Etisalat, a telecom groups in emerging markets, has won the rights from Star TV Network to broadcast the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup across the MENA region, in partnership with Starzplay, MENA region SVoD service. The broadcast rights for the MENA belong exclusively to Etisalat and the partnership with Starzplay will give cricket fans access […]
BT Sport has secured a multi-year agreement to broadcast every ball of the 2021 Hero Caribbean Premier League. The three-week cricket tournament starts on August 26th. The broadcast adds to BT Sport’s multi-year agreement to broadcast all domestic and international cricket from the West Indies, which has already seen South Africa, Australia and Pakistan tour […]
The Hundred has proved a hit among new and existing cricket fans – with a total of 16.1 million people watching some of the action on TV alone, according to figures published by the ECB (English Cricket Board). A sell-out crowd at Lord’s on August 20th and 21st saw Oval Invincibles being crowned the first […]
Gravity Media – a global provider of live broadcast facilities and production services to content owners, creators and distributors – has been debuting its new Globecam speciality cameras unit across grounds in England and Wales this summer at The Hundred cricket tournament. Gravity Media’s Globecam unit is renowned for creating ground-breaking, high-definition digital miniature live […]
BT Sport is reportedly set to announce that is has acquired the live broadcast rights for this winter’s Ashes cricket series having outbid its main rival Sky Sports. BT Sport paid £80 million (€94m) to acquire all Cricket Australia’s UK rights for 2016 to 2021, and are close to extending that deal, according to a […]
The Hundred (a new 100-ball cricket competition) and Sky Sports have joined forces to develop an industry-first augmented reality experience on a scale never before seen in sport by creating avatars using motion capture. Sky and The Hundred have captured players’ full range of movement in accurate detail, which will be used to enhance Sky’s […]
The Hundred has announced a partnership with the Lego Group and Sky ahead of the launch of the 100-ball competition this summer. The new partnership will include a video where Lego Minifigures of Andrew Flintoff, Ebony Rainford-Brent and a host of stars from The Hundred including Ben Stokes, Heather Knight, Moeen Ali and Kate Cross […]
European Cricket fans are now able to watch video content from European Cricket Network (ECN) thanks to its new partnership with Recast, the sports OTT platform. The ECN are the latest organisation to join Recast in a bid to maximise revenue generation through fan viewership whilst ensuring fans have affordable access to the content they […]
Indian video streaming platform, Voot, has associated with India’s first cricket reality show, Maratha Cricket League T20, as its exclusive streaming partner. With a goal to captivate viewers and sports enthusiasts, Maratha Cricket League T20 will bring forth the country’s most loved sport in a fresh avatar. In association with Voot, the ‘talent hunt reality […]
The UK independent TV sports production and media company, Sunset+Vine, will assist in providing host broadcast services in partnership with the International Cricket Council (ICC) for the inaugural ICC World Test Championship Final 2021. India and New Zealand meet in a one-Test final at the Hampshire Bowl in Southampton, England, starting June 18th. As the […]