Thursday, January 25, 2007

Sony Max kicks off countdown to Cricket World Cup

The ICC Cricket World Cup will be held in the West Indies in another 7 weeks and Sony Max holds the exclusive rights for all the matches played in this years tournament.

Sony Max is not available in the major Sri Lankan pay television networks but according to reports CBNsat will be introducing the channel before the World Cup. Even the other networks are expected to include the channel in their lineup before the tournament begins.

Max has already started promotional activities surrounding the tournament and the Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation hold the rights for the free to air broadcast within Sri Lanka.

The main drawback that is faced by the broadcasters in this region, is due to the time difference all the matches will finish late into the night. However the enthusiasm for cricket in this region will overcome this hurdle.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

HI ADMIN,

THANKS FOR THE SUPER UPDATES HOWEVER CAN YOU PLEASE INFORM US IF CBNsat IS DEFFINITELY GOING TO GET SETMAX AS I WANT TO GET A CONNECTION SOON DEPENDING ON IF THEY OR NOT...

ALSO WHAT TIME ARE THE MATCHES SCHEDULLED TO START AND END IN LANKA

THANKS AGAIN
FROM ALL CRICKET LOVERS...

TV & Radio Sri Lanka said...

At the moment according to information that is coming. It seems that CBNsat will be getting SETMax definitely before the World Cup.

They are expected to get Transponder 3 in February and then it should be on.

Since there is nearly a 11 hour time difference.

Considering that they are behind us by 11 hours.

If the Match is starting at 10:00am in West Indies on a particular day, for us the start time will be at 9pm on that day.

If it is a Day Night Match and it is starting at 1:00pm in West Indies then for us it will be starting for us at 12midnight.

We searched for the match start times but could not find them and the above are approximate times.

West Indies is approximately 11 hours behind us.

If anyone finds the scheduled time, please email them to us.

Admin

Anonymous said...

HI ADMIN

THANKS AGAIN FOR THE PROMPT AND POSITVIE REPLY

HOPE THE GUYS @ CBN CAN CONFIRM ON THE DATE THEY PLAN ON GETTING SETMAX.... SO THAT POTENTIAL BUYERS LIKE US WOULD KNOW FOR SURE

ITS ALL GOOD ABOUT THE TIMING THO... ITS NEVER STOPPED US BEFORE AND IT SURE AS HELL AINT GONNA STOP US NOW... WE'LL BE WATCHING IT TILL THE BREAK OF DAWN

THANKS AGAIN GUYS AND KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK... THIS BLOG TOTALLY ROCKS

BEST WISHES,
FROM ALL CRICKET LOVERS

Anonymous said...

Dear Admin,

Will very much appreciate if you can update us on IP-TV plans of SLT. Will this be launched before the worldcup?

Thanks

Anonymous said...

SLT not launch their iptv before worldcup .It is plan to launch in may 2007