media rights

Following the windfall gains the BCCI made by splitting of digital and TV rights for IPL's 2023-27 cycle, the Indian cricket board has reportedly decided to follow the same template for international cricket to be played in India across the next five-year cycle.

"While we are still finalising the contours of the BCCI media rights auction, we will be unbundling the media rights this time by selling TV and digital rights separately," a BCCI official is quoted as having said in report published by Economic Times .

Mar 29, 2018 12:03
MELBOURNE: Tennis Australia is set to join forces with the Nine Network after signing an historic new agreement here Thursday. The new A$300 million ($230.3 million), five-year deal from 2020 to 2024 is the biggest in the history of the organisation and way over the reported A$35 million a year that current host broadcaster Channel 7 has going with Tennis Australia.
Mar 19, 2018 17:03
MUMBAI: The BCCI’s invitation to tender (ITT) for home internationals and domestic matches (for April 2018-March 2023) has set a base price or Per Match Value (PMV) of Rs 330 million for Global Television Rights plus Rest of the World Digital Rights Package (GTVRD), Rs 70 million for the Indian Subcontinent Digital Rights Package (ID) and Rs 400 million for the Global Consolidated Rights Package (GCR), The Hindu re
Mar 05, 2018 13:03
MUMBAI: Sony Pictures Networks India has acquired exclusive media rights from the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) for the Indian subcontinent (Pakistan and Sri Lanka included) for a period of five years starting in 2018 through 2022.
Feb 20, 2018 16:02
NEW DELHI: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Tuesday invited bids for the broadcast and digital media rights of all international and domestic cricket matches to be played in India till March 2023. 
Feb 14, 2018 16:02
MUMBAI: And so it proved. With Silicon Valley tech giants not ready to enter the bidding fray for the next round of Premier League media rights, incumbents Sky Sports and BT Sport have secured five of seven live packages up for grabs for a combined £4.464 billion, significantly less in REAL value than the record £5.136 billion they paid in the 2015 auction.
Jan 29, 2018 13:01
LONDON: Sky Sports has signed a new multi-year agreement to broadcast the Indian Premier League.  In 2014, the 21st Century Fox affiliate (21CF has a 39 per cent stake in Sky plc) had signed a three-year deal to broadcast the IPL for the first time in UK and Ireland.
Nov 16, 2017 15:11
NEW YORK: E-commerce giant Amazon has reportedly secured five-year UK TV rights to the US Open, the last tennis grand slam of the year.  While the deal terms were not disclosed, UK media reports that Amazon paid about $40 million (£50m) for the rights. The latest acquisition buttresses Amazon’s £50m, five-year deal for the UK rights to the ATP World Tour, for which it outbid Sky, UK's Guardian reports.
Nov 14, 2017 13:11
MUMBAI: Star India parent 21st Century Fox's (21CF) total firm commitments and future debt payments as of September 30 is approximately $83 billion, up $1 billion from what it was on June 30.