Commonwealth Games 2010 - International Broadcasting Center

"In 2010, the World's Commonwealth Games will be held in New Delhi, India. This is the first time in history that India will host the games. The games will be watched by over 2 billion people, worldwide. In order to broadcast the games, an International Broadcasting Center was created. The IBC will act as the media hub for the games that takes place Oct. 3rd-14th. This year's games will be the first ever to be broadcast in full HD. The IBC is the first ever of its kind and is seen as a landmark in technical design and HD broadcasting. Watch the 2010 Commonwealth Games broadcast live from New Delhi, India October 3rd -14th. The IBC was inaugurated on the 20th of September, at 3:30 pm by the Honorable Minister for Information and Broadcasting of the Government of India - Ms. Ambika Soni, in the presence of Mr. Suresh Kalmadi, B. S. Lalli and Aruna Sharma of Doordarshan, the national broadcaster. The rights holders covering the Commonwealth Games include: Mai TV, Network Ten, Foxtel, CBC, Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation, Doordarshan, Namibia Broadcasting Corporation, Sky Network Television, Prime, Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria, Seychelles Broadcasting Corporation, South Africa Broadcasting Corporation, Tanzania Broadcasting Corporation, BBC, Video Sound Inc, United States. Participating Nations of the Commonwealth Games include Afghanistan ,Algeria, Anguilla , Antigua and Barbuda , Australia etc. This footage is part of the professionally-shot stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of thousands of hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM 1080i High Definition, HDV and Digital Betacam. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We pride ourselves in bringing the best of India and South Asia to the world... wfi @ vsnl.com and [email protected].
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