BCCI meet on 7 March to discuss on TV rights for India cricket

MUMBAI: Setting the process of finding a new broadcast partner in motion, the marketing committee of the BCCI will meet on 7 March to decide on floating tenders for finding a new partner.

The committee will also take up the issue of Internet rights after failing in earlier attempts to find bidders due to high base price.

"The marketing committee meeting has been fixed for March 7 and all matters, including broadcast and internet rights, will come up for discussion," PTI quotes BCCI sources as saying.

The BCCI had in December last year terminated the broadcast rights agreement with Nimbus Communications for non-payment of rights fee for the England and West Indies series.

As per the agreement, which was expected to run till 2014, Nimbus was supposed to pay approximately Rs 20 billion for a minimum of 64 international matches and 312 days of domestic cricket.

The Board has enough time on hand to find a new broadcaster as the next international engagement on the Indian soil is only in August-September when New Zealand will tour India for a three Test match series.

New Zealand will be followed by England who will be in the country for a full-fledged tour of four Tests, seven ODIs and one T20 match in November-December-January period.