Tata IPL 2023 | Star Sports Network | March 31st

[The Lonelier Island]

STAR bids too high for TV, but if they lost TV rights, then their regional sports channels in trouble with limited cricket content.

Before Viacom entered the race. It was Star who had streaming and broadcasting rights of big 3 BCCI, ICC and IPL. They were the ones increasing the worth of cricket rights every cycle. Other's couldn't even matched it. They overpaid so much. They couldn't even afford to retain the rights while feeding highlights most of the airtime to viewers. Sure sports is hard business to make money make back. It wasn't same back when Sony, Star, Ten and Nimbus had different rights.

 

[The Lonelier Island]

As streaming have high popularity, so OTTs are to invest more in IT infrastructure than Satellite tv.

This is why I am glad IPL moved out of outdated streamer. You cannot give a premium event to a platform still living in the late 2000s.

 

[Ashok Varma]

Wrong buddy. This year Jio/Reliance did indeed pay a very high amount for acquiring digital rights of IPL as they even acquired for non exclusive matches bouquet apart from regular rights but TV rights costs remains to be equally high. You can compare the same. TV still remains the mass and most popular medium to watch content in India

Jio can be match digital rights acquisition cost with its wireless broadband with 5G and fiber broadband expansion in coming years, but STAR has troubles with TRAI's new NTOs year by year.

 

[dino29]

The way 4 boxes showing
Apart from stats feed all are feel will be highlights no live content feed / real time feed
Which is star sports is master of giving ipl highlights

They will providing key moments, match highlights feed for ongoing match which is a good thing. Multi camera angle feature might also be available for live feed if not on regular channel then atleast on Star Sports 4K

 

[The Lonelier Island]

These big broacasters use to create monopolies. Once some small leagues or sporting event got famous in likes of Neo Sports. They would acquire it. Now that Neo has shutdown. They won't even touch the same property until Viacom returned.

 

[dino29]

Jio can be match digital rights acquisition cost with its wireless broadband with 5G and fiber broadband expansion in coming years, but STAR has troubles with TRAI's new NTOs year by year.

Knock Knock....Disney+Hotstar is No. 1 OTT platform and surely they r adopting right strategy for constant growth / expansion. On TV front too Disney-Star is on top so they know very well how to run both businesses in most effective and productive manner.

Jio/Reliance ofcourse can leverage its telecom business to increase reach of its OTT platform but it does not mean that Disney+Hotstar cannot scale up its business matching up with Jio on Digital front....already Disney+Hotstar has the best content, distribution and promotional strategies which helps them attract subscribers from customer base of various telecom/broadband service providers

 

[dino29]

This is why I am glad IPL moved out of outdated streamer. You cannot give a premium event to a platform still living in the late 2000s.

Disney+Hotstar provided excellent coverage of IPL...no way it can be termed outdated. We have already discussed why 4K coverage was not introduced earlier for IPL on their OTT platform

 

[Ashok Varma]

Knock Knock....Disney+Hotstar is No. 1 OTT platform and surely they r adopting right strategy for constant growth / expansion. On TV front too Disney-Star is on top so they know very well how to run both businesses in most effective and productive manner.

Jio/Reliance ofcourse can leverage its telecom business to increase reach of its OTT platform but it does not mean that Disney+Hotstar cannot scale up its business matching up with Jio on Digital front....already Disney+Hotstar has the best content, distribution and promotional strategies which helps them attract subscribers from customer base of various telecom/broadband service providers

If D+HS lost BCCI rights, then half of their subscribers ditch its service, mostly mobile users, who are with bundled prepaid plans.

 

[dino29]

Before Viacom entered the race. It was Star who had streaming and broadcasting rights of big 3 BCCI, ICC and IPL. They were the ones increasing the worth of cricket rights every circle. Other's couldn't even matched it. They overpaid so much. They couldn't even afford to retain the rights while feeding highlights most of the airtime to viewers. Sure sports is a business. It's hard to make money make. It wasn't same back when Sony, Star, Ten and Nimbus had different rights.

Bcoz earlier times were different and we have had discussions on the same. No comparison can b drawn. BCCI, IPL, ICC cricket draws huge viewership hence their rights cost more and broadcasters/OTT platforms r willing to pay the same but as i have said this surely needs some correction and needs to brought down so as to reduce monetary burden/pressure on broadcasters to recover investment and for them to invest more in acquiring other sports rights

 

[Ashok Varma]

Disney+Hotstar provided excellent coverage of IPL...no way it can be termed outdated. We have already discussed why 4K coverage was not introduced earlier for IPL on their OTT platform

Amazon Prime Video gives best coverage with just 2022-23 NZC cricket season than D+HS for last 5 years.