PM4K NEWS 054: CWG TELECAST MAY BE OFF, UK BROADCASTER WARNS DD

Continuing with the PM4K NEWS Series on the Commonwealth Games Project here’s another update.

NEW DELHI: If delay in getting stadia and infrastructure ready for Commonwealth Games next year is giving sleepless nights to many, hiccups have crept into finalisation of contract for worldwide telecast of the event, raising doubts also about TV coverage of the ongoing Queen's Baton Relay.
The contract was awarded in October after a global tender to UK-based SIS Live, Europe's largest outside broadcast and uplink supplier, for Rs 246 crore. But the paper work has not yet been finalised, leading a miffed SIS Live to tell Doordarshan that unless the contract was finalised soon, it would be difficult for it to continue with the work.

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