Start Sports : Do we deserve this ?

Ajnas

Newbie
Hi All,

I'm a Videocon D2H customer, and I was so excited when "Start Sports 2" was launched. I was expecting to see lot more Football matches (since, Star has the rights for English, Italian and Spanish Leagues), and it was happening during the first few months of SS2 addition (they were even showing live football matches in Start Cricket). But my excitement turned into to desperation when D2H played the waiting game in adding the channel.

After waiting for few months, I went ahead and asked my cable operator to reconnect the cable (which was disconnected for almost a year), and provide me a STB, just to watch SS2.


But, I'm in a state of dilemma now, by seeing the content SS2 or any other start sports channel provide. They shouldn’t have renamed it as Start Sports 1, 2, 3 and 4. They should’ve named it as Start Cricket 1, 2, 3 and Start Sports.


I guess, there are some nutcases sitting on top of the content management division of Star. The only sports they know are Cricket, Cricket and Cricket. This started happening after the ESPN-Start spilt.


There were many football matches happening in the weekend, and all star-sports (except SS4) showing was Cricket. That too repeated telecasts of some documentaries and highlights.


This is what their schedule shows now, I couldn’t take the screen shot of schedule for the weekends, but it was all the same.

Start Sports 1
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Start Sports 2
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Start Sports 3
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If anyone from start sports reading this, I would like you to know that you are doing an awful job there, and it will be better to get is sorted out soon. Do you guys think any one will watch "Perfect Pujara", "Pragyan Ojha" or "All Rounder Aswhin", all the day ?


Why do we need to pay so much of rupees just to watch Cricket from all their channels?

Does anyone know whether TRAI monitors these things?

Is there any governing body where we can file a complaint?


I’ve sent an email to [email protected] , and request you all to do the same.

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Ajnas
 
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Technoglitch

Core Member
those were asking for ss2 should look at the EPG. SS claims to cover all sports but concentrates on cricket only.
 

Ajnas

Newbie
@TS Guess what ..., you checked schedule for Star Sports 1,2,3 , and they are showing all football on Star Sports 4 :)

You can check schedule here Sport TV - Schedule | Star Sports and select football

Yes, I was actually watching the match on SS4, but forgot to mention about that in the post.
:)

Still, just one channel for football, when there were three major matches happening (Machester United Vs Tottenham and Manchester City vs Stoke Matches in EPL, and Juventus Match in Serie A) ..

This is ridiculous. they are still showing Poojara, Ojha, Shami, Ashwin shows in SS2.
I hate seeing this.
 

Ajnas

Newbie
Got their reply now....



Hi Ajnas,

Thank you for writing to Star Sports.

We appreciate that you have taken time out to share your suggestions with us to increase the broadcast of football on our channels. We have taken your suggestions to our programming team for a further review. However, we are not in a position to assure you of any immediate changes, the decision to incorporate any changes is completely at the discretion of the programming team.

Meanwhile, you can refer to our TV program schedules by logging into our website tvguide.starsports.com for an updated itinerary of our Sports broadcast.

We would also like to recommend to an avid sports fan like you our website Live Streaming & Latest News of Cricket, Football & Other Sports on starsports.com which offers live cricket and soccer (which includes 350 matches from Barclays Premier League, Minimum of 190 matches featuring all top teams from Spanish La Liga and a selection of the big games from Italian Serie A) in HD quality with a video timeline that offers you complete control to watch a game at any time and any place. You have an option of variety of football packs including a daily all sport pass for just Rs. 20.

Thanks you for your support.

Warm regards,

Star Sports Team


It looks like they are trying to promote their online streaming options.
 

ajuravi

EntMnt Legend
The addition of Star Sports 2 is nothing but providing hindi commentary or hindi feed...
 
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