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Cost of acquisition of the rights for Ten Sports: Roughly $ 2.5
million.
Asked for a confirmation on the amount Ten had paid for the rights,
SET India CEO Kunal Dasgupta refused to "comment on any figures".
Queried as to which other regions were important for Sony as far
as the upcoming series was concerned, Dasgupta mentioned the US,
Canada, UK and South Africa in particular. Dasgupta said that in
the US the telecast would be on Dish TV on pay per view (PPV). In
the UK, however, the matches would be aired on the Sony network
he said. Even on Singapore's Starhub, it would be on PPV, he added.
PTV ACQUIRES TERRESTRIAL RIGHTS FOR $ 650,000
Sony sold the terrestrial telecast rights for the Pakistan territory
after "protracted negotiations" with the state run broadcaster
PTV for $ 650,000, the Press Trust of India has reported.
PTI quoted the Pakistan information minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed
as saying in Islamabad, "It is quite a costly price, but, in
view of the interest these matches generate here, PTV has decided
to acquire the rights."
Earlier, Prasar Bharati had been allotted the domestic telecast
rights (following a court injunction) "for free" while
TWI had pocketed the production contract for the much touted series.
TWI's fee: $ 1.5 million.
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