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DELHI: Prasar Bharati has signed a formal agreement with UK-based Satellite Information
Services (SIS) Live for producing and broadcasting the Commonwealth Games next
year for Doordarshan. Doordarshan
sources confirmed the agreement was recently between Doordarshan director general
Aruna Sharma and SIS Live commercial director Philip Aspden. The
British broadcasting group had been shortlisted out of the two consortiums which
had filed their bids when the last date closed for this purpose. The
other shortlisted group was Nimbus Communications which had come in a consortium
with Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as lead partner.
Later,
the Information and Broadcasting Ministry had taken a final decision keeping in
view some points raised by an empowered committee comprising top officials of
Doordarshan and All India Radio. Satellite
Information Services Live of the United Kingdom has formed a consortium with SIS
Broadcast and Satellite Information Services Ltd. as lead partner. SIS is a wholly-owned
subsidiary of Satellite Information Services (Holdings) Ltd and is owned by a
combination of leisure and financial investors. Under
the terms of the agreement, SIS LIVE will provide all the production facilities
and personnel to cover 17 different sports across 12 venues in Delhi, as well
as the Games’ opening and closing ceremonies. | 
