Date:24/02/2005 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2005/02/24/stories/2005022404511200.htm

National

ESPN offer to Cricket Board

By Our Staff Reporter

CHENNAI, FEB. 23. The offer letter of ESPN-Star Sports, furnished by its senior counsel, Vijay Narayan, in the Madras High Court today, pledges to provide production services to the BCCI in relation to the India-Pakistan series with international standards.

The five-point offer includes the need for the BCCI to provide the ESPN-Star the right to telecast the matches. The BCCI or the ESPN must provide Prasar Bharati the right to telecast the matches on terms acceptable to the BCCI.

The ESPN said it would "deposit all advertising revenues, which it receives, following deduction of applicable agency commissions, any costs incurred and fees payable to Prasar Bharati in relation to telecasts, any applicable taxes and mutually agreed production costs with the BCCI."