Star Movies India pulls out

After a few years in Sri Lanka, Star Movies India which replaced Star Movies Asia will be pulled out from Sri Lanka tomorrow. Star Movies India which is the only version of Star Movies operated by Star India, all others are operated by Fox International Channels was introduced due to a regionalization drive undertaken by Fox International. Star Movies Asia was rebranded Fox Movies Premium.

Now due to this move Sri Lankan movie fans are left without access to the movies that are distributed for broadcast by studios to Star Movies India & which is also released to Fox Movies Premium in the rest of Asia. The only access we have is access to movies released to HBO Asia which has faithfully stood by this region.

Due to this move a surge in movie piracy is expected. It's sad to note that a multinational like Fox would make moves that result in the increase of piracy.

Fox International should take immediate steps to release Fox Movies Premium to Sri Lanka since Star India is no longer interested in the Sri Lankan market. It should be noted that Fox Movies Premium is available in Maldives which also has access to the entire stable of channels operated by Fox in Asia. Sri Lanka should be included in the Asian feed for all Fox distributed channels and Indian feeds of Star should be halted.

Literally Star India should be kicked out of Sri Lanka.

ICC World Cup broadcast rights held by CSN in danger

It's a new year, new week and a new president. Even though we don't care too much about politics, it invariably has on effect on our day to day lives.In the midst of these political changes, we can't help but wonder regarding the status of CSN's World Cup broadcast rights and rights for the whole of cricket in Sri Lanka.

SLRC the state broadcaster with arguably the best coverage was robbed of it's broadcasting rights owing to political interference. Now under it's new chairman SLRC is itching to broadcast the World Cup and get back it's status as the National Sports broadcaster.

CSN has been awarded the rights, SLRC wants the rights. So what should happen? We sincerely hope that CSN will be stripped of World Cup broadcasting & all cricketing rights and these should be restored back to SLRC. Mr. President we hope to see the announcement soon.

In addition every sporting event for which CSN unethically obtained rights, should be stripped from them.