Mumbai, Jan 22: Prasar Bharati, locked in a cricket telecast dispute with Nimbus, today filed caveat in the Supreme Court and Delhi and Bombay High Courts.
The caveat urges the courts that no order be passed in any case related to the dispute without giving hearing to the public broadcaster, Prasar Bharati's spokesperson Manish Desai told newspersons.
Nimbus today approached the Delhi High Court, challenging the government's office of memorandum permitting sharing of live feed of the ongoing India-West Indies One-Day International series with Prasar
Bharati.
Nimbus, which bagged the four-year BCCI telecast rights last year for a whopping 612 million dollars, is refusing to share telecast feed of the series with Prasar
Bharati.
As a result, many TV viewers could not watch the opening match of the series yesterday. Next match of the series will be played at Cuttack on January 24, followed by matches at Chennai (January 27) and Vadodara (January 31).
At the heart of the dispute is Prasar Bharati's refusal to encrypt the feed given by Nimbus and insistence on telecasting the matches both on its terrestrial channel Doordarshan and its DTH service.
Nimbus' stand is that Prasar Bharati can telecast the matches to only those homes which are connected through the terrestrial network. (Agencies)
