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The
channels will have to pay nothing for up to that duration to the
IPL match footage, sources said.
Some
of the news channels today, when the blackout entered its second
day, started making the visual announcement in faded fonts across
the screens, that IPL news will now be available.
Times
Now CEO Chintamani Rao, who is the chief negotiator for the NBA
on this issue, told indiantelevision.com, "NBA and IPL have
met and resolved the issues. The negotiation ended last night."
Asked
whether the IPL authorities have agreed to give the news clippings
footage free of cost, Rao refused to divulge the arrangement.
"All I want to say is that we have resolved all issues and
the case is closed. IPL news will be back on the news channels,"
Rao said.
However,
industry sources said that though the news channels had demanded
seven minutes of free news clips per match, and the IPL had refused
anything gratis, the final agreement is that the news channels
will get five and half minutes of free footage from all IPL matches
This
followed a protracted negotiation that lasted more than two days
after the NBA went blank on IPL news from the midnight of 15 April.
IPL
had already agreed to the terms and conditions of the newspapers
and news agencies regarding use of photographs taken by them at
the mega sporting event.
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