Star TV

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Star TV (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.

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

Channels serviced by Star TV:

Channel V [1] (http://www.channelv.com) - 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 (http://www.vindia.com), Channel V China (http://www.vchinese.com), Channel V Australia (http://www.channelv.com.au) and Channel V Thailand (http://www.channelv.co.th).
Star World - Popular US and British entertainment programming broadcast to Asia.
Star Movies - One of the most popular 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 movie channel tailor made for Hong Kong
Star Plus [2] (http://starplus.indya.com) - India's most popular Hindi General Entertainment Channel.
Star One [3] (http://starone.indya.com) - Niche Hindi General Entertainment Channel
Star Gold [4] (http://stargold.indya.com) - Hindi Movie Channel
Star Utsav [5] (http://starutsav.indya.com) - in Hindi.
Star News [6] (http://starnews.indya.com) - 24-hour Hindi News Channel.
Star Vijay [7] (http://vijay.indiatimes.com) - in Tamil.
Xing Kong - Mandarin General Entertainment Channel
Phoenix Chinese Channel [8] (http://www.phoenixtv.com) - International Mandarin-language Entertainment Channel
Phoenix Infonews [9] (http://www.phoenixtv.com)] - 24-hour Mandarin News Channel
Phoenix Movies Channel [10] (http://www.phoenixtv.com) - Movie Channel in Mainland China
A1 [11] (http://www.ngcasia.com/a1) - 24 hour adventure programming
National Geographic Channel [12] (http://www.ngc.com) is part of the STAR Network in Asia.
The History Channel [13] (http://www.historychannel.com) is part of the STAR Network in Asia.
ESPN [14] (http://www.espn.com) is a part of the STAR Network in Asia.
Fox News [15] (http://www.foxnews.com) is a part of the STAR Network in Asia.
Sky News [16] (http://www.sky.com/skynews/home) is a part of the STAR Network in Asia.
Granada UKTV [17] (http://www.starselect.com/channels/uktv.html) British entertainment from Granada now only available on STAR Select in the Middle East, dropped from the line-up in the rest of Asia in 2002