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Telecast on DD but 7 minutes later: court

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI : The Delhi High Court on Tuesday cleared the decks for the telecast of the ongoing India-West Indies cricket series on Doordarshan. It will show the match seven minutes after the live telecast on Neo Sports, which has the exclusive telecast rights for cricket matches being played in India till March 2010.

However, the court allowed All India Radio to broadcast the matches live.

This interim arrangement was put in place by Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul while hearing a petition by Nimbus Communications Ltd., owner of Neo Sports, challenging the Information and Broadcasting Ministry's uplinking guidelines.

The January 19 guidelines asked Neo Sports to share the live feed of the current series with Doordarshan and AIR.

Under the interim arrangement, Neo Sports will provide the feed seven minutes late and without commercials. The petitioner had pleaded for a gap of 15 minutes.

``It is a minimal delay and it will not affect the public in any way in watching the matches,'' Mr. Justice Kaul said.

The arrangement stands till February 8, when the petition will be taken up for hearing on merit.

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