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BBC secure radio rights
By Will 2 years ago, mid-February Leave a comment on this post
The BBC have secured radio rights in India for four years, which is a welcome relief to those who enjoy Test Match Special. The deal allows them to broadcast England’s current tour of India, and other international teams who visit, over the next four years. Sky, meanwhile, are being shafted by Nimbus, who paid an astonishing amount of money (over $600m) for exclusive rights to broadcast cricket on TV in India.
Tags: bbc, broadcast, bskyb, england-in-india, nimbus, radio, sky, tms, tv |
4 Responses to “BBC secure radio rights”
February 21st, 2006 at 8.42 pm
February 22nd, 2006 at 1.43 am
Willow TV…anyone know if they are going to be showing anything from India?
February 22nd, 2006 at 10.29 am
i think tall the right (in the us, broadband etc) will be decided in these days now…nimbus will hand them out to the big pots of the gold they are looking for.
and I…well sorta understand will, but why….shafted?
February 23rd, 2006 at 3.15 am
Quite a major bag for BBC to get commentary rights of Indian matches in India!
The usual TMS team of Jonathan Agnew, Christopher Martin-Jenkins and Simon Mann alongwith the acidic Boycott and the ‘humble’ Gavaskar.
However, the bigger news is in the question mark (everpresent!) on the TV rights. Some consolation that atleast BCCI got their fingers out from a dark place and awarded the rights to A production co. Not it seems its Nimbus’ turn to do a BCCI and dilly-dally on the onward sale of the Telecast rights.
