News broadcasters NBC has ended the boycott of the Indian Premier League after an agreement with the cash-rich Indian league authorities.

“The news broadcasters end boycott of IPL coverage. Let the show begin,” editor-in-chief of IBN network Rajdeep Sardesai said on his Twitter account.

As per the new guidelines issued by the IPL, “there has to be a minimum of a 10-minute delay from the live telecast by the official broadcaster before telecast of any match footage by a news broadcaster.”

However, the “news broadcasters will be allowed to telecast an exceptional event (newsworthy event of an exceptional nature) occurring during the course of a match with a minimum of a five-minute delay from the conclusion of the live telecast of such exceptional event”.

The 15-point guidelines includes a clause that news and current affairs broadcasters will be allowed a maximum of 5.5 minutes of ‘fresh footage’ per match in a day, “including not more than 4.5 minutes of deferred live coverage of match play and not more than 1.5 minutes of deferred in-stadium entertainment footage”.

“It’s good that we have come to an understanding with the news channels. It’s a nice way to start the tournament. I find the channels are already full of news concerning IPL,” the league’s vice chairman Niranjan Shah told IANS.