I am starting this thread to serve as a ready reference for Sports Broadcast Rights in India as well as general discussion regarding current and upcoming sports channels in India. I request members to collect information on current broadcast rights with all Indian sports channels so that I can later make an illustration on the same and post it here.
Click here for list of sports channel and their availability on DTH platforms.
As of September 2018, we have the following sports channels in India.
Confirmed upcoming channels are marked in Blue, Speculated upcoming channels marked in green. Channels likely to be discontinued are marked in red.
LAST UPDATE - 23 JULY 2019
Star India:
- Star Sports 1
- Star Sports 1 HD
- Star Sports 2
- Star Sports 2 HD
- Star Sports 3
- Star Sports 3 HD
- Star Sports Select 1
- Star Sports Select 1 HD
- Star Sports Select 2
- Star Sports Select 2 HD
- Star Sports 1 Hindi
- Star Sports 1 Hindi HD
- Star Sports 1 Tamil
- Star Sports 1 Telugu
- Star Sports 1 Kannada
- Star Sports 1 Bangla
- Star Sports 1 Marathi
- Star Sports 1 Gujarati
- Star Sports 1 Malayalam
- Star Sports First
Sony Pictures Sports Network:
- Sony SIX
- Sony SIX HD
Sony SIX 2
Sony SIX 2 HD
- Sony ESPN
- Sony ESPN HD
- Sony TEN 1
- Sony TEN 1 HD
- Sony TEN 2
- Sony TEN 2 HD
- Sony TEN 3
- Sony TEN 3 HD
- Sony TEN 4
- Sony TEN 4 HD
- Sony TEN Golf HD (Now Defunct)
Discovery Communications:
- DSPORT
- DSPORT (HD) (Now Defunct)
Nimbus Television:
- Neo Sports (Now Defunct)
- Neo Prime (Now Defunct)
Government of India (Doordarshan):