SEN and Macquarie Sports caught up in broadcast rights issue for the World Cup

If you were listening to either SEN or Macquarie Sports Radio at the start of the World Cup, you may have been wondering why the coverage sounded like ‘a couple of Indians in their garage’.

It was early in the coverage of the opening game of the World Cup when the alarm bells started to ring in the studios of Melbourne’s two sports radio networks but with each ball that was being broadcast it quickly became apparent that the commentary they were receiving was from a couple of Indians sitting in their garage.

After some frantic phone calls it was revealed that the broadcast they were receiving was “illegal” because their Indian distributor had breached its rights agreement with the ICC.