Let’s see clearly How much ASEAN is buying the rights to the World Cup? Why is Thailand called a billion! Sports fans are asking for documents.
Progress in the case of buying the rights to broadcast the FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar Between 20 November-18 December, Thailand has no copyright on the live broadcast. But it is certain and confirmed by the government that Thais will be able to watch live broadcasts “for free” according to the “musthave” rule, which states that the World Cup is one of the 7 sporting events Thais have to watch it live for free.
In the past, sports agencies such as the Sports Authority of Thailand (SAT) and agencies that issue “must” rules such as the Broadcasting Commission of television business And the National Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) discussed several rounds and still came to the conclusion the budget figures that Thailand must bring the people’s tax to buy copyrights. And it remains unclear which agency will carry out the operation. In the past, the two agencies said that the royalties for live broadcasting in Thailand will rise to 1 billion baht.
Recently, journalists checking the royalties for the live broadcasts of the 2022 World Cup that ASEAN member states or Thailand’s neighbors have completed the purchase, found that preliminary information in ASEAN countries has 8 countries that have already licensed by Brunei via Kristal-Astro / Cambodia via TVK Channel / East Timor Via EOE-Telco Channel / Indonesia Via Emtek Channel / Philippines Via TAP DMV / Singapore Via MediaCorp, Singtel, StarHub Vietnam Via VTV / Malaysia Astro and RTM are not , Laos and Myanmar are copyright.
This amount was bought by government television stations, namely Malaysia, Vietnam and Cambodia. For example, Vietnam, where VTV announced the purchase of the rights to the 2022 World Cup for 14 million US dollars, or about 532 million baht.
Malaysia bought the rights for 32.5 million ringgit (261.50 million baht), but it will be a package of 27 live matches, including the final. And broadcast the tape record of 14 matches out of a total of 64 contests. Malaysia does not broadcast every match live. chooses to broadcast live matches of major teams or important matches that Malaysian football fans are interested in Broadcasted live by Radio and Television Malaysia.
The private sector buys copyrights. But FIFA has made it clear that it will also be broadcast live for the public to watch. For example, Singapore will be broadcast live via streaming, with StarHub and Singtel costing 64 games at $98 SGD or about 2,636 baht, but they will broadcast for free in 9 big games on MediaCorp Channel 5, which includes Open matches: Qatar -Ecuador 21 November, Portugal-Ghana 25 November, Netherlands-Ecuador 26 November, Argentina-Mexico 27 November, Tunisia-France 30 November and Ghana-Uruguay December 2, games 2. semi-finals and finals
while the Philippines through TAP can watch all games through the pay-per-view system for 1999 pesos or about 1,306 baht.
Incidentally, for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia, Singapore bought the rights to the World Cup for S$25 million, or about 625 million baht, according to the Straits Times, reporting that Singapore’s 2022 World Cup rights will be about 25 million. dollar coins, or about 625 million baht, the same
Thai sports fans noted that the Thai government always buys the rights to broadcast the Euro Soccer or the World Cup People have never seen a license sale contract that the Thai government pays the copyright owner until now age once
