Cricket Plus

teaser · February 1, 2007, 12:29am

**ATN is showing a preview of CricketPlus channel on CBN. It will soon be available as a subscription channel.

They were showing classic Hockey and when that finished they showed a brief profile of Wasim Akram.

And now horse racing is on.

If you have Canadian sat turn to CBN to watch CricketPlus or if you have DirecTV check out your local guide for CricketPlus channel.**

cricketplaya · February 1, 2007, 4:04am

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is it only dtv getting rights to this or bev too?

Decent_6Chora · February 1, 2007, 2:31pm

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and what about us in US? :(

teaser · February 1, 2007, 3:06pm

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Well actually DirecTV is the one who came up with this channel and in the US you can only subscribe if you have DirecTV. If you are in Canada you will have to subscribe it through Bell Express. Bell Express is basically getting the stream from DirecTV and providing it to Canadian subscribers.

DC you need to switch to DirecTV if you are in the US to get this channel.

hehehaha · February 1, 2007, 3:09pm

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Yes, I heard the new channel "ATN Cricket Plus" is coming. Then what will happen to CBN? LOL

teaser · February 1, 2007, 3:33pm

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I think they will keep CBN as well so that they can show 2 games on 2 different channels if both games are at the same time or overlaping.

smooth_guy · February 1, 2007, 4:22pm

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I think DirectTV will only be able show cricket matches on Cricket Plus that it has rights for. So the matches that DN has rights for will be shown on CBN in Canada.

My $0.02

cricketplaya · February 2, 2007, 12:49am

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DN has rights to the world cup - the biggest rights :D :D :D

but DTV had rights to the sa vs pak series... :(

teaser · February 2, 2007, 1:39am

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^DTV has rights to the worldcup as well.

fkhan2 · February 2, 2007, 4:29am

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From Dishnetwork

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EchoStar Acquires Distribution Rights to ICC Cricket World Cup 2007

ENGLEWOOD, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 8, 2006--EchoStar Satellite LLC, a subsidiary of EchoStar Communications Corporation (NasdaqDISH), announced today that it has acquired from the Global Cricket Corporation (GCC) the exclusive rights to distribute on television, radio, broadband and internet the International Cricket Council (ICC) Cricket World Cup 2007 in Canada, Mexico, **Central and South America and Dutch Antilles**.

In the United States, including Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, EchoStar secured non-exclusive television rights and exclusive radio, broadband and internet distribution.

EchoStar is offering the event for sublicensing to cable, satellite or internet providers.

"The ICC Cricket World Cup 2007 is an extremely popular international event viewed by a world-wide audience in excess of one billion people and is closely followed by people who reside within the cricketing nations as well as fans living in the U.S.," said Michael Kelly, executive vice president of EchoStar. "EchoStar
is pleased to bring this global event to viewers and listeners in areas outside the U.S. as well as make it available to 12 million DISH Network satellite TV viewers in the U.S."

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