Star India buys Indian cricket rights for USD 944 million [Update Post #169]

[IndianFan2018]

Doesn't look like a good deal though. Isn't the public into Tests?
I'd rather it be Tests than ODI's. What do Indians make of this deal?

Tests is for purist mostly they watch paid TV channels.. DD is watched in very smaller and remote villages. Unlike SENA fans most SC fans prefer LOI over Tests (of course like me many do prefer Tests, but we are minority )

 

[navin]

Lol you guys are spoilt, it's not fair. Seems to me like India is a well run country by competent people, putting the needs of the public first. Keep it up guys

move to India then

 

[cricketjoshila]

If by Tvs you mean competition as with Skysports (owned by Sky plc) vs BT sports (BT consumer) in the UK, we don't have that in South Africa. There's only one satellite tv company in the country (in fact Sub-Saharan Africa), that's DSTV owned Multichoice. Multichoice is a subsidiary of Naspers

Naspers own everything really, print and digital media.

For $62 we get to watch everything, sport, music, movies, discovery channels including Nat geo, News: CNN, Sky News, RT, CNBC everything including local news channels. We have about 300 channels.

We're on the loop really, there's no pay per view either. We watched the Manny vs Mayweather fight at no extra cost.

And yes there's the Internet too. Like I said, it's a monopoly they are dominant. They shut down channels as they please, like ESPN.

I meant how many television sets you can get connected for $62?

So $62 also includes internet.

 

[cricketjoshila]

For $13 you get 1GB of data, and that's expected to last you a month )

MTN is that expensive? Why?

 

[Gubol123]

This is incredible, an annual income of $8k is ~R108k (local currency). Therefore a household of 4/3 can't afford a premium subscription R809 p/m ($62). Cost of living in SA is high.

No Cricket or Rugby for them, they get to watch football. Which is available through "Compact" subscription. Even then football is limited to local soccer, the EPL and one selected Champions League fixture.

Hence the misconception that the black population isn't interested in cricket. It's hard to follow a team you see once a year. During our home season millions are interested, but they'll watch at home through the SABC, which always dwarfs Superspot numbers.

Rand real purchasing power has come down in the last few years. One more reason why County/IPL and other T20 league deals look good for SA Players..

Regarding the black community not interested in the game misconception, what you say is true in many places. Most of the marginalized communities actually are more interested in the sports as they see sport as providing a level playing field which they lack in their life.. Most of them also tend to be middle or lower middle class and always look to get value for their money. Unfortunately live sports viewing in most of the third world countries (even in middle income country like SA/China) is very expensive relative to their median income. here in US i can go to a minor league game paying a very reasonable amount (lots of time for me, for a household of four, it is less than one hour of my take home) where as when i go to IPL in India it is like four days wage (again for four of us for for premium seats). That would be even more for a lower middle income household. I know I am comparing a minor league game with IPL, but it is only to point out how easy it is to cheer a local team live. For a basic seat for a ODI against not so fancied side would be less than an hour wage for me in India. They are comparable but quite expensive for lower and even middle income family . So always they prefer to follow on TV. That is one reason why I am so pro free to air channels.. All home games in every country should be on free to air channel. Sky sports monopolizing the cricket in England brought down the overall interest in the game considerably in that country.. So even with bad quality be happy that game is on free to air

 

[cricketjoshila]

[MENTION=132982]soso_killer[/MENTION]

Why are there no competitors to Naspers or MTN? No big foreign companies or even SA companies giving them a run? How is that even possible.

 

[Gubol123]

If by Tvs you mean competition as with Skysports (owned by Sky plc) vs BT sports (BT consumer) in the UK, we don't have that in South Africa. There's only one satellite tv company in the country (in fact Sub-Saharan Africa), that's DSTV owned Multichoice. Multichoice is a subsidiary of Naspers

Naspers own everything really, print and digital media.

For $62 we get to watch everything, sport, music, movies, discovery channels including Nat geo, News: CNN, Sky News, RT, CNBC everything including local news channels. We have about 300 channels.

We're on the loop really, there's no pay per view either. We watched the Manny vs Mayweather fight at no extra cost.

And yes there's the Internet too. Like I said, it's a monopoly they are dominant. They shut down channels as they please, like ESPN.

There is your problem.. There are numerous Direct to Home (DTH) companies in India along with local cable companies. There is also free DTH and lots of online streaming.. So there is lots and lots of competition which keeps the prices down. Once you have monopoly/duopoly the prices rise

Also, India is very vast with so many different kind of consumers.. There is not a single package that for even a city.. ther will be literally 100s of channels in dozens of languages. Most household will choose their local language content (Kannada/Bengali/Tamil/Telugu etc) + Set of Hindi channels + English channels.. they will add other content like sports, children and lifestyle (Discovery, animal planet etc) it gets complicated with vast number of choices. That is the main reason why the prices are low

 

[Eagle_Eye]

All this reported money and yet first class cricketers are not getting paid by bcci... has that situation changed lately?

 

[Gubol123]

Tests is for purist mostly they watch paid TV channels.. DD is watched in very smaller and remote villages. Unlike SENA fans most SC fans prefer LOI over Tests (of course like me many do prefer Tests, but we are minority )

i think the deal includes all home matches including tests... i never watch it on DD so I don't know

 

[Gubol123]

All this reported money and yet first class cricketers are not getting paid by bcci... has that situation changed lately?

that has nothing to do with this money.. or any money. that is due to CoA/BCCI power struggle.. read about it..

 

[Bewal Express]

Good business by the BCCI but what good is the billions after their failure to beat an ageing Saffer team because of poor captaincy and management.

 

[soso_killer]

Good business by the BCCI but what good is the billions after their failure to beat an ageing Saffer team because of poor captaincy and management.

They faced what could arguably be labelled an ATG attack though (especially for these conditions), not even the Australians could cope with lesser challenging conditions. Even though they play in almost similar conditions at home.

Our attack is still good enough to give most teams a hard time, even with our fragile batting. India didn't stand a chance of winning here, especially when AB returned. I did state in the Indian tour to SA thread that the best time to tour SA for all subcontinent sides would be after the WC

 

[Bewal Express]

They faced what could arguably be labelled an ATG attack though (especially for these conditions), not even the Australians could cope with lesser challenging conditions. Even though they play in almost similar conditions at home.

Our attack is still good enough to give most teams a hard time, even with our fragile batting. India didn't stand a chance of winning here, especially when AB returned. I did state in the Indian tour to SA thread that the best time to tour SA for all subcontinent sides would be after the WC

I felt the Saffers were vulnerable and the poor decision making of Kohli and Shastri cost them dearly. A young hungry Ind team should have downed an ageing Saffer team.

 

[soso_killer]

All this reported money and yet first class cricketers are not getting paid by bcci... has that situation changed lately?

https://www.timesofindia.com/sports...-get-100-salary-hike/articleshow/62076522.cms

 

[soso_killer]

I felt the Saffers were vulnerable and the poor decision making of Kohli and Shastri cost them dearly. A young hungry Ind team should have downed an ageing Saffer team.

If Australia can't beat us at home what chance does a subcontinent team have?

I agree Kohli was foolish in not selecting Rahane, or playing a practice match. Perhaps they would not have been 90/7 in three separate innings. But SA would've still won.

 

[Eagle_Eye]

that has nothing to do with this money.. or any money. that is due to CoA/BCCI power struggle.. read about it..

What's stopping them?

They pay international cricketers but not the domestic cricketers...

 

[cricketjoshila]

What's stopping them?

They pay international cricketers but not the domestic cricketers...

The failure to agree.

 

[OoparCut]

If Australia can't beat us at home what chance does a subcontinent team have?

I agree Kohli was foolish in not selecting Rahane, or playing a practice match. Perhaps they would not have been 90/7 in three separate innings. But SA would've still won.

So what's your theory on the ODI series loss by SA to India at home.

 

[Gubol123]

What's stopping them?

They pay international cricketers but not the domestic cricketers...

this is due to stand off between Supreme court and BCCI. SC has appointed a committee to take care of BCCI business until BCCI agrees to implement lodha commission recommendations (these recommendations are not acceptable to many BCCI and state boards). The problem is that the legal grounds on which SC has directed action is itself murky and not easy to enforce. In that stand off the players are being hit

The players pay in domestics consists of both state board amount and a central amount transferred by BCCI. all the state boards have paid their amount to players. Due to the above mentioned stand off CoA has blocked all financial transactions between BCCI and state board which has stopped BCCI from transferring its share of players money to state boards.. So that part of the pay is not paid.. Any state association which has agreed to implement the lodha recommendation has got clearance and got their dues from BCCI. Their domestic players have been paid fully.

 

[soso_killer]

[MENTION=132982]soso_killer[/MENTION]

Why are there no competitors to Naspers or MTN? No big foreign companies or even SA companies giving them a run? How is that even possible.

There's is better competition in the Telecommunications industry.
MTN, Vodacom (now owned by Vodafone), Telkom (partly government owned), and Cell C
These are our network carries.

There's various ISP as well, but our infrastructure is poor, hence data is expensive. I was in Nigeria a few years back, their Internet bandwidth is vastly superior to ours.
Their government invests heavily in technology. Whereas ours is busy with social grants.

 

[soso_killer]

So what's your theory on the ODI series loss by SA to India at home.

ODI's and Tests are completely different kettle of fish.

 

[Gubol123]

So what's your theory on the ODI series loss by SA to India at home.

India has won many and lost some.. Is your point that India should not lose anything at all? SA is an excellent team and will win some series. if I remember correctly India has the best win/loss ratio in all formats in the last five years.. I think they are doing fine

 

[Gubol123]

India has won many and lost some.. Is your point that India should not lose anything at all? SA is an excellent team and will win some series. if I remember correctly India has the best win/loss ratio in all formats in the last five years.. I think they are doing fine

Just checked the stats for last five years.. India has done remarkably well... In tests their closest competitor is SA and India has 30% better W/L ration than SA. In ODI's closest is Aus and India again better by nearly 25%. In T20Is Afghans are slights ahead but among the test playing nations it is again India with Pak behind by nearly 30%.. I am quite surprised about T20I stats considering the fact that we hardly play our full strength team. Last time full strength team played was probably in T20 WC or may be in England series.. not sure... It is good to see that India is competing with three different nations in three different formats and still comes ahead..

 

[OoparCut]

ODI's and Tests are completely different kettle of fish.

To each his own. I don't need you to agree with me that the test series was a very closely fought one. That Maharaj dolly drop in the slips by Dhawan with SA at 140-odd for 5 may well have been a "yuge" turning point in the 1st test.

But ifs and buts aside, bottomline, SA won the test series. No sandpaper needed!

 

[Gubol123]

India has won many and lost some.. Is your point that India should not lose anything at all? SA is an excellent team and will win some series. if I remember correctly India has the best win/loss ratio in all formats in the last five years.. I think they are doing fine

My mistake... I misunderstood you.. ignore my comment.. But still that comment prompted me to check stats which was a pleasant surprise

 

[Gubol123]

ODI's and Tests are completely different kettle of fish.

SA may continue to struggle in ODI's. the problems that were found against India are systemic and unless SA works on their skills against wrist spinners they will be fond out in the WC.. All SC teams will look to exploit that weakness..

 

[cricketjoshila]

There's is better competition in the Telecommunications industry.
MTN, Vodacom (now owned by Vodafone), Telkom (partly government owned), and Cell C
These are our network carries.

There's various ISP as well, but our infrastructure is poor, hence data is expensive. I was in Nigeria a few years back, their Internet bandwidth is vastly superior to ours.
Their government invests heavily in technology. Whereas ours is busy with social grants.

Is home internet costly too or only mobile internet? What are the speeds?

In India you can get 50gb 50mbps line with 100gb data limit for max $15.

You guys must let Indian companies come in and provide services. More competition means less prices and better service.

Airtel a Indian company already operates in 15 African countries?

$62 a month to watch content on One Tv set, they will throw out the PM and his govt. Here.

 

[Gubol123]

There's is better competition in the Telecommunications industry.
MTN, Vodacom (now owned by Vodafone), Telkom (partly government owned), and Cell C
These are our network carries.

There's various ISP as well, but our infrastructure is poor, hence data is expensive. I was in Nigeria a few years back, their Internet bandwidth is vastly superior to ours.
Their government invests heavily in technology. Whereas ours is busy with social grants.

Nigeria, for all the bad press it gets, has really got very good infrastructure.. They are also highly industrialized, if I am not mistaken, more than SA. when i read about it some years back I was quite surprised.. Lots of Indian travel to Nigeria and lots of Nigerians studying in Indian colleges.. I had two of them in my class even couple of decades back

 

[Bewal Express]

If Australia can't beat us at home what chance does a subcontinent team have?

I agree Kohli was foolish in not selecting Rahane, or playing a practice match. Perhaps they would not have been 90/7 in three separate innings. But SA would've still won.

The non selection of Kumar at Centurion?

 

[prayas]

In addition to that last month they gave away 10gb of free data with no limit

New IPL pack also 102 gb for 250₹ stream all IPL matches on Jio tv

 

[navin]

New IPL pack also 102 gb for 250₹ stream all IPL matches on Jio tv

That is good but recently I have been facing a lot of connectivity issues in my area due to many users, So maybe I will switch to some other network.

 

[ManFan]

Is this a good plan in the long-term?

Some Indian brothers can help me on this.

 

[Ali Bohra]

 

[IndianFan2018]

i think the deal includes all home matches including tests... i never watch it on DD so I don't know

Even I never watch DD, as per my understanding Honourable SC order is mainly for HOME LOI i.e. ODI and T20I + all WC contests involving Team India (Away WC India matches also I guess) !

 

[Ali Bohra]

The big Global sports broadcast deals

Cost per game in (Million)

IPL - 8.47
Premer League - 13.15
MLB - 0.63
NFL - 22.47
NBA - 1.99
Indian Cricket - 9.26

 

[prayas]

Is this a good plan in the long-term?

Some Indian brothers can help me on this.

Which plan?

If ur talking about jio then it is only for 51 days during IPL or if ur Airtel user Airtel offering same plan for there user on Airtel TV app

 

[prayas]

That is good but recently I have been facing a lot of connectivity issues in my area due to many users, So maybe I will switch to some other network.

Airtel offering same plan for their customers on Airtel TV app.
This time IPL will broadcast on Hotstar,Jio TV,Airtel TV app simultaneously without delay.
Jio made new channel on Jio TV app just for IPL

 

[Asch Ali]

Glad to hear that cricket is getting more and more profitable. This will keep the game alive longer.

 

[IndianFan2018]

Glad to hear that cricket is getting more and more profitable. This will keep the game alive longer.

Most of the credit must go to BCCI / CoA and Cricket Crazy Indian fans world wide

 

[ManFan]

Which plan?

If ur talking about jio then it is only for 51 days during IPL or if ur Airtel user Airtel offering same plan for there user on Airtel TV app

I meant deal.

Anyways, if it’s for IPL and Airtel users, that’s a great deal.

 

[Asch Ali]

Most of the credit must go to BCCI / CoA and Cricket Crazy Indian fans world wide

There is a lot of truth to that. If India wasn’t cricket crazy, it’s neighbors wouldn’t have been cricket crazy either. Cricket today would’ve been just a dying 5-day red ball game played by just England and Australia every 2 years.

 

[Oxfordchamp]

The big Global sports broadcast deals

Cost per game in (Million)

IPL - 8.47
Premer League - 13.15
MLB - 0.63
NFL - 22.47
NBA - 1.99
Indian Cricket - 9.26

In the next cycle IPL will better EPL and get closer to NFL..

 

[jagatk]

In the next cycle IPL will better EPL and get closer to NFL..

Biggest reason for this number is ipl plays very few matches in comparison to others. When the matches increase the gross amount is not going to increase by a similar ratio.

 

[Sin Nombre]

Biggest reason for this number is ipl plays very few matches in comparison to others. When the matches increase the gross amount is not going to increase by a similar ratio.

Almost certain IPL will double in the number of games in a decade.

Agree that the total amount will go up but the per game numbers will stay static.

 

[troodon]

A lot of credit goes to Sachin in 90’s and Kohli in 2010’s.

Kohli and Sachin has made cricket a billion dollar game in India. Fans are crazy and the money keeps pouring in.

Billion dollars is an insane amount of money for broadcasting rights.

 

[soso_killer]

SA may continue to struggle in ODI's. the problems that were found against India are systemic and unless SA works on their skills against wrist spinners they will be fond out in the WC.. All SC teams will look to exploit that weakness..

In Tests as well. It will be interesting to see how SA combat spin in Asia going forward, the tour to Lanka will tell us everything we need to know. I've never seen us struggle that bad against spin, we had no clue whatsoever.

I think we'll cop a few pastings over the next few years over there, especially when AB goes. Hopefully we find one or two proteges to play alongside Makram to keep us competitive.

 

[Fire Bird]

Bro IPL, international cricket etc... will also create many job and business opportunity for millions of working class people. Need to see glass half full... instead of expecting doomsday in everything IMO

That is what happens when you grew up watching cricket in the 90s. Prasad and Kuruvilla to open the bowling for India.....

 

[karthikc]

Subramanian Swamy needs to be commended for fighting to have e-auctions..I remember Vinod Rai vociferously opposing it

 

[UN talkz]

I have to say you follow these things very closely, You should go for cricket commentary or analysis.

Haha thanks for kind words.
Addicted to this wonderful game.
Will take your opinion seriously if i ever get a chance.

 

[cricketindiafan]

Subramanian Swamy needs to be commended for fighting to have e-auctions..I remember Vinod Rai vociferously opposing it

LOL e-auctions was Vinod Rai's idea!

 

[cricketworm]

Another good thing is that upcoming FTP is limited and players get enough rest in between tours, hopefully absolutely no India vs SL out of thin air.

 

[Gubol123]

Actually the teams India play in this particular FTP is not that great.. we play Aus only once at home and play WI three times.. Quite surprised with the offer..

 

[Fire Bird]

Subramanian Swamy needs to be commended for fighting to have e-auctions..I remember Vinod Rai vociferously opposing it

 

[Sherlock]

What does Cambridge Analytica "stealing" data about Facebook users have anything to do with BCCI selling its rights to Facebook?

Their stock is down, and will continuing driving down with new revelations coming to light ever day. Another one dropped today too.

It's not just the stock though, advertisers may be jumping ship too and not wanting anything to do with a politically toxic company that has lied and hid facts from its consumers and partners.

Either way It's over now and Star Sports is the buyer.

 

[soso_killer]

I meant how many television sets you can get connected for $62?

So $62 also includes internet.

Up to 4, the other three count as "Extra View" and will be billed R100 ($7.6) each, total of R300 ($23).

To avoid WWIII I have two decoders in my house, one in the living room the other in my bedroom. The missus pretty much decides where I get to watch "my nonsense" as she likes to put it. She's the boss.
Basically I folk out $70 a month.

 

[Proactive_]

Great. More money for the politicians at BCCI to gulp down.

 

[soso_killer]

Is home internet costly too or only mobile internet? What are the speeds?

In India you can get 50gb 50mbps line with 100gb data limit for max $15.

You guys must let Indian companies come in and provide services. More competition means less prices and better service.

Airtel a Indian company already operates in 15 African countries?

$62 a month to watch content on One Tv set, they will throw out the PM and his govt. Here.

50Mbps for 85GB for $61.
Those living in prominent areas have access to Fibre Optic Cable which is much faster, but expensive.

 

[cricketjoshila]

Up to 4, the other three count as "Extra View" and will be billed R100 ($7.6) each, total of R300 ($23).

To avoid WWIII I have two decoders in my house, one in the living room the other in my bedroom. The missus pretty much decides where I get to watch "my nonsense" as she likes to put it. She's the boss.
Basically I folk out $70 a month.

This is expensive. We will throw out the PM with his chair if it was this expensive.

I guess you guys only have one service provider so he can demand whatever he wants.

Come to India someday, i believe you will like it here.

 

[cricketjoshila]

50Mbps for 85GB for $61.
Those living in prominent areas have access to Fibre Optic Cable which is much faster, but expensive.

Even this is expensive. Why is everything so expensive? And i thought internet in India was expensive.

 

[navin]

50Mbps for 85GB for $61.
Those living in prominent areas have access to Fibre Optic Cable which is much faster, but expensive.

In India now a days you will get 50Mbps unlimited at $15

 

[Proactive_]

In India now a days you will get 50Mbps unlimited at $15

During my stay at Kolkata I got Alliance Broadband 60 MBPS unlimited for like 8$. But it's difficult to find such plans in the smaller cities where BSNL/ MTNL continue to loot people.

 

[navin]

During my stay at Kolkata I got Alliance Broadband 60 MBPS unlimited for like 8$. But it's difficult to find such plans in the smaller cities where BSNL/ MTNL continue to loot people.

Yeah it varies from city to city. What I quoted is more common terrify.

 

[Send1983]

Great. More money for the politicians at BCCI to gulp down.

Although that’s a sad part about this whole deal, it also means broadcasting companies will be getting lesser margin now. So it’s overall not a bad outcome as long as some of the new money is spent on infrastructure and grassroots.

 

[Proactive_]

Although that’s a sad part about this whole deal, it also means broadcasting companies will be getting lesser margin now. So it’s overall not a bad outcome as long as some of the new money is spent on infrastructure and grassroots.

If BCCI was serious about that, it would have done so in the last 20 years.. a period in which it has earned obscene amounts of money and yet India's record overseas in the recent past has been deplorable. Unfortunately BCCI is just a money scrounging organization consisting of politicians running their little circus of money and celebrities called the IPL.

 

[Napa]

Their stock is down, and will continuing driving down with new revelations coming to light ever day. Another one dropped today too.

The market capitalization of FB stock is now at $450B from about a peak of $600B. They still shouldn't have a problem of throwing around a few billion here and there.

It's not just the stock though, advertisers may be jumping ship too and not wanting anything to do with a politically toxic company that has lied and hid facts from its consumers and partners.

Surely Sherlock knows that stock price is "forward looking" and a measure of what the market expects advertisers will pay in the future.

 

[Harshu814]

They just gave free 1 year prime package to existing prime users ,haha i availed mine you too shud do so totally loving how jio is changing telecom sector

 

[Sherlock]

The market capitalization of FB stock is now at $450B from about a peak of $600B. They still shouldn't have a problem of throwing around a few billion here and there.



Surely Sherlock knows that stock price is "forward looking" and a measure of what the market expects advertisers will pay in the future.

The stock market outlook and ad revenue is intertwined. Short-term they're a risk, long-term maybe not. I'm talking about how their advertisers may look at the deal they have with FB and ring their hands. Recently Morgan Stanley lowered its price target on Facebook to $30 from it's $230. It's about the here and now. It's obvious their company has taken a massive hit, so partnering with them in anyway could've been a risky business.

The way FB can move forward is if they make itself a paid service and get rid of monetising ads and garnering personal info off of it's clients [users].

Point being India doesn't need FB to garner $$$.

 

[Gubol123]

If BCCI was serious about that, it would have done so in the last 20 years.. a period in which it has earned obscene amounts of money and yet India's record overseas in the recent past has been deplorable. Unfortunately BCCI is just a money scrounging organization consisting of politicians running their little circus of money and celebrities called the IPL.

so you take a comment about Infrastructure and then say BCCI did not do anything about it. Then you spin it to fit your agenda that India did not do well overseas.. India has the best w/l ration in the last five years in all formats.. deal with it. and regarding the infrastructure India is doing fine.. Thank you..

and no, none of us fooled by your flag

 

[Send1983]

If BCCI was serious about that, it would have done so in the last 20 years.. a period in which it has earned obscene amounts of money and yet India's record overseas in the recent past has been deplorable. Unfortunately BCCI is just a money scrounging organization consisting of politicians running their little circus of money and celebrities called the IPL.

You don’t have any good thing to talk about India. I partly agree that politicians taking some of the money. You don’t have any answer for broadcaster taking extra margin until now. Now you jumped to BCCI not spending any money towards infrastructure and India having poor away record in last 20 yrs. Do you know what was our overseas record before 2000?
All I could see here is you are here to troll. I don’t see any constructive criticism. You must be either pak fan or Indian trying to rile Indian fans. There are quite a few such folks in India. You might be one of them.

 

[Napa]

Recently Morgan Stanley lowered its price target on Facebook to $30 from it's $230.

I think you meant "by $30" rather than "to $30". US investment banks are too conservative to reduce price target for one of the largest firms by such a large amount.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/04/mor...target-on-fears-ad-revenue-will-take-hit.html

Given that its current price is around $160, a price target of $200 is not the end of the world.

The way FB can move forward is if they make itself a paid service and get rid of monetising ads and garnering personal info off of it's clients [users].

If they do that the users would move to Google Plus in the blink of an eye.

Point being India doesn't need FB to garner $$$.

True... however, if FB has the highest bid there is not enough reason to reject it.

 

[AssassinatedDevil]

Guys, please don't discuss off-topic subjects like Facebook's stock price on this thread

 

[IndianFan2018]

They just gave free 1 year prime package to existing prime users ,haha i availed mine you too shud do so totally loving how jio is changing telecom sector

Got renewed mine too for free .... Jio Ambani

Showed all how much money Airtel/Vodafone were looting from customers from so many years with ridiculously high DATA charges !

Quote from Mukesh Ambani:

"DATA is the new OIL" ... True 100%, people can't live without DATA these days, become as important as OIL

 

[Joginder_Sharma]

I have read some comments where people have said why are the Indian fans happy about this deal because they are not getting any money. I think this is about perspective, we all are happy because the team we support is getting positive results on and off the pitch. This is the same way why Manchester United or Real Madrid fans get happy when their teams post record revenues yearly, they are also not getting any money but they are happy because the team they support is doing well all around the globe, hence the revenues. We all live tough lives, if something makes us happy ... why overthink it?

 

[Convict]

Yea .. India is still cost effective.

Use to pay more $ for watching live cricket in TV when I was in Melbourne (don't remember exact amount).
[MENTION=132373]Convict[/MENTION] can provide current figures for AUS.

I don't pay for foxtel so I don't pay a cent.

As for how I watch matches that aren't shown on channel 9. I'll leave that up to the imagination.

 

[IndianFan2018]

I don't pay for foxtel so I don't pay a cent.

As for how I watch matches that aren't shown on channel 9. I'll leave that up to the imagination.

Yea, can understand your decesion on Foxtel snub

Many other ways to watch matches ..

 

[sshakir411]

Only a country like India could get such a value for Cricket. The sport seems to be dying in all other markets but Indian TV consumption is just going up. TV has so much pull in India it's kind of unbelievable. Doesn't matter if it's dramas, bollywood, cricket, etc....Indians seem to be glued to their tv when not at work.

 

[rhony]

Only a country like India could get such a value for Cricket. The sport seems to be dying in all other markets but Indian TV consumption is just going up. TV has so much pull in India it's kind of unbelievable. Doesn't matter if it's dramas, bollywood, cricket, etc....Indians seem to be glued to their tv when not at work.

glued to the screen. Tv or mobile. And that's everywhere in the world

 

[sshakir411]

glued to the screen. Tv or mobile. And that's everywhere in the world

India is def top 3 in the world. There's no other reason why Indian TV market is better than that of Chinese...Chinese don't have movies/dramas like Indians nor do Chinese kids watch as much sports.

 

[rhony]

India is def top 3 in the world. There's no other reason why Indian TV market is better than that of Chinese...Chinese don't have movies/dramas like Indians nor do Chinese kids watch as much sports.

Viewership is higher in populated countries obviously. Infact, I read somewhere that there are more TV viewers just in India compared to entire Europe's. However, the television rights are also based on the disposable income available for the viewers. The same reason why NFL, NHL, MLB and NHL rake in massive amounts because of the incomes of americans. The same reason why Roger Federer rakes in more money through ads than Ronaldo or Messi. The sport he plays in has viewers with high disposable income and that fetches Roger 50 mil a year.

 

[cricketindiafan]

Only a country like India could get such a value for Cricket. The sport seems to be dying in all other markets but Indian TV consumption is just going up. TV has so much pull in India it's kind of unbelievable. Doesn't matter if it's dramas, bollywood, cricket, etc....Indians seem to be glued to their tv when not at work.

Every cricket board sells its broadcast rights at 30-40% higher value than the previous cycle! Digital broadcast geyting simpler, easier and cheaper to access will mean lesser no. of people watching on ground and prefering to watch at home / elsewhere at own convenience.

I used to pay 10-12000 rupees ($200) each IPL season till 2015. Completely stopped it afterwards with HD broadcast and accessibility via mobile. Know many in my friend circle whom have done the same.