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

[Shark]

that is NZ cricket, will be available only on amazon prime app
SLC next cricket is Ireland tour of SL in April , mostly this new rights will begin from that series

Rights is for April 2023 to March 2027
Yes, if brodcaster want to air SL vs ire series they can air.

 

[Prashant Shridhar]

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[dino29]

Cricket viewership has reached it's peak. It will decline. Giving importance to cricket by overpaying for rights makes zero sense. Meanwhile advertisers knows the appeal of a niche audience when it comes to athletic events, football match or even a F1 Race. Content like WWE, F1, Champions League, Moto GP etc. are a better investment for broadcaster pay 3X, 4X than it's worth for cricket. Also these rights needs to be realistic. Otherwise then they will be forced to go into a pay per view or streaming model. Let's be real some broadcaster tried to sabotage other sports for cricket by making International sports a niche HD exclusive content. Thankfully, new competitors are bring a fresh change into the market.

Well buddy all kind of sporting action have potential to get good viewership on both TV and OTT platforms. There will b balance maintained on both fronts by platforms / broadcasters as the situation demands at that point of time.

I totally agree price of cricket rights and even other sports need correction which will not only help broadcasters invest in lot more variety of sporting properties but give them adequate space across their channels rather than current situation where India Cricket highlights r aired more to recover costs incurred while buying rights at super high prices.

Lastly though i agree launching just Star Sports Select HD channels and shifting mostly all non cricket sporting action on it was not a wise decision and they should have launched SD feeds too. But launching such channels itself was right thing to do so as to provide better access to such sports to viewers as well as scale up subscription revenue. Such Dedicated offerings also help advertisers properly reach out to target audience and even increase reach/ratings of these sporting events thus scale up ad revenue. That qas past, now combo model of TV+OTT is the right approach to cater to viewers

 

[dino29]

Dunno what happened during Aus vs NZ. During Aus vs Wi. They didn't had free slot. This is why I say to revamp Sony Ten 4 into a national sports channel. Regional thing doesn't work. I wonder how many thousand crores these dubbed ads brings.

For sure unless sony acquires BCCI, IPL or other such prominent rights across other sports having a regional sports channel is not a financially viable option

 

[dino29]

sorry bro.... but don't agree with this statement when SS2 can telecast women's W/C on SS2 then why not a test match???? ISL can be shown on SSS channels as they already show football... live content is important not repeats/highlights

Buddy i already mentioned the 2nd reason why they would have opted to not air SA vs WI on HD channel. Please do have a read

 

[RdX]

So Star is promoting Star Sports First position with improved PQ, earlier I thought this channel only for ISL and cricket highlights.

 

[iDJ]

So Star is promoting Star Sports First position with improved PQ, earlier I thought this channel only for ISL and cricket highlights.

Useless until converted to 16:9.

 

[RdX]

Anyone know why Sony Sports all channels price remains like Premium, doesn't offer low price channels. even new channel Sports18 price affordable, but Sony Sports channels Price is too much if they reduce price more people will subscribe their channels and watching their channels live sports events.

 

[iDJ]

Anyone know why Sony Sports all channels price remains like Premium, doesn't offer low price channels. even new channel Sports18 price affordable, but Sony Sports channels Price is too much if they reduce price more people will subscribe their channels and watching their channels live sports events.

It's deliberately like that because of sports bouquet. But I agree with you they need to honestly price their channels specially SD ones. People watching WWE would rather watch bits of WWE on youtube than be willing to pay ₹19 for same. Anything over ₹10 is too much.

 

[somnath chakraborty]

Let's see what Sports18 will do with below matches

Till april
Barca match at 8:45 and 5th march real Madridatch at 6:30 11th March
Psg match at 9:30 19th March

As wpl only live in sports18 channels ( talking about Sports channel only not regional)

Highest chance la liga 2 matches on mtv but what will happen with psg match will it blockout or sports 18 launch 2 sport's channels before this