Comments on: Why is Ten Sports sitting on so many rights?

By: skimpy

skimpy — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:04:39 +0000

you’re right – they’re trying to stick to events that they can show across asia. only other value thing they have is the english county and australian domesitc stuff. and they have the international stuff in england also.

but still puzzling – that they are everyone’s favoruite broadcaster, own 3 channels and still don’t put antyhing

By: skimpy

skimpy — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:00:45 +0000

is there a DTH provider who provides all sports channels? i don’t mind paying 20 bucks more per month for zee sports, actually.

By: Lord Labak Das

Lord Labak Das — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:09:18 +0000

Maybe ESPN put all the eggs in one big basket and the Mumbai terrorists caused them to drop it.

By: Harish

Harish — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:59:12 +0000

Exactly the same thoughts I had last week. Whatever has happened to ESPN STAR. Clearly they seem to be outbid by all and sundry. Or – they are conceding top billing to NEO Sports thinking that they stick to their Football and leverage on the abundant content they produce for the SE Asian Countries. A decision thanks to the insanely high rates SET seem to pay to win the Timepass events. After the world T20 and India’s tour of Aus, ESPN STAR has not telecast anything majorly of interest to Indian fans (SA VS AUS IN AUS excluded) . Now their position of strength in SA seems to have gone too – with TEN winning it. I thought only pakistan, srilanka and zimbabwe were with TEN. Now they have SA and WI too…
And now ESPN have lost NZ to SET.
What does ESPN STAR have now? Aus and Eng??? Or does bidding happen series by series nowadays???

By: Lord Labak Das

Lord Labak Das — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 06:32:42 +0000

I have Dish. They provide Zee Sports so this isn’t a problem. But Dish doesn’t provide Neo, so we miss all the Test matches that they show (DD takes care of the ODIs) plus any domestic cricket. So I guess everyone has his own woes.