{"id":1019483,"date":"2026-07-08T08:58:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T03:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1019483"},"modified":"2026-07-08T09:05:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T03:35:52","slug":"sonu-nigam-scout-join-gepl-as-franchise-owners-ahead-of-season-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/08\/sonu-nigam-scout-join-gepl-as-franchise-owners-ahead-of-season-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonu Nigam, Scout join GEPL as franchise owners ahead of Season 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Playback singer Sonu Nigam and gaming creator Scout (Tanmay Singh) have joined the ownership group of the Global e-Cricket Premier League (GEPL), with JetSynthesys announcing them as franchise owners for the league&#8217;s third season. <\/p>\n<p>Nigam will own the Kolkata Hawks, while Scout has acquired the Gujarat Wolves franchise as GEPL expands to an eight-team competition. The tournament will be played at the Jairaj Sports &amp; Convention Centre in Pune from August 1 to August 9 and will be broadcast on Star Sports and JioHotstar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Playback singer Sonu Nigam and gaming creator Scout (Tanmay Singh) have joined the ownership group of the Global e-Cricket Premier League (GEPL), with JetSynthesys announcing them as franchise owners for the league&#8217;s third season. Nigam will own the Kolkata Hawks, while Scout has acquired the Gujarat Wolves franchise as GEPL expands to an eight-team competition. The tournament will be played at the Jairaj Sports &amp; Convention Centre in Pune from August 1 to August 9 and will be broadcast on Star Sports and JioHotstar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019510,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019483\/revisions\/1019510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}