Disney Star Private Limited is an Indian media conglomerate and a wholly owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company India.
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20 Facts About Disney Star
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Disney Star generates more than 30,000 hours of content every year.
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Disney Star is the largest television and entertainment network in India.
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In 1990, Disney Star TV started with the first 5 channels included Disney Star Plus, STAR TV Chinese Channel, Prime Sports, MTV and BBC World Service Television.
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Disney Star broadcasting operations were run from Rupert Murdoch's Fox Broadcasting premises.
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Disney Star bought it in 2009 for $2 Million or 2 Cnt venture with Anand Bazar Patrika Group to comply with the regulations set for uplinking of news and current affairs channels by the Government of India.
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In 2009, Disney Star India acquired Trivandrum, India based media conglomerate Asianet Communications Limited which served Malayalam language content.
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In 2012, Disney Star India acquired the BCCI Rights for India cricket for the period 2012 through 2018.
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In 2015, Star India launched its video-on-demand service, Hotstar and forayed into online streaming.
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In 2015, Disney Star India acquired broadcast businesses of Maa Television Pvt.
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On 28 August 2017, Disney Star India replaced its Hindi Entertainment channel Life OK with a free-to-air channel Disney Star Bharat.
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On 5 September 2017, Disney Star India won the global media rights to broadcast Indian Premier League for 5 years beginning in 2018.
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On 14 December 2017, The Walt Disney Company announced the acquisition of 21st Century Fox, which included Star India.
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On 13 December 2018, Disney announced Uday Shankar who serves as chairman of Star India would lead Disney's Asian operations and would become the new chairman of Disney India, which became a wholly owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, being re-organized under The Walt Disney Company Private Limited.
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On 27 August 2018, the channel Disney Star Life was launched in Africa in English language offering the English dubbed Indian Hindi series from the Indian star channels.
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On 4 January 2019, Disney Star TV shut down its television operations in USA for the promotion of its digital counterpart, Hotstar.
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On 30 December 2020, Disney announced that the Star branding would be replaced with Utsav from 1 February in the Netherlands, with the Utsav Gold, Utsav Plus and Utsav Bharat branding launching in the UK on 22 January 2021, Star Vijay's international feed changed a new logo based with Utsav Network in yellow colour and rebranded as Vijay TV around the world on that same day, Utsav Network would separated to Star Gold, Plus and Bharat, the Asian feed would launch in South Korea.
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In January 2015, Disney Star India launched Hotstar, a mobile and online entertainment OTT platform owned by its affiliate, Novi Digital Entertainment.
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In January 2019, Disney Star India shut down its linear TV services in South America, United States, North America, and Canada and shifted all services to Hotstar USA.
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