NEW DELHI, Mar 1: The Indian cricket board (BCCI) has finally ended the imbroglio over telecast rights of the India-Pakistan series beginning on March 8.
While Trans World International will provide the live feed the Board has decided to invite bids for the overseas rights of telecast of the series in its working committee meeting here on Tuesday morning.
The three-Tests and six one day internationals would be telecast in India on Doordarshan.
While an interim order of the Madras High court gave the telecast rights to Doordarshan, the BCCI’s working committee meeting had to decide on which production house will conduct the telecast.
** TEN Sports to show Indo-Pak series…**
By Our Sports Reporter
6 March 2005
DUBAI — Ten Sports will telecast the India-Pakistan cricket series in the ** Middle East and Pakistan **,” Peter Hutton of the Dubai-based satellite channel told Khaleej Times last night.
The telecast will be available to all subscribers of Pehla silver and Pehla gold packages. Ten Sports will release the schedule of the telecast shortly. “We are working on it,” Hutton said.
The series, the first full-fledged one by Pakistan to India in six years, comprises three Test matches and six one-day internationals. The first Test begins at Mohali on Tuesday.
Sony Entertainment Television (SET) has been awarded the satellite broadcast rights of the series for $11.5 million, Indian cricket board president Ranbir Singh Mahendra said yesterday.
He said that talks between the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and Prasar Bharati are under way on the issue of terrestrial rights of the high-profile series.
“We have written a letter to them (Prasar Bharati),” he said. The BCCI had on Tuesday awarded the production rights to TransWorld International for $1.5 million…
… confirmed with Dish Network that the Pak-India series will be offered as a pay per view event. They are offering two packages, all inclusive package for $249 and ODI package for $199.
I'm so khappy I dunn hafta subscribe to willow or to any freakin Pay-Per-View service for watching the series cuz ATN is showing the matches in Canada.
I guess for someone who doesn't have the channel, paying $15 CDN for a month aint all that bad even if they were just to watch the series.
