Sports Channels in India (Current & Upcoming) - Broadcast Rights, General Discussion, News & Updates

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Should Sports Networks have Regional Channels?

  • YES, Absolutely! I'd love to watch the content and hear the commentary in my preferred language.

    Votes: 259 44.3%

  • NO, Language feeds are enough. (I don't care about programming / graphics in regional language)

    Votes: 326 55.7%
  • Total voters
    585
JollyLNB said:
Bhai, the thing is, Star Sports 1 Marathi already exists. But it is not distributed on any platforms. Similarly there were dedicated Nat Geo Tamil and Telugu channels but those were never added by any platforms and hence they were shut down.
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I think now SS1 Marathi is shutdown because of distribution problems may be they will launch SS1 Marathi in future as we People requested them for IPL in Marathi so they kept it on Hotstar they were testing the market and IPL Marathi also got good response on hotstar (told by a female cricket anchor don't know her name).
 
Aksgr said:
It's not about are we , it's about we are . RIL is confident for bidding IPL. Will take it to another level.
When I enquired about sports channel. He laughed and said what you think we will put ipl in colors TV ?.
2 parallel sports channel willanched one dedicated to cricket and other dedicated to football , esport , golf , TT and more.
I enquired about will their be dedicated Hindi channel. He said it will be given to regional movie channels also audio selection would be provided for DTH users.
What languages will we witness - English , Hindi , Bengali , Tamil , Telugu and Kannada
When can we witness launch of channel. ?
He said we are waiting for FIFA and some cricket rights.

He at last said. Experience the magic of sports. I think it might be tagline. I'm not sure
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Even they ignored Marathi language I will not watch it. Hope other Marathi people too don't watch, we want it in Marathi or else in no language. Why we should always watch match or other things in Other languages why not in Marathi?
 
With IPL and T20 World Cup around the corner Best time to get hotstar subscription is today and tomorrow, buy VIP subscription and u will automatically get access to premium content too w.e.f. 1st September at no extra cost.... Not only this u can watch all things across devices/tv. Same things u will get at Rs. 1499 if u subscribe 1st September onwards
 
Aksgr said:
Dollar dollar investment by RIL in sports.
RIL likely has kept 5 Billion $ for sports investment which also includes network18 rights
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They should go for Premier League rights. It will be up for sale next year. Star is good though. I am happy with Star for now.
 
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Aksgr said:
Yes. Major part is for Reliance foundation . They are going to invest to local sports to bring it to mainstream.

Note : I'm not talking about getting TV or digital rights.
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Do they have any plan of owning a club in ISL after 2024? Like they do in IPL.
 
iDJ said:
Premier League needs to go to Sony. They will make sure that most matches are televised.
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At 1 point, there are 4-5 match scheduled at same time in PL. They can not possibly telecast all of them on TV channels. Even Sony does not have that much channels to telecast all of them. If they will split feeds on SD/HD Version, then people will complain if their match is not in SD/HD version. See Sony. Even Sony skipped many UCL GS match last year. Probably they also missed one PSG match which was scheduled at 12:30 in UCL GS. That's said we should protest when they telecast IPL in select 1 channel when other channels for Cricket like SS 2 is there. You will see they will do that in September when IPL restarts. SS 2 will be vacant while SSS 1 will accommodate IPL Dog out.
 
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