Star Sports 2 Kannada (formerly Star Sports First ) is a Hindi-language sports TV channel from India’s Star Sports network. It was launched on 21 July 2017 as a free-to-air channel on the government-owned DD Free Dish platform.
Despite several Hindi entertainment and movie channels being removed from DD Free Dish in March 2019, as a result of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s drastic changes in TV channel pricing and packaging in December 2018 and January 2019, Star Sports First continues to be available on DD Free Dish. Zee ’s Big Magic has not been removed either.
Star Sports First [ ] 2017–2025 [ ] Star Sports 2 Kannada [ ] 2025–present [ ]
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Part of Viacom18 TV18 /Reliance Industries Limited ) and Disney India (The Walt Disney Company )
Television channels: Hindi: Entertainment: Star Plus | Star Bharat | Star Utsav | Movies: Star Gold | Star Gold 2 | Star Gold Select | Star Gold Romance | Star Gold Thrills | Star Utsav Movies 1
English: Entertainment: Disney International HD 1 | Movies: Star Movies | Star Movies Select | Knowledge and infotainment: National Geographic | Nat Geo Wild | Kids: Disney Channel 1 | Hungama 1 | Super Hungama 1 | Disney Junior 1
Regional-language TV channels: Entertainment channels: Tamil: Star Vijay | Telugu: Star Maa | Kannada: Star Suvarna | Malayalam: Asianet and Asianet Plus | Bengali: Star Jalsha | Marathi: Star Pravah | Odia: Star Kiran Movie channels: Tamil: Vijay Super and Vijay Takkar | Telugu: Star Maa Movies and Star Maa Gold | Kannada: Star Suvarna Plus | Malayalam: Asianet Movies | Bengali: Jalsha Movies | Marathi: Pravah Picture Music channels: Telugu: Star Maa Music
Star Sports :English: Star Sports 1 | Star Sports 2 | Star Sports 3 | Star 4K | Hindi: Star Sports 1 Hindi | Star Sports 2 Hindi | Star Sports Khel Regional languages: Star Sports 1 Tamil | Star Sports 2 Tamil | Star Sports 1 Telugu | Star Sports 2 Telugu | Star Sports 1 Kannada | Star Sports 2 Kannada Star Sports Select :Star Sports Select 1 | Star Sports Select 2
International channels: United Kingdom and Europe: Utsav Plus | Utsav Gold | Utsav Bharat Middle East and Southeast Asia: Vijay TV | Asianet Middle East Africa: Star Life | Star Select
Other assets: Video-on-demand service: Disney+ Hotstar (Originals | Specials ) | Film production: Star Studios (Other ) Satellite TV, broadband and OTT: Tata Play 2 (Tata Play+ | HD | + HD | UHD 4K | Binge/Binge+ | Fiber )
Former channels and properties:
Video-on-demand service: Star Player Indian channels: Defunct: General Entertainment: Life OK , Star One , Star World , Star World Premiere HD , FX and Fox Crime | Sports: Star Sports 1 Bangla , Star Sports 1 Marathi , Star Sports 4 , Star Sports First , ESPN , ESPN Star Sports and Star Sports 4K | Movies: Movies OK , Star Movies Action , UTV World Movies 1 , UTV Action Telugu 1 , UTV Movies 1 , UTV Action 1 , UMP Movies 1 , Star Gold 4K and UTV HD 1 | Music: Channel V , Bindass Play 1 and Vijay Music | Youth: UTV Stars and Bindass | Infotainment: Nat Geo Tamil , Nat Geo Telugu and The History Channel | Lifestyle: Star Life and Fox Life | Kids: Jetix , Disney XD and Marvel HQ | Star Sports Premium Service HD Divested: News network 3 (Star News | Star Ananda | Star Majha ) | Star CJ Alive 4 | MTV (India) 5 | Bloomberg UTV/UTVi 1 International channels discontinued in India: Nat Geo Music | Nat Geo People | BabyTV (SD only) Unlaunched: Star Sports 1 Gujarati | Star Sports 1 Malayalam | Jalsha Josh
Non-Indian channels: Star China Media 6 (Star Sports (China) | Xing Kong | Channel V (China) | Fortune Star ) | Antv 7 | Film Indonesia | MTV Asia 5 | Star World Asia 8 , Star Movies8 (Asia , Philippines and Taiwan ) | Viva Cinema 9 | Channel V (Korea)
Notes
1 Originally owned, sold or discontinued by The Walt Disney Company India before its acquisition of Star.
2 Joint venture with Tata Group .
3 Sold to ABP Group .
4 Sold to CJ ENM .
5 Joint venture between Star and Viacom . Dissolved in 1994 with the launch of Channel V and Channel V India .
6 Sold to China Media Capital.
7 Sold to Visi Media Asia , which had owned 80% of the channel (Star formerly owned 20%).
8 Rebranded from Star to Fox channels in 2017. Defunct since 1 October 2021.
9 Relaunched as Pinoy Box Office, later known as PBO .
