Re: Cricket Plus
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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