Star Sports Network

Star Sports
Type Television Network
Country India
First air date
 1 January 1994
Availability Asia
Founded 1 January 1994 (as ESPN STAR Sports)
2013 (as Star Sports Network)
Slogan indian fever
Headquarters Noida
Owner 21st Century Fox
(STAR TV and Fox International Channels Asia)
Key people
 Peter Hutton
Launch date
 1 January 1994
Official website
 Official website

Star Sports Network (previously known as ESPN STAR Sports or ESS) is a sports broadcasting network owned by 21st Century Fox through its subsidiaries STAR TV and Fox International Channels. It was formed as ESPN STAR Sports, a joint venture between ESPN Inc. (jointly owned by The Walt Disney Company and Hearst Corporation, and through ESPN International, which it directly owns,) and News Corporation in 1994. News Corporation acquired Disney's stake in the company in 2012 and Manu Sawhney was replaced by Peter Hutton as the CEO.[1]

It operates 25 STAR Sports branded Television networks and 3 broadband sports networks throughout Asia, transmitting in 5 languages (English, Cantonese, Hindi, Korean and Mandarin). The networks broadcast various local and international sporting events. STAR Sports launched STAR Sports Thailand on Monday 4 August 2008 exclusively for Thai viewers.

ESPN STAR Sports also has Asia's leading Events Management team that has been successfully staging large-scale sporting events across Asia. The event management team is a completely integrated events group that manages concept creation, sponsorship, marketing, PR, TV broadcast, operations, and logistics for clients. Events currently in their portfolio include the X Games Asia, 9 Ball Tour, KL World 5's Futsal, Cartier Polo, Formula Drift Singapore, Nations Cup Netball, Indian Hockey League and World Pool Championship. In 2012, ESPN STAR Sports was the official broadcaster of 2012 Summer Olympics.

History

ESPN STAR is famed for their being Asia's largest broadcaster of the English FA Premier League with commentators like John Dykes and a host of former Premier league players as guests and pundits on the shows.[2]

ESPN STAR Sports (ESS) via its STAR Cricket channel was the official broadcaster of the 2011 Cricket World Cup Final experienced all-time high viewership (67.6 million only on Cable and satellite) and TRPs, and had raised ad rates for 10 second slots during the finals to ₹2 million (US$29,000), prior to the finals.[3][4][5]

List of channels

Screenshot from ESPN Asia with the new Station ID
Screenshot from ESPN Philippines with the new Station ID

Operating channels

Defunct channels

Digital platforms

Programs broadcast by ESPN STAR Sports

It is important to note that broadcast rights for various sports properties contain territorial limitations and in a lot of instances, the rights indicated below may not pertain to all territories in which ESPN STAR Sports operates.

Multi-sport event

Cricket (Star Sports 3)

Motorsports

Baseball

Basketball

Extreme sports

Association football

Tennis

Golf

Mixed martial arts

News

See also

References

  1. ↑ "News Corp to buy out ESPN from ESS, Sawhney to leave". The Hindu (Chennai, India). 6 June 2012.
  2. ↑ http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-fc/liverpool-fc-news/2007/03/09/opportunity-knocks-for-reds-in-asia-100252-18728585/
  3. ↑ "TV viewership at all-time high during climactic final". Business Standard. 4 April 2011.
  4. ↑ "World Cup win shatters all records as 67.6mn tune in". Hindustan Times. 3 April 2011.
  5. ↑ "CWC final 2011: World Cup final viewership broke records, 67.6 million watched it". Economics Times. 3 April 2011. Archived from the original on 17 October 2012.
  6. ↑ http://www.thefa.com/TheFACup/More/TV
  7. ↑ http://www.thefa.com/TheFACup/More/TV
  8. ↑ http://www.thefa.com/TheFACup/More/TV
  9. ↑ http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/espn-star-sports-scoresthree-year-deal-for-spanish-la-liga-rights/439919/

External links

Pay TV channels and networks based or exclusive in the Philippines
ABS-CBN Global Ltd./ABS-CBN Cable Channels (ABS-CBN)
Solar Entertainment Corporation
Viva Communications
Cignal/TV5 (MediaQuest)
Fox International Channels Philippines
GMA Worldwide
Religious
Regional
Others
Philippine-only feed
Defunct/Inactive
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