcast fees. JioStar had telecast the last World Cup. It was reported that Jio was worried about revenues as telecast timings, suitable for the Americas, are not favourable to India. Mint had reported how hopes that public broadcaster Doordarshan could broadcast World Cup 2026, had been dashed as it too pulled out of securing “commercial........

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