Star Sports (Indian TV network)

Star Sports

Country	India
Network	Star India
Headquarters	Star House, Urmi Estate, 95 Ganpatrao Kadam Marg, Lower Parel (West), Mumbai-400 013, India
Programming
Language(s)	English Malayalam Tamil Telugu Hindi Kannada
Picture format	1080p HDTV, (downscaled to letterboxed 576p for the SDTV feeds)
Ownership
Owner	The Walt Disney Company India
History
Launched	21 August 1991; 30 years ago (21 August 1991)
Former names	Star Sports 1 Prime Sports (1991 – 1996) Star Sports (1996 - 2013) Star Sports 3 Channel V India (1994 - 2018) Star Sports Select 1 and 2 Star Sports Select 1 HD and 2 HD (2016 - 2017) Star Sports 1 HD Star Cricket HD (2011 - 2013) Star Sports 2 HD ESPN HD (2011 - 2013) Star Sports 1 Hindi Star Cricket (2007 - 2013) Star Sports 3 (first incarnation; 2013 - 2017) Star Sports 1 Tamil ESPN (1995 - 2013) Star Sports 4 (2013 - 2017)
Links
Website	Official Website TV Schedule
Availability
Terrestrial
TV Lanka Digital TV (Sri Lanka)	Channel 37 (1 HD) Channel 38 (2 HD)
Cable
Asianet Digital TV	Channel 301 (1) Channel 302 (2) Channel 316 (3) Channel 303 (Select 1) Channel 304 (Select 2) Channel 310 (Hindi 1) Channel 311 (Tamil 1) Channel 315 (First) Channel 809 (1 HD) Channel 810 (2 HD) Channel 811 (Hindi 1 HD) Channel 813 (Select 1 HD) Channel 814 (Select 2 HD)
Kerala Vision Digital TV	Channel 751 (1) Channel 752 (2) Channel 754 (3) Channel 756 (Select 1) Channel 757 (Select 2) Channel 758 (First) Channel 851 (1 HD) Channel 852 (2 HD) Channel 853 (Select 1 HD) Channel 854 (Select 2 HD)
Hathway Digital Cable	Channel 367 (1) Channel 368 (2) Channel 544 (Select 1 HD) Channel 545 (Select 2 HD) Channel 567 (HD1) Channel 568 (HD2) Channel 1130 (1 Telugu)
Satellite
Airtel Digital TV	Channel 277 (1) Channel 278 (1 HD) Channel 279 (2) Channel 280 (2 HD) Channel 306 (3) Channel 283 (Select 1) Channel 300 (Select 1 HD) Channel 284 (Select 2) Channel 301 (Select 2 HD) Channel 303 (First) Channel 281 (1 Hindi) Channel 282 (1 Hindi HD) Channel 738 (Bangla 1) Channel 803 (Tamil 1) Channel 928 (Telugu 1) Channel 974 (Kannada 1)
Dish TV & d2h	Channel 648 (1 HD) Channel 649 (1) Channel 650 (2 HD) Channel 651 (2) Channel 665 (3) Channel 620 (Hindi 1 HD) Channel 621 (Hindi 1) Channel 660 (Select 1 HD) Channel 661 (Select 1) Channel 624 (Select 2 HD) Channel 625 (Select 2) Channel 2951 (1 Tamil) Channel 2433 (1 Telugu) Channel 2675 (1 Kannada) Channel 627 (First)
Tata Sky	Channel 454 (1 HD) Channel 455 (1) Channel 456 (2 HD) Channel 457 (2) Channel 458 (3) Channel 463 (Select 1 HD) Channel 464 (Select 1) Channel 465 (Select 2 HD) Channel 466 (Select 2) Channel 497 (First) Channel 459 (Hindi 1 HD) Channel 460 (Hindi 1) Channel 1350 (Bangla 1) Channel 1551 (Tamil 1) Channel 1446 (Telugu 1) Channel 1645 (Kannada 1)
Sun Direct TV	Channel 500 (1) Channel 972 (1 HD) Channel 501 (2) Channel 974 (2 HD) Channel 510 (3) Channel 508 (1 Select) Channel 987 (1 Select HD) Channel 511 (2 Select) Channel 988 (2 Select HD) Channel 504 (First) Channel 517 (1 Hindi) Channel 985 (1 Hindi HD) Channel 513 (1 Tamil) Channel 515 (1 Telugu) Channel 516 (1 Kannada) Channel 520 (1 Bangla)
Zuku TV (Kenya)	Channel 958 (1) Channel 959 (2) Channel 960 (3) Channel 961 (Select 1) Channel 962 (Select 2)
Siti Networks	Channel 473 (1) Channel 474 (2) Channel 475 (1 Hindi) Channel 476 (Select 1) Channel 485 (Select 2) Channel 973 (1 HD) Channel 974 (2 HD) Channel 975 (Hindi 1 HD) Channel 489 (Telugu 1) Channel 978 (Select 1 HD) Channel 979 (Select 2 HD)
Dialog TV (Sri Lanka)	Channel 73 (1) Channel 74 (2) Channel 75 (Select 1) Channel 130 (1 HD) Channel 132 (Select 1 HD) Channel 133 (Select 2 HD)
PEO TV	Channel 41 (1) Channel 40 (2) Channel 39 (Select 1) Channel 143 (Select 1 HD) Channel 144 (Select 2 HD)
Streaming media
Hotstar	(India, Canada, United States, United Kingdom and parts of Southeast Asia)

Star Sports (Formerly ESPN Star Sports) is a group of Indian multinational pay television sports channels owned by Star India, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company India. Previously a part of ESPN Star Sports with its operations based in Singapore, Star India took over the Indian business and relaunched channels under the unified Star Sports brand in 2013. Star Sports is the official broadcaster of Indian cricket.

History[]

Hong Kong-based Star TV launched Prime Sports (later renamed Star Sports) in partnership with American company TCI, which owned Prime-branded regional sports channels. The channel was broadcast across Asia, including India, as with the footprint of AsiaSat 7. Star TV has since regionalized the channel with several versions. Later, ESPN joined the region as a competitor to Star Sports.

ESPN and Star Sports were competing against each other across Asia.^[1] But in October 1996, both channels have agreed to combine their operations in the region.^[2] As a result, a joint venture named ESPN Star Sports was formed, to be headquartered in Singapore.^[3] The joint venture's business in India was managed by its subsidiary, ESPN Software India Private Limited.

In June 2012, it was announced that News Corporation would buy ESPN International's share in ESPN Star Sports.^[4][5] In 2013, Star India acquired ESPN Software India from ESPN Star Sports,^[6] but kept ESPN brand for a while.^[7] ESPN International later established a partnership with what is now Sony Pictures Networks India in October 2015, and relaunched Sony Kix as Sony ESPN in January 2016. Sony ESPN was shut down in March 2020.

On 11 March 2013, Star Sports 2, a Hindi language sports channel, was launched as a sister channel to Star Sports, Star Cricket and ESPN.^[8]

On 6 November 2013, Star India relaunched its sports channels under Star Sports brand: Star Sports became Star Sports 1; Star Cricket became Star Sports 3, a Hindi language channel; ESPN became Star Sports 4, a Tamil language channel; Star Cricket HD and ESPN HD became Star Sports HD1 and HD2 respectively.^[9][10] (Star Sports 3 and 4 were later renamed Star Sports 1 Hindi and 1 Tamil, respectively.) This was in contrast to Hong Kong, Taiwan and Southeast Asia, where Fox International Channels Asia Pacific relaunched ESPN as Fox Sports on 28 January 2013,^[11][12] and rebranded Star Sports as Fox Sports 2 on 15 August 2014.^[13][14]

Star India planned to replace the troubled Channel V India with Star Sports 1 Kannada on 16 November 2017, but the delay in regulatory approval meant the plan was postponed. Later, Star India replaced Channel V into the current iteration of Star Sports 3 on 15 September 2018,^{[15][16][17][18]} and launched Star Sports 1 Telugu and Star Sports 1 Kannada as new channels on 7 and 29 December 2018, respectively.^[19][20] In the meantime, the Kannada commentary of Star Sports' coverage of Indian Premier League was broadcast on Star Suvarna.^[21] Sanjog Gupta is the CEO of Star Sports.^[22]

Channels[]

Defunct Channels[]

Programming[]

Sports events rights acquired by Star Sports and Star Sports Select:

International Badminton[]

Country Professional Badminton Leagues[]

Events	Host	Channels	Streaming
Premier Badminton League	India	Star Sports Select 1 (In English) Star Sports Select 1 HD (In English) Star Sports Select 2 (In English) Star Sports Select 2 HD (In English)	Disney+ Hotstar (India Only)

Domestic Cricket[]

Events	Host	Channels	Streaming
Ranji Trophy	India	Star Sports 1 (In English and Hindi) Star Sports 1 HD (In English and Hindi Final Star Sports 2 (In English and Hindi) Star Sports 2 HD (In English and Hindi)	Disney+ Hotstar (India Only)
Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy	India	Star Sports 1 (In English And Hindi) Star Sports 1 HD (In English And Hindi)	Disney+ Hotstar (India Only)
CSA T20 Challenge	South Africa	Star Sports Select 2 (In English) Star Sports Select 2 HD (In English)	Disney+ Hotstar (India Only)

Domestic Cricket Leagues[]

Events	Host	Channels	Streaming
Tamil Nadu Premier League 2022 Tamil Nadu Premier League	India	Star Sports 1 (In English) Star Sports 1 HD (In English) Star Sports 1 Tamil Star Sports 1 Tamil HD	Disney+ Hotstar (India Only)

International Cricket[]

Continental Football[]

• India national football team
• Intercontinental Cup
• Indian Super League
• AIFF Super Cup
• AFC Asian Cup qualification
• AFC Asian Cup
• Premier League
• AFC Cup (Matches of Indian Clubs)
• AFC Champions League (Matches of Indian Clubs)

International Hockey[]

• Hockey India League
• Hockey World League
• World Cup
• Women's World Cup
• Hockey Asia Cup
• Sultan Azlan Shah Cup
• Champions Trophy

Motorsport[]

Country Professional Kabaddi Leagues[]

Events	Host	Channels	Streaming
Pro Kabaddi 2021–22 Pro Kabaddi League season	India	Star Sports First (In Hindi) Star Sports 1 (In English) Star Sports 1 HD (In English) Star Sports 2 (In English) Star Sports 2 HD (In English) Star Sports 1 Hindi Star Sports 1 Hindi HD Star Sports 1 Kannada Star Sports 1 Tamil Star Sports 1 Tamil HD Star Sports 1 Telugu Star Sports 1 Telugu HD	Disney+ Hotstar (India Only)

Mixed Martial Arts[]

Events	Host	Channels	Streaming
ONE Championship	Singapore	Star Sports Select 2 (In English) Star Sports Select 2 HD (In English)	Hotstar (India Only)

Country Grand Slam Tennis[]

Country Professional Baseball[]

Events	Host	Channels	Streaming
Major League Baseball	Canada  United States	Star Sports Select 1 (In English) Star Sports Select 1 HD (In English) Star Sports Select 2 (In English) Star Sports Select 2 HD (In English)	Disney+ Hotstar (India Only)

Extra Shows[]

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Extra Shows for entertainment of fans air on this channel which showcase highlights of the matches and info of certain teams. They include-Star Sports Cricket Live, Football United Live, KBD live, Matchday Live, Cricket Countdown, Close Encounters, Epic Comebacks, Game Plan, Follow The Blues, Knight Club,MI TV, The Super Kings Show, Inside RCB, Yeh Hain Nayi Dilli, Total KBD Raid On, Total KBD Heroes, ISL Countdown.^{[original research?]}

See also[]

• Fox Sports Asia (formerly ESPN Star Sports)

References[]

External links[]

• Official website