There will be no blackout of matches in Cricket World Cup (CWC) 2007 within the various territories while the matches are being played.

New Business and Development manager at the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC), Michael Whyte, made the announcement Thursday, during a press conference at the Hilton Hotel to launch CaribVision, a new cable channel to the region and North America.

"All 51 matches will be available live," Whyte said.

"In fact, I can tell you also that we are negotiating, because you know you have some preliminary warm-up matches and we are negotiating to have some of those matches that will be available live on either radio or television or both. All the matches being played anywhere will be live on television and radio in the territory, so there will be absolutely no blackout at all."

Whyte said there was a minimum requirement that West Indies semi-finals and finals must be on free to air.

"The others we can utilise accordingly," Whyte said, adding, "we are working with the broadcasters, but I can safely tell you that all the matches will be on, free to air."

Whyte also announced that the Champions Trophy to be played in October and November of this year will be carried live, saying, "all 21 of them will be carried live on television."

He said CMC was now in the process of finalising the radio details.

With the ICC Cricket World Cup and the next Olympics happening within 12 months of each other, CMC is already making plans to send a team to Beijing, China.

"We will handle both with competence and you can be assured that the Olympics, CaribVision and World Cup Cricket will get the professional approach that we are known for and the quality will be there, that's a guarantee," Whyte said.

At the last Olympics, CMC provided just over 60 hours of coverage.

Source: CMC