Good News Sports18 2, Sports18 3 Launching on 1st November

[IMprabhu7193]

Syed Mushtaq Ali starting on OCT 16. Surprised they lanching on NOV 1. QF starting 2nd Nov. That might be the Plan.

 

[sathishbabu4u]

sports 18 khel is thr to telecast syed mushtaq ali

 

[bhushan999]

sports 18 khel is thr to telecast syed mushtaq ali

Not on private DTH

 

[sathishbabu4u]

Not on private DTH

Already Irani trophy telecasted in khel , so Viacom planned domestic matches in khel channel irrespective it is reaching to public or not. Either BCCI / Viacom care about domestic match reaching to public

 

[dino29]

Not on private DTH

I think it will be added soon on pay tv platforms, already they aired India Vs Australia series on Colors Cineplex Superhits thereby giving both DD Free Dish & Pay TV Platform subscribers access to it hence not keeping the exclusivity to Pay TV Platforms.....This is a good strategy as instead of getting 75% share of revenue from Doordarshan for airing matches on terrestrial and DD Free Dish platform, they r directly airing it on their channel thereby attracting advertisers directly to their channel and gaining in revenue as Pay TV chs do score over DD in overall broadcast quality of sports events

There is no such risk of large number of people ditching their pay tv connection and shifting to DD Free Dish as a result of sports broadcasters following above strategy rather it will help expand their revenues....Star Sports should have implemented same for the ongoing ICC Cricket World Cup by launching Star Sports First on DD Free Dish platform and even air select IPL matches on it. People will upgrade to Pay TV Platforms for various other reasons if content aired on channels is good, broadcasters should focus on this aspect.

Already we have seen that in OTT space Free Viewing has help enable expand reach and revenue via ads by huge margin for various OTT platforms

 

[hike]

SunDirect will add it's HD version first.

 

[JollyLNB]

SunDirect will add it's HD version first.

No HD version planned for these channels. Since a Hindi channel is involved, Sun Direct may be reluctant to add it. It still doesn’t have Sony Sports Ten 3 HD.

 

[praks001]

HD counterparts should be launched too!

 

[sinhasameer]

First they should launch HD HINDI SPORTS channel. As no one is interested in watching sports in SD quality.

 

[hike]

Sony Sports Ten 3 HD.

Actually, Reliance channel got special space at SunDirect. Previously, Sun was first to add Sports18 1HD