The International Cricket Council (ICC) has released its Invitation To Tender (ITT) for audio rights for certain territories for all its events from 2024 to 2027.
According to a media statement from the global governing body of cricket, the three available audio rights packages include the following:
# Analogue Radio, Digital Radio and Audio Streaming Rights for the UK and Republic of Ireland.
# Analogue Radio, Digital Radio and Audio Streaming Rights for Australia.
# Audio Streaming Rights for India.
The ITT process also caters for bidders to opt in to produce the Audio World Feed, at its own cost, for ICC events from 2024-2027 as follows:
# Production of the live Audio World Feed for all matches of ICC senior men’s and women’s World Cups and for select ICC U19 men’s and women’s World Cup matches.
The statement added that the Audio World Feed producer will also have the obligation to produce the following: Audio Podcasts for all ICC Events from 2024-2027; Audio Podcasts for each senior men’s event since 1975, including all ICC Cricket World Cups, ICC Champions Trophies, ICC T20 World Cups and the ICC World Test Championship Finals; Audio Podcasts for each senior women’s event since 2012, including all ICC Cricket World Cups and ICC T20 World Cups.
The organisation elaborated that it is its intention to stream the Audio World Feed and the Audio Podcasts on ICC’s Digital Media Assets on a global basis.
Interested bidders must have the appropriate experience, infrastructure, staffing, resources, capability, and financial standing to produce outstanding live cricket coverage.