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IEC in Sports to mkt global TV rights for WC Swimming
NEW YORK: One of the biggest aquatic events World Cup Swimming kicked off this month Daejon, Korea. IEC in Sports represents the global television rights for this top World Cup series through various agreements with individual organisers, event companies and agencies.
An official release informs that World Cup Swimming is one of the oldest projects IEC has been involved with. Korea, South Africa and Russia are new stops for the eight leg series that runs from this month to February 2004. Each stop is a two or three day period and the competition format is the 25 metre short races.
There are 34 disciplines at each venue, 17 mens races and 17 womens races. IEC has secured television distribution on all continents for the series. IEC In Sports CEO Jonas Perrson added, “There are a dozen channels from around the world that will be broadcasting the series live or and delayed television pictures. With the Athens summer Olympics around the corner, the international focus on the World Cup series will do nothing but increase in the sport.”
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Times Network to air JVC Exit Poll across 5 regions on April 29
Four-hour broadcast spans states and Puducherry with data-led analysis
MUMBAI: Times Network is set to roll out what it calls one of its most expansive election programming efforts yet, culminating in the JVC Exit Poll on 29 April, with a multi-hour broadcast spanning key poll-bound regions.
The exit poll will air across Times Now and Times Now Navbharat, beginning at 5pm and 4pm respectively. Co-powered by Vedanta and Jindal Stainless, the programming aims to combine on-ground reportage with data-driven projections across West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Assam and Puducherry.
The network has deployed over 50 journalists across these regions, gathering voter sentiment and local insights in the run-up to polling. The effort builds on its ongoing election formats such as Election Yatra and Election Premier League, which have tracked campaign narratives and community-level issues.
In parallel, Times Now Navbharat has focused on constituency-level reporting in West Bengal through its Jan Gan ka Mann series, capturing voter opinions across diverse segments.
The coverage has also featured interviews with prominent political leaders. Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan and Congress leaders Ramesh Chennithala and V D Satheesan have appeared on the network’s election specials. From Tamil Nadu, voices including deputy chief minister Udhayanidhi Stalin, DMK MP Dayanidhi Maran, BJP leader K Annamalai and NTK’s Seeman have also featured in discussions.
On the day of the exit poll, the network’s primetime anchors, including Navika Kumar, Zakka Jacob and Sumit Awasthi, will lead the coverage. They will be joined by a panel of political analysts, psephologists and senior journalists offering real-time insights and interpretation of trends.
The programming will integrate grassroots reportage with analytics from the JVC Exit Poll, aiming to give viewers an early sense of electoral outcomes ahead of the official results on 4 May.
With its combined English and Hindi broadcast reach, Times Network is positioning this effort as a comprehensive look at voter sentiment, blending field reporting, data and debate to decode what could lie ahead when the final mandate is revealed.
