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Satellite Television Asia Region (STAR) is an Asian television service owned by 21st Century Fox. It is headquartered in Hong Kong, with regional offices in mainland China, Taiwan and India.
According to the STAR website, their service has more than 300 million-viewers in 53-countries and is watched by approximately 120 million-viewers every day.
"(telecommunications) have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere ... satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled television channels"
After this, the former prime minister Li Peng requested and obtained the ban of satellite dishes throughout the country. Subsequently the STAR TV network dropped the BBC channels from its satellite offer. This, and many ensuing declaration from Murdoch, led critics to believe the businessman was striving to appease the Chinese government in order to have the ban lifted.[8]
In February 2001, The company rebranded from "STAR TV" to "STAR", reflecting the company's evolution from a television brand to a multi-service, multi-platform brand.
In August 2009, STAR Broadcasting Corporation revealed a restructure to its Asian broadcast businesses into three units – STAR India, STAR Greater China, and Fox International Channels Asia.
Today, STAR Broadcasting Corporation broadcasts over 60 services in 13 languages. Shows include entertainment, sports, movies, music, news and documentaries.
Reaching more than 300 million viewers in 53 countries across Asia, STAR Broadcasting Corporation is watched by approximately 120 million viewers every day.
STAR Broadcasting Corporation controls over 20,000 hours of Indian and Chinese programming. It also owns Fortune STAR, the world's largest contemporary Chinese film library, with more than 600 titles, featuring superstars including Jackie Chan, Chow Yun-fat and Bruce Lee. In partnership with leading companies in Asia, STAR Broadcasting Corporation businesses extend to filmed entertainment, television production, cable systems and distribution, direct-to-home services, terrestrial TV broadcasting, wireless and digital services.
In 1994, STAR TV Network removed BBC World Service Television (now BBC World News) 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.[9][10][11]
On 9 August 2010, News Corporation signed an agreement with China Media Capital (CMC), which CMC acquired a controlling stake in STAR China's properties (Xing Kong, Xing Kong International, Channel [V] Mainland China and the Fortune STAR Chinese movie library).
In 2014, 21st Century Fox has sold its minority stake in the broadcaster Star China TV to China Media Capital after finally giving up on the emerging Chinese television market. [12]
1More than 400,000 television service subscribers.
1 - Organization still in operation, but no longer offers cable or internet as part of its services.
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