Indian Media Bash Blog

Your commentary team on Star Cricket just plain SUCKS.

I am watching the India - South Africa match on ESPN right now and they just showed the Zee’s Dish TV advertisement.
It is pretty weird considering ESPN is a partner of Star Sports and Zee and Star are competitors. Star has their own DTH Service named Tata Sky.
Is this a mistake or ESPN does [...]

The latest ad has Priyanka Chopra telling cricket fans that they should enjoy the same drinks while watching the cricket match, which the cricketers drink during the breaks.
Now, I am not exactly sure that the cricketers would be taking carbonated drinks while playing a match!
I believe they would rather have some refreshing energy [...]

Prime time reporting on Star News…
9:30 pm: Star News is analyzing the new haircut sported by Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
The various facts noticed by the reporter group:
a. The hair length is now shorter than before.
b. This is going to disappoint Pakistan President Musharraf, as he liked Dhoni with longer hair.
c. The new haircut is because of his contract [...]

Everyone who watches a lot of television would notice the number of news channels, which have cropped up in the recent times. CNN IBN came because Rajdeep Sardesai probably had some issues with Prannoy Roy. Times Now came because I am not sure but it looks like the Times Group needed more place to advertise [...]