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

[somnath chakraborty]

Poor channel selection
Poor commentary pannel (as i only try hindi and Bengali ) is also a major factor of fifa wc tv viewership i feel.

Wished sony sports not let go rights
Coz we already saw what a class broadcast they gave last cooa America and euro cup edition

 

[RdX]

I checked in youtube, highlights in all channels has IPG graphics, so mostly this series broadcaster will be IPG

Correct, Production companies are manage cricket rights of these small countries as no big buyer for long term.

Yes production is from host broadcaster but graphics from IPG instead of host broadcaster. Same thing happened for Ireland and Zimbabwe series when India toured.

Nope, yesterday match end some other Production company name mentioned, i forgot that Production name. But we can see Production logo and name on coming Wednesday match.

Finally observed today match end, It's Real Impact Production for Bangladesh cricket board.

 

[RdX]

Real Impact too India Based Production media company like IPG and ITW Global Consulting.

Sports production – Real Impact

realimpact.tv

 

[The Lonelier Island]

No. TV viewership will remain strong....there might b some dip due to Free OTT streaming but it would not have any major impact on overall TV ratings of that event.

OTT Access is still very small bcoz of various reasons, TV is still the preferred medium to watch popular content

It doesn't take much data to stream a T20 Match. On top of that you are getting it for free. TV viewership will remain strong as long as Star Sports 1 comes with a Star Plus or Star Maa DPO pack.

 

[The Lonelier Island]

It's high time Sony looks into a proper strategy. They are losing rights of big events like Olympics, FIFA World Cup and Cricket Australia. Soon they will lose WWE and UFC too if they waste time with vanity projects like Sony Ten 4 and Sony Ten 4 HD. Don't get the purpose of taking extra effort to air dubbed content on a seperate channel. The channel is so underperforming. It is available for free on Tata Play and Airtel. Yet, doesn't makes it into Top 5 charts of any Southern states. HD version is also exclusively stuck with Sun Direct. Even new entrant like Sports 18 1 has made into Top 5. Shutdown and concentrate on acquiring rights of big events.

 

[mano0114]

It's high time Sony looks into a proper strategy. They are losing rights of big events like Olympics, FIFA World Cup and Cricket Australia. Soon they will lose WWE and UFC too if they waste time with vanity projects like Sony Ten 4 and Sony Ten 4 HD. Don't get the purpose of taking extra effort to air dubbed content on a seperate channel. The channel is so underperforming. It is available for free on Tata Play and Airtel. Yet, doesn't makes it into Top 5 charts of any Southern states. HD version is also exclusively stuck with Sun Direct. Even new entrant like Sports 18 1 has made into Top 5. Shutdown and concentrate on acquiring rights of big events.

acquiring big events and telecasting only on Sony liv not going to work either...

 

[sathishbabu4u]

First sony has to change their strategy with 2 channels only left if any india cricket comes, it can't able handle other events/ matched properly. Atleast sony should not concentrate on t20 leagues going forward

 

[dino29]

It's high time Sony looks into a proper strategy. They are losing rights of big events like Olympics, FIFA World Cup and Cricket Australia. Soon they will lose WWE and UFC too if they waste time with vanity projects like Sony Ten 4 and Sony Ten 4 HD. Don't get the purpose of taking extra effort to air dubbed content on a seperate channel. The channel is so underperforming. It is available for free on Tata Play and Airtel. Yet, doesn't makes it into Top 5 charts of any Southern states. HD version is also exclusively stuck with Sun Direct. Even new entrant like Sports 18 1 has made into Top 5. Shutdown and concentrate on acquiring rights of big events.

You will see Sony Sports Ten 4 in Top 5 list of some regions when some major popular sporting event gets aired on it which has wider appeal among Tamil and Telugu speaking audience.

You r seeing Sports18 1 in Top 5 list of some regions bcoz there viewership for this event is quite huge.

Also many channels though performing well will not make it to Top 5 list of some regions as GEC, Movie Channels get lot more ratings than sports channels hence they usually r seen in overall top 5 list

 

[federer.reddevil]

Poor channel selection
Poor commentary pannel (as i only try hindi and Bengali ) is also a major factor of fifa wc tv viewership i feel.

Wished sony sports not let go rights
Coz we already saw what a class broadcast they gave last cooa America and euro cup edition

This years coverage of WC is way better than last year coverage of Euro and Copa America as far as English is concerned. Dont know abt regional languages.

Last time out for Euros they had Indian players to analyze the matches and the pre and post shows where just rubbish in English

 

[federer.reddevil]

It's high time Sony looks into a proper strategy. They are losing rights of big events like Olympics, FIFA World Cup and Cricket Australia. Soon they will lose WWE and UFC too if they waste time with vanity projects like Sony Ten 4 and Sony Ten 4 HD. Don't get the purpose of taking extra effort to air dubbed content on a seperate channel. The channel is so underperforming. It is available for free on Tata Play and Airtel. Yet, doesn't makes it into Top 5 charts of any Southern states. HD version is also exclusively stuck with Sun Direct. Even new entrant like Sports 18 1 has made into Top 5. Shutdown and concentrate on acquiring rights of big events.

What they have to so is make Sony Ten 3 into 3 languages so they can also free up Sony Ten 4 for other sports.