STAR Sports Unleashes a Summer Sports Bonanza for Fans in June

[M.J.Sadiq]

-- Broadcaster announces acquisition of TV rights of FIFA Confederations Cup Brazil 2013

-- Live and exclusive coverage of Wimbledon 2013 will see more matches featuring the world’s best tennis stars through a dual feed on STAR Sports 2 and ESPN

-- Network will also cover live action from ICC Champions Trophy Cricket 2013, British and Canadian Formula One Grand Prix events, MotoGP, 2013 US Open Golf Championship & FIFA Asian Qualifiers

The heat is well and truly on for all sports fans this summer as STAR Sports announced a glittering array of top notch sporting events across its network of SD and HD channels all through the month of June. With the biggest event in the ICC calendar - the ICC Champions Trophy 2013 already underway in England, the network also announced today the acquisition of the TV rights for the FIFA Confederations Cup Brazil 2013 which kicks off from June 15 in Brazil. The third week of the month will also see the Championships at Wimbledon live and exclusive on the network. The sports broadcaster will showcase thrilling motor-racing action from the British and Canadian Formula One Grand Prix races and the Moto GP. The month will be rounded off with live action from the FIFA Asian Football Qualifiers and the much awaited golf major – the 2013 US Open Golf Championship.

The acquisition of broadcast rights of FIFA Confederations Cup Brazil 2013, brings to soccer fans live action from the world’s second most important men’s global football competition. The event, to be played from June 15-30, will bring together the strongest international teams in world football to play in Brazil, one year ahead of 2014 FIFA World Cup. All the 16 matches of this marquee tournament will be broadcast live on STAR Sports and ESPN.

The line-up of countries includes hosts Brazil - FIFA World Cup Champion; Champion of UEFA region - Spain; Mexico - Champion of CONCACAF region; Uruguay - Champion of CONMEBOL region; Japan - Champion of AFC region; Nigeria - Champion of CAF region; Italy - Runner-up of UEFA region and Tahiti - Champion of OFC region.

STAR Sports further announced the live & exclusive coverage of The Championships at Wimbledon 2013 on ESPN and STAR Sports 2, starting June 24. This coverage is going to be unprecedented as for the first time in Indian television tennis fans will get to see the largest number of matches across two channels. Through this dual offering the network will showcase almost 150 hours of live coverage this year. With a star-studded expert panel featuring Vijay Amritraj and Alan Wilkins the coverage of Wimbledon 2013 is poised to usher in a new viewing experience for fans nationwide.

Live action from ICC Champions Trophy 2013 has already started with the kick-off matches. STAR Sports 2 will broadcast the biggest event in the ICC calendar in 2013 in Hindi while STAR Cricket & STAR Cricket HD will showcase the tournament with English commentary. The sports channels have also added telecast innovations like UltraCam and StarCam 360 within the live program taking cricket viewing to a whole new level. For the first time, STAR Cricket HD will also broadcast the ICC Champions Trophy 2013 with Dolby Digital Plus Surround Sound technology.

Speaking on the occasion, Vijay Rajput, Chief Operating Officer, ESPN Software India Pvt. Ltd., “We are incredibly proud and happy to present this mouth-watering array of premium sporting content in the month of June which will keep sports fans glued to their TV sets. With such premium sporting action across sporting genres, our aim is to take the viewership of sports to a whole new level – be it through our quality of talent, look and feel of the presentation or through innovative production led enhancements which help in creating an immersive experience for sports fans.”

The services of all these channels are available with leading DTH operators and MSOs like Airtel Digital TV, Videocon d2h, Reliance Digital TV, TATA Sky, Sun Direct, Hathway, DEN, DIGICABLE, INCABLE and GTPL among others.

ESPN, Star Sports, FIFA Confederations Cup Brazil 2013, Wimbledon 2013, ICC Champions Trophy Cricket 2013, Vijay Rajput

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[Karthik]

Enjoy sports fans.

 

[mussu-100]

Maybe Star Sports 2 will finally be added on D2H and DishTV for Wimbledon....

 

[Karthik]

Another cut off date fixed for dish tv ?

 

[Prashant Shridhar]

What will other broadcaster do in summer.
They will make rainy season by their eyes.

 

[M.J.Sadiq]

STAR launches dual feeds for three of its major events

The network has acquired exclusive television broadcast rights of FIFA Confederations Cup Brazil 2013, which will be telecast on STAR Sports and ESPN (parallel matches).
STAR India's sports network that now has six channels has announced that it will telecast dual feeds for three of the major sporting events coming up in the month of June. The Wimbledon 2013 (considered as the oldest tennis championship in the world), FIFA Confederations Cup Brazil 2013 (recently acquired sporting event) and FIFA Asian Qualifiers; all these events have parallel events (read matches) going on. Owing to this, the network will telecast dual feeds on two matches.



Wimbledon will be telecast live and exclusive on STAR Sports 2 and ESPN, for its upcoming season (June 24 -July 7). Until the last season, the finale of the event was simulcast on Doordarshan. This year, however, the event remains an exclusive property of ESPN-STAR Sports. With the dual feed plans, the hours of content will be doubled (obviously depending on how long the matches get stretched), thereby doubling the airtime.

On an average, for a tennis match, there is about 10-12 minutes of airtime per hour, although the number of hours per match cannot be pre-decided. Through this dual offering, the network will showcase almost 150 hours of live coverage this year.

The ongoing tennis championship, French Open, is already being telecast on dual feeds on Nimbus sports network's Neo Sports and Neo Prime.

FIFA Confederations Cup Brazil 2013 will also be telecast on STAR Sports and ESPN, with dual feeds to accommodate the parallel matches. The event will start on June, 15 and will go on till June, 30. Apart from this, Asian Qualifiers for 2014 FIFA World Cup will be telecast in dual feed on STAR Sports and STAR Sports 2.

While the network is clearly pushing the newly launched channel, the media observers agree that the network has enough sport content to pump another channel.

The Canadian Grand Prix, as always, will be simulcast on STAR Sports and ESPN HD between June, 7 and June, 9. The network simulcasts many of its major properties on SD and HD channels. The network, like last year, is simulcasting ICC Champions Trophy Cricket 2013 (May 30 - June 23) on STAR Cricket, Star Cricket HD (with English commentary) and STAR Sports 2 (with Hindi Commentary).

MotoGP will be simulcast on STAR Sports and ESPN HD on June, 19. The second day of the race (June, 29) will be telecast only on ESPN. The US Open Golf Championship 2013 will be simulcast on ESPN and ESPN HD between June, 10 and June, 16. The British Grand Prix will be telecast on ESPN.

The line-up of countries in the newly acquired event, FIFA Confederations Cup Brazil 2013 includes hosts Brazil and Spain, along with Mexico, Uruguay, Japan, Nigeria, Italy and Tahiti.

In an official communiqué, Vijay Rajput, chief operating officer, ESPN Software India, says, "With such premium sporting action across sporting genres, our aim is to take the viewership of sports to a whole new level - be it through our quality of talent, look and feel of the presentation or through innovative production-led enhancements which help in creating an immersive experience for sports fans."

All these sports channels from the STAR network are available on leading DTH operators and MSOs like Airtel Digital TV, Videocon D2H, Reliance Digital TV, Tata Sky, Sun Direct, Hathway, Den, Digicable, Incable and GTPL, among others.


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[Karthik]

Whether FIFA confederations cup is in HD or not ?

 

[M.J.Sadiq]

It is not clear from this news article.. Mostly they will telecast in HD.. But, they mentioned HD telecast specifically for Canadian Grand Prix, Moto GP and US Open Golf..

Wimbledon and FIFA are having a overlap of 6 days whereas the other events are not overlapping with any other events.. Hopefully they will telecast both Wimbledon and FIFA in HD. Not sure during the overlap days..

 

[Karthik]

But FIFA matches starting late md.nt at 12.30 am & 3.30 am.
So they can manage , i think

 

[M.J.Sadiq]

Then fine bro.. Enjoy the FIFA in HD...