The Hindu Business Line : BCCI free to choose channel for telecast: Madras HC

THE suspense and anxiety of cricket lovers over the Indo-Pak cricket series beginning on schedule was over on Thursday when the Madras High Court gave a free hand to the Board of Control for Cricket in India to choose its production unit for direct telecast of the matches.

In his interim order on a writ petition filed by Zee Telefilms challenging the cancellation on September 21, 2004, by the BCCI of the award of the tender for the telecast to the channel, Mr Justice K.P. Sivasubramaniam said that he was following the Supreme Court's order which prevailed prior to the India-Australia cricket series in 2004.

The judge said that the final order on the writ petition, which was heard for a week, would be delivered later.

The judge referred to the point raised by the BCCI that they did not have an agreement with the SET Satellite Private Ltd, Singapore, and said that the Board was free to choose the production unit they would prefer, except Zee Telefilms and ESPN. The Prasar Bharati, which would assist in organising the direct telecast of the forthcoming cricket series, should maintain proper accounts for the revenue received from the telecast, the Judge said in his interim order.

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