NCN inks deal with DIRECTV for official broadcast rights
It’s a done deal! Bernard Pantin, DIRECTV’s Caribbean and Latin America Director (left) and NCN’s CEO Lennox Cornette, signing the agreement to make NCN the Official Broadcast Rights Holder for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. (Adrian Narine photo)
It’s a done deal! Bernard Pantin, DIRECTV’s Caribbean and Latin America Director (left) and NCN’s CEO Lennox Cornette, signing the agreement to make NCN the Official Broadcast Rights Holder for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. (Adrian Narine photo)

THE National Communications Network (NCN) yesterday inked a deal with DIRECTV to become the official broadcast rights holder for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, set for Russia, from June 14 to July 15.

Lennox Cornette, NCN’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO), and Bernard Pantin, DIRECTV’s Caribbean and Latin America Director, placed their ‘John Hancock’ on the document to solidify the deal at NCN’s Homestretch Avenue studios.
At the signing, which was broadcast live on NCN’s Channel 11, Cornette said the 2018 World Cup, the world’s largest sporting event (behind the Olympic Games), will be viewed by more Guyanese than ever before, with the company (NCN) expanding their reach to the hinterland and other outlying regions.

According to Cornette, the investment is a testimony to NCN truly being Guyana’s largest broadcasting company, and affording all Guyanese the right to proper programming and the world’s biggest events.
Meanwhile, Pantin said regional broadcasters, over the years, have been weary of pirated events and have been reluctant to invest. However, this time around, he added DIRECTV has ensured that those rights holders will be protected and lauded NCN for the deal.
Pantin pointed out that with the FIFA World Cup being one of the events for which the world over is excited, Guyanese will, for the first time, be guaranteed seeing the 32-team tournament in its entirety.

Next year’s tournament will be the 21st FIFA World Cup. The tournament, which will be hosted by Russia, will be the first World Cup held in Europe since 2006; all but one of the stadium venues are in European Russia, west of the Ural Mountains to keep travel time manageable.

Of the 32 teams, 20 will be making back-to-back appearances following the last edition of the tournament in 2014, including defending champions Germany, while Iceland and Panama will both be making their first appearance at a FIFA World Cup.
A total of 64 matches will be played at 12 venues located in 11 cities. The final will take place on July 15 in Moscow at the Luzhniki Stadium.

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