Military World Games 2007 Telecast
May 20, 2007 (FIDSNS)
The fourth Military games will have over 100 countries participating and is being conducted for the first time in an Asian country.It is expected that around 6000 uniformed sports persons will be participating in the 15 disciplines.
The Military World Games Organising Committee (MWGOC), constituted under the Ministry of Defence, has given the broadcast/telecast rights of the Military World Games to be held in Hyderabad and Mumbai later this year, exclusively to Prasar Bharati. The Prasar Bharati is the Public Service broadcaster of India. An MOU to this effect was signed between the MWGOC and Prasar Bharati here earlier this week.
As per the MOU, Prasar Bharati would telecast / broadcast the opening and closing ceremonies live on Indian official television broadcasting company called Doordarshan (DD). The DD 1 chanell will broadcast te opening and closing ceremonies. DD will telecast live for at least 8 hoursa day on in its sports channel, DD Sports. All other news channels would be given some daily feed by Prasar Bharati.
The MOU also confers Prasar Bharati, full rights for multiple telecast / broadcast of matches / highlights of the matches on all or any of its channels in perpetuity. Prasar Bharati would also provide free publicity in the run up to the games on all its channels including DD-1 , DD-News and DD- Sports.
Prasar Bharati would also show at least half an hour of highlights of the sports events on DD-1, and all other channels of Prasar Bharati on all days during the conduct of the Games. Similar arrangements will be made byIndian official Radio broadcasting company called All India Radio (AIR) for the broadcast of the Games across the country. Broadcast/Telecast of the Games on Prasar Bharati will be subject to programme exigencies of National significance.
Prasar Bharati would pay 50 per cent of the net surplus earned by it through the exclusive telecast of the Games to MWGOC .