State owned television channel of Pakistan, Pakistan Television (PTV) is all set to launch another sports channel. The second sports channel of PTV will be named as PTV Sports 2. According to the sources of PTV, the new sports channel will be possibly launch this month in January. The main reason behind this initiative is to give the full coverage of all the sports events around the world. PTV Sports was launched in 2012 and in the last 3 years, it has proved itself the number one sports channel of Pakistan by covering all the major events of sports.
According to the sources of Pakistan Television, the channel has grown its viewership just after the arrival of its new MD, Muhammad Malick. He is working very hard for the betterment of Pakistan Television and to bring back those days when Pakistan Television was the first and the only choice of viewers in Pakistan. In the last few months, PTV has break all the sales targets and beats its competitors including Geo Sports and Ten Sports.
Recently, PTV has successfully acquired both the cable/satellite & terrestrial rights of ICC until 2019, which is very big achievement.