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

[Lurie]

finaly india vs bangladesh series promo started

Pakistan vs england series live on sony sports ten 5

bbl live on sony sports ten 5

Graphics look great. Feels like a foreign channel.

 

[iDJ]

Sony Sports is killing it with all live Cricket action in month of December

India vs Bangladesh
West Indies vs Australia
Afghanistan vs Sri Lanka
Big Bash league
Pakistan vs England

Viacom has FIFA World Cup.

Super for cricket lovers . What about star sports network ?

Eurosport will have more action than them.

 

[somnath chakraborty]

Before addition on adtv sports18 hd channel sports 18 social page posted/tweet channel availability of various dth broadcaster but aut after adtv add sports18 hd no new post/tweet come from sports18

 

[piinku1]

Super for cricket lovers . What about star sports network ?

Cricket highlights all day. ISL & PKL at night

 

[sathishbabu4u]

Seems sony satisfy with foreign cricket rights SL Pak Eng and now Ban joined
Sports 18 and star not at all care abt other cricket rights, only they want is IPL and ICC rights,
As a sports channel SS should understand the feelings of sports lovers and go for all cricket rights

 

[Ashok Varma]

Seems sony satisfy with foreign cricket rights SL Pak Eng and now Ban joined
Sports 18 and star not at all care abt other cricket rights, only they want is IPL and ICC rights,
As a sports channel SS should understand the feelings of sports lovers and go for all cricket rights

We should understand Sony desperately need all cricket board rights for more cricket contenet with cheap price against IPL, BCCI & ICC rights.

 

[federer.reddevil]

Also it is total myth and incorrect that NTO 2.0 lead to downfall of niche channels. Reality is improper content, pricing strategy and unwillingness to evolve and show interest to retain regular audience as well as attract huge emerging audience base has lead to their current dismal performance. Also in other genres too broadcasters r blaming NTO for reduction in subscription numbers but reality is that their own wrong policy / strategy has lead to more people shifting to OTT or DD Free Dish. As far as i understand & been able to decode, Broadcasters and Operators want old system back as it bought huge monetary benefits to them....They r lacking confidence to provide channels at lower price like they did in pre NTO era as earlier they got bulk payment in advance for long term agreements so dependency on quality of content for revenue was not that high or directly connected while now customers have option to pick n drop channels anytime and pay accordingly so broadcasters know that with current content their channels would not get a constant revenue / subscription hence themselves pushing up prices to cover up revenue loss and also show that NTO has lead to increase in prices

I dont think there is any large migration from DTH/Cable to DD Free Dish. There are lots of people who have left DTH/Cable for OTT. The main reason people are buying DTH is to watch the pay channels otherwise they would have directly bought DD Free Dish itself however coz of NTO there is lot of migration from DTH to OTT and I think that is a good thing people will buy Smart TC and start subscribing to OTTs which means that ISP have to start giving good internet connections as a start.

 

[federer.reddevil]

Before addition on adtv sports18 hd channel sports 18 social page posted/tweet channel availability of various dth broadcaster but aut after adtv add sports18 hd no new post/tweet come from sports18

Seems sony satisfy with foreign cricket rights SL Pak Eng and now Ban joined
Sports 18 and star not at all care abt other cricket rights, only they want is IPL and ICC rights,
As a sports channel SS should understand the feelings of sports lovers and go for all cricket rights

SL media rights coming up for renewal. Ind doesnt play a series with Pak and Sony has just this tour rights with Ban.
So seriously speaking the only good rights they have for the next couple of years is Eng. They lost the Aus rights. If they dont get rights to BCCI. They will have to be like Star and start telecasting India matches highlights too

 

[somnath chakraborty]

Bro i am not saying your quoted post coz i know many people get your quoted tweet reply but
i say below post / tweet

 

[iDJ]

SL media rights coming up for renewal. Ind doesnt play a series with Pak and Sony has just this tour rights with Ban.
So seriously speaking the only good rights they have for the next couple of years is Eng. They lost the Aus rights. If they dont get rights to BCCI. They will have to be like Star and start telecasting India matches highlights too

They have WWE, UFC, Bundesliga and UEFA rights among major events. That's hours of worth of live sporting event everyday which no other broadcaster has.