In 2024, a tourist at a beach bar in Varna, Bulgaria, noticed this table was actually an ancient artifact, later identified as a 1,700-year-old Roman sarcophagusA Roman sarcophagus, dating back to the 2nd century AD, was discovered serving as a table at a beach bar in Varna, Bulgaria. This ancient r...
29 May, 2026, 01.38 PM IST
Cricket fandom is already digital. Fan tokens could be the next movThink of these tokens as digital exclusive membership passes. Fans could buy them through Socios and unlock experiences tied to their favou...
25 May, 2026, 11.53 AM IST
Aditya Birla Group bets big on IPL boom, says media rights frenzy is far from overAditya Birla Group sees strong future growth for Indian sports. The group believes IPL media rights will keep increasing in value. This is ...
22 May, 2026, 07.08 AM IST
IPL 2026: 'Trying to stay in the hunter mindset,' Mo Bobat on RCB's charge to play-offsRoyal Challengers Bengaluru maintains a "hunter mindset" after their IPL title win. Director of Cricket Mo Bobat emphasizes this approach t...
19 May, 2026, 01.14 PM IST
India’s sports boom is just getting startedIndia is a major sports market, with cricket leading the way. The nation's sports economy is rapidly expanding. The focus now shifts to bro...
30 Apr, 2026, 02.09 PM IST
eBay outage: Frustrated users turn to Instagram after Facebook and X support shutdown; ‘Your site was down all day on Sunday’eBay experienced a significant outage on Sunday, April 26, leaving users unable to access the platform. With Facebook and X support already...
27 Apr, 2026, 09.56 AM IST
IPL media rights value may hit $50 billion in 20 years, league's chairman saysIPL Chairman Arun Dhumal forecasts the league's media rights value to potentially hit $50 billion in 20 years, citing its growth and global...
04 Dec, 2023, 12.33 PM IST
Reliance, Disney Star & Sony may not have big purses for India's cricket matches at homeThe Board of Control for Cricket in India may generate Rs 6,500-7,500cr by selling separate digital and TV rights for the national team's h...
31 Aug, 2023, 04.59 PM IST
Amazon, Google wooed by India for $750 million cricket rightsBCCI is trying to lure global giants Amazon.com Inc. and Alphabet Inc. to bid in a media rights auction of its team’s games amid waning int...
02 Aug, 2023, 01.46 PM IST
IPL media rights: Bidders may not hit it out of the parkWhile some reports said the winning bids could hit the Rs 60,000-65,000 crore mark, experts polled by ET put them closer to Rs 48,000-50,00...
13 Jun, 2022, 12.12 PM IST
BCCI set for windfall at IPL media rights auctionAs the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is busy finalising the tender document - expected to be issued shortly - for the auctio...
21 Feb, 2022, 10.00 AM IST
E-auction of IPL media rights for 2023-27 likely by March-endStar India had bought IPL's media rights for the current cycle, 2018-22, for ₹16,347.5 crore. Prior to that, Sony Pictures Networks held th...
01 Feb, 2022, 01.02 AM IST
mjunction conducts the e-auction for awarding media rightsBCCI comes close on the heels of a number of other significant entities that mjunction has touched – the latest being the Bihar government,...
05 Apr, 2018, 08.35 PM IST
BCCI rights auction bidding crosses Rs 6000 crore; to continue on ThursdayAs of 6 pm on Wednesday, the last bid received by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) was of Rs 6,032.5 crore. The auction res...
05 Apr, 2018, 07.45 AM IST
Why viewers are the loser in IPL media rights auctionWhen any company or organisation has a monopoly, the worst affected, the one who has the least say is the end user, the customer, or, in th...
05 Sep, 2017, 01.04 AM IST
BCCI postpones IPL media rights auction to September 4Meanwhile, by Thursday, which was last day to pick up the tender document, six more players -- Discovery, Airtel, BAM Tech, Yupp TV, DAZN/ ...
25 Aug, 2017, 01.51 AM IST
Plea in Supreme Court seeking e-auctioning of IPL media rightsSubramanian Swamy also said that the amount involved in the award of IPL media rights is to the tune of Rs 30,000 crore and the issue shoul...
11 Jul, 2017, 12.20 PM IST