Star India has bagged the media and digital rights for the French Open in India and the Indian subcontinent (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) for the period 2017-2021. The value of the deal was not disclosed. Neo Sports holds the broadcast rights for the current year. Star India is building up quite a bouquet of sporting event broadcast rights: - Holds the rights to broadcast ICC events for eight years (2015 to 2023), which includes 18 ICC tournaments, including two ICC Cricket World Cups (2019 and 2023), two ICC Champions Trophy tournaments (2017 and 2021) and two ICC World Twenty20 tournaments (2016 and 2020). - Holds the digital rights for the Indian Premier League (IPL), the T20 tournament organized by the Board for Control of Cricket in India (BCCI), for the years 2015, 2016 and 2017, through its subsidiary Novi Digital Entertainment Pvt Ltd. - Last year, Star India had also acquired the TV, Internet and mobile rights for the Bundesliga in India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Maldives for a 5-year period (2015/16 to 2019/20). nexGTV French Open digital rights: Mobile video-on-demand service nexGTv had the exclusive mobile and digital rights to stream the French Open 2015. In an earlier conversation with MediaNama, G.D. Singh director and CEO of Digivive, the parent company of nexGTv said that the company was also looking to partner with other companies to get exclusive content, “If you go to the Android Store, after Hotstar, we are the next in terms of downloads and ratings.…
