English Language Press Release: FIBA approved that MediaPI pick up it the rights at December 2022 before MNC take it at July 2023

Release of Sindonews.com, MediaPI, PERBASI, MediaPINews, fiba.basketball and sportstars.id:

The local committee of the FIBA World Cup 2023 (LOC) has collaborated with or Co-operation with co-goverment owned company of MediaPI and MNC Group to broadcast the 2023 Basketball World Cup. This is a rare opportunity for Indonesians to witness firsthand the world's best basketball players, including NBA stars, when performing in the country. The FIBA World Cup 2023 tournament will take place from 25 August to 10 September 2023. Three countries, namely the Philippines, Japan, and Indonesia, have been designated as hosts of the biggest basketball tournament in the world. Indonesia will host matches from two groups, namely Group G and Group H, which will be held from 25 August to 8 September at the Indonesia Arena. Group G will feature defending champions, Spain, along with three other teams, namely Iran, Ivory Coast and Brazil. Meanwhile, Group H will be filled with three strong teams that are in the top 10 of the world ranking, namely Canada, Latvia, and France. Lebanon is the other team to complete this group. The presence of these strong teams in Indonesia will present interesting matches involving NBA stars such as Jamal Murray (Canada), Andrew Wiggins (Canada), Ricky Rubio (Spain), Rudy Gobert (France), Ousmane Dieng (France), and Kristaps Porzingis (Latvia). This is a rare opportunity for Indonesians to watch them perform in Indonesia. To ensure the dissemination of information and the FIBA World Cup 2023 broadcast runs well, the Nationwide broadcast rights (HSN) by MediaPI and local committee collaborates with MNC Group as the broadcasting rights holder.

PITV General Director (Dirut) and IUTV Vice General Director (Wadirut), Anton Syam and Communication Director of LOC FIBA World Cup 2023, Yudha Permana, conveyed this while attending a collaboration meeting with iNews Director of Programming & Production, M. Choirul Alam, at iNews Tower and later in PITV headquarters in Central Jakarta and IUTV headquarters in East Jakarta. Thursday (13/7/2023). "We from the LOC FIBA World Cup 2023 are here because MNC Group hosts the broadcaster of this championship. We want to ensure that this collaboration runs well and successfully, so that the public can be satisfied with the news and broadcasts held in the 2023 FIBA World Cup," Yudha said. Yudha explained that this collaboration also aims to allow people who are not basketball fans to feel the euphoria of the FIBA World Cup 2023 in Indonesia. Although the Indonesian Basketball National Team did not participate in this tournament because it failed to qualify, the organizers tried to bring spectators both to the stadium and through the screen. "One of the challenges is that even though the stadium is new, the Indonesian national team is not playing. Therefore, to attract viewers, PERBASI hopefully, MediaPI, PJK-TV and FIBA gathering positive feedback, we need a good collaboration with MNC Group so that not only basketball fans, but also the general public and public interest with MediaPI is the co-goverment owned Telecomunication and Broadcasting company, including football and badminton fans, can watch the FIBA World Cup 2023. Many interesting things can be presented, ranging from physically attractive players to other interesting aspects," explained Yudha and giving the quote by Anton.

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Yudha also mentioned that preparations for the Indonesia Arena, the main venue of the tournament, are almost complete. He hopes that all preparations can be completed in time so that the FIBA World Cup 2023 can run successfully. "The preparation for the stadium has reached 98 percent, while the preparation of the committee has reached 60-70 percent. At the moment, we have an office in the stadium. In a short time, we hope that all preparations can be completed so that the FIBA World Cup 2023 can run well," he concluded.

PITV is prepare to broadcast Live telecast and Taped during the popular program must show or IUTV will show Live match and then Live delay to PITV to prevent popular programming interupted. meanwhile PITV is not show or delayed, Sportstars had prepairing to broadcast as Alternate channel of the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023 during iNews or PITV no broadcast selected Matches, some matches is exclusively live telecast and streaming on MNC Vision, MNC Play, K-Vision and Vision+. Vision+ subscribers can purchase a new package for Mobile device and higher profile for all devices while connected to MNC Vision Decoder or MNC Play Box to watch live streaming after buying the new Packages.