ATN bags rights for English Cricket Board

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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n\nTORONTO, June 2 /CNW/ - Asian Television Network International Limited\n(ATN) (TSX-SAT), Canada's pioneer South Asian broadcaster and the country's\nlargest distributor of world class cricket announced today that it has secured\nthe Canadian broadcast rights for the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB).\nScheduled matches include England v New Zealand, England v South Africa and\ndomestic County Cricket to be played in England. The current English Cricket\nBoard season will run until September 24, 2008 and will be broadcast live and\nrebroadcast on ATN Cricket Plus or CBN channel across Canada. It includes a\nmix of Test Cricket, One Day Internationals and the popular Twenty20 format\ngames. The ECB is the governing body for all cricket in England and Wales,\nincluding both domestic and international play. Canada is home to over\n6,500,000 people who are of British Heritage, an amazing number of potential\nviewers and cricket lovers.\n\n\nFor the first time English County Cricket will also be telecast across\nCanada by ATN's CBN channel. The volume of cricket during this English Cricket\nBoard's season is promising to be very exciting for cricket lovers across\nCanada\n\n\nEngland will play against New Zealand in three Test matches, one Twenty20\nand five One Day Internationals and against South Africa in four Test matches,\none Twenty20 and five One Day Internationals. Players from New Zealand and\nSouth Africa have had a successful series of Indian Premiere League (IPL)\nmatches, and the players to look out for will be Brendon McCullum, Daniel\nVettori, Scott Styris and Ross Taylor for New Zealand and Graeme Smith, AB de\nVilliers and Albie Morkel for South Africa.This first class cricket will\nfeature teams from County Durham, Derbyshire, Essex, Glamorgan,\nGloucestershire, Hampshire, Kent , Lancashire, Leicestershire, Middlesex,\nNorthamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Somerset , Surrey, Sussex, Warwickshire,\nWorcestershire and Yorkshire.\n\n\nThis series will be a treat not only for cricket fans of British, New\nZealand and South African heritage but will also entertain cricket-loving\npeople from South Asia, Australia and the Caribbean who have made their home\nin Canada.\n\n\nFor more Information about ATN please visit our website\nwww.asiantelevision.com.\n\n\nThe TSX Venture Exchange does not accept responsibility ...

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