Mumbai: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has decided to give all the TV rights to IPL broadcaster Sony. On the other hand the board has managed Sahara to continue as sponsor. As it is known that the BCCI terminated the TV rights contract with Nimbus last year for being a 'chronic defaulter'. Set Max has been telecasting the Indian Premier league (IPL) since 2008 and the quality of production has been top-class. It is learnt that Sony will be launching a news sports channel shortly and all the cricket will be shifted to it, including the IPL.

Now it transpires that Nimbus was indeed a defaulter but it was not the first time they had done so. Nimbus had been awarded the media rights for four years from April 1, 2010 to March 31, 2014 for all international/ domestic matches played in India, at a cost of Rs.31.25 crore per Test/ ODI/ Twenty20.