WC on BTV

The planet's biggest sporting extravaganza, the FIFA World Cup 2010 is around the corner. The month-long tourney starts with the game between hosts South Africa and Mexico at the Soccer City Stadium of Johannesburg on June 11 while the final will be held on July 11 at the same venue.
The 64 matches of the tournament will be held at three different times -- 5:30pm, 8:00pm and 12:30am Bangladesh time. Though Bangladesh are mere spectators, enthusiasm surrounding the event is at its peak as always. To cater to the demand of the viewers state-run Bangladesh Television, the only terrestrial TV channel, will provide live coverage of 25 of the matches.
Twelve matches of the first round including the opening game will be telecast live while all but three matches from the Round of 16 onwards will also be broadcast live. Due to some rights-related issues the BTV won't be able to show two quarterfinals and the third place play-off.
However, all three group matches of Brazil and Argentina, the two most popular teams in our country, will be telecast live.
The opening and closing ceremonies are also expected to be telecast. Apart from these, a 25-minute highlights from the day's matches will be telecast also. It has been learnt that the primetime news, News At Eight, may be brought forward for uninterrupted telecast.