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

[Ashok Varma]

That's why advantage for Broadcaster some way and Big Data game by jio can't watch even 24 minutes Rs 15/1 GB on their own Jio Tv/Jio Cinema App in phone. if Both Streaming and Broadcasting Rights with Reliance, definitely they fixed these Big difference of Live and Delayed airing with slow motion.

Now data is complimentary for unlimited calling plan of Rs 666, Jio might give free data during IPL, so don’t worry about data charges of Rs 15/GB

 

[somnath chakraborty]

ICC Women's T20 World Cup Final Live On Star Sports 2

Select 2 also showing

 

[somnath chakraborty]

I personaly like sky sports scorecard

 

[roman]

Sky Sports channels are the best Sports channels. Their small and transparent logo, better scorecard and graphics gives maximum view on the screen, feels so comfortable. Indian sports channels specially STAR needs to learn something from sky Sports.

 

[somnath chakraborty]

Irani Cup live on star sports select 1 sd/hd

World table tennis star contender live on sony sports ten 5

 

[dino29]

HBO made a lot of money selling their content to a TV and satelite partner. HBO Premier atleast a service channel served it purpose. Made it's content popular.

Meanwhile SWP HD never had a substainable model to start from. It had 3 sister competitior Star World, FX and Fox Crime along with Zee Cafe and AXN who offered latest shows without a premium price. SWP HD shows were available for free on Hotstar who would pay ₹75 when everything was streaming for free. Channel had no proper distribution on most DTH and cable until New Tariff Order when they didn't even have exclusivity of having latest shows.

55 inches atleast. People who are seeking to watch 4K content buys these TVs. So they are more willing to spend money to watch such content. They do proper research before buying same. Meow!

That's my point about Hotstar if they can make 4K channels available. Atleast stream sports in 4K.

HBO Premium HD channels were not started with purpose of popularizing their shows or movies....their content already had huge following. They thought that India is ready to subscription driven channels and initially offered the 2 channels HBO Defined HD and HBO Hits HD at introductory price of Rs. 69 which itself was too steep and later increased the same to Rs. 99. Remember if u see the range of content they offered it was excellent and worth the price but for 2 reasons their channels were unsuccessful...1stly as we know Indians barring 1% affluent population won't be willing to spend such an amount for 2 channels and 2ndly few people in the non affluent bracket who may be willing to subscribe to these channels at such price won't do so as much of their shows or movies required censorship for it to be shown on TV. Hence as OTT + Affordable Internet gained momentum HBO decided that it is best to shutdown these channels. 1 year Before shutting down these channels they even handed over distribution of these channels to Star India and later Star India even bought TV+Satellite rights of their shows. Now i believe they no longer hold the TV rights of most of the HBO shows, few of which they have it would be part of the old ongoing agreement, they would just continue having OTT rights of the same until HBO decides to launch HBO Max in India and reserve rights for itself. Disney-Star now also has signed agreement for TV/Satellite rights of Warner Bros movies and hopefully they will also acquire TV rights of Warner Bros TV shows incase they plan to revive its English GEC channels in near future

Now coming to Star World Premiere HD i have already discussed the reason for its failure, ofcourse pricing and censorship were the 2 reasons but i completely agree that by shifting new shows on this channel and making Star World largely a channel having just re-run of old shows Erstwhile Star India under Fox Leadership made a huge mistake. Star World lost out to Zee Cafe, Colors Infinity bcoz of this one major wrong decision. Fox Crime was a good channel but again had a very niche appeal , FX had good potential to be a success but despite best efforts put by Star India it failed to garner desired ratings or ad revenue.FX aired wide range of shows and even its HD feed was launched but with OTT (alongwith complimentary subscription being provided at various levels) gaining prominence and affordable/free internet/broadband being available English GEC channels had started observing decrease in viewership. From end of 2017 onwards Star World Premiere HD shed its premium channel tag and was offered as part of Star India bouquet and once Disney took over control of Star India they tried to revive Star World Premiere HD and it used to air so many different variety of new as well as old shows from 2019 until March 2022 but sadly again it failed to gain ratings thus attracted no ad revenue and hence Disney-Star ceased airing regular content on it and kept it under shutdown list. Star World on the other hand continued to air just few new shows until end of 2021 and rest of schedule was filled with just How I Met Your Mother, Modern Family, The Office etc. Disney-Star could have aired mix of old and new shows on it and it would have helped attract emerging and regular audience to this channel but they decided to focus on providing English GEC content on their OTT platform Disney+Hotstar. It was "Not" NTO which added further to the issue but hike in prices done by broadcasters with implementation of NTO which further lead to downfall of English GEC channels and even decline in subscription of pay tv channels across other genres ... Many people even discontinued their Cable / DTH connection and opted for DD Free Dish and OTT platforms

I still hope they will reconsider the decision and atleast keep Star World on air.. May be rebrand/revamp it and come out with exciting content strategy for the same...they can even bring FX back or launch Disney ABC brand in India . English GEC channels still can work well on TV if good curated content in provided at affordable pricing. Remember people r facing OTT fatigue since last 2 years.. Searching for content on OTT is time consuming and cumbersome process add to it issue and managing and paying for multiple OTT platforms which itself is not liked by many people. In order to watch favorite content one has to subscribe to multiple OTT platforms as rights of different content r held by various OTT platforms and most importantly people do not get time to watch much of the content and money goes waste. Broadcasters have great opportunity to cater to such viewers and provide curated content on their channels which would attract large section of audience towards their channels. Certain content which requires censorship can always be made OTT exclusive.

Lastly coming to 4K content , those buying 55 inch or above 4K TV sets can stream the sports events or watch shows/movies in 4K on OTT platforms as made available. On TV 4K is not a financially viable option for broadcasters

 

[dino29]

Sky Sports channels are the best Sports channels. Their small and transparent logo, better scorecard and graphics gives maximum view on the screen, feels so comfortable. Indian sports channels specially STAR needs to learn something from sky Sports.

Did u check how much does it cost to subscribe to sports channels or watch sports on Pay Per View mode in foreign countries. The day people r willing to pay such amount for watching sports content all sports broadcasters in India too will offer experience at par with Sky Sports to the viewers.

We should atleast be grateful to Star Sports, Sony Sports, Sports18, Eurosports that they r investing in acquiring rights of sporting events which have limited viewership and hardly generate any ad revenue but still r televised on their channels. Apart from acquiring rights lot of other expenditures happen in running a channel or even interms of paying various sorts of fees which r levied by the government

 

[iDJ]

Did u check how much does it cost to subscribe to sports channels or watch sports on Pay Per View mode in foreign countries. The day people r willing to pay such amount for watching sports content all sports broadcasters in India too will offer experience at par with Sky Sports to the viewers.

We should atleast be grateful to Star Sports, Sony Sports, Sports18, Eurosports that they r investing in acquiring rights of sporting events which have limited viewership and hardly generate any ad revenue but still r televised on their channels. Apart from acquiring rights lot of other expenditures happen in running a channel or even interms of paying various sorts of fees which r levied by the government

That shows your bias towards. He was clearly asking for a better logo and graphics which doesn't even requires high spending. If any broadcaster acquires any rights. They should atleast make sure we get a proper experience watching same. Sony also airs sporting events with customized scorecards. They even have ads on it. No one here complains about them. Despite ads it doesn't look cheap. Having a good-looking logo comparable to International market here helps them too.

 

[somnath chakraborty]

Finally sony sports drop the plan of showing bgt highlights while 3rd test live is on star sports

Looks like tuta hai gabba ka ghamand saved by sony sports when 4th test live on star sports so that in live or in highlights both time india lift tropy

 

[iamshovan]

Finally sony sports drop the plan of showing bgt highlights while 3rd test live is on star sports

Looks like tuta hai gabba ka ghamand saved by sony sports when 4th test live on star sports so that in live or in highlights both time india lift tropy

bgt hillights means..