How to watch the 2023 Women’s World Cup on TV in the UK and US

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Brown-Finnis and Bardsley will also co-commentate for the BBC, where they will be joined by commentators Robyn Cowen, Jonathan Pearce, Vicki Sparks, Connor McNamara and Steven Wyeth. The ITV games will be announced by Seb Hutchinson, Sam Matterface, Pien Meulensteen and Tom Gayle. It will be intriguing to see if top-tier Meulensteen gets the bigger assignments or Matterface gets the nod.

Who has what games?

ITV and BBC will split the group matches with 24 each. It is noteworthy that the start times vary a lot, to adapt to the demands of the large television markets.

England are odds out of the group and the BBC have the top pick of the last 16 matches so it’s safe to say England will play their first knockout game in Beeb. ITV has first choice of rooms; The aunt has the two semifinals. ITV has the third place game, hopefully without England, and both broadcasters will televise the final.

Value added?

Gianni Infantino, in the brass collar we expect from FIFA greats, embarrassed national broadcasters around the world for not wanting to pay more for the rights. He said: “The broadcasters pay $100-200 million for the men’s World Cup, they offer only $1-10 million for the women. It’s a slap in the face for all the great players at the FIFA Women’s World Cup and, indeed, for all the women in the world.”

With 17.4 million watching England beat Germany in the Euro final last year, this tournament could be one of the TV bargains of the century.

Controversy over television rights

FIFA’s decision to separate broadcast rights for the women’s World Cup from the men’s tournament for the first time sparked a bitter clash between the governing body and the “big five” European markets: the UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain.

With programming in the southern hemisphere ruling out any hope of prime time starts, initial bids were low, as little as one percent of the offers for men’s rights, prompting Fifa president Gianni Infantino to call them a “slap in the face” to the players and “all the women in the world”.

After a lengthy discussion in the winter that turned into spring, Infantino took the doomsday option, threatening a media blackout for Europe’s traditional financial powerhouses. “It is our moral and legal obligation not to underestimate the FIFA Women’s World Cup,” she said. “Therefore, if the offers remain unfair, we will be forced not to broadcast the FIFA Women’s World Cup to the ‘big five’ European countries.”

After six weeks of negotiation and rhetoric, a compromise was reached and a deal with the “big five” was announced on June 15.

In the United States, longstanding agreements for English and Spanish language rights had been more straightforward.

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