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IPL, F1 and now HBO content off the Disney+ Hotstar menu card

Last updated : Mar 10, 2023 16:03

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Mar 09, 2023 20:03

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First Disney+ Hotstar lost the Indian Premier League streaming rights. Then it let go rights to Formula 1 as the "price was not right". Now the latest setback for the Disney-owned on-demand video streaming giant is that it will lose HBO content at the end of the month.

“Starting 31st March, HBO content will be unavailable on Disney+ Hotstar. You can continue enjoying Disney+ Hotstar’s vast library of content spanning over 100,000 hours of TV Shows and Movies in 10 languages and coverage of major global sporting events,” the streaming service posted on Twitter.

Mar 03, 2023 20:03

Disney+ Hotstar, FanCode to livestream Legends League Cricket

NEW DELHI: Legends League Cricket (LLC) announced Friday that Disney+ Hotstar and FanCode will be the digital streaming partners for LLC Masters 2023, which will begin on March 10 at the Asian Town Cricket Stadium in Doha, Qatar.

Feb 17, 2023 17:02

Disney+ Hotstar down! Users unable to access platform; deets here

Who would have imagined it. As India and Australia faced off in the second Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, Disney+ Hotstar, which is livestreaming the match, went blank. Not surprisingly, cricket fans took to Twitter to vent their frustration.

Sep 20, 2022 16:09

LLC scores deals for live streaming in US, Australia

NEW DELHI: With the Legends League Cricket (LLC) underway in India, the the organisers have added the US and Australia to the event's live streaming footprint. Along with Star Sports (linear TV), both Disney+ Hotstar and Fancode are sharing LLC's live streaming rights.

Sep 15, 2022 02:09

Disney+ Hotstar to stream Matrix Fight Night 10th Edition

NEW DELHI: Matrix Fight Night (MFN), India's most significant mixed martial arts (MMA) promotion, has reached agreement with Disney Star's OTT platform Disney+ Hotstar to live stream its 10th edition, which is set to take place later this year. The streaming deal was facilitated by Rakhee Mehta of Magicrise and Salil Acharya of SS Productions.

Aug 30, 2022 20:08

Ind-Pak Asia Cup match: 13m views on Hotstar, 21m on Daraz

Sunday's humdinger of a match between arch-rivals India and Pakistan attracted 13 million concurrent users on Disney+ Hotstar. India and Pakistan faced each other in Asia Cup 2022 after over 10 months since the two sides clashed in the ICC T20 World Cup 2021.

Aug 23, 2022 18:08

Google executive Sajith Sivanandan to head Disney+ Hotstar

MUMBAI: Disney’s International Content and Operations Group has announced the appointment of Sajith Sivanandan as executive vice president and head of Disney+ Hotstar. Sivanandan, who joins Disney+ Hotstar from Google, will take up his new role in October and will be reporting in to Rebecca Campbell, chair of Disney’s International content and operations group and K. Madhavan, president, Disney Star.

Jul 25, 2022 11:07

Disney+ Hotstar subs base a factor in CA rights price premium?

MELBOURNE: Cricket Australia (CA) formally confirmed Sunday news out in the media last week that Disney Star had secured the rights to broadcast Australian cricket throughout India and other territories across Asia.

May 13, 2022 11:05

IPL drives 4m+ Disney+ Hotstar subscriptions in March quarter

MUMBAI: The BCCI's value pitch for the Indian Premier League's digital rights just got some serious heft with the declaration by the Walt Disney Company in an earnings call that Disney+ Hotstar had added over 4 million new subscribers in the March quarter, "which benefited from the start of the new IPL season".

Apr 25, 2022 18:04

IPL 2022: Hotstar to host Octa's Second Income campaign

NEW DELHI: Octa, a global brand of investment services, Monday announced the launch of a new campaign on the streaming platform Disney+ Hotstar. All through the remainder of the ongoing Indian Premier League season, Hotstar will be streaming Octa’s Second Income campaign video clips during the matches.

Mar 25, 2022 05:03

IPL 2022: 9-language feed, 85-commentator panel on Disney Star

MUMBAI: Disney Star, official broadcaster of the Tata Indian Premier League 2022, Thursday announced an eminent panel of 85 commentators for the upcoming season. The 15th edition of the IPL will feature some of the best commentators across nine languages, including English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Marathi, Malayalam, Bengali, and the newly added Gujarati feed.

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