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 .

Jun 30, 2018 16:06
MUMBAI: At an investors' conference call following this week's announcement that WWE had secured multi-year media rights deals with USA Network and Fox Sports, the sports entertainment network laid out timelines the next course of action in its two most important international markets - India and the UK. 
Jun 27, 2018 17:06
MADRID: LaLiga has successfully completed the partial sale of the audiovisual content exploitation rights for the first and second divisions of the National League Championship in Spain and Andorra for the 2019/20 to 2021/22 seasons. 
May 23, 2018 12:05
KUALA LUMPUR: Fight promoters MP Promotions and Events has appointed Havas Sports & Entertainment, a division of Havas Media Asia Pacific, as international media rights and commercial partner for the upcoming “Fight of Champions” World Boxing Association (WBA) Welterweight Championship featuring Filipino legend Manny Pacquiao and Argentinian "knockout artist" Lucas Matthysse on 15 July.
Apr 08, 2018 23:04
HOW MUCH IS THE right price for owning cricket in India? Last week's e-auction for India cricket media rights throws in some pointers. With Star India outbatting its two opponents, Sony Pictures Networks India and Reliance Jio, with an offer of Rs 6,138 crores, the maths show a per match cost of around Rs 60 crore over the next five years.
Apr 06, 2018 15:04
MUMBAI: Star India Private Ltd has won the BCCI India International and Domestic media rights for the period from 15th April 2018 till the 31st March 2023 following an online auction process that lasted three days.
Apr 06, 2018 12:04
MUMBAI: Star India is now officially the one-stop shop for all big-ticket cricket played in India after the 21st Century Fox subsidiary retained its hold on BCCI rights for the next five years with a winning bid of Rs 61.381 billion.  Star's bid for the global consolidated rights to Indian cricket amounts to an average per match value of Rs 601.77 million for the 102-game BCCI FTP for the period 2018-2023. 
Apr 05, 2018 10:04
MUMBAI: "Every bidder has its threshold. They are slowly reaching that point. If it reaches Rs 7000 crore (Rs 70 billion), it will be another landmark financial deal for Indian cricket," a senior board official tracking the e-auction for the next BCCI media rights cycle told PTI on Wednesday.
Apr 04, 2018 18:04
MUMBAI: The bidding war for the Board of Control for Cricket in India media rights has left in its wake the Indian Premier League, till now the gold standard in value terms. And it's not over yet with the bidding process set to resume again at 11 am Thursday as no winner has been confirmed by the end of Wednesday's proceedings.
Apr 03, 2018 19:04
MUMBAI: The Indian cricket board is looking at another massive pay day as the e-auction for BCCI cricket media rights failed to throw up a winner at the "end of day's play" by the allotted 6 pm deadline Tuesday.  At the time the bidding window closed for the day, the bid value in the Global Consolidated Rights category stood at Rs 44.42 billion (Rs 4442 crores, approximately $680 million). 
Mar 29, 2018 17:03
MUMBAI: Star India's Rs 163.475 billion ($ 2.55 billion) winning bid for IPL's global television and digital rights has boosted the confidence of team owners that that profitability is now well within reach. Each franchise can expect over Rs 2 billion from the central revenue pool from this year, in large part due to Star India’s media rights deal with the BCCI.