vaibhav mehta
Chairman of Selectors
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..Full Story.Editorial operations of cricket websites, including Cricinfo, in covering the Indian Premier League will be severely restricted despite a considerable climbdown by the league on its accreditation guidelines for the print media and news agencies. A revised set of guidelines issued by the IPL on Tuesday offered major concessions to the print media and agencies but barred cricket websites from covering matches from the ground and using pictures provided by photo agencies.
Cricinfo, the world's largest cricket website with nearly ten million regular users, will have to, according to Lalit Modi, the IPL commissioner, buy images from a syndication service that will be provided by the "American company" that has bought the portal rights for the IPL. No conditions have been specified yet for this service.
Source:Cricinfo
...Full Story.News broadcasters threaten IPL blackout
The Indian media's rocky relations with the Indian Premier League have taken a downward turn with the News Broadcasters Association (NBA), whose members control the major national news channels, deciding to put its coverage of the IPL on hold from Tuesday midnight until there is a resolution to problems related to coverage it had raised with league officials.
"As far as we are concerned, two issues need to be sorted out before we can go ahead with IPL coverage," Annie Joseph, the Association's secretary general, told Cricinfo. "One relates to access to footage and the other to accreditation guidelines."
It's understood that the channels are unhappy about the exhorbitant rates that are being charged for news clips and also the stipulation that footage can't be used in archival form.
PS:Looks like IPL don't want to give even a Water bottle for free.
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