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BCCI convenes emergency meet |
The BCCI has convened an emergency meeting after production house Nimbus served them a notice on Tuesday, threatening to pull out of their approximate
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INDIA
, 6-March-2007
9:45:1 AM |
The BCCI has convened an emergency meeting after production house Nimbus served them a notice on Tuesday, threatening to pull out of their approximately Rs 2700 crore cricket telecast deal.
Nimbus have demanded that the BCCI sort out the encryption issue with Doordarshan after the government had passed an ordinance making it mandatory for all sports feeds of national importance to be shared with Prasar Bharti.
Nimbus was forced to share its feed with DD during the West Indies and Sri Lanka ODI series.
Mumbai-based Nimbus had acquired the Cricket Board's telecast rights pipping ESPN-Star Sports and Zee Sports when the rights were awarded in 2006 February for a four-year period.
Nimbus, which did not have a channel of its own, then launched 'Neo Sports' in the middle of last year and the Challenger Series domestic limited overs tournament in August was the first tournament it beamed
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