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[iDJ]

In last week or so UTV HD has been adding more fresh (new as well as old) dubbed hollywood movies in its schedule

They need to shut that down for Star Sports 1 Bhojpuri HD.

 

[dino29]

They need to shut that down for Star Sports 1 Bhojpuri HD.

Buddy, please stop making such comments over and over again. These are not only devoid of merit hence do not add to any productive discussion. Disney-Star has a very large bouquet of channels, immensely popular OTT platform , film production / distribution studio and various other very successful / well established companies...they are managing all of it extremely well. Remember it is tough to maintain a fine balance across all these diversified areas of business operations.

You always bring up this argument of Disney-Star being biased to Tamil, Telugu audience which is "not at all true" and we have had long / detailed discussions on this topic many times in the past. About Star World being mismanaged under Fox Leadership or Disney....well again i have mentioned earlier too that back in 2014-2015 shifting all new programming to Star World Premiere HD was a mistake and above all making Star World Premiere HD a subscription driven channel was again not the right thing to do. As slowly OTT, Affordable Internet started gaining momentum there was a viewership churn bound to happen in English GEC or incase of other such channels. Covid further accelerated this decline in ratings of such channels as more and more people preferred OTT to consume such content, also wrong content/pricing strategy adopted by broadcasters further added to the woes. NTO has nothing to do with shutting down of niche channels or even popular channels losing out on ratings, issue is that broadcasters did not adopt NTO regulations in right spirit.

English GEC channels still can succeed if good curated content is made available to viewers and at affordable price, Finding / Searching content on OTT has various issues attached to it...it is not only time consuming , somewhat confusing, very costly to subscribe to multiple OTT platforms and internet etc.

Lastly each broadcaster has a different strategy, u cannot say that if Viacom18 is running English GEC channels then so should Disney-Star. Viacom18 still has a very small bouquet of channels or even scale of other business in broadcast or film production business is lot compact as compared to Disney-Star. Disney-Star has huge investments across their range of channels, OTT platforms, Film Studio and being an international company it needs to look at its worldwide business interests while taking decisions thus it is understandable if they accordingly allocate resources to all these businesses . They decided that it is more viable for them to shift English GEC content to OTT hence they did so while scaling up investments in acquiring content for their other channels or launching new channels or revamping / rebranding existing ones. Even on Disney+Hotstar they have extremely huge catalogue of content which is provided at very affordable pricing to the audience / people and even the Disney+Hotstar platform is overall quite good in all aspects.

I still feel that they should continue having an English GEC channel and hopefully they will reconsider keeping Star World on air like they earlier have shelved plans to discontinue bindass, Disney International HD, Disney Junior

 

[iDJ]

Buddy, please stop making such comments over and over again. These are not only devoid of merit hence do not add to any productive discussion. Disney-Star has a very large bouquet of channels, immensely popular OTT platform , film production / distribution studio and various other very successful / well established companies...they are managing all of it extremely well. Remember it is tough to maintain a fine balance across all these diversified areas of business operations.

You always bring up this argument of Disney-Star being biased to Tamil, Telugu audience which is "not at all true" and we have had long / detailed discussions on this topic many times in the past. About Star World being mismanaged under Fox Leadership or Disney....well again i have mentioned earlier too that back in 2014-2015 shifting all new programming to Star World Premiere HD was a mistake and above all making Star World Premiere HD a subscription driven channel was again not the right thing to do. As slowly OTT, Affordable Internet started gaining momentum there was a viewership churn bound to happen in English GEC or incase of other such channels. Covid further accelerated this decline in ratings of such channels as more and more people preferred OTT to consume such content, also wrong content/pricing strategy adopted by broadcasters further added to the woes. NTO has nothing to do with shutting down of niche channels or even popular channels losing out on ratings, issue is that broadcasters did not adopt NTO regulations in right spirit.

English GEC channels still can succeed if good curated content is made available to viewers and at affordable price, Finding / Searching content on OTT has various issues attached to it...it is not only time consuming , somewhat confusing, very costly to subscribe to multiple OTT platforms and internet etc.

Lastly each broadcaster has a different strategy, u cannot say that if Viacom18 is running English GEC channels then so should Disney-Star. Viacom18 still has a very small bouquet of channels or even scale of other business in broadcast or film production business is lot compact as compared to Disney-Star. Disney-Star has huge investments across their range of channels, OTT platforms, Film Studio and being an international company it needs to look at its worldwide business interests while taking decisions thus it is understandable if they accordingly allocate resources to all these businesses . They decided that it is more viable for them to shift English GEC content to OTT hence they did so while scaling up investments in acquiring content for their other channels or launching new channels or revamping / rebranding existing ones. Even on Disney+Hotstar they have extremely huge catalogue of content which is provided at very affordable pricing to the audience / people and even the Disney+Hotstar platform is overall quite good in all aspects.

I still feel that they should continue having an English GEC channel and hopefully they will reconsider keeping Star World on air like they earlier have shelved plans to discontinue bindass, Disney International HD, Disney Junior

There cannot be IPL without Star Sports 1 Bhojpuri HD. Do you know the combine population of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar? On top of that Lucknow is one of the biggest franchise. It is lead by Sunil Shetty's son in law too.

 

[Jaffer7080]

Celebrity cricket league (CCL) rights acquired by zee telecasting from Feb 18 on &pictures.

 

[dino29]

There cannot be IPL without Star Sports 1 Bhojpuri HD. Do you know the combine population of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar? On top of that Lucknow is one of the biggest franchise. It is lead by Sunil Shetty's son in law too.

Buddy since u seem so passionate, enthusiastic about the idea of sports broadcasters providing cricket as well as other sports in all of the major indian languages and above all u r exuding such confidence about this as if u have done lots of on ground research / study on this subject (from ur words it looks like u r trying to suggest as if broadcasters do not undertake such research or surveys which is completely untrue) hence i have a brilliant idea for u.

It may be difficult for broadcasters to launch a dedicated channel for all such languages or set up production facility for the same. I request u to pitch ur idea to concerned broadcasters wherein u can tell them that by collaborating with ur friends who may be residing in various states u can bring onboard good local team of commentators, tie up with the area MSO/ LCO of different regions in a state and set up a production facility in the MSO office or in a small room which u can hire. From there u can do local language commentary which the Cable TV operator can transmit to their coverage areas , whatever ad revenue is earned that can be shared among all stakeholders . This can help address ur concern and even good for all others.

Do let us know if it works. Surely u need to put in some hard work and efforts for this but if u achieve the aim then it is worth it

 

[iDJ]

Buddy since u seem so passionate, enthusiastic about the idea of sports broadcasters providing cricket as well as other sports in all of the major indian languages and above all u r exuding such confidence about this as if u have done lots of on ground research / study on this subject (from ur words it looks like u r trying to suggest as if broadcasters do not undertake such research or surveys which is completely untrue) hence i have a brilliant idea for u.

It may be difficult for broadcasters to launch a dedicated channel for all such languages or set up production facility for the same. I request u to pitch ur idea to concerned broadcasters wherein u can tell them that by collaborating with ur friends who may be residing in various states u can bring onboard good local team of commentators, tie up with the area MSO/ LCO of different regions in a state and set up a production facility in the MSO office or in a small room which u can hire. From there u can do local language commentary which the Cable TV operator can transmit to their coverage areas , whatever ad revenue is earned that can be shared among all stakeholders . This can help address ur concern and even good for all others.

Do let us know if it works. Surely u need to put in some hard work and efforts for this but if u achieve the aim then it is worth it

So you are the kind of guy who doesn't like both thekua and nirahua?

 

[dino29]

Celebrity cricket league (CCL) rights acquired by zee telecasting from Feb 18 on &pictures.

Malayalam and one more regional language telecast rights of CCL r not with zee

 

[iDJ]

Malayalam and one more regional language telecast rights of CCL r not with zee

Who has Bhojpuri rights?

 

[JollyLNB]

Who has Bhojpuri rights?

Earlier you were talking about Tamil and Telugu and now Bhojpuri. It’s better to stop it.

 

[dino29]

Who has Bhojpuri rights?

zee