Sports Illustrated Television (Asia)

Sports Illustrated TV was the first 24-hour sports network in Asia. It was launched on October 1, 2009 by Yes Television. The channel was then relaunched in 2016 by the newly formed joint-venture between ASN Ltd. and Meredith Corporation (owners of the Sports Illustrated magazine).

Sports Illustrated
Broadcast areaAsiawide
Programming
Language(s)English
Picture format4:3/16:9 576i (SDTV)
16:9 1080i (HDTV)
Ownership
OwnerASN Limited
Meredith Corporation (Sports Illustrated)
History
LaunchedOctober 1, 2009 (2009-10-01)
ClosedMay 1, 2019 (2019-05-01) (Hong Kong, Indonesia and Malaysia)
June 21, 2019 (2019-06-21) (Singapore and Thailand)
Former namesAll Sports Network (2009-2016)
Links
Websitehttps://www.si.com/asia/tv-schedule

Sports Illustrated TV featured a wide range of sports content from the world's biggest brands in sports. It managed 3,200 hours of licensed sports content including NFL (including the Super Bowl), NHL, NCAA March Madness, NASCAR and Extreme Sports. It also had exclusive game rights to certain NCAA football, NCAA basketball and other major collegiate events.[1][2]

Sports Illustrated reaches 11 territories – Cambodia, Laos, India, Indonesia, Macau, Malaysia, Myanmar, Taiwan, Thailand, Singapore and Sri Lanka.

As of 2018, the channel was no longer available in Hong Kong and Philippines.

It was announced on May 1 2019 that Sports Illustrated TV would cease its transmission at the end of the following day in the rest of Asia. On June 21, 2019, it will no longer be available in Singapore and Thailand.

Final Programming Broadcast by Sports Illustrated TV

NFL programming get excluded in Thailand (True Visions), Hong Kong (Now TV) and Taiwan (Sportcast)

  • SI Now
  • SI Fansided

References
  1. All Sports Network Channel Distribution in Asia Archived 2010-01-12 at the Wayback Machine retrieved via www.asn.tv 1-08-2010
  2. ASN Sports Content Archived 2010-02-27 at the Wayback Machine retrieved via www.asn.tv 12-30-2009
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