The ongoing legal feud
between Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and Pakistan Television (PTV) has
been 
settled outside of court, mediated by the Prime Minister Imran Khan's office. Both parties are now expected to withdraw litigation. The revenue sharing model, ESPNcricinfo understands, has also been revised, allowing PCB to take 72% of the share while PTV will take 28% out of the commercial deals, a significant change from the previous 57.5 - 42.5 arrangement.
settled outside of court, mediated by the Prime Minister Imran Khan's office. Both parties are now expected to withdraw litigation. The revenue sharing model, ESPNcricinfo understands, has also been revised, allowing PCB to take 72% of the share while PTV will take 28% out of the commercial deals, a significant change from the previous 57.5 - 42.5 arrangement.
The
PCB had signed a three-year broadcast deal last year in September with
PTV to broadcast home cricket, as well as an agreement with I-Media
Communications Services, to ensure the PCB's broadcast content is not
redistributed illegally by cable operators. The model could have
potentially had them earn in excess of USD $200 million, but last month
new PCB chairman Ramiz Raja had unilaterally suspended the deal
with PTV and terminated the I-Media contract to open a new tender for
the media rights for Pakistan's upcoming series against West Indies and
Australia.
PTV had gone
to Lahore Civil Court to obtain a stay order against PCB's abrupt move,
and the two parties were struck in a legal wrangle - PCB going to the
High Court - with the West Indies series around the corner. The courts
adjourned the hearings while the PCB was keen to go into fresh bidding
and bring in a new broadcaster; PTV, the state broadcaster, was unhappy
with this and had a number of meetings to renegotiate with PCB, citing
that they had never violated their agreements or defaulted on their
payments.
The expected
earnings from this deal would come from advertising revenue and also,
for the first time in Pakistan, distribution revenue from the cable
operators - the equivalent of revenues that broadcasters make from
subscriptions - through I-Media was meant to ensure that the
distribution of cricket content would only be done through licensed
cable operators, and the value of the content would be protected against
potential illegal distribution. The production rights however had to be
regulated by PCB on their own.
The
deal with I-Media now stands terminated due to non-compliance on
payments. The Pakistan government is yet to implement the Digital
Pakistan policy, one part of which regulates the illegal cable operator
business, though the plan is to have it done within a year.
The
broadcast deal until last year was signed in the shadow of the Covid-19
pandemic in a shrinking broadcast market. It ended a long-running
broadcast relationship between the PCB and Ten Sports, and there were no
potential overseas takers at the time as international rights for PCB's
home series were sold separately to various channels around the world.
Recently
though, Pakistan has had a few local sports broadcasters to choose
from. The ARY Group has launched an HD sports channel, A-Sports, which
covered the T20 World Cup and is presently broadcasting the Lankan
Premier League. PTV broadcasts its content in standard definition, but
as per ESPNcricinfo, the state broadcaster is set to upgrade
their broadcasting quality to HD within a month.
Shame that 2022, and still State Television on SD Quality
Broadcasting Contracts for Cricket (Television)
First, PTV sports was launched in sd video quality. A few weeks ago, PTV Home
was launched in hd quality. Now, Officials has started PTV Sports Hd in
hd quality. PTV News was also started in hd video quality. Now, PTV
Sports hd is started in hd format. PTV Sports hd is a Government
channel. This channel will telecast ICC Cricket WorldCup 2021. You can
watch ICC Cricket WorldCup 2021 in HD video quality on PTV Sports hd. You can tune new frequency of PTV Sports hd by following this frequency.
| Event | Broadcaster | Rights Details |
|---|---|---|
| ICC Events | Star Sports and Disney+Hotstar | Global audio visual rights for all events organized by ICC for 8-year period 2015–2023. Starts after 2015 World cup.[5][6] Camera, Commentary and the whole production rights are retained by ICC and taken care by an umbrella organisation called ICC TV.[7] |
| English Cricket Domestic Rights | Sky Sports
BBC Sport (Highlights) |
UK and Ireland rights on all platforms for all games organized by ECB including International, Domestic and T20 League for 5-year period 2020–24[8] |
| Indian Cricket Domestic Rights | Star Sports, Disney+Hotstar and state owned free to air channel DD Sports (only ODIs and T20) | Global rights for all games organized by BCCI other than Indian Premier League for the 5-year period 2018–23.[9] |
| Indian Premier League | Star Sports and Disney+Hotstar | Global rights for IPL on all platforms for the 5-year period 2018–2022[10] |
| Australian Cricket Domestic Rights | Channel 7 (only test matches and Big Bash League) and Fox Cricket (all matches and Big Bash League) | Australian rights for all Cricket organized by CA including International, Domestic and Big Bash League for 6-year period 2018–2024.[11] |
| South African Cricket Domestic Rights | Supersport | Rights for all cricket organized by CSA from May 2015 through April 2021[12] |
| Pakistani Cricket Domestic Rights | PTV Sports , Daraz | All International & Domestic Cricket Matches in Pakistan
organized by PCB from 2020 to 2023 for Broadcast in Pakistan (does not
include Pakistan Super League)[13]
Daraz has rights for live streaming Pakistan vs New Zealand and all other upcoming Pakistan series. in 2021. |
| Pakistan Super League | Geo Super and PTV Sports , Sky Sports , Sky NZ Super Sports , Willow TV , Sony Sports India, Flow Sports |
|
| West Indian Cricket Domestic Rights | Flow Sports |
|
| New Zealand Cricket Domestic Rights | Spark Sport from April 2020 |
|
| Sri Lankan Cricket Domestic Rights | Sony Pictures Networks India[14] |
|
| Bangladeshi Cricket Domestic Rights | Gazi Television(GTV) and T SPORTS |
|
| Bangladesh Premier League | GTV, Maasranga Television, Rabbithole Sports | Channel 9 was the official broadcaster From 2012 to 2016.
Later on, GTV and Maasranga Television bought the right to broadcast on Satellite TV.[15] As well as Rabbithole Sports is digitally live streaming all the matches.[16] |
Ptv Sports HD New Frequency
- Channel Name : PTV Sports HD
- Satellite Name : Paksat-1R
- Direction : @38.0° East
- Frequency : 4052
- Symbol Rate : 5800
- Polarity : Vertical
- Picture Quality : MPEG-4 HD (720×576)
- Encryption : No
- Package : No
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