Ten Sports where Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) has signed its International TV broadcasting agreement has closed on a $385 million acquisition with deal Sony Pictures Networks which is a major cricket broadcaster in Asia.
Sony Corp-owned SPN holds broadcast rights for the annual cash-rich Indian Premier League Twenty20 cricket tournament while also having the rights for the domestic leagues in South Africa and the West Indies.
TEN sports will now add all three formats of international cricket to the network with the broadcast rights of boards in South Africa, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, West Indies and Zimbabwe.
It is understood that SLC chief Sumathipala is not happy with the existing deal with Ten Sports and he feels that Sri Lanka has undersold TV deal.
An insider said that SLC is keen have a re-look at the deal.
However the SLC-Ten Sports deal was signed in 2013 under the Jayantha Dharmadasa administration and it is up renewal only 2020.
In the wake of the ‘outing’ of parliament Speaker Ashoka Ranwala with accusations that his PhD was fake, there has been a flurry of articles on fake degrees.
An eighteen member Presidential Task Force, including President’s secretary was appointed today to implement the ’Clean Sri Lanka’ initiative proposed by the government.
Under the government’s initiative of disposing of high end- luxury vehicles that impose a heavy burden of public funds, other state institutions are barred from purchasing them through state procurement procedure, according to a Treasury circular.
An investigation has been launched on the instructions of Acting Inspector General of Police (IGP) Priyantha Weerasuriya into an incident where popular author Kasun Mahendra Heenatigala was arrested and allegedly mistreated by the Athurugiriya Police.
Mr. Gihan de Silva has been appointed as the new Chairman of the Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation, the Government Information Department announced.
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