Bangladesh-Pakistan series will not be telecast on local TV channels
The most anticipated Bangladesh-Pakistan three-match T20 series will begin on January 24 in Pakistan, if everything goes well. The Local TV channels of Bangladesh usually buy the visual copyrights from foreign channels to broadcast live matches here in Bangladesh, but it is not happening this time.
Sunil Manocha, a former employee of the bankrupt event management firm called ‘Nimbas’, has bought the broadcasting copyright from Sony Six under the name ‘LSD Media’.
The affiliated television channel authority has told that sending money from Bangladesh to Sunil Manocha through illegal way would deprive the government from revenue earning. Bangladeshi Local TV channels always try to buy such copyrights through the appropriate banking channels. But Sunil Manocha did not agree with that.
That’s why, Bangladeshi television channels did not buy the broadcasting rights through illegal way, not even the day before of the series. As a result, no local television channel is broadcasting Bangladesh-Pakistan three-match T20 series this time.
Television channels claimed, “The government would be deprived from the revenue if the money was sent to Sunil Manocha via illegal channels.”
They also added, “We tried our best to buy broadcasting copyrights by sending money through legal way, but unfortunately Sunil Manocha had refused.”
A few years ago, a company named ‘Spots Solutions’ had seized huge amount of money by sending a fake bank draft to the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) in the name of selling the broadcasting copyrights for Bangladesh-Pakistan series. Sunil Manocha can do the same. No television channels wanted to go for the live telecast of Bangladesh-Pakistan series this time, because of that fear.
Among the Bangladeshi channels- GTV, Maasranga TV, Channel 9 and Bangladesh Television (BTV) do the live broadcast of such matches.