Amid the versions that circulated in recent days, the presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni The situation of the television rights of the World Cup 2026which will be played in United States, Mexico and Canada.
The spokesman explained that he is currently carrying out the necessary efforts to guarantee the coverage of the most important football event on the planet.
“I am carrying out the efforts so that Argentines can see the 2026 World Cup in the most efficient way”held Adorni.
At the same time, he denounced that the previous versions responded to a discredit campaign: “Even the data they have given from other World Cups have also been false and have also been a Fake News and an attempt to discredit government management.”
The controversy had originated following information that assured that the Public television had not acquired the rights of the next World Cupwhich would have ended an uninterrupted continuity of 52 years transmitting the tournament from Germany 1974.
According to those versions, the Government had decided not to invest the seven million dollars that cost the rights, within the framework of the economic adjustment policy.
The closest antecedent in the matter was the Qatar World Cup 2022in which the Public TV disbursed near 10 million dollarsalthough he managed to cover those costs and even obtain profits through advertising.
Even so, the current administration had been speculated with a change in criteria, taking into account that this year the state channel had already resigned the transmission of some parties of Qualifying for not reaching an agreement with the private companies that have the rights.
With the clarification of Adorni, he Government It seeks to take tranquility to the fans and close the controversy around universal access to the World Cup.
In any case, it still remains to define the details of how the parties will be distributed and what role will the Public TV in relation to other channels and private signals.
The truth is that, as confirmed by the presidential spokesman himself, Argentines can live again a World by the state screen, thus maintaining a tradition of more than half a century.
Source: Ambito
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