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Cricket World Cup 2007, the biggest cricketing event in the world will be telecast live by various TV channels across the world in order to enable cricket fans to watch the matches live from their living rooms. In different countries, different TV channels have been allotted the rights to telecast the matches live from the beautiful islands of the West Indies.
EchoStar Satellite LLC has acquired the rights to distribute on radio, television and the Internet. The exclusive rights of distribution by EchoStar extend to Central and South America, Canada and the Netherlands Antilles. Sony Entertainment Television has acquired the rights to telecast the matches live in the Indian sub continent. Doordarshan, the national TV channel of India will telecast live all the matches played by the Indian team as well as the Semi-Finals and the Final. The BBC will telecast the highlights of Cricket World Cup 2007.
The TV channel SABC has secured the ICC rights to telecast the matches in Africa whereas SET Max, Doordarshan, Sri Lanka's Rupavahini and Bangladesh TV will beam the matches live in Asia. Caribbean Media Corporation has acquired the rights to telecast the Cricket World Cup 2007 matches across the Caribbean. While in Europe, ARY Digital and Fox Sports International have been given the rights to telecast the matches live, Fox Sports International will also telecast live the matches in the Middle East. Sky New Zealand will beam World Cup matches in New Zealand and Fiji TV will telecast them in the Pacific Islands. Cricket fans in the UK and Ireland can turn on BskyB for live matches and BBC for highlights. DirecTV and EchoStar will bring the world cup matches to fans in the USA.
Official Cricket World Cup TV and Radio Broadcasters
Broadcaster | Broadcast Territory | Rights (exclusive unless otherwise stated) |
ABC Radio | Australia | Non – exclusive Radio |
All India Radio | India | Radio |
ARY Digital | Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, The Netherlands, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Russia, Hungary, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldavia, European Part of Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Macedonia, Albania, Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia | Pay Television |
BBC Radio | United Kingdom & Ireland | Non – exclusive Radio |
BBC Television | United Kingdom & Ireland | TV highlights |
BBC World Service | Worldwide | Radio (5 minute updates per hour) |
BSkyB | United Kingdom , Channel Islands , Isle of Man & Eire | Internet, Television & Mobile |
Bangladesh TV | Bangladesh | Radio & Television |
Caribbean Media Corporation | Caribbean islands and nations including Antigua & Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guadelope, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, St. Kitt & Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Martin, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago and the Turks & Caicos | Radio & Television |
DirecTv | USA , its territories and possessions (including Puerto Rico and USVI) | Non – exclusive Television |
Doordarshan (Prasar Bharati) | India | Terrestrial Television |
EchoStar | North, Central and South America and The Dutch Antilles | Non – exclusive US TV |
Fiji TV | Pacific Islands including the Fiji Islands, Tonga, Samoa, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Nauru, Cook Islands, Niue, Tokelau, Kiribati and Tuvalu | Television |
Fox Sports | Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Krygystan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Mauritania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Cyprus, Djibouti, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Palestine | Television |
Freschia | Pakistan | Radio |
GEO | Pakistan | Terrestrial Television |
HUM FM | UAE | Radio |
Hutchison Max | Asia, Middle East, Africa, Sweden, Italy, Denmark, United Kingdom, Channel Islands, Isle of Man & Eire, Australia & Papua New Guinea | Mobile (3G / GPRS) |
New Zealand Radio | New Zealand | Radio |
Nine Network | Australia and Papua New Guinea | Radio (save for ABC deal), Internet (simulcast only) & Television |
Reuters | Worldwide | News Access |
SABC | Africa & all adjacent islands | Radio & Television |
SKY New Zealand | New Zealand | Television |
SNTV | Worldwide | News Access |
SONY (SET MAX) | India , Pakistan , Bangladesh , Sri Lanka , Malaysia , Singapore , Nepal , Brunei , Maldives | Pay TV |
Sri Lanka Rupavahini | Sri Lanka | Television |
STAR India | Worldwide | Internet subject to broadcast licensee restrictions |
STAR India | Worldwide excluding Asia, Middle East, Africa, Sweden, Italy, Denmark, United Kingdom, Channel Islands, Isle of Man & Eire, Australia & Papua New Guinea | Mobile (3G / GPRS) |
STAR India | Worldwide | Mobile (DVB-H) |
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