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Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 57:22 David Rosenthal Another domestic T-twenty league with city-based franchises announces that they're gonna launch, and they're gonna call it the Indian Cricket League, and it's backed by the broadcaster Zee TV.
- ▶ 58:23 Ben Gilbert What is ZTV?
- ▶ 58:24 Ben Gilbert So way back in 1996, Subhash Chandra, the founder of ZTV, kind of recognized, hey, exactly what you're saying, David.
- ▶ 59:13 Ben Gilbert He gets a five-year deal between the BCCI and ZTV for the exclusive rights to broadcast cricket.
- ▶ 59:47 Ben Gilbert Which of course destroyed the profitability of this enterprise that ZTV is trying to create here of broadcasting cricket if they have to give away the very thing they're collecting without an ability to generate revenue on it.
- ▶ 1:00:01 Ben Gilbert So BCCI ignores ZTV's attempt to renegotiate this.
- ▶ 1:00:10 Ben Gilbert And I think the ZTV side of the story is where did the sports broadcasting bill come from?
- ▶ 1:00:24 Ben Gilbert Not knowing what's going on yet with IPL, ZTV is like, this is so weird that, you know, I'm not making any money on this thing that I finally got rights to that I really want the rights to.
- ▶ 1:01:25 Ben Gilbert It's going to be broadcast on ZTV.