MUMBAI: India’s largest broadcaster Disney India is doing a major rejigg of its channel portfolio, shutting down ten channels, while launching 16 new ones.
On the sports channel front, the network will be "de-activating" the licenses it held for Star Sports 1 Bangla and Star Sports 1 Marathi and "switching on" Star Sports 1 Tamil HD and Star Sports 1 Telugu HD on December 1.
Disney India also confirmed that the network will exit the English general entertainment genre with Star World, Star World HD and Star World Premiere HD all going off air on November 30.