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Information and Broadcasting Minister Zahir Uddin Swapon today said the government directly purchased the media rights for the FIFA World Cup 2026 from FIFA at a nominal cost, ending the hundreds of crores of taka transactions, irregularities, corruption and intermediary syndicates associated with the broadcasting rights of the previous Qatar World Cup.

After working for more than two decades in broadcast engineering and media technology, designing, integrating, and troubleshooting broadcast systems, studios, live production environments, and distribution workflows, I have taken on hands-on engineering, training, and senior leadership roles overseeing broadcast operations, engineering, and technology strategy. Most recently, this has included system design and engineering work at…