Doordarshan to telecast ICC Men’s T20 World Cup matches and Paris Olympics Games 2024 on DD Free Dish platform

New Delhi:Doordarshan will telecast the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 being organised in West Indies and USA on DD Free Dish platform. This was announced by the Prasar Bharati here on Monday.

Doordarshan will follow up the high profile coverage of ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 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(26^th July-11^th August 2024), Paris Paralympic Games (28^th August- 8^th September 2024), International Cricket Series between India Vs Zimbabwe (6^th July -1th July 2024) and India Vs Sri Lanka (27^th July -7^th August 2024) and Ladies and Men’s finals of the French Open 2024 (8^th & 9^th June 2024) & Wimbledon 2024 (13^th & 14^th July 2024).

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

Doordarshan, the public broadcaster of the largest democracy of the world in recent months has taken a number of steps to make its presentation look and feel in sync with the changing times. Upgraded technology to make its delivery modern and incremental steps to reinvigorate the content path of its primary channels. As the government of India has taken a number of transformative steps to make India a leading sports power in the foreseeable future, DD Sports has been trying to reinvent itself to mirror the changing times in the realm of the Indian sporting ecosystem.

In the last edition of the ICC men’s cricket World Cup 2023, which was played in India, DD Sports started transmission in High Definition and launched its DD Sports HD Channel.

It is noteworthy that 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. They will be updating the media as and when we firm up these partnerships.

Shri Gaurav Dwivedi also informed the gathering about the elaborate arrangements made by both Doordarshan and All India Radio for the counting process on Tuesday.

During the 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 of the country like Star Sports, Jio Cinema and Sony Network.

Doordarshan team produced the World Feed of the cricket matches of the Hangzhou Asian Games in China- both men and women cricket matches. 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.

Starting with the upcoming T20 World Cup in West Indies and USA (2^nd June to 29^th June 2024), Doordarshan Network on its DD Free dish platform Prasar Bharati, as the public broadcaster considers media- print, digital and electronic as the valued stakeholders in our journey ahead.