Commonwealth Games Broadcast

• Rs 1300 Crore deficit for Commonwealth Games, taxpayers will Pay

  One crooked deal after another has revealed that the team that organised the Commonwealth Games in India was incorporated as the worst sort of Badmaash Company.  Adding to the injury of the thousands of missing crores is the insult that the various deals were crassly crafted. But the corruption that became the currency of the Games is now goin...

• CWG broadcast deal: PM acts on Shunglu Committee report

  Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has referred the Shunglu Committee report on suspended Prasar Bharti CEO BS Lalli's alleged irregularities to CBI.Prasar Bharti Director General Aruna Sharma, also indicted by Shunglu Committee, has been reverted to her home cadre of IAS in Madhya Pradesh.Here's a statement issued by the Prime Minister's Office:The Pri...

• No dubious deal involved in using services of Zoom: SIS Live

  SIS Live, the sole broadcaster for the Commonwealth Games, on Thursday claimed there was no "dubious" deal involved in using the services of Zoom communications for CWG telecast and that at no point of time had it violated terms of the contract signed with Prasar Bharti.

• CWG: Were rules bent for broadcast rights deal?

  The controversy over the broadcast rights deal for the Commonwealth Games is getting larger.The Information and Broadcasting Ministry has sent the files on the deal to the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC), which has been asked by the government to investigate the apparently-indefatigable corruption that marked pretty much every aspect of the Game...

• Top official denies CWG broadcast right deal reeks of impropriety

  The broadcast rights deal for the Commonwealth Games, worth Rs 246 crore, is being thoroughly investigated now, sources say.  BS Lalli, the CEO of Prasar Bharti, which oversaw the deal, says no rules were violated to favour SIS Live, a UK-based company that won the rights.(Watch: Everything is above board says Prasar Bharti CEO) The Managing D...

• Asiad coloured Indian TV, now CWG to spur HDTV

  If the 1982 Asian Games heralded the colour TV era in India, the Commonwealth Games (CWG) are likely to spur the growth of high definition TV. For national broadcaster Doordarshan (DD) will bring the event in high quality digital format with cameras on land, in water and from helicopters.

• Oil PSUs to the rescue of Prasar Bharti; Promise ads for CWG

  With advertisers hard to come by, oil PSUs have been roped in to bailout public broadcaster Doordarshan - the official telecaster of the 12-day Commonwealth Games.

• DD scales down CWG ad revenue target by half to Rs 100 cr

  The official broadcaster for the upcoming Commonwealth Games, Doordarshan, is understood to have cut its advertising revenue target by half to Rs 100 crore from the 12-day long event due to poor response from advertisers.

• Never asked for change in CWG opening ceremony time: ABC

  The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) on Monday said never asked for a change in the timing of the Commonwealth Game's opening ceremony.