PTV Sports is a 24-hour Pakistani sports channel; owned by PTV Network. PTV Sports was launched on 14 January 2012. Its test transmission began in December 2011 on Asia Sat. It is a state-owned channel. PTV Sports has telecast many sports events since it is launched. It retains exclusive broadcasting rights for many sporting events including cricket, tennis, hockey and football.
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Telecast on PTV Sports
Multi-sport events
- Olympic Games
- Asian Games
- World Universiade Games
- National Games of Pakistan
Cricket
- All cricket series and tournaments involving Pakistan
- ICC Cricket World Cup
- ICC T20 World Cup
- ICC Champions Trophy
- ICC Women's Cricket World Cup
- ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup
- Hong Kong International Cricket Sixes
- ICC World Cup Qualifier
- ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier
- ACC Asia Cup
- Champions League T20 Cup
- Ashes Cricket Series
- All international cricket tours of England
- All international cricket tours of Australia
- All international cricket tours of Pakistan
- Friends Life T20 Cup
- Big Bash League
- Faysal Bank T20 Cup
- Pakistan Super League
- Other matches in Pakistan
Football
- All international football matches of Pakistan
- FIFA World Cup
- Premier League
- SAFF Championship
- UEFA European Championship
- The Football Association Challenge Cup
1 First time in Pakistan
Hockey
- Hockey World Cup
- Sultan Azlan Shah Cup
- Hockey Champions Trophy
- FIH Hockey World League
- International Super Series Hockey 9's
Tennis
- Australian Open, The Grand Slam of Asia/Pacific
- Roland Garros, French Open
- The Championships, Wimbledon
- United States Open Tennis Championships
Other sports
- Squash
- Boxing
- Climbing
- Polo
- Badminton
- Taekwondo
- Baseball
- Golf
- Heliskiing
1 Only the matches of Amir Iqbal Khan
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Faysal Bank T20 Cup 2012/13
The biggest achievement of PTV Sports was that, they were the official broadcasters of Pakistan's domestic T20 tournament i.e. 2012-13 Faysal Bank T20 Cup. The tournament took place at Gaddaffi Stadium, Bagh-e-Jinnah and LCCA Ground, all in Lahore, 1-9 December 2012. The winner of this tournament received Rs.20 million and a trophy. The tournament consisted of 14 teams which were equally distributed in two groups; A and B. Group A consisted of Abbottabad Falcons, Islamabad Leopards, Karachi Zebras, Lahore Lions, Multan Tigers, Quetta Bears and Sialkot Stallions. Group B consisted of Bahawalpur Stags, Faisalabad Wolves, Hyderabad Hawks, Karachi Dolphins, Lahore Eagles, Peshawar Panthers and Rawalpindi Rams. The top two teams of each groups were qualified for the semi-finals and the winners of the semi-finals were contested in the final to decide the winner of this tournament. Lahore Lions lifted the trophy by beating Faisalabad Wolves in the final by 33 runs, under the captaincy of Mohammad Hafeez, after Mohammad Yousuf who passed his captaincy to Mohammad Hafeez. PTV Sports broadcast only those matches that were played at Gaddaffi Stadium, in Urdu and Punjabi language. English Commentary Language was broadcast on PTV Global. The tournament was also broadcast on the official website of PTV Sports.
Friends Life T20 2013
The fourth edition the English domestic T20 tournament i.e. Friends Life t20 was broadcast on PTV Sports. However, due to the Wimbledon, not all matches were broadcast live. These matches were broadcast later that night. Three Pakistanis played the tournament; Yasir Arafat for Somerset, Sohail Tanvir for Hampshire Royals and fully qualified English cricketer Azhar Mahmood for Surrey.
Featured programs
Game On Hai!
Game On Hai! is an analysis program of PTV Sports. The Show is hosted by Dr. Nauman Niaz and is accompanied by Saqlain Mushtaq, Waqar Younis, Wasim Akram, Rashid Latif, Shoaib Akhtar, Mohammad Wasim and other guest retired cricketers from different countries. During the 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup, Game On Hai! hosted Herschelle Gibbs and Jonty Rhodes. Then, throughout the ensuing Zimbabwe tour of Pakistan in 2015, the show hosted Alastair Campbell. During the Pakistan tour of Sri Lanka in 2015, the show hosted Sanath Jayasuriya followed by Dean Jones, Mark Butcher and Herschelle Gibbs for the England tour of UAE against Pakistan in December of the same year. Most recently during the entire duration of the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy, the show featured Ian Chappell of Australia, as well as Viv Richards and Brian Lara of the West Indies.
Sports Circle
Sports Circle is the flagship program of PTV Sports. The show is hosted by Muhammad Ali Sanwal and he is accompanied by retired cricketer Aamir Sohail. The show was previously hosted by Nauman Niaz. There are several other programs catering to other sports events such as field hockey.
Keh Dein Jo Kehna Hai
This is a new program started on PTV Sports. The host of this program is Mirza Iqbal Baig. They discuss over cricket, hockey and other sports.
All programmes
The programmes currently telecasting on PTV Sports are:
- Game On Hai!
- Keh Dein Jo Kehna Hai
- Sports Tonight
In 2012 PTV Sports became the 1st Channel in Pakistan to broadcast Premier League Football. A special programme "TALKING PREMIER LEAGUE" was launched which featured Ali Tayyab as host Khurram Suleman, Osman Malik & Qutub Mulla as experts.
See also
- Pakistan Television Corporation
- List of sports television channels
- Sport in Pakistan
- Grand Slam
- National Games of Pakistan
- List of cricket commentators
References
External links
- Official website
- PTV Sports on Twitter
- PTV Sports Biss key
Source of article : Wikipedia
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