TV rights dispute shuts out Indian Premier League
The Indian Premier League is due to get underway on Friday but it won't be screening on TEN due to a dispute over TV rights.
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The Indian Premier League is due to get underway on Friday but it won’t be screening on TEN due to a dispute over TV rights.
In March a consortium of Times Internet Limited and Nimbus Communication Limited acquired the global TV rights from The Board of Control for Cricket for broadcast outside India for the next 4 years. But it followed an earlier and unresolved dispute between the World Sport Group and the BCCI which cancelled an earlier media license.
WSG had the IPL rights in partnership with Sony Corporation.
A TEN spokesperson told TV Tonight, “As there is currently a significant legal dispute between The Board of Control for Cricket in India (which owns and controls the commercial rights in the Indian Premier League) and the company through which Network TEN secured the Australian broadcast rights, Network TEN has decided not to broadcast the IPL.
“As this matter is currently before the Court in India we will not be making any further comments at this time.”
FOX Sports is also unable to come to the aid of IPL cricket fans whilst TEN remains the rights holder.
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I heard that this newspapers website has the live coverage of all the games online. The streaming is pretty good too. Good luck.
ONE HD & Channel 10 have lost their mojo. It’s all about the money as always. It’s going to bring down beer sales in Melbourne for sure.
The only thing that I look forward to or watch on T.V all year round, and now this…..what a joke!.
I am sure if it were AFL, this last minute betrayal wouldn’t have happened!
What the **** this sucks. The only interesting thing that ONEHD had and now it’s gone.
This is pathetic,why doesn’t Australian broadcasters fight for such a skillful sport,its absolutely mind boggling, just no words to describe it.Kerry Packer would be turning in his grave…
Hope there’s way to watch the IPL (without geo-blocking or VPNS) this year, like on YouTube.
@David , thanks for the Guides what a laugh.
@Brian , they all use to be HD 2, 7 9 and 10 inc SBS which still is 720P , the ABC was 720P thats now 24 and all the rest were 1080i , the highest quality that FTA offers and PAYTV for that matter , its all bog standard definition now on the main channels at 576i.
Col – 10 was never HD
Actually it was. Here are some old TEN HD Guides.
Dam, I was looking forward to it. :-(((
Heres an Idea pull the HD plug on ONE HD shove it on SD and put 10 back to HD.
Now they have no cricket on ONE no Tennis , nothing that really generates interest in the publics eye , and a quick question who will be showing the Shanghai World Swimming Championships in July.
This is sad story of what is happening to cricket in Australia. First we could only see the World Cup games if did not have Foxtel. This is our national sports. Where would the next generation of cricketers come from if the game is not promoted. The best ever promotion for the game is showing it on TV. IPL has been the most exciting thing that happened in any sports in the world in modern history. Other sports would kill to have such event to promote their profile. To be valued above NBA, in 3 short years of history, and become the highest paid league in the world is a dream come true for all cricket fans. I hope for the sake of all fans and the next generation, the dispute is solved promptly, and we can witness some of the best tactical and exiciting cricket that we have got used to in the last 3 seasons from IPL.
Well I’m sure ONE is spewing just as much as the fans are. They were struggling for good content as it was and now taking 70 IPL games out of the schedule means they need to find, oh only about 200-300hrs of programming in the next 7 weeks. They’ll be crapping bricks at ONE HQ right now.
A competition between a bunch of make-believe cricket teams with no fan base and no history? Good riddance to it.
Packer saw what would bring people to the game and created World Series Cricket in the 1970s. The corporates behind the IPL are trying to generate a “product”, but it has no emotional resonance except for cricket tragics who treat it like a ball-throwing version of an RPG.
Teams comprised of randoms chosen solely for their fame and willingness to sigh a top-dollar contract made the whole IPL concept a joke from the start. And then there’s the “Bollywood” dancing…
Another nail in the one HD coffin that Murdoch and former board member packer had made. Rip dec 2011
It’s actually not such a bad thing, 20 over cricket is not really cricket as far as the true fans of the game are concerned and people are now starting to wake up to the fact that it’s not that interesting. I hardly watched any of it last year, and I’m not shedding a tear for it this year.
And the worst part is, we fans don’t get to fight back! This is what happens when you leave sports broadcast rights issues to the big boys too much, when they can’t agree on rights to sports like IPL cricket, we fans get burnt badly!
We need to reform sports broadcasts rights issues in Australia so we fans have more input! You agree with me?
Oh well, I’m sure Channel ONE will fins some movies or cooking show to telecast.
Ice Road truckers / Deadliest Catch are great shows to watch on Ch10 but not on a sports channel. I wish they would show more NBA, NHL, NFL & Baseball.
Hope they broadcast it at the last minute.
Hi David,
Is the IPL again going to be available on YouTube ? (I think it is).
In which case, TEN can please themselves.
What a #@$#*&#’ing joke – the one decent sport One / Ten have retained the rights to over the last few years, and usually show live (well, a good chunk of matches anyway), and they go and announce this two days before the start of the tournament, despite advertising their coverage for a few weeks now?? Not happy Jan!
The legal fight over broadcast rights has been on since March – and according to Cricinfo.com, the BCCI were only auctioning the broadcast rights of certain regions, Excluding India, South Africa and Australia, among others, so the recent purchase by Sony / Nimbus shouldn’t have impacted on us – unless Ten’s host broadcaster, I’m assuming WGC / Sony is themselves saying “we’re not allowing you as payback to the BCCI”, in which case Ten should say so – not “so we (Ten) have decided not to”.
Looks like I’ll be glued to my laptop screen for the next few months at night, watching low grade online streams — if I can find any anywhere :/
Only last Friday, Rogers Sportsnet signed with Nimbus to secure the Canadian TV rights to the IPL. So the Canadians are more fortunate than the Australians, who will now have to watch the matches through live streaming on YouTube.
TV Tonight Wrote, “FOX Sports is also unable to come to the aid of IPL cricket fans whilst TEN remains the rights holder.”
I’m an IPL fan, let’s hope Ten remains the holder, if I remember correctly they signed up for 5 years (until 2012), hopefully pay teev won’t get their grubby little fingers on it for a while yet, if ever.
Cricket Australia seems to be treating T20 as a novelty and not the big busines it is, still I suppose if they are hanging around the loser nine network things won’t get better any time soon for the exciting T20 format
My tally is 250+ IPL games and 7 novelty Cricket Australia games, sad that
well thats blows!!
This would be why One has pulled the “IPL – Live and Exclusive” ad from their network. Makes sense.
I’m just hopeful this sort of thing doesn’t happen when it comes time for the NRL rights to be chosen. I can see Ten/OneHD/Seven winning the rights, Nine/Fox going to court to appeal, and noone left with any coverage of any sort for a number of rounds…
What would happen if they did decide to broadcast it? This is a disaster for Ten/ONE.
Meh, had enough cricket this year.