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Satellite Television for the Asian Region (STAR) is an Asian TV service owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation. It is based in Hong Kong, with programming offices in India and Australia, as well as in other south Asian countries. Launched in 1991 with five television channels, STAR pioneered satellite television in Asia and in the process catalysed explosive growth in the media industry across the entire region. According to the STAR website, their service has more than 300 million viewers in 54 countries and is watched by approximately 100 million viewers every day. STAR’s revenues have increased from $220 million in 2003 to $245 million in 2004. STAR has emerged as India’s second-largest media company after Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. which is the publisher of Times of India.
The company was launched in 1990 as part of Hutchison Whampoa group. It started broadcasting five television channels in 1991 from AsiaSat 1 Satellite. Launch of StarTV pioneered satellite television in Asia and in the process catalysed explosive growth in the media industry across the entire region. In 1993 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.
Today STAR broadcasts over 60 services in nine languages. Shows include entertainment, sports, movies, music, news and documentaries. STAR controls over 20,000 hours of Indian and Chinese programming. STAR owns an extensive library of multi-language content that has successfully captured the hearts of millions across Asia and beyond. STAR’s library includes Fortune Star, the world’s largest contemporary Chinese language feature film library. The Fortune Star library includes over 600 major motion picture titles that showcase superstars such as Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Chow Yun Fat, Jet Li, Michelle Yeoh and come from a list of renowned filmmakers that includes John Woo, Yuen Woo Ping and Ronny Yu. STAR also syndicates and distributes its 20,000 hour library of top-rated Indian and Chinese television programming. Among the titles in this library are India’s most watched daily dramas as well as No. 1 Taiwanese music variety programs Lollipop and Blackie’s Teenage Club. In partnership with leading companies in Asia, STAR businesses extend to filmed entertainment, television production, cable systems and wireless and digital services.
In 1994 STAR removed BBC World Service Television (now 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 Chinese market if the BBC was not withdrawn. This is despite technology that is capable of blocking BBC World in China, while making it available in other countries they serve.
Star Ventures:
Over the years, STAR has established strategic alliances with a formidable array of companies, working closely together to explore business opportunities in the unique business environments of countries across Asia. These relationships help STAR to break new ground in content creation, distribution and sales.
- ESPN STAR Sports: (50%) A joint venture with ESPN Inc, ESPN Star Sports is Asia’s leading sports network with 17 sports channels offering an array of compelling sports content.
- STAR DEN: (50%) A joint venture with DEN Digital Entertainment Networks Pvt Ltd to create a platform for distributing television channels in India via all fixed networks including cable, DTH, IPTV, HITS and MMDS.
- Fox STAR Studios: (50%) A joint venture with Twentieth Century Fox to produce world-class local-language films in Asia for worldwide distribution.
- Channel [V] Thailand: (49%) A joint venture with TrueVisions and GMM Media, Channel [V] Thailand is a leading music and youth entertainment channel at Thailand?s youth market.
- Media Content and Communications Services (MCCS): (26%) A joint venture with ABP Pvt Ltd, MCCS broadcasts three news and current affairs channels in India, namely STAR NEWS (in Hindi), STAR ANANDA (in Bengali) and STAR MAJHA (in Marathi)
- Hathway Cable: (22.2%) Established by the Rajan Raheja Group, Hathway Cable isone of the largest multi service operators in India.
- Tata Sky Ltd.: (20%) A joint venture with the Tata Group and Temasek, Tata Sky offers unprecedented direct-to-home satellite TV service in India, offering a host of programming choices and interactive features
- ANTV: (20%) A joint venture with with the Bakrie Group, antv is a national terrestrial broadcaster in Indonesia.
- Phoenix Satellite Television: (17.6%) A publicly listed company based in Hong Kong, Phoenix Satellite Television is a five-channel platform catering to the global Chinese community with general entertainment, financial news / current affairs and Mandarin movies services.
STAR Brands:
- STAR PLUS
- STAR ONE
- STAR CHINESE CHANNEL
- STAR WORLD
- STAR UTSAV
- VIJAY
- XING KONG
- ANTV
- PHOENIX CHINESE CHANNEL
- STAR GOLD
- STAR PRAVAH
- STAR JALSHA
- STAR CHINESE MOVIES
- STAR CHINESE MOVIES 2
- STAR MOVIES
- PHOENIX MOVIES CHANNEL
- Channel [v]
- STAR SPORTS
- ESPN
- STAR CRICKET
- PHOENIX INFONEWS CHANNEL
- STAR ANANDA
- STAR NEWS
- STAR MAJHA
- PLUS
Head Office:
STAR Group Limited
8th Floor, One Harbourfront,
18 Tak Fung Street, Hunghom,
Kowloon,
Hong Kong
Tel: +852-26218888
Fax: +852-26218000
India Office:
Star India Pvt Ltd,
STAR House,
Off Dr. E. Moses Road,
Mahalaxmi,
Mumbai – 400 011.
India
Tel: +91-22-66305555
Fax: +91-22-66305050
Star India Pvt Ltd.,
1st Floor
Central Wing,
Thapar House,
124 Janpath,
New Delhi – 110001.
India.
Tel: +91-11-42494900
Fax: +91-11-41049490
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this is swapnil shrivastava i am doin mba from nri bhopal .
Review on Star India Pvt Ltd. by swapnil shrivastava — May 27, 2009 @ 2:48 pm
Ex- employee of Star Vijay..
Worked with great team of senior management
Regards
Madan
Review on Star India Pvt Ltd. by s.madan — November 18, 2009 @ 11:53 am
good evening my name is anirudh yadav I am persuing my MBA from institute of business studies and research pune.
actualy I am looking for career in this sector.
Review on Star India Pvt Ltd. by anirudh yadav — January 13, 2010 @ 2:45 pm
Even during the recession the STAR India Private Limited has done good enough to stay in the TRP competion.Even aftrer Turning down of Balaji Telefilms Star have managed well to contain its channel shows in comparison with others.Tele producing persons like Asha Parekh can re-enter and make a position in the bussiness.Even a few new producing company can appear with new ideas and script. A few new generation young youths have turn their interest on reguler tv programms.They are tired of watching daily soaps.Even the girls teenagers are not so interested in Saas-bahu dramas. they want to compete with these new young boys.They really want some thrilling and suspense shows on tv aswell as detective or something conpletely romantic.That’s why shows like “LOST” has been big hit.The few hits of late 90’s and early 01’s hit movie and culture has get into the middlecass houses,of the most number of viewers belongs.A new era in Indian Television history has to come.A few talented and bold writer to write down hard thrilling stories will appear and afew bold producers to produce them as well.
Review on Star India Pvt Ltd. by Samlap Hansda — February 8, 2010 @ 9:00 pm