Cricket World Cup 2007, the biggest cricketing event in the world will be telecast live by various TV channels across the world in order to enable cricket fans to watch the matches live from their living rooms. In different countries, different TV channels have been allotted the rights to telecast the matches live from the beautiful islands of the West Indies.
EchoStar Satellite LLC has acquired the rights to distribute on radio, television and the Internet. The exclusive rights of distribution by EchoStar extend to Central and South America, Canada and the Netherlands Antilles. Sony Entertainment Television has acquired the rights to telecast the matches live in the Indian sub continent. Doordarshan, the national TV channel of India will telecast live all the matches played by the Indian team as well as the Semi-Finals and the Final. The BBC will telecast the highlights of Cricket World Cup 2007.
The TV channel SABC has secured the ICC rights to telecast the matches in Africa whereas SET Max, Doordarshan, Sri Lanka’s Rupavahini and Bangladesh TV will beam the matches live in Asia. Caribbean Media Corporation has acquired the rights to telecast the Cricket World Cup 2007 matches across the Caribbean. While in Europe, ARY Digital and Fox Sports International have been given the rights to telecast the matches live, Fox Sports International will also telecast live the matches in the Middle East. Sky New Zealand will beam World Cup matches in New Zealand and Fiji TV will telecast them in the Pacific Islands. Cricket fans in the UK and Ireland can turn on BskyB for live matches and BBC for highlights. DirecTV and EchoStar will bring the world cup matches to fans in the USA.
Official Cricket World Cup TV and Radio Broadcasters
Broadcaster
Broadcast Territory
Rights (exclusive unless otherwise stated)
ABC Radio
Australia
Non – exclusive Radio
All India Radio
India
Radio
ARY Digital
Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, The Netherlands, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Russia, Hungary, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldavia, European Part of Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Macedonia, Albania, Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia
Pay Television
BBC Radio
United Kingdom & Ireland
Non – exclusive Radio
BBC Television
United Kingdom & Ireland
TV highlights
BBC World Service
Worldwide
Radio (5 minute updates per hour)
BSkyB
United Kingdom , Channel Islands , Isle of Man & Eire
Internet, Television & Mobile
Bangladesh TV
Bangladesh
Radio & Television
Caribbean Media Corporation
Caribbean islands and nations including Antigua & Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guadelope, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, St. Kitt & Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Martin, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago and the Turks & Caicos
Radio & Television
DirecTv
USA , its territories and possessions (including Puerto Rico and USVI)
Non – exclusive Television
Doordarshan (Prasar Bharati)
India
Terrestrial Television
EchoStar
North, Central and South America and The Dutch Antilles
Non – exclusive US TV
Exclusive non–US TV, Internet and Radio
Fiji TV
Pacific Islands including the Fiji Islands, Tonga, Samoa, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Nauru, Cook Islands, Niue, Tokelau, Kiribati and Tuvalu
Asia, Middle East, Africa, Sweden, Italy, Denmark, United Kingdom, Channel Islands, Isle of Man & Eire, Australia & Papua New Guinea
Mobile (3G / GPRS)
New Zealand Radio
New Zealand
Radio
Nine Network
Australia and Papua New Guinea
Radio (save for ABC deal), Internet (simulcast only) & Television
Reuters
Worldwide
News Access
SABC
Africa & all adjacent islands
Radio & Television
SKY New Zealand
New Zealand
Television
SNTV
Worldwide
News Access
SONY (SET MAX)
India , Pakistan , Bangladesh , Sri Lanka , Malaysia , Singapore , Nepal , Brunei , Maldives
Pay TV
Sri Lanka Rupavahini
Sri Lanka
Television
STAR India
Worldwide
Internet subject to broadcast licensee restrictions
[plus ICC CT 2006 merchandising & publications]
STAR India
Worldwide excluding Asia, Middle East, Africa, Sweden, Italy, Denmark, United Kingdom, Channel Islands, Isle of Man & Eire, Australia & Papua New Guinea
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