"Indian Cricket Lovers Turn to Pakistan to Watch Their Hero" - SMH

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So Indo Pak relations take another turn....

http://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket/...302-1beoj.html Indian cricket lovers turn to Pakistan to watch their hero Glenda Kwek March 2, 2011 - 7:04PM Indian cricket lovers in Punjab deprived of watching their country's progress in the World Cup have turned to an unlikely source - bitter rivals Pakistan. An ongoing dispute between a Punjab-based cable network and official broadcaster ESPN Star Sports has meant none of the World Cup games are allowed to be screened on local television, The Times of India reported today. On Monday, Delhi's High Court ruled in favour of ESPN Software India, giving the operator a permanent injunction against any illegal broadcasting of its feed. But Punjab providers keen to give their fans a chance to watch local hero Harbhajan Singh in action defied the ban and took Pakistan TV's (PTV) feed of matches, the Times reported. The paper reported that the first game against India and Bangladesh was broadcast using a combination of feeds from a Bangladeshi channel and PTV. In other parts of the cricket-mad country, cable networks also lost their access to ESPN's feed over a dispute about subscription charges. But viewers there were more fortunate - they could watch the matches on public broadcaster Doordarshan. But fans were still unhappy, complaining that Doordarshan only screened games featuring India and did not supply expert commentary of the kind offered by ESPN, the Indo-Asian News Service (IANS) reported. ....

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DD facing same problems like PTV?