In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires,—
(a) 'Act' shall mean the Sports Broadcasting Signals (Mandatory Sharing with Prasar Bharati) Act, 2007 (Act 11 of 2007);
(b) 'content rights owner or holder' shall mean a person for the time being having or holding the broadcasting rights in respect of a sporting event of national importance within the territory of India;
(c) words and expressions not defined in these inles but defined in the Act, shall have the same meaning respectively assigned to them in the Act.
3. Sharing of Sports Broadcasting Signals with l*rasar Bharati.—(1) Every content rights owner or holder and television or radio broadcasting service provider intending to carry a live television broadcast on any cable television network or Direct-to-Home network or intending to make a radio commentary broadcast in India, of a sporting event of national importance shall at least forty Jive days prior to the proposed dat$ of telecast or broadcast, inform the Prasar Bharati about the same and offer to share the live signals in the manner and on such terms and conditions as are hereunder specified.
(2) Tne content rights owner or holder and television or radio broadcasting service provider shall provide the live signals to the Prasar Bharati at the Master Control Room of Doordarshan or as the case may be, the Master Control Room of All India Radio, at its own cost.
(3) The signals to be shared with the Prasar Bharati by the content rights owner or holder, shall be the best feed with all features as that of provided lo a broadcast service provider in India, free from commercial advertisements.
(4) The signals referred to in sub-rules (2) and (3) •shall include signals of the pre live event and the post live event coverage.
(5) The Prasar Bharati shall not be under any obligation to cany the logo of any channel available in India.
(6) The Prasar Bharati shall have all the rights to generate, pre, post and intermission programming.
(7) The Prasar Bharati shall have the right to retransmit the signals on its terrestrial and Direct-to- Home networks including the AM and FM channels of the All India Radio.