Nimbus bags South Africa TV rights

[vln_arun]

Mumbai: Nimbus Communication Limited is all set to bag rights to broadcast all cricket matches from South Africa in Asia. Nimbus' rights to telecast games from South Africa is set to start from Australia's tour scheduled to begin in February 2009.

During the tour Australia are to play three Test matches and five ODIs. An official announcement on Nimbus getting the Asian rights is expected to be made in due course.

For the last one year, Ten Sports had the Asian broadcast rights for all cricket played in South Africa. But a change has been effected in that, following the end of the contract period. Ten's rights were not renewed and the Cricket South Africa (CSA)'s broadcast partners SuperSport have now licensed the same to Nimbus.

Officially though CSA is not willing to say anything on the sale of rights in Asia. ''I have not heard any such thing. This is news to me,'' CSA CEO Gerald Majola told cricketnirvana.com SuperSport CEO Imtiaz Patel was unavailable for a comment, but senior Ten Sports officials claimed that the rights are staying with them


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[ajuravi007]

I would be happy if the rights goes to nimbus as due to ICL Tensports are not telecating the matches live.......:cool2:

 

[siddharth021]

that means........neo is going to telecast....oh man....too bad...........

 

[ajuravi007]

Where as Tensports are not telecasting the live matches when any ICL matches are played...........

 

[Deleted member 7160]

They were not telecasting because SA was playing with Bang.. ICL was more interesting than Bang matches ..

 

[ajuravi007]

Then what about Pak - WI ODI matches they did not telecast the final ODI match because of ICL...........if ICL is important to them then its better that Tensports should not acquire rights for international cricket.........

 

[Deleted member 7160]

May be because they must be getting more money from Z group to telecast the ICL matches ..

 

[SVK]

ZEE hold 50% stake in TEN SPORTS, so may be TEN have to telecast ICL.BTW good that Nimbus/NEO increasing their area.

 

[Deleted member 7160]

Good..? They have pathetic commentary team.. and the matches are full of advertisement.. Sometimes they even skip last ball of the over ..

 

[Kevin]

Good..? They have pathetic commentary team.. and the matches are full of advertisement.. Sometimes they even skip last ball of the over ..

sometimes even the first ball they miss ..