DD can’t share live feed of cricket matches: SC

NEWDELHI: The Supreme Court upheld the Delhi High Court’s verdict barring Prasar Bharati from sharing with cable operators through Doordarshan channels the live feed of cricket matches of which private broadcasters ESPN and Star had the exclusive rights. The Bench said under the provision of the Sports Act, the live feed received by Prasar Bharati from content rights owners was only for the purpose of re-transmission of signals on its own terrestrial and direct-to-home (DTH) networks and not to cable operators. A Bench comprising Justices Ranjan Gogoi and Navin Sinha dismissed the appeals of the Centre, Prasar Bharati, Home Cable Network Private Limited and Sopan Foundation and upheld the High Court’s February 4, 2015 judgement.