Cricket
Bangladesh Premier League cricket agrees more broadcast deals
Sporty Solutionz, the agency appointed by satellite broadcaster Channel 9 Bangladesh, global rights-holder of the Bangladesh Premier League, agreed deals in a number of territories for rights to the Twenty20…
TV RIGHTS CLIPS: From January 26 to February 8
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Football: Public-service broadcaster the Namibia Broadcasting Corporation acquired the rights for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations in a deal with the Sportfive agency
ESPN Star Sports acquires Bangladesh Premier League cricket rights
Pan-Asian sports broadcaster ESPN Star Sports acquired rights for cricket’s Twenty20 Bangladesh Premier League in a three-year deal, from 2012 to 2014.
BSkyB renews domestic cricket deal
UK pay-television operator BSkyB renewed its rights deal with the England and Wales Cricket Board for home international and domestic cricket for four-and-a-half years, from 2014 to the summer of 2017
ECB chief vows to tackle pirate websites
Giles Clarke, the chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board, said pirate websites that stream matches illegally represent the “biggest danger” facing the sport.
Trinidad and Tobago domestic cricket deal
Trinidad and Tobago national free-to-air broadcaster Win Communications agreed a deal with the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board for rights to the 2012 domestic season
BCCI demands advertising revenues from Nimbus
The Nimbus Communications agency should use advertising revenues from its two multi-national pay-television sports channels, Neo Cricket and Neo Sports, to fulfil outstanding payments to the Board of Control…
Lack of free-to-air interest concerns ECB’s Collier
David Collier, the chief executive of the England and Wales Cricket Board, said he was worried that a lack of interest among UK free-to-air broadcasters in the board’s domestic rights in the next cycle c…
Nine chief worried by lost cricket advertising time
Channel Nine chief executive David Gyngell said that the Australian commercial broadcaster’s advertising sales could suffer due to fewer days of play than expected in the Test cricket series currently u…
Times Group considers takeover bid for Neo
Indian media conglomerate the Times Group is interested in acquiring a majority stake in the Nimbus Communications agency’s two multi-national pay-television sports channels, Neo Cricket and Neo Sports.
India defeats could hit BCCI rights fees in new tender
The Board of Control for Cricket in India may have to sell rights for the India national team for a lower price following the team’s poor performances in its ongoing tour of Australia, a senior official t…
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: NFL, MLB, NBA, Australian cricket, women’s golf and more
American Football: US networks CBS, Fox and NBC acquired rights for the NFL in nine-year deals, from 2014-15 to 2022-23, worth a combined $3.1bn (€2.4bn) per year.
Indian rights boom hits ceiling as saturation reached
Saturation effect puts brake on Indian cricket rights boom
ESS gets more content as rights fee remains flat
ESS gets more Australia cricket for its dollar in five-year deal
Nine’s Crawley wants to see best at Big Bash
Nine Network’s director of sport, Steve Crawley, said that the Big Bash, the Australian Twenty20 cricket franchise league, would need to involve the world’s best players in order to reach its potential on …
OneAlliance axes Neo
Indian pay-television distribution company TheOneAlliance terminated its agreement to distribute the Neo Sports pay-television channels, citing the Board of Control for Cricket in India’s cancellation l…