Major non-television entities such as Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Reliance Jio were among 18 companies that have bought the Invitation to Tender (ITT) document for the next cycle of IPL television and digital rights.The interested parties would vie for television rights for the IPL in the Indian subcontinent until 2027, digital rights in the same region until 2022 and media rights for the rest of the world until 2022 as well. The last date for submitting the bid is October 25.The television rights are currently held by Sony Pictures Network India (SPNI) and expire after the 2017 IPL season. Star India is in possession of the digital rights and the overseas media rights, except in the UK and the US, all of which also expire after IPL 2017.BCCI president Anurag Thakur said he was pleased with the response. With the global trends of showcasing content on multiple platforms becoming increasingly important - TV, internet and mobile rights are up for grabs together this time, he said.On why the IPL television rights for the Indian subcontinent were awarded for ten years, BCCI chief executive Rahul Johri had said the board wanted to replicate the current cycle, which gave SPNI the rights from 2008 to 2017.In our country television is very well established, he said. If you look at most cricket tenders, eight years-ten years have been the norm. Thats why we went for 10 years. The area where trends are changing very fast is digital, thats why we have reduced digital to five years.ESPN has a long term collaboration with Sony Pictures Networks (SPN) for launch of SONYESPN branded Television channels & digital assets in India and subcontinent. 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The announcement was made on Thursday by USACA president Gladstone Dainty and GSV president and chief executive Jignesh Pandya at a press conference in New York City.Global Sports Ventures has entered into a partnership with USACA and its a very lucrative one but not lucrative in the sense that it will enrich us but it gives us a chance to survive and to grow, Dainty said. What this will do first and foremost, it will ease your pain in the sense that USACA, instead of running you down for dues, dues will be merely something that you will pay just to belong. But every league, every academy etc., USACA will become a resource so that that league or that academy can become a delivery outlet to grow the sport. So basically it can be matching funding, direct funding, facilities development, etc.Currently, the USACA remains under administrative suspension by the ICC and has no sanctioning authority for cricket in the USA, including the ability to issue and receive no-objection certificates to and from other member boards. As such, any foreign player participating in a T20 league under the auspices of the USACA could run afoul of their respective member guidelines.However, Dainty was confident that USACAs suspension would be lifted soon. The governing body had been given a deadline extension to December 15 to meet 39 terms and conditions for reinstatement. Without commenting on whether or not the USACA has met those guidelines, Dainty felt the board would be vindicated in the near future.At this time we feel good in the sense that the CEO of the ICC said that theyve investigated long and hard, they found nothing and it is our expectation that we will be reinstated without a problem shortly, Dainty said.The USACA announcement came on the eve of an ICC delegation arriving in New York to have meetings with stakeholders, including Dainty. The delegation, which includes ICC chief executive Dave Richardson and chairman Shashank Manohar, is expected to meet with members of four ICC advisory groups to work towards forming a constitution inclusive of all stakeholders.Pandya stated that he was undeterred by USACAs current suspension and its status with the ICC when coming to an agreement.We have done our due diligence and based upon that, the deal has been finalised, Pandya said We all have the same goal. USACA, ICC or any other cricketing body throughout the world is to develop and support the game of cricket which we all love in the US and our team completely believes that since everybody has one goal, solutions can be figured out and Im vvery confident that everything will go as planned and things will be done right.ddddddddddddThis is the third major licensing deal the USACA has announced in the last 10 years, though the prior two fell apart in relatively short time. In 2006, the board came to a licensing agreement with Centrex International for $10 million over 10 years, but by 2008, USACA ceased receiving funding from Centrex and the deal fell apart.In 2010, a deal was announced for a licensing agreement with Cricket Holdings America, LLC, a multi-layered partnership among USACA, New Zealand Cricket, Top Bloom, Neil Maxwells Insite and Podar Enterprises. The 10-year deal was agreed with $9 million available over the first three years based on the formation of a franchise T20 league to launch in 2012 as well as the hosting of T20Is using USA as a neutral venue. However, lack of sufficient infrastructure was blamed in part for the delayed launch of the proposed CHA franchise league, and CHA eventually dissolved. The rights to a pair of T20s between New Zealand and West Indies at Lauderhill, Florida, in 2012 were sold for $1, a move Dainty claimed was to prove USAs hosting viability for more lucrative opportunities later on.However, this time Dainty is ever-more bullish. According to him, the licensing deal with GSV will provide USACA $70 million over 15 years. One of the biggest promises Dainty made at Thursdays press conference was that the board would be able to provide central contracts to both mens and womens players, saying a lot of the funding we get will be going directly towards that. While players may not get rich, Dainty said the contracts he plans to offer will be enough certainly to make them live middle class and to provide all the benefits including medical insurance, paid-in social security.With this agreement, one of our first order of business is to put a process in place to identify and reward our performing players and our emerging players with contracts, he said. Not token contracts. They will be given contracts to make them professional players.Well have a pipeline, well have a winning team. Well have a team playing at a really world-class level and those are some of the ingredients we need to take this forward. It gives us an opportunity not only to dream but to live our dreams.As for Global Sports Ventures, a web page lists its headquarters in Feasterville, Pennsylvania, 20 miles northeast of downtown Philadelphia. Separate from GSV, Pandyas main business operation is as a franchise ownership of multiple Pizza Hut locations in and around southeast Pennsylvania. ' ' '