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Star India's Star Sports and Viacom18's JioCinema had acquired the satellite and digital broadcasting rights for 2023–27 IPL cycle respectively. [19] Following the merger, both assets are now owned by JioStar and JioCinema is to be shut down in favour of Disney+ Hotstar , [ 20 ] which previously held the digital broadcasting rights for 2018 ...
It reported that 32 million viewers were simultaneously using its service to watch the IPL cricket final match between The Chennai Super Kings and the Gujarat Titans. The platform’s previous ...
In response to JioCinema's decision to stream the entirety of the 2023 IPL for free, Disney+ Hotstar announced in June 2023 that it would stream the 2023 Asia Cup and 2023 Cricket World Cup for free on mobile devices. [36]
JioCinema is an Indian subscription video-on-demand over-the-top streaming service owned by JioStar, a joint venture between Reliance Industries, Viacom18 and Disney India. the service was launched on 4 May 2016.
In 2022, Ambani’s Viacom18, which owns JioCinema, had paid $3 billion for digital rights to the IPL, outbidding then rival Disney, who paid a similar amount for only the broadcast TV rights.
The first dependent Indian OTT platform was BIGFlix, launched by Reliance Entertainment in 2008. [1] In 2010 Digivive launched India's first OTT mobile app called nexGTv, which provides access to both live TV and on–demand content. nexGTV was the first app to live–stream Indian Premier League matches on smart phones and did so during 2013 and 2014.
Star Sports renewed its television contract, and Viacom18 acquired the digital rights within India; matches were streamed for free on JioCinema. [46] [47] The final peaked at over 32 million viewers on JioCinema, overtaking a match from the 2019 Cricket World Cup as the most concurrent viewers on a live streaming event worldwide. [48] [49]
Sports broadcasting contracts in India include: Multi-Sport events International Olympic Committee Summer Olympics - Sports18 & JioCinema Winter Olympics - DD Sports International Paralympic Committee Summer Paralympics - JioCinema Winter Paralympics - None Commonwealth Games Federation Commonwealth Games - Sony Sports Network & SonyLIV Olympic Council of Asia Asian Games - Sony Sports Network ...