Doordarshan to telecast T20 World Cup matches

Prasar Bharati has announced that it will telecast the T20 World Cup being organised in West Indies and USA starting June 2 on DD Free Dish platform. Doordarshan will follow up the high-profile coverage of T20 WOrld Cup with a line-up of telecast of a number of major global international sporting events. This includes Live/ deferred live and highlights of the Paris Olympics Games 2024 (26th July-11th August 2024), Paris Paralympic Games (28th August- 8th September 2024), International Cricket Series between India Vs Zimbabwe (6th July -1th July 2024) and India Vs Sri Lanka (27th July -7th August 2024) and Ladies and Men’s finals of the French Open 2024 (8th & 9th June 2024) & Wimbledon 2024 (13th & 14th July 2024).

The announcement was made by Prasar Bharati CEO Gaurav Dwivedi during an interaction with the media in New Delhi. During the interaction, a special anthem ‘Jazba’ for the T20 World Cup sung by Sukhwinder Singh was launched.
Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Secretary Sanjay Jaju also launched a promo of the gala T20 event narrated in the voice of the famous story teller Neelesh Misra.

Doordarshan has reached an understanding with leading global sports bodies like NBA and PGTA for showcasing their content on DD Sports. NBA’s popular e-sports property NBA 2K League matches are telecast on DD Sports Channel.

Prasar Bharati is in advanced stages of negotiations with different sports bodies and agencies to showcase different sports leagues and properties on its sports channel.

Last year, DD Sports produced and telecast a number of multi sporting events spread across the country. This included, Khelo India University Games in Astalakshmi (the eight states of North East), Khelo India Youth Games in Tamil Nadu, National Games in Goa, inaugural edition of Khelo India Para Games in New Delhi and Khelo India Winter Games in Gulmarg and Leh. Apart from its telecast on DD Sports, the feed of these games was shared with the leading private channels like Star Sports, Jio Cinema and Sony Network.

Doordarshan team produced the World Feed of cricket matches (both men and women) of the Hangzhou Asian Games in China. The world feed produced by the DD team from ground zero was telecast in a number of countries of Asia.

Doordarshan had the linear television rights for all the platforms for the Indian Cricket Team tour of West Indies in August, 2023. Apart from commentary in English and Hindi, the feed of the limited over matches played in the series were also produced in the regional languages like Bhojpuri, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali and Kannada and they were telecast on different regional channels of Doordarshan Network.

Doordarshan has reached an understanding with leading global sports bodies like NBA and PGTA for showcasing their content on DD Sports. NBA’s popular e-sports property NBA 2K League matches are telecast on DD Sports Channel.