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STAR TV

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STAR (Satellite Television for Asian Region) is an Asian TV service owned by the News Corporation. It is based out of Hong Kong but there are also programming offices in India and Australia, as well as in the rest regions in Asia.

According to the STAR website, their services has more than 300 million viewers in 53 countries and is watched by approximately 100 million viewers every day.

The Economist has suggested that News Corporation may eventually merge STAR with British Sky Broadcasting|BSkyB and DirecTV (its United Kingdom and United States satellite businesses) to form a global satellite TV company.
History

STAR was set up in 1990 by Hutchison Whampoa, with broadcasts commencing in 1991. In 1993 Rupert Murdoch|Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation purchased 63.6% of STAR for over $500 million, followed by the purchase of the remaining 34.6% in July 1995.

In 1994 STAR removed BBC World from the network following demands from the government of the People's Republic of China. It is alleged that the PRC government was unhappy with BBC coverage and threatened to block Star TV in the huge mainland China|mainland Chinese market if the BBC was not withdrawn. http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2268 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/1107470.stm http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/S/htmlS/startvhong/startvhong.htm
Channels provided

  • Channel V - A bouquet of Asia's top Music Television Channels. Its main international hub used to be in Hong Kong but has since relocated to Malaysia. There are local Channel V channels such as Channel V India, Channel V China, Channel V Australia and Channel V Thailand.

  • STAR World - Popular US and United Kingdom|British entertainment programming broadcast to Asia.

  • STAR Movies - One of the most popular English language|English movie channels in this region.

  • STAR Sports - a sports channel, devoted to different events, such as boxing, auto racing, golf, and many more.

  • STAR Chinese - Mandarin General Entertainment Channel in Taiwan

  • STAR Chinese Movies - Cantonese (linguistics)|Cantonese movie channel tailor made for Hong Kong

  • STAR Plus - India's most popular Hindi General Entertainment Channel.

  • STAR One (tv channel)|Star One - Niche Hindi General Entertainment Channel

  • STAR Gold - Hindi Movie Channel

  • STAR Utsav - in Hindi.

  • STAR News - 24-hour Hindi News Channel.

  • STAR Vijay - in Tamil language|Tamil.

  • Xing Kong - Mandarin General Entertainment Channel

  • Phoenix Television|Phoenix Chinese Channel - International Mandarin (linguistics)|Mandarin-language Entertainment Channel

  • Phoenix Television|Phoenix Infonews - 24-hour Mandarin News Channel

  • Phoenix Television|Phoenix Movies Channel - Movie Channel in Mainland China

  • A1 - 24 hour adventure programming

  • National Geographic Channel

  • The History Channel

  • ESPN

  • Fox News

  • Sky News

  • Granada UKTV - UK|British entertainment from Granada Television|Granada now only available on STAR Select in the Middle East, dropped from the line-up in the rest of Asia in 2002
External links

  • http://startv.com/ Official website

  • http://www.indya.com/ Indya.com STAR India Home site

  • http://www.star.co.in/ STAR India Ad sales site

  • http://www.starselect.com/ STAR Select (Middle East)


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This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "STAR TV".


Last Modified:   2005-11-07


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