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MUMBAI: With the exception of Australia and New Zealand, the fifth season of the Indian Premier League will be telecast in all the major markets with sizeable following.
Neo Cricket will air the the tournament in US on with Echostar.
The tournament will be telecast on ITV 4 in UK, Rogers in Canada, Setanta in Ireland, Super Sport in South Africa & sub-Saharan territories. In Carribean, the tournament is available on Sports Max.
As already reported by Indiantelevision.com, in Pakistan the tournament will be broadcast on Geo TV, while Carlton Sports will air it in Sri Lanka.
Pehla Platform, a pay television operator in Mena region, will telecast the tournament in Middle East. In Hong Kong and Singapore, the telecast rights are held by PCCW and Star Hub.
The IPL is also availaible on other popular platforms like Internet and mobile.
In India, the tournament is being streamed live on Indiatimes.com and Indiatimes channel on YouTube with a five-minute delay.
Willow.TV is carrying the live feed of the tournament in USA and Canada.
On mobile, Apalya Technologies, leading mobile TV service provider, will provide exclusive, mobile, video streaming for all the matches of the IPL.This will be the fourth consecutive year the company will be streaming the IPL.
Apalya has tied up with all the leading telecom partners in India to enable the IPL Mobile stream on the existing mobile TV service. To avail this, subscribers can SMS TV to 58888.
avaniTV has tied up with Indiatimes for the telecast of IPL on the car.
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