MUMBAI: The new blockbuster cricket format Twenty20 coupled with BCCI’s home league, Indian Premier league (IPL), may cause a friction between the sport broadcast community and the cricket board. For BCCI, the agenda is clearly to maximise revenue from both the properties. But the more contentious issue is who will own the broadcast rights.
Sports management firm Nimbus, which bagged the rights from BCCI for $612 million in 2005 until 2010, is now claiming that it has the rights to the T20 matches as well as the IPL. Nimbus has the rights to all international matches played on home ground. However, when the deal was inked with BCCI in 2005, Twenty20 as a format was not included.
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Friday, October 5, 2007
Nimbus claims right to T20 league
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