Star Sports (Indian TV network)

Star Sports Network

Star Sports 1 HD logo
Type	Sports
Country	India
Broadcast area	Indian subcontinent
Headquarters	Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Programming
Language(s)	English Hindi Malayalam Bengali Kannada Tamil Telugu
Picture format	1080i HDTV (downscaled to letterboxed 576i for the SDTV feed)
Ownership
Owner	JioStar
Sister channels	JioStar Channels
History
Launched	28 October 1996; 28 years ago (28 October 1996)
Links
Website	hotstar.com TV Schedule
Availability
Streaming media
Disney+ Hotstar	India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam
Hotstar	Canada, United Kingdom and Singapore

Star Sports Network is a group of Indian pay television sports channels owned by JioStar, The network currently holds rights of flagship tournaments like ICC Events, Indian Premier League, Premier League, ONE Championship, Wimbledon, Indian Super League, Nepal Premier League etc.

The networks were initially formed in 1991 as a joint venture between Star TV and Tele-Communications Inc. (TCI) known as Prime Sports, taking their name from TCI's U.S. regional sports networks of the same name. In 1996, Star agreed to merge its sports networks in Asia with those of its rival ESPN, forming ESPN Star Sports. In June 2012, News Corporation acquired ESPN's stake in the joint venture; its corporate successor 21st Century Fox was, in turn, acquired by ESPN's majority-owner The Walt Disney Company in 2019.

Star Sports is a major broadcaster of cricket in India, holding the pay television rights to domestic national team matches, the Indian Premier League, and International Cricket Council (ICC) tournaments. Streaming rights to many Star Sports properties are held in India by sister streaming service Disney+ Hotstar.