New Delhi, April 1 (IANS) International Cricket Council (ICC) has lifted the ban on the electronic media's insurance of Saturday's World Cup final with a rider: Any infringement will lead to initiation of legal proceedings.
'Despite a lengthy meeting at the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in New Delhi, the National Broadcasters Association (NBA) and the Broadcast Editors Association (BEA) refused to give assurances that they would desist from breaching the broadcast tips in their news programming,' ICC claimed in a statement.
Accordingly, the ICC has resolved to commence legal action against the businesses involved and will also seek to recover damages through the courts in India rather than bar the channels from the ICC Cricket World Cup final.
ICC chief executive Haroon Lorgat said that ICC will 'take all steps crucial to cover our commercial rights.'
'I am very disappointed that it has come to this, however, we need to do everything to cover our exclusive commercial rights and folks of our partners. If too means we have to resort to legal action, that is regrettable but necessary,' he said.
The ICC claimed Indian news channels have repeatedly breached the news access guidelines for broadcasters in the World Cup.
'At the Ministry's request, we travelled to New Delhi to meet with the NBA and BEA in an administered to reach the conclusion the issue but properties were unfortunately not keen to conform to the guidelines agreed with the ICC prior to the event.'
Source:http://in.news.yahoo.com/icc-lifts-ban-news-channels-coverage-world-cup-20110401-080107-763.html
'Despite a lengthy meeting at the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in New Delhi, the National Broadcasters Association (NBA) and the Broadcast Editors Association (BEA) refused to give assurances that they would desist from breaching the broadcast tips in their news programming,' ICC claimed in a statement.
Accordingly, the ICC has resolved to commence legal action against the businesses involved and will also seek to recover damages through the courts in India rather than bar the channels from the ICC Cricket World Cup final.
ICC chief executive Haroon Lorgat said that ICC will 'take all steps crucial to cover our commercial rights.'
'I am very disappointed that it has come to this, however, we need to do everything to cover our exclusive commercial rights and folks of our partners. If too means we have to resort to legal action, that is regrettable but necessary,' he said.
The ICC claimed Indian news channels have repeatedly breached the news access guidelines for broadcasters in the World Cup.
'At the Ministry's request, we travelled to New Delhi to meet with the NBA and BEA in an administered to reach the conclusion the issue but properties were unfortunately not keen to conform to the guidelines agreed with the ICC prior to the event.'
Source:http://in.news.yahoo.com/icc-lifts-ban-news-channels-coverage-world-cup-20110401-080107-763.html
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