Over the last month or so, the Indian Premier League (IPL) seems to be in the news for all the wrong reasons.
Over the last month or so, the Indian Premier League (IPL) seems to be in the news for all the wrong reasons.
After the uncertainty over IPL fixtures due to a direct clash with the Lok Sabha elections, the League has run into another controversy the telecast right row with the Sony group.
The MSM and the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) faced each other in theu00a0Mumbai High Court yesterday after the BCCI had terminated its 10-year telecast rights deal with MSM for the IPL.
While hours after unilaterally terminating the contract with Sony on Saturday night, the BCCI sealed a deal with World Sports Group-Singapore for distributing terrestrial broadcast rights for the sub-continent on Sunday, MSM sought the court's intervention yesterday.
As Justice SJ Kathawala will resume the hearing of the case today afteru00a0 barring IPL to remove Sony as its broadcaster and strike a deal directly with WSG-Mauritius, it remains to be seen whether the maze will be solved today.
Sony had bagged the IPL's broadcast rights from WSG-India, who had won an original 10-year bid for USD 1.02 billion.
However, ever since Sony sold the DTH rights to Airtel, which resulted into Reliance Big TV walking out as one of the IPL sponsors, everything was not hunky-dory between the channel and Indian Premier League bosses.
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