Asia’s biggest sport content provider also launches first regional multi-sport high-definition channel in ESPN HD in Taiwan and Singapore
Singapore, 6 July 2010 – Watching sports will never be the same again as ESPN STAR Sports, Asia’s biggest sports content provider, launched ESPN Player, providing consumers with on-demand access to international world-class sports content, while offering an engaging online experience.
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8 June 2010, Singapore: ESPN STAR Sports boosted its broadcast of Major League Baseball across the region with the renewal of its television broadcast rights agreement, a deal which will see Asia’s biggest sports content provider showing MLB games daily across key Asian markets through the 2013 season.
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23 April 2010, Singapore: ESPN STAR Sports, Asia’s No. 1 sports broadcaster and International Cricket Council’s global distribution and broadcast partner, announced the renewal of its partnership with Eurosport Group for the ICC World Twenty20 2010 and the launch of the “What is Cricket” educational campaign to continue building the event’s growing popularity in Europe.
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23 April 2010, Singapore: ESPN STAR Sports, Asia’s No. 1 sports broadcaster and International Cricket Council’s global distribution and broadcast partner, announced the renewal of its partnership with Eurosport Group for the ICC World Twenty20 2010 and the launch of the “What is Cricket” educational campaign to continue building the event’s growing popularity in Europe.
ESPN STAR Sports’ “What is Cricket” aims to build on last year’s efforts to bring the marquee Twenty20 international cricket closer to fans in Europe with 5-min promotional clips that introduces key elements of the sport and what makes the ICC World Twenty20 so exciting to watch to new fans and viewers. The campaign will be telecast across 56 territories across Eurosport Group’s broadcast footprint.
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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…
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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