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World Cup 2014 radio rights go to TalkSport 

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/nov/15/world-cup-2014-radio-rights-talksport-brazil

Talksport have been given the rights to produce live commentary of the football World Cup which will be held in Brazil in 2014. This will benefit TalkSport as their was no major football tournament in 2013 therefore Talk sport losing alot of money and listeners. 

•  TalkSport will provide Radio commentary for all 2014 World cup games, from the opening game to to the final which will be held on 13th of July. 
• Commentary will be shared with BBC Radio 5 Live. However this has been the case for the last two years therefore it being a rivalry for 8 years. 

The guests of TalkSport who will be providing the commentary will be, 

• Stan Collymore 
• Sam Matterface
•  Richard Keys 
• Andy Gray

However there may also be extra guests added to the commentary list which has already been chosen.Furthermore Talksport will not only be providing the commentary for the all games from the world cup but also,TalkSport will broadcast the draw for the World Cup group stages. which will take place on the 6th of December. 

UTV Media are hoping that securing the rights to provide the commentary for the World Cup 2014 will ensure they receive more listeners after the World cup has finished, then they did in the previous major football tournament. As in the previous tournament TalkSport listeners had dropped 15% year on the 30th of September after the Euro 2012.

•  UTV Media's Radio stations were down 10% this year to £37.1m.
• On September 30th their revenue had improved as they were only down by 3% to £13.m
• UTV Media are expecting an increase in income by 4% by the end of the year.