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IPL 2023 opening match witnessed a 40% fall in number of TV advertisers

IPL 2023: The inaugural match between GT and CSK had 31 advertisers but last year the opening match between CSK and KKR had 52 advertisers on TV

IPL 2023 starts today: Watch in 4k, 12 languages on JioCinema; details here

IPL 2023: At 7:30 PM today, defending champions Gujarat Titans will clash with four-time champions Chennai Super Kings at Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad

Leading media house, Viacom 18 secures exclusive MotoGP rights for India

India's historic debut on the MotoGP calendar in September this year will be exclusively live-streamed on JioCinema and Sports18 after Viacom 18 secured the telecast rights for the country. Viacom18's coverage will tip off with the Grand Premio de Portugal. The network will offer an exhaustive live presentation that will include practice sessions on Friday and Saturday, qualifying and the sprint on Saturday and the main race on Sunday. The MotoGP World Championship is the highest level of motorcycle racing in the world, in which the most skilled riders compete on world-class, high performance, fastest prototype motorcycles on the planet, made by leading manufacturers. The 2023 season, the biggest series to date, will witness 21 races across 18 countries, including the milestone 14th round in India as MotoGP is set to make its debut in the country. MotoGP fans in India will be able to catch all the action from the pinnacle of two-wheeled racing through this new partnership as the 11

Reliance cable firms remove Star channels before IPL, to affect 20 million

According to broadcasting regulations, consumers have the right to request that their cable or DTH operators provide the channels they wish to watch

Mukesh Ambani's conglomerate to stream IPL for free after paying $2.7 bn

Viacom18 Media Pvt., the joint venture between Paramount Global and Ambani's conglomerate Reliance Industries Ltd., licensed the IPL streaming rights last year for $2.7 billion

A 'doosra' in IPL ad game: Viacom 18 has set aggressive targets to chase

Based on calculation, while the cost of viewing the entire IPL season is only Rs 38 on TV, the cost of streaming 10 matches would cost anything between Rs 360 to Rs 2,640

IPL aggression: Viacom 18 eyeing 550 million viewership in upcoming season

The goal: 50% of advertising pie for digital platform

Viacom18 turns to Jio playbook for IPL digital broadcast this year

Men's and women's T20 leagues to be offered free on JioCinema app; 16 feeds in 12 languages, multi-camera angles, 4K broadcast among tech innovations

Broadcaster Viacom18 bags Women's IPL five-year media rights for Rs 951 cr

Attention shifts to auction for five teams in the Women's IPL on January 25; bids accepted till Jan 23

Women's IPL: Media rights may attract bids worth Rs 220-250 crore a year

BCCI eyeing Rs 10-11 crore per match for 2023-27 cycle, say sources; broadcasters Disney-Star, Viacom18, Sony-Zee may step into fray for rights

JioCinema preps for its Disney-Hotstar moment with football World Cup

Tournament likely to give app visibility in run-up to IPL next year; monthly active users seen touching 105 mn

Viacom18 Sports announces seven-year partnership with Cricket South Africa

Viacom18 Sports on Tuesday announced a seven-year partnership with Cricket South Africa (CSA) for exclusive digital and TV rights for all international cricket, from 2024-2031.

Hostile media bid shows how Asia's richest can align and dominate a sector

The NDTV acquisition, if successful, would make Adani and Ambani straight-up rivals in a sector for the first time, given Ambani's control of large media assets including news channels

Road Safety World Series 2022: Live streaming, telecast and where to watch

Road Safety World Series 2022: India Legends will play South Africa Legends in the inaugural match of RSWS 2022. Read this detailed report on live streaming, telecast and where to watch the matches

Disney-Star sub-licenses ICC TV broadcast rights to Zee at $1.5 bn

Viacom18 has bagged the rights for Rs 20,500 crore, while Disney-Star had retained the television rights for Rs 23,575 crore

ICC media rights: Winner for 2023-31 cycle to be announced on Saturday

Broadcasters Disney-Star, Sony, Zee and Viacom18 have submitted their bids, it is reliably learnt, after protesting about the lack of transparency in a closed-loop exercise

Viacom18 wants closed-envelope bids for media rights junked, ICC disagrees

Says the cricket governing body must explain PwC's exit from the auction process

Why Reliance opted out of TV rights in battle for IPL media rights

Viacom18 paid 238 billion rupees ($3.1 billion) for the rights to stream the IPL tournament, one of the world's most-watched sporting events, almost on par with what Disney shelled out

Top headlines: IBBI amends rules, yield curve inverts in the US, and more

As investors and the bond market brace for a sharp hike in policy rate by central banks to fight inflation, the yield curve has inverted in the US

IPL media rights: Strategic time-out for media giants Disney, Viacom

The two media giants see very different gains from their bets on IPL media rights