Sad News 11 JioStar Channels going to Shutdown w.e.f 15th March 2025

[iDJ]

Not only this...Nowadays the quality of commentary has also gone down compared to past days....What is the use of launching tons of regional sports channel then?
Not like they air any regional sports tournament or whatever....Just the same cricket matches again and again along with a bit of football and kabaddi...That too highlights only

Irony here is all these nautanki is done for studio commentary which not only offers mediocre production value. Feed is delayed too.

 

[Neel]

to all those saying star sports regional is bad , how do you expect the broadcaster to recoup the money .?
All the sarcasms is good but to what extent.
The reason behind shutdown of Comedy central is different and VH1 is different .
VH1 has been shutdown in many countries outside US, Remember VH1 India content is subscribed by Jiostar and not provided by VH1.
The actual subscribers of VH1 is unofficially just in thousands not even in lakhs . ( alacarte subscribers)
Comedy central is being discontinued as a shift of the IP from Paramount to jiostar . Jiostar sees no value in continuing unrelated brand and paying it just for IP .

Keep aside all these inside things for a moment...We, as a consumer, did what to lose the channels?
How can a person who, say, watches VH1, CC but doesn't understand any of the languages in which the new sports channels are going to be launched, be benefitted from this..?

The channels that are going to be launched are just like "Filler channels", and I don't think they are going to make up for the lost channels easily, the upcoming TRP's would show this....

Now,even if we know all these ,our outrage is primarily from the customer POV...We don't want a bunch of Regional Channels

The outrage would have been less even if they launched their own version of the channels, say, they launched an english music channel replacing VH1, could have been done right?

 

[iDJ]

Keep aside all these inside things for a moment...We, as a consumer, did what to loose the channels?
How can a person who, say, watches VH1, CC but doesn't understand any of the languages in which the new sports channels are going to be launched, be benefitted from this..?

The channels that are going to be launched are just like "Filler channels", and I don't think they are going to make up for the lost channels easily, the upcoming TRP's would show this....

Now,even if we know all these ,our outrage is primarily from the customer POV...We don't want a bunch of Regional Channels

The outrage would have been less even if they launched their own version of the channels, say, they launched an english music channel replacing VH1, could have been done right?

His relative works for JioStar. That might influence his opinion. Otherwise he was always supportive of these channels in the past.

 

[MrObserver]

Today I will watch songs on MTV beats and vh1,all day long , that is my method of giving tribute, no other music channels will be scrolled from my end,
........ someone bid farewell to Bindass also, it was like a patient in coma since star acquired it, ....what a unique channel it was in its initial days...Mr. Screwwala why u sold it to Star?

I really wish these channels stayed for some more time so that it could be added in Star packs. Maybe the ratings would have increased also by then . Now I am unable to watch it's shutdown on TV too.

 

[Ethan 2023]

Irony here is all these nautanki is done for studio commentary which not only offers mediocre production value. Feed is delayed too.

Many times I have observed commentary to be irrelevant,be it English or Hindi, commentators talk irrelevant, like England vs South Africa is going on and they intermittently show Virat kohli practising in net, or how IPL helps Indian cricketers, suddenly they start discussing about their IPL statistics, have u people observed that?

 

[Ethan 2023]

to all those saying star sports regional is bad , how do you expect the broadcaster to recoup the money .?
All the sarcasms is good but to what extent.
The reason behind shutdown of Comedy central is different and VH1 is different .
VH1 has been shutdown in many countries outside US, Remember VH1 India content is subscribed by Jiostar and not provided by VH1.
The actual subscribers of VH1 is unofficially just in thousands not even in lakhs . ( alacarte subscribers)
Comedy central is being discontinued as a shift of the IP from Paramount to jiostar . Jiostar sees no value in continuing unrelated brand and paying it just for IP .

What are you saying, do you have any proof to clarify?

 

[MrObserver]

Tried to give my last message to MTV's WhatsApp but they are giving a reply of invalid input. Any idea how to fix it.

 

[Ethan 2023]

Tried to give my last message to MTV's WhatsApp but they are giving a reply of invalid input. Any idea how to fix it.

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[Nikhil Shirvankar]

Now,even if we know all these ,our outrage is primarily from the customer POV...We don't want a bunch of Regional Channels

Outrage, really, of how many people? What is the sample size of the people in outrage, how much proportion is it of the original subscribers/customers?

Of the channels going out, just Star Life and Life HD license' are transferred to star sports, rest all Star Sports launches are coming against Sports18

Yes Customer has a POV, but is the customer going to pay the additional cost incurred to operate Paramount owned Channels, after Paramount's Exit. MTV, Nick still exist, but will be closed fron JioStar someday.

All of these brands can return, but will have to return as launches from Paramount (will take time as Paramount themselves exited and hence there'll be a non compete)

 

[Aksgr]

Keep aside all these inside things for a moment...We, as a consumer, did what to loose the channels?
How can a person who, say, watches VH1, CC but doesn't understand any of the languages in which the new sports channels are going to be launched, be benefitted from this..?

The channels that are going to be launched are just like "Filler channels", and I don't think they are going to make up for the lost channels easily, the upcoming TRP's would show this....

Now,even if we know all these ,our outrage is primarily from the customer POV...We don't want a bunch of Regional Channels

The outrage would have been less even if they launched their own version of the channels, say, they launched an english music channel replacing VH1, could have been done right?

There is a difference in demanding content vs channel. I have been demanding comedy central section in Colors infinity.
I see less to none outrage on X . Which speaks to itself .
I am frustrated of CC shutting down , but whats the point?
In terms of VH1 if consumer are upset it makes no sense.
There is no market for music channel itself leave alone english music.