FIFA World Cup schedule in IST & DDNational, Sony Six coverage plan for Brazil 2014

Hindi commentary fans DD1 will air 

opening match, semis & final in Hindi

Here is the FIFA World Cup Brazil 2014 schedule with timings in Indian Standard Time. 24 matches will be aired in 9:30pm slot, 13 matches in 12:30 am slot, 16 matches in 1:30 am slot, 10 matches in 3:30 am slot & a match at 6:30 am.

Sony Six & Sony Six HD will air all 64 matches in English, 56 matches will be aired on Sony Aath in Bangla. Sony has also launched LivSports.in to live stream FIFA World cup.

There will be no Hindi commentary despite rating & research showing huge success of soccer Hindi commentary. However pubcaster DD National will air opening match, 2 semis & final in Hindi with Novy Kapadia & Ghaus Mohammed calling the game.

Alvida Sachin Series will be the costliest Test series in the history

Alvida Sachin Series will be the
costliest test series in the history

Sachin’s farewell series will be shown live on Star Cricket in Hindi & on Star Sports, Star Cricket HD in English. And on other platforms starsports.com will live stream Alvida Series online & All India Radio will air running commentary.

Public broadcaster Prasar Bharti’s CEO Jawahar Sircar has also tweeted that ''We will see if we can negotiate'' with Star-BCCI' to air Sachin’s last match on DD National so that terrestrial TV viewers can also watch the legend playing last time.

Share feed with Doordarshan : Delhi High Court to Sports Channels

Upholding Prasar Bharati’s view, the Delhi High Court on Thursday held that whosoever airs a live television broadcast of sporting events of national importance must share the same with national broadcaster Prasar Bharati, which runs Doordarshan & All India Radio, without any commercials.

A bench of Chief Justice N V Ramana and Justice Pradeep Nandrajog made the observations while dismissing a TV channel’s plea seeking a direction to Prasar Bharati not to insist on the live signal of international cricket matches of India without any commercial.

India vs Australia ODI series : Star Cricket & Star Sports to air Fight for No.1

Star Cricket & Star Sports will air India vs Australia 7 matches ODI series & only T20 international starting October 10. Coverage will be available in Hindi on Star Cricket & in English on Star Sports. However live streaming on starsports.com will be in Engish only. Star Cricket HD will air high definition feed with English commentary.

As all India international cricket matches are categorized as sports event of 'national importance', public broadcaster DD National and All India Radio will also air live action. Here is full schedule of ODI series between No.1 ODI team India and No.2 ODI team Australia.