Tata Sky Introduces Free Sports Channels Tata Sky subscribers have received a message which reads that they will be receiving Star Sports 1 Hindi, Star Sports 1 Tamil, Star Sports 1 Telugu, Star Sports 1 Kannada, and Start Sports 1 Bangla channels at no additional cost from March 23, 2019, to May 19, 2019. It is worth noting that by introducing this move, Tata Sky has made a very popular sports channel available in almost all major regional languages at free of cost. Also, these channels will be live on the subscribers’ accounts till the IPL season and they will be taken off on May 20, 2019, midnight. Keeping in mind the IPL season, Tata Sky has also launched a Family Sports HD pack which costs Rs 646 per month, and it will avail 96 channels to the subscribers including all sports channels from Star, Sony and more. The SD variant of the same pack has been priced at Rs 456. Airtel Digital TV Free Channels for IPL Season Following in the footsteps of Tata Sky, Airtel Digital TV has also announced that it will be providing free preview channels for existing users and new users in the IPL season. New DTH connection buyers of Airtel will get to enjoy complimentary Star Sports 1 and Star Sports 1 Hindi till May 19, 2019. However, later Airtel Digital TV also informed that existing users would get additional channels which would include Star Sports 1, Star Sports 1 HD, Star, Sports 1 Hindi, Star Sports 1 Hindi HD, Star Sports 1 Telugu, Star Sports 1 Tamil, Star, Sports 1 Kannada and Star Sports 1 Bangla. D2h New Regional Language Feeds for Sports Channel On similar lines, although D2h has not introduced free preview channels for its subscribers, it has added a total of four new language feeds for Star Sports 2. These feeds will avail Star Sports 2 in Hindi, English, Tamil, Kannada and Bangla thus increasing the reach of the DTH provider.
