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Top sports media in India

The outlets that cover sport in India — the sports press, the broadcasters, the agencies and the specialist titles.
✓ Last reviewed: September 2026

These are the outlets that cover sport in India — the sports press, the broadcasters that hold or have held rights, the national news agency where it carries sport, and the specialist titles of national standing. Single-sport titles without national standing are not listed here; they appear on the media list for their own sport.

How this list is ordered. By role and national standing — the sports press first, then the broadcasters that hold or have held rights, then the national news agency and the specialist titles. That order is set once and stays put, so a page that has been cited does not rearrange itself later. The Tranco figure against each outlet is shown for reference and does not set the order. Tranco is a research ranking of web domains that averages the Chrome User Experience Report, Cloudflare Radar, Majestic, Cisco Umbrella and Farsight over the preceding 30 days, on the list of September 2026. It ranks a whole domain, not a sports desk. A general daily's rank counts every reader it has, most of whom did not come for sport, so a national newspaper will sit above a dedicated sports title that has more sports readers than it does. Some outlets carry no Tranco figure at all. Tranco ranks registrable domains, so a sports desk published on a subdomain cannot appear in it whatever its readership, and a smaller national outlet may sit outside the top million. Those are marked below.

1. JioStarBroadcaster · Television · Tranco 271,904 — The Star Sports television channels and the JioHotstar streaming service, run by the Reliance–Disney joint venture whose completion was announced on 14 November 2024. Named by the ICC as India's broadcaster for the 2026 Men's T20 World Cup. 2. SportstarSpecialist title · Magazine · not in the Tranco top million — A sports magazine published from Chennai by Kasturi & Sons, publisher of The Hindu. Media Ownership Monitor India dates its launch to 1978; the magazine's own description gives 15 July 1978 and a print-only, multi-sport weekly start. 3. Sony Sports NetworkBroadcaster · Television · not in the Tranco top million — The Sony TEN sports channels and the Sony LIV streaming service, run by Sony Pictures Networks India Private Limited, which reverted to that registered name in 2026 after four years as Culver Max Entertainment. 4. ESPNcricinfoSpecialist title · News site · Tranco 4,406 — A cricket news, scorecard and statistics site launched in 1993 and bought by ESPN in June 2007. Its Indian operation, ESPN Digital Media (India) Private Limited, is listed at EGL Business Park in Bengaluru. 5. DD SportsBroadcaster · Television · Tranco 106,162 — Doordarshan's sports channel, run by the statutory public broadcaster Prasar Bharati. The Sports Broadcasting Signals (Mandatory Sharing with Prasar Bharati) Act, 2007 requires live feeds of sporting events of national importance to be shared with it. 6. The Times of IndiaGeneral sports coverage · Newspaper · not in the Tranco top million — An English-language daily founded in Bombay in 1838 as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce and renamed in 1861, published by Bennett, Coleman & Co. Media Ownership Monitor India records it as owned by the Jain family.