Star to telecast IPL finale on 17 channels, adds Marathi Malayalam feeds

Star to telecast IPL finale on 17 channels, adds Marathi Malayalam feeds

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MUMBAI: On the evening of 27 May, Star India wants to ensure you see nothing but IPL on your TV screens, no matter where you are or what language you speak. It has roped in Star Pravah and Asianet movies to add two new language feeds for better reach of the IPL 2018 in Marathi and Malayalam respectively.

Star Pravah will carry the first ever Marathi language broadcast of the IPL with Madhuri Dixit-Nene and Swwapnil Joshi joining the celebrations on the channel while the Malayalam language feed will be broadcast on Asianet Movies. Star Gold will also join in with the Hindi broadcast.

The showdown will be telecast on 17 different feeds across the Star network - Star Sports 1 English, Star Sports 1 HD English, Star Sports 1 Hindi, Star Sports 1 HD Hindi, Star Sports 1 Tamil, Star Sports 1 Select SD English, Star Sports 1 Select HD English, Star Plus SD, Star Plus HD, Star Pravah SD, Star Pravah HD, Star Gold SD, Star Gold HD, Star Suvarna Plus, Star Maa Movies, Star Jalsha Movies and Asianet Movies.

Star Plus will telecast a two-hour prelude Cricket Finals…Party to Banti hai hosted by Ranbir Kapoor. Other celebrities joining the party include Salman Khan, Jacqueline Fernandes, Kareena Kapoor and Sonam Kapoor. 

The Dugout on Star Sports Select will continue to cater to core cricket fans who want to stay ahead of the game. The ball-by-ball coverage of the playoffs will entail predictive and prescriptive analysis - covering deep insights, rich data and video analytics and demonstrations by Dean Jones, Scott Styris, Anil Kumble, Kumar Sangakkara, Darren Sammy, Brett Lee, Mike Hesson etc.   

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