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- By Parinda News Bureau, January 31, 2006, 09:43 IST
New Delhi: The five one-day international matches to be played between India and Pakistan during their ongoing bilateral series will be available to the millions of viewers of Doordarshan.
This follows an agreement reached between Ten Sports, which has the exclusive telecast rights of the series and the Prasar Bharati, before the Supreme Court.
A two-member division bench directed Prasar Bharati to deposit with the Court a sum of Rs 15 crore by 9th February which Ten Sports shall receive as full and final settlement for sharing an "uninterrupted feed" of the five one-dayers beginning from 6th February at Peshawar.
As per the agreement, Doordarshan and Prasar Bharati shall not run any advertisement during their terrestrial transmission and must reduce the power of their satellite so that the signal does not spill over to the neighbouring countries.
Prasar Bharati CEO K S Sarma said the Public Broadcaster would implement it.
Emerging from the court, he said that DD would obey the order of the Court and deposit Rs 15 crore and get a feed for all the five one-day internationals without running its own advertisements.
The Court transferred a petition pending in the Bombay High Court in the regard and said all the matters relating to the dispute shall be heard by a three judge bench of the apex court.
A petition filed by Taj Television Ltd, owner of Ten Sports, had sought a stay of the government guidelines that makes it mandatory for the sports channels to share their feed for "national and international sporting events of national importance" in India or abroad.
Ten Sports, has termed the guideline as arbitrary without the authority of the law.
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