ESPN in Asia and Japan

Return of Michael Schumacher to Mercedes GP PETRONAS, new Malaysian Lotus Racing team, inaugural Korean GP and Indian driver Karun Chandhok hype up another compelling F1 season 

10 March 2010, Singapore: The Formula One on ESPN STAR Sports is well set to draw huge interest from Asian fans yet again with many new developments that highlight the sport’s growing prominence and popularity leading up to the inaugural race of 2010, with the Bahrain Grand Prix flagging off this weekend live on STAR Sports.  Read more…

8 March 2010, (New Delhi) – ESPN STAR Sports has tied-up with Media Star Global to produce and air ‘Super Soccer Star’, India’s first football reality show. Media Star Global holds the India license for the Super Soccer Star property which is owned by Galleon Holdings PLC (AIM: GON), an AIM listed entertainment media company that develops and produces multi-platform properties with a focus on emerging markets. 

Super Soccer Star is a multi-platform entertainment property and reality show, which aims to discover young football talent in association with the famed Chelsea Football Club.  Under the terms of the deal, ESPN STAR Sports will broadcast the show around the 2010 FIFA World Cup football frenzy on Saturday and Sunday over five weekends during the tournament.  Read more…

Asia’s biggest sports content provider adds new golf offering with LIVE coverage of OneAsia events till 2014 

25 February 2010, Singapore: Asia’s biggest sports content provider, ESPN STAR Sports, announced today its multi-year regional television broadcast partnership to showcase the new OneAsia golf series, Asia Pacific’s first consolidated professional tournament pathway for elite golfers.  Read more…

Asian athletes anticipated to make an impact on the world’s biggest winter multi-sport event 

10 February 2010 (Singapore): Celebrate the Chinese New Year festive season with ESPN STAR Sports, as Asia’s no. 1 sports content provider kicks off the biggest Winter Sports extravaganza in the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, starting with the Opening Ceremony this Saturday 13 February 2010 at 10.00am on ESPN.  Read more…

Asia’s biggest sports content provider lights up the festive season with glorious moments from Olympic history 

10 December, 2009: Celebrate the festive season with ESPN STAR Sports, as Asia’s biggest sports content provider looks to showcase a bagful of classic Olympic Games moments with its line-up of top class programming from the archives of the Olympic Films. 

ESPN STAR Sports will showcase timeless stories of inspiration from over 30,000 hours of archives with official footages from 12 Winter and Summer Olympic Games spanning over the last two decades. Sports fans can get into the festive mood with ‘Stories of Olympic Glory’ from the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics 2002 on Christmas Eve, followed by the Torino 2006 Winter Games and the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics on the big day of celebrations.

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Presented by locals Fazura and Marion Caunter on STAR Sports Malaysia, new weekly show covers sports celebrities outside the sporting arena 

8 December 2009, Malaysia – ESPN STAR Sports, Asia’s biggest sports content provider, has launched Malaysia’s first sports entertainment programme on STAR Sports in the weekly magazine show MyEG Xtra Time, starting this Thursday, 10 December on STAR Sports at 10.30pm. 

Presented by popular presenters and former VJs Fazura and Marion Caunter, the weekly magazine show covers the latest news surrounding famous sports personalities outside the sporting arena and all the drama that follows them, such as gossip about WAGs of famous sportsmen as well as the latest fashion trends and faux pas of the world’s biggest sports names.  Read more…

Asia’s biggest sports content provider clinches multi-platform deal to showcase U.S. Open 9-Ball Championship matches annually across the region 

2 December 2009, Singapore - Asia’s No. 1 sports content provider ESPN STAR Sports (ESS) and Billiard Club Network (BCn) today announced its first regional broadcast distribution agreement for the U.S. Open 9-Ball Championship across Asia. 

The deal gives ESS exclusive multi-platform broadcast rights including cable, satellite and terrestrial television, as well as online and mobile media rights through 2011.  Billiard Club Network, in association with Accu-Stats Video Production, will produce 15 matches featuring notable world pool superstars that will be telecast across ESPN STAR Sports’ broadcast networks across 24 markets on its Asia footprint. 

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Malaysian fans to enjoy the best coverage of international and local sports in Bahasa Malaysia

29 November 2009, Malaysia: Malaysian fans can now look forward to catching SportsCenter Malaysia in Bahasa Malaysia when the popular flagship sports news programme from ESPN STAR Sports debuts at 10.30pm tomorrow, 30 November 2009.

Hosted by SportsCenter Malaysia host Lisa Wong and Reem Shahwa, presenter of STAR Sports’ Score Tonight, the edition in Bahasa Malaysia will deliver the best international and local sports in the fine tradition of the iconic sports show.

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Motorsports fans to look forward to a revved-up list of exciting motocross action on ESPN STAR Sports

22 October 2009, Singapore – Asia’s biggest sports content provider ESPN STAR Sports announced today its three-year multi-platform partnership with Youthstream, FIM’s Motocross World Championship commercial rights holder and promoter, to showcase the FIM Motocross and SuperMoto World Championship on its various platforms, across Asia, from 2009 to 2011.

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7 October 2009, Singapore: ESPN STAR Sports (ESS), Asia’s biggest sports content provider, announced today that

Manu Sawhney, Managing Director, ESPN STAR Sports

it has secured exclusive rights to broadcast the Barclays Premier League (BPL) on multiple platforms in 18 markets across Asia including: India, Indonesia, East Timor, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, North & South Korea, The Philippines, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and in partnership with Astro for Malaysia & Brunei.

For the first time, all 380 matches of BPL will be available to be shown live across multiple platforms including Television, Internet and Mobile with up to 190 matches available on a VOD basis. This win reaffirms ESPN STAR Sports’ longstanding partnership with the Premier League stretching back more than a decade, a relationship which has seen the BPL brand enjoying massive growth since its initial broadcast on the ESS networks in 1995.

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