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NY- Telemundo's recent acquisition of U.S. The the spanish language language-language rights to future soccer World Cups is predicted to become lucrative investment for that organization, Comcast chairman and Boss John Roberts, whose company has a large part stake in Telemundo parent NBCUniversal, mentioned Wednesday. "We'll cover and mix-promote games and occasions across our various channels on broadcast and cable, additionally to online, wireless and also on-demand," he mentioned on Comcast's third-quarter earnings business call. "This investment needs to be lucrative for Telemundo, an authentic game changer for the business plus an opportunity for the organization." NBCUniversal Boss Steve Burke later on the telephone call also mentioned that his team is ongoing to find programming investment options for NBCUniversal and felt Telemundo's play for your World Cup was a good example with an investment making sense which is worth the trading. "You will discover two major players - we've twenty percent business, Univision has eighty percent,In . he mentioned. "The premier rental fees are World Cup soccer, which we believe we structured a very attractive, extended-term deal." Telemundo outshine incumbent Univision inside the investing in an offer for your 2015 through 2022 FIFA World Cup rights, such as the males's and girls's competitions. The sale is mentioned being more vital than $600 million, nearly double $325 million that Univision taken proper care of its current package. Experts have mentioned it'll be a difficulty on Telemundo to produce a profit about it, saying it can benefit get observed for other programming and boost advertising rates. The rights package covers all platforms except radio and includes the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup in Canada, the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia, the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup, the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, FIFA Confederations Cup and many types of Under-20 and Under-17 FIFA World Cup matches. Email: Georg.Szalai@thr.com Twitter: @georgszalai Related Subjects Comcast NBCUniversal Telemundo