Star Sports (Indian TV network)

Star Sports
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Launched	21 August 1993
Owned by	Star India; (The Walt Disney Company India)
Picture format	1080i HDTV; (downscaled to letterboxed 576i for the SDTV feeds)
Slogan	Believe
Country	India
Language	English; Hindi; Tamil; Telugu; Malayalam; Kannada; Bengali; Marathi
Broadcast area	India, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka
Headquarters	Star House, Urmi Estate, 95 Ganpatrao Kadam Marg, Lower Parel (West), Mumbai-400 013, India
Formerly called	<templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/> Star Sports 1 Prime Sports (1991 – 1995); Star Sports (1995 - 2013); Star Sports 3 Channel V India (1994 - 2018); Star Sports Select 1 and 2 Star Sports Select HD1 and HD2 (2016 - 2017); Star Sports HD1 Star Cricket HD (2011 - 2013); Star Sports HD2 ESPN HD (2011 - 2013); Star Sports 1 Hindi Star Cricket (2007 - 2013); Star Sports 3; (2013 - 2017); Star Sports ESPN (1995 - 2013); Star Sports 4 (2013 - 2017);
Website	hotstar.com/sports
Availability
Terrestrial
TV Lanka Digital TV (Sri Lanka)	Channel 37 (1 HD); Channel 38 (2 HD)
Satellite
d2h	Channel 401 (1); Channel 923 (1 HD); Channel 403 (2); Channel 924 (2 HD); Channel 405 (Hindi 1); Channel 925 (Hindi 1 HD); Channel 409 (Tamil 1); Channel 929 (Select 1 HD); Channel 930 (Select 2 HD); Channel 431 (Star Sports First)
Dish TV	Channel 607 (Hindi 1); Channel 603 (1); Channel 605 (2); Channel 650 (3); Channel 602 (1 HD); Channel 604 (2 HD); Channel 606 (Hindi 1 HD); Channel 645 (Select 1 HD); Channel 646 (Select 2 HD); Channel 2410 (Star Sports First)
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)
Tata Sky	Channel 454 (1 HD); Channel 455 (1); Channel 456 (2 HD); Channel 457 (2); Channel 458 (3); Channel 459 (1 Hindi HD); Channel 460 (1 Hindi); Channel 463 (Select 1 HD); Channel 464 (Select 1); Channel 465 (Select 2 HD); Channel 466 (Select 2); Channel 497 (Star Sports First); Channel 1421 (1 Telugu); Channel 1516 (1 Tamil); Channel 1638 (1 Kannada)
Independent TV	Channel 516 (3); Channel 502 (2); Channel 501 (1); Channel 501 (1 Tamil); Channel 515 (Select 1); Channel 521 (1 HD); Channel 522 (2 HD); Channel 525 (Select 1 HD); Channel 526 (Select 2 HD)
DD Free Dish	Channel 77 (Star Sports First)
UCS (Bangladesh)	Channel 3
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 978 (Select 1 HD); Channel 979 (Select 2 HD)
Sun Direct TV	Channel 513 (1 Kannada); Channel 511 (1 Telugu); Channel 504 (1 Tamil); Channel 503 (1 Hindi); Channel 500 (1); Channel 502 (2); Channel 972 (1 HD); Channel 974 (2 HD); Channel 987 (Select 1 HD)
Airtel Digital TV	Channel 277 (1); Channel 278 (1 HD); Channel 279 (2); Channel 280 (2 HD); Channel 281 (1 Hindi); Channel 282 (1 Hindi HD); Channel 283 (Select 1); Channel 284 (Select 2); Channel 306 (3); Channel 803 (1 Tamil); Channel 300 (Select 1 HD); Channel 301 (Select 2 HD); Channel 303 (Star Sports First)
Dish Home (Nepal)	Channel 600 (1); Channel 940 (1 HD); Channel 941 (2 HD); Channel 944 (Select 1 HD); Channel 945 (Select 2 HD)
Cable
Hathway Digital Cable	Channel 367 (1); Channel 368 (2); Channel 567 (HD1); Channel 568 (HD2); Channel 544 (Select 1 HD); Channel 545 (Select 2 HD)
Asianet Digital TV	Channel 301 (1); Channel 302 (2); Channel 316 (3); Channel 310 (1 Hindi); Channel 311 (1 Tamil); Channel 809 (1 HD); Channel 810 (2 HD); Channel 811 (1 Hindi HD); Channel 303 (Select 1); Channel 304 (Select 2); Channel 813 (Select 1 HD); Channel 814 (Select 2 HD); Channel 315 (Star Sports First)
MediaNet (Maldives)	Channel 304 (1); Channel 300 (2); Channel 301 (Premier League)
IPTV
PEO TV (Sri Lanka)	Channel 41 (1); Channel 40 (2); Channel 39 (Select 1)
APSFL (Andhra pradesh)	Channel 328 (HD)
Net TV Nepal	Channel 510 (1 HD); Channel 511 (2 HD); Channel 512 (1 HD Hindi); Channel 513 (Select 1 HD); Channel 514 (Select 2 HD); Channel 515 (Select 1 SD); Channel 516 (Select 2 SD); Channel 524 (1 SD); Channel 526 (3 SD)
Streaming media
Hotstar	(India only)

Star Sports (formerly ESPN Star Sports) is a group of Indian pay television sports channels owned by Star India, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company India. Previously a part of ESPN Star Sports operations based in Singapore, Star India took over the Indian business and relaunched channels under the unified Star Sports banner in 2013. Gautam Thakar is the CEO of Star Sports.

Star Sports is one of the popular sports channels across India.

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 1. Star TV have since regionalised the channel with a number of versions. Later, ESPN have joined in the region as a competitor to Star Sports.

ESPN and Star Sports were competing 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 Six as Sony ESPN in January 2016.)

On 11 March 2013, Star Sports 2 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 with the new 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 2018 Indian Premier League was broadcast on Star Suvarna.^[21]. Gautam Thakar is the CEO of Star Sports.^[22]

*indicates the channel is also available in HD.

Programming

Sporting events covered by Star Sports include:

Cricket

Event	Channel(s)
ICC Events (2015-2023) Cricket World Cup T20 World Cup	Star Sports 1 (In English) Star Sports 1 HD (In English) Star Sports 1 Hindi Star Sports 1 HD Hindi Star Sports 1 Tamil Star Sports 1 Telugu Star Sports 1 Kannada Star Sports 1 Bangla Star Sports 1 Marathi
Indian Premier League (2018-2022)^[24]^[25]^[26]	Star Sports 1 (In English) Star Sports 1 HD (In English) Star Sports Select 1 (In English) Star Sports Select 1 HD (In English) Star Sports 1 Hindi Star Sports 1 HD Hindi Star Sports 1 Tamil Star Sports 1 Telugu Star Sports 1 Kannada Star Sports 1 Bangla Asianet Plus Star sports 1 marathi
International cricket in India (2018-2023)^[27]	Star Sports 1 (In English) Star Sports 1 HD (In English) Star Sports 1 Hindi Star Sports 1 HD Hindi Star Sports 1 Tamil Star Sports 1 Telugu Star Sports 1 Kannada
Asia Cup (2016-2023)	Star Sports 1 (In English) Star Sports 1 HD (In English) Star Sports 1 Hindi Star Sports 1 HD Hindi Star Sports 1 Tamil Star Sports 1 Telugu Star Sports 1 Kannada Star Sports 1 Bangla
International cricket in Bangladesh (2014-2020)	Star Sports 1 (In English) Star Sports 1 HD (In English) Star Sports 1 Hindi Star Sports 1 HD Hindi Star Sports 1 Tamil Non-Indian matches 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)
International cricket in New Zealand (2017-2020)^[28]^[29]	Star Sports 1 (In English) Star Sports 1 HD (In English) Star Sports 1 Hindi Star Sports 1 Telugu Star Sports 1 HD Hindi Star Sports 1 Tamil Non-Indian matches 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)
Ranji Trophy (2018-2023)	Star Sports 1 (in English and Hindi) Final Star Sports 2 (in English and Hindi)
Tamil Nadu Premier League (2016-2020)	Star Sports 1 (In English) Star Sports 1 HD (In English) Star Sports 1 Tamil
Karnataka Premier League (2017-2019)	Star Sports 2 (In English) Star Sports 2 HD (In English) Star Sports 1 Kannada
Global T20 Canada (2018)^[30]	Star Sports 2 (In English) Star Sports 2 HD (In English)
Caribbean Premier League (2018,2019)^[31]	Star Sports 2 (In English) Star Sports 2 HD (In English)

Football

Hockey

Motor Racing

Event	Channel(s)
Formula One	Star Sports Select 1 (In English) Star Sports Select 2 (In English)

Tennis

Event	Channel(s)
French Open	Star Sports Select 1 (In English) Star Sports Select 2 (In English)
Wimbledon	Star Sports Select 1 (In English) Star Sports Select 2 (In English)
US Open	Star Sports Select 1 (In English) Star Sports Select 2 (In English)

Badminton

Event	Channel(s)
Badminton World Federation	Star Sports 2 (In English)

Kabaddi

Event	Channel(s)
Pro Kabaddi	Star Sports First (In Hindi) Star Sports 1 (In English) Star Sports 1 HD (In English) Star Sports 1 Tamil Star Sports 1 Telugu Star Sports 1 Marathi Star Sports 1 Hindi Star Sports 1 Hindi HD

MMA

Event	Channel(s)
ONE Championship	Star Sports Select 2 (In English)

Extra Shows

Extra Shows for entertainment of fans air on this channel which showcase highlights of the matches and info of certain teams. They include- Vivo IPL Cricket Countdown, Close Encounters and Epic Comebacks in the IPL, Inside RCB, MI TV and The Super Kings Show.

References

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External links

Sports at Hotstar

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Star Sports (Indian TV network)

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Football

Hockey

Motor Racing

Tennis

Badminton

Kabaddi

MMA

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References

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