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 Star India
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Disney Star India 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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Star India TV was founded in 1990 as a joint venture between Hutchison Whampoa and Li Ka-Shing.
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In 1990, Star India TV started with the first 5 channels included Star India Plus, STAR TV Chinese Channel, Prime Sports, MTV and BBC World Service Television.
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Star India broadcasting operations were run from Rupert Murdoch's Fox Broadcasting premises.
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Between 1994 and 1998, Star India was launched, later launched Star Movies, Channel V, and STAR News with a limited Hindi offering, and then Star Plus for Indian viewers.
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In 2009, Star India acquired Trivandrum, India based media conglomerate Asianet Communications Limited which served Malayalam language content.
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In 2012, 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, Star India acquired broadcast businesses of Maa Television Pvt.
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On 28 August 2017, Star India replaced its Hindi Entertainment channel Life OK with a free-to-air channel Star Bharat.
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On 5 September 2017, Star India won the global media rights to broadcast Indian Premier League for 5 years beginning in 2018.
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On 27 August 2018, the channel 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, Star India TV shut down its television operations in USA for the promotion of its digital counterpart, Hotstar.
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On 20 March 2019, Star India became a subsidiary of Disney India as the deal was Open.
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On 18 October 2021, Disney and Star announced that they would exit from the English general entertainment industry and that they would close down Star World and Star World Premiere originally planned by 30 November 2021.
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STAR India Entertainment provides 51 channels while STAR India Sports provides 17 channels.
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In January 2015, 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, 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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