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TEN Sports
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| Ten Sports | |
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| Launched | April 1, 2002 |
| Owned by | Taj Television Ltd. (50%) Zee Entertainment Enterprises (50%) |
| Sister channel(s) | Zee Sports |
| Website | www.tensports.com |
| Availability | |
| Satellite | |
| PAS-10 | 3808 MHz |
| Nilesat 101 | 11958 MHz |
| NSS 6 | 12647 MHz |
| Insat 4A | 11670 MHz |
| Tata Sky | Channel 407 |
| Hathway Digital Cable | Channel 103 |
| Dialog TV | Channel 37 (Testing) |
TEN SPORTS is a sports channel, which is widely broad casted in India, Pakistan, Middle East, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Hong Kong, Japan and Maldives
TEN Sports is the short name of Taj Entertainment Network Sports. They regularly broadcast Test cricket, one-day international cricket, field hockey and professional wrestling, a staple of the channel's programming. In 2005, TEN Sports was in legal struggles with Doordarshan over the rights to usually broadcast Test and ODI cricket when Pakistan tours in India. TEN Sports is the dominant sports channel in Pakistan. It currently has the exclusive rights in the Indian sub-continent to the UEFA Champions League, the US Open tennis and Moto GP as well as its cricket and WWE content. It took a share of 54% of all sports viewing in India for 2006, considerably more tha any other sports channel.
It holds exclusive rights for WWE programing in India,Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Ten Sports also has the exclusive telecast rights for all cricket matches played in Pakistan. In 2004, it also bagged the telecast rights for West Indies cricket for the next five years. The combined cost of both acquisitions is said to be around $50 million. It has also held all rights to show cricket in Sri Lanka since 2001. Ten Sports sells the cricket television and sponsorship rights for Sri Lanka cricket on a worldwide basis. In 2007, Ten Sports also acquired the broadcast rights for the Indian sub-continent, Asia and Middle East for the South Africa and Zimbabwe boards, meaning that the channel broadcasts cricket from 5 of the 10 full member countries into India.
On the 12th of November 2006, Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd acquired 50% ownership of Taj Television Ltd. for $57 million. The channel had only launched in April 2002 and had originally been owned wholly by Emirati Abdul Rahman Bukhatir, the founder of the Sharjah cricket stadium. The channel acquired rights to broadcast the 2002 football world cup as a means of becoming visible in the sub-continent, and became the most viewed sports channel in India within a year of its launch. Its senior management since launch has been CEO Chris McDonald and Senior Vice President Peter Hutton, with other vice presidents now comprising Steve Halis (engineering) and Nikhil Diwadkar (finance).
Taj Television's portfolio consists of the Ten Sports channel, television production and transmission services for broadcast clients such as DirecTV, ART, Starhub's Football Channel, Goal TV 1 and 2 , City 7 and Citruss TV.
- Official site
- "Pressure on Ten Sports", from The Hindu, 12 March 2004
- "Ten Sports to share feed with DD for telecast of ODIs", from The Hindu, 31 January 2006
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