India - England tour rights... even more messed up than Wembley Stadium!

Salty25

Retired Mod
Joined
Oct 26, 2004
Messages
2,436
Reaction score
0
Points
0
Age
37
My Satellite Setup
Sky+ Pace v3, and before that analouge 80cm dish with Prima by Pace box pointed at 19.2e (not very imaginative then!)
My Location
Colchester, Essex
O-Ha Well, I havent the patience (or brain power) to go into deep detail, but with less than a week til day one of the first Test, the rights still havent been sorted out in the UK as of now.

Basically, the Indian Cricket Board (BCCI) sold worldwide rights to Nimbus, for £300 million or so, and now Nimbus (in much the same style as ITV Digital) have found themselves unable to recoup that vastly overpriced amount, and thus have been beggin/bargining with Sky, Zee TV, Sony, Setanta etc to sell the rights for a compariablly stupid price:-rofl2!
 

rolfw

Believe it when I see it Admin.
Staff member
Joined
May 1, 1999
Messages
38,292
Reaction score
1,615
Points
113
My Satellite Setup
Technomate 5402 HD M2 Ci, DM7000s, Transparent 80cm Dish, Moteck SG2100 DiseqC motor, lots of legacy gear. Meters: Satlook Digital NIT, Promax HD Ranger+ spectrum analyser.
My Location
Berkshire
They obviously overestimated the "Cricket Fever", generated by the Ashes series. :)
 

Salty25

Retired Mod
Joined
Oct 26, 2004
Messages
2,436
Reaction score
0
Points
0
Age
37
My Satellite Setup
Sky+ Pace v3, and before that analouge 80cm dish with Prima by Pace box pointed at 19.2e (not very imaginative then!)
My Location
Colchester, Essex
a little i guess, but Nimbus have brought worldwide rights for INDIAN home series. Cricket in India is huge, but this Nimbus lot have hugely overestimated the value of Indian cricket worldwide. Strangely, the US is a major market for Indian cricket, would you believe?!
 

rolfw

Believe it when I see it Admin.
Staff member
Joined
May 1, 1999
Messages
38,292
Reaction score
1,615
Points
113
My Satellite Setup
Technomate 5402 HD M2 Ci, DM7000s, Transparent 80cm Dish, Moteck SG2100 DiseqC motor, lots of legacy gear. Meters: Satlook Digital NIT, Promax HD Ranger+ spectrum analyser.
My Location
Berkshire
Must be all the New York taxi drivers (if the films are anything to go by). :)
 

sragoo

On Road to.....nirvana?
Joined
Feb 26, 2005
Messages
30
Reaction score
0
Points
0
Age
74
My Satellite Setup
DB 7025 &
StarSat SR-X 200 CI Plus
My Location
Middle Earth
rolfw said:
Must be all the New York taxi drivers (if the films are anything to go by). :)

Statistics show that :


38% of doctors in the USA,
12% of scientists in the USA,
36% of NASA scientists,
34% of Microsoft employees,
28% of IBM employees,
17% of INTEL scientists,
13% of XEROX employees,

… are Indians.
Of the 1.5M Indians living in the USA, 1/5th of them live in the Silicon Valley.

It must be the interest in Silicon Valley.. not New York !!

:)
SR

 

Salty25

Retired Mod
Joined
Oct 26, 2004
Messages
2,436
Reaction score
0
Points
0
Age
37
My Satellite Setup
Sky+ Pace v3, and before that analouge 80cm dish with Prima by Pace box pointed at 19.2e (not very imaginative then!)
My Location
Colchester, Essex

vic001

Member
Joined
Mar 2, 2006
Messages
1
Reaction score
0
Points
0
Age
41
My Satellite Setup
nothing
My Location
usa
i am form USA and how i can watch free cricket ....i have pansat 2700A plz let me know
 

rolfw

Believe it when I see it Admin.
Staff member
Joined
May 1, 1999
Messages
38,292
Reaction score
1,615
Points
113
My Satellite Setup
Technomate 5402 HD M2 Ci, DM7000s, Transparent 80cm Dish, Moteck SG2100 DiseqC motor, lots of legacy gear. Meters: Satlook Digital NIT, Promax HD Ranger+ spectrum analyser.
My Location
Berkshire
sragoo said:
Statistics show that :


38% of doctors in the USA,
12% of scientists in the USA,
36% of NASA scientists,
34% of Microsoft employees,
28% of IBM employees,
17% of INTEL scientists,
13% of XEROX employees,

… are Indians.
Of the 1.5M Indians living in the USA, 1/5th of them live in the Silicon Valley.

It must be the interest in Silicon Valley.. not New York !!

:)
SR



What, you mean that films aren't real? :eek: :eek: :eek: :-lmao:-rofl2

I find some of those statistics a little hard to believe though, given that there are 800,000 active doctors in the USA, that would mean that 304,000 of them are Indian, meaning 1 in 5 Indians living in the USA are doctors.;)

PS. Was only joking about the taxi drivers, ;)
 

sragoo

On Road to.....nirvana?
Joined
Feb 26, 2005
Messages
30
Reaction score
0
Points
0
Age
74
My Satellite Setup
DB 7025 &
StarSat SR-X 200 CI Plus
My Location
Middle Earth
rolfw said:
What, you mean that films aren't real? :eek: :eek: :eek: :-lmao:-rofl2

I find some of those statistics a little hard to believe though, given that there are 800,000 active doctors in the USA, that would mean that 304,000 of them are Indian, meaning 1 in 5 Indians living in the USA are doctors.;)

PS. Was only joking about the taxi drivers, ;)

Films are like caricatures... they tend to pick the most prominent or
the ugliest features which makes it easy to recognise..:)

You are right about the number of doctors.
The actual figure of practising american physicians of
indian origin is about 6.5% i.e. 1 in 15.
Perphaps the figure of 38 % was for the number of doctorates !!:D

;)

SR
 
Top