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Boycott gets real: Reuters and AFP not covering IPL

Apr 18th, 2008 | By Aditya | Category: News

The news agencies Reuters and the Associated Free Press, the top news feeding agencies for news papers around the world issued an advisory to all their subscribers today saying that no text will be reoported on any of the IPL games. Both the agencies are angry with the BCCI over the media restrictions that were [...]

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Boycotting Times : Now its the turn of TV Channels

Apr 16th, 2008 | By Raveesh | Category: News

As the D-Day for Cricket ka Karmayudh is approaching nearer, it seems that all is not well with IPL. After almost sorting out the issues with print media regarding the controversial clauses, now the ball is back in BCCI’s court. Well, with the News Broadcasters Association (NBA) threatening to blackout IPL coverage with barely 2 [...]

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IPL faces media boycott

Apr 12th, 2008 | By Aditya | Category: News

We earlier talked about how the stupid media restrictions that the BCCI has imposed on the coverage of the IPL matches has the media, especially the online editions all angry. Things have gotten worse since then, with the BCCI now facing a near-certain boycott of the IPL by the international media and even India’s own [...]

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