Move over, Super Bowl? There's an even bigger – and splashier – World Cup halftime show coming

What the report says

NPR reports that a World Cup halftime show is being planned as a major entertainment event, with the broadcast window expected to begin at about 3:45 p.m. ET. According to the available NPR snippet, the performance is expected to last roughly 11 minutes.

For U.S. viewers, NPR says the show will air in English on Fox and Fox One, and in Spanish on Telemundo. It will also be available through the Fox Sports app, with Spanish-language streaming on Peacock. The NPR headline frames the event as a potentially larger and more elaborate counterpart to the Super Bowl halftime show, though the full article text was not available for review.

The limited source material does not confirm the full lineup, staging details, venue or the match to which the show is attached. The NPR article URL references BTS, Justin Bieber, Madonna and Shakira, but without the article body available, their specific roles should be treated as unconfirmed from the supplied evidence.

The development matters because halftime entertainment is far more established in U.S. football than in global soccer, where breaks are shorter and match operations are tightly controlled. If carried out on the scale suggested by NPR’s headline, the show would represent an effort to turn a World Cup broadcast moment into a standalone pop-culture spectacle for both television and streaming audiences.