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45-528: Disney Star was founded as Star TV (Satellite Television Asian Region) in 1990 as a joint venture between Hutchison Whampoa and Li Ka-Shing . It launched Hollywood English-language entertainment channels for Asian audiences. Its first five channels included Star Plus (then an English-language entertainment channel), Star Chinese Channel , Prime Sports , Channel V and BBC World Service Television . In 1992, Rupert Murdoch 's News Corporation purchased 63.6% of Star India for $ 525 million, followed by

90-484: A 73.91% share via TV18 . Although Bloomberg News reported that the deal was unlikely to close, the deal was confirmed a week later for $ 517 million, its closure subject to regulatory approval and the completion of the joint venture between Viacom18 and Disney. Paramount would, however, continue to license its content to the company. In August 2024, the National Company Law Tribunal approved

135-460: A 74% majority stake, while Star India reduced its participation with the remaining 26% to comply with the regulations set for the uplinking of news and current affairs channels by the Government of India . Star India, subsequently exited from this joint venture in 2012. After the split, the channel was renamed ABP News and operated by Anandabazar Patrika Group. In 2004, Star One was launched

180-527: A Hindi content channel. In 2008, Star Jalsha , a Bengali language entertainment channel and Star Pravah , a Marathi language entertainment channel were launched. In 2009, Star India acquired Kerala-based media conglomerate Asianet Communications, which served Malayalam language content. In August 2009, the Star Group restructured its Asian broadcast businesses into three units – Star India, Star China Media , and Fox International Channels Asia. In

225-493: A contract valued at ₹ 61,384.1 crore (equivalent to ₹ 820 billion or US$ 9.8 billion in 2023). 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 Disney India. On 27 August 2018,

270-477: A deal between Disney and Reliance Industries where JioCinema and Viacom18 would be merged into Digital18. In November 2024, Disney and Reliance Industries agreed to merge Star India and Viacom18. The deal was reported to be valued at $ 8.5 billion. Hutchison Whampoa Hutchison Whampoa Limited ( HWL ) was an investment holding company based in Hong Kong. It was a Fortune Global 500 company and one of

315-495: A deal to merge their streaming and television assets, with the joint venture valued at $ 8.5 billion including synergies. As part of the deal, Viacom18 would be merged into Disney Star with Disney holding a 36.84% stake in the combined entity, which would bring together assets such as linear television entertainment channels StarPlus , Colors TV and the Star Gold Network , sports channels Star Sports and Sports18 and

360-920: A joint-venture company, Harbour Plaza Hotel Management to operate and manage hotels under the portfolio of the Hutchison Property division. A.S. Watson Group (ASW), HWL's retail arm, operates its flagship retail chains in Asia such as Watsons , ParknShop supermarket, TASTE food galleria , GOURMET boutique style fine food hall, GREAT Food Hall , Fortress electrical appliances store, Watson's Wine Cellar and Nuance-Watson duty-free operator. In Europe, ASW's retail network comprises health and beauty chains: DC , Drogas , Kruidvat , Rossmann , Savers Health & Beauty , Superdrug , Trekpleister  [ fr ; nl ] , Spektr and Watson's , as well as luxury perfumeries and cosmetics retail brands: Marionnaud, ICI Paris XL and The Perfume Shop . A.S. Watson

405-743: A live audience. On 28 August 2017, Star India rebranded its Hindi entertainment channel Life OK to Star Bharat . On 5 September 2017, Star India won the global media rights to broadcast the Indian Premier League (IPL) under a five-year deal beginning in the 2018 tournament , and valued at 163.475 billion. Beating previous rightsholder Sony, the contract included domestic rights for Star Sports, and digital rights for Hotstar . On 14 December 2017, The Walt Disney Company announced their intent to acquire Star India's parent company 21st Century Fox for US$ 52.4 billion. In 2018, Star India renewed its BCCI rights through March 2023, in

450-469: A major reorganisation of the group's businesses. The combined business was renamed CK Hutchison Holdings . Hutchison Whampoa originated as two separate companies, both founded in the 19th century. Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock was formed in 1863 by John Couper, as a port management company. Hutchison International, a wholesale trading company and importer of consumer products, was founded in 1877 by John Duflon Hutchison. In 1965, Hutchison International under

495-719: A mobile phone service, was launched, which became a major player in telecommunications in the 1990s. By 2004, Li's equity in Hutchison Whampoa had gradually increased to 49.9%. In March 2011, Hutchison Port Holdings Trust (HPHT) announced that the company would IPO through Singapore Exchange for about US$ 5.4 billion. This would be the largest offering in South East Asia and surpass Petronas Chemicals ' offering of about $ 4.1 billion. In January 2015, Li Ka-shing entered into talks with Telefónica to buy its British mobile division, O2 , for around $ 15.4 billion, but

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540-516: A new logo during the reality show Bigg Boss Telugu Season 4 Grand Launch. Maa TV presents the CineMAA Awards to Tollywood personalities every year. The trophy was designed by Neil Foley Designs. Awards from the television serials were started presenting from 2017 onward with this name, every year best serials were nominated and present awards to them The channel is one of the most watched top five Telugu GECs. As of 2010, it remained

585-482: A restructured Hutchison Whampoa to another British firm. The bank instead sold off the company on generous terms to Li Ka-shing . On 25 September 1979, at the close of trade in London , HSBC announced that it was selling its 23% stake in Hutchison Whampoa to Cheung Kong Holdings for HK$ 639 million. During the 1980s, Hutchison Whampoa bought 33% of Hong Kong Electric Holdings . In 1985, Hutchison Telecommunications ,

630-547: A sale during a third-quarter earnings call, it was announced in December 2023 that Disney and Reliance had signed a non-binding term sheet for a merger. According to its terms, Reliance would hold 51% of the merged company in cash and stock, while Disney would own the remaining 49%. For purposes of the merger, a subsidiary of Viacom18 was created to absorb Disney Star through a stock swap , pending ratification and regulatory approval. In February 2024, Disney and Reliance reached

675-457: A subsidiary of Star India . It primarily telecasts programmes such as serials, reality shows and Telugu films. Penmetsa Murali Krishnam Raju founded MAA Television Network in 2001 as a corporate entity. Its flagship TV channel, MAA TV was launched in April 2002. The channel started off as a pay channel with 18 hours of programming a day. An initial investment of ₹ 25 crore was made into

720-398: Is the world's largest health and beauty retailer. Cheung Kong Infrastructure (CKI), HWL's infrastructure arm, is a diversified infrastructure company with businesses in transportation, energy, infrastructure materials, water plants and related operations. HWL was a major shareholder of Husky Energy , one of Canada's largest energy and energy related companies, holding 33.97%. HWL owned

765-660: The Cayman Islands , rather than Hong Kong. In May 2015, Hutchison revealed plans to sell one-third of its stake in its British-based mobile phone businesses for a potential fee of $ 4.3 billion to five investors including GIC Private Limited , Canada Pension Plan Investment Board , Abu Dhabi Investment Authority , BTG Pactual and Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec . HWL operated in 54 countries and employed around 230,000 staff worldwide. The company had six core businesses, most of which transferred to CK Hutchison: Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH) operates across Europe,

810-641: The Ranji Trophy and Irani Cup . On 6 November 2013, Star India rebranded its Star Sports channels, renaming the main Star Sports channel to Star Sports 1, Star Cricket to Hindi-language Star Sports 3, ESPN to Tamil-language Star Sports 4, and Star Cricket HD and ESPN HD to Star Sports HD1 and HD2. In February 2015, Star India launched its streaming service, Hotstar , a mobile and online entertainment OTT platform that features content in 9 Indian languages and broadcasts sporting events. Star also acquired

855-607: The Star Movies channels, alongside Disney International HD will not be affected). The Bangla and Marathi feeds of Star Sports 1 will also close on the same day. Meanwhile, the Star Gold brand would expand with the launch of an HD simulcast of Star Gold 2 that would replace UTV HD, alongside the rebranding of UTV Movies and UTV Action as Star Gold Romance and Star Gold Thrills. Star Movies Select HD, Star Movies Hindi, and Star Movies Tamil will also launch an SD simulcast, becoming

900-636: The Sun Group , for a potential sale of its streaming and linear television assets. In late October 2023, it was reported that Disney was nearing a cash and stock deal with Reliance Industries for the sale of its operations in India, including a controlling stake in Disney Star. The assets Reliance would acquire are reportedly valued at around $ 7–8 billion and a transaction was to be announced as early as November. Although Disney CEO Bob Iger refuted claims of

945-504: The " 3 " brand. It also owns 60.4% of Hutchison Asia Telecommunications (HAT), which provides mobile phone networks and data services in Asia. The company's subsidiary 3 Group Europe owns its '3' branded businesses in Europe. Another 1% of HAT is owned directly by Cheung Kong Holdings , the holding behind Cheung Kong group to which HWL belongs. Additionally, HWL is an official backer of the .mobi top level domain created specifically for

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990-403: The "Fox" name from the studios that had been acquired from 21st Century Fox by Disney. In July 2023, The Walt Disney Company began exploring strategic options, including a sale or formation of a joint venture, for their businesses in India. Between September and October 2023, the company held preliminary talks with Reliance Industries , billionaire Gautam Adani and Kalanithi Maran , owner of

1035-742: The Americas, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. It operates in five of the seven busiest container ports in the world, handling 13% of the world's container traffic. Hutchison Whampoa operates container terminals in Panama, as well as Mexico and other parts of the Americas. From office buildings in Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, to luxury residential properties in the United Kingdom, Hutchison Whampoa Property develops and invests in real estate. Together with Cheung Kong Holdings , HWL has set up

1080-773: The Asian feed would launch in South Korea. On 31 August 2021, Disney announced that it would phase out Hotstar in the US and move all content into Hulu and ESPN+ . Initially, it was announced that the service would shut down in the US by late 2022, until it got moved to an earlier date on 30 November 2021. 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 in India originally planned by 30 November 2021 (although

1125-573: The Indian government introduced a guideline limiting foreign equity in the national news business to 26%. At that time Star India was wholly owned by Hong Kong-based company Satellite Television Asia Region Ltd. As a result, Star India entered into a joint venture with the Ananda Bazar Patrika group (ABP) to form a new company, Media Content and Communications Services Pvt. Ltd. (MCCS), which took control of Star News's operations. ABP held

1170-583: The broadcast businesses of Maa Television Pvt. Ltd to boost its presence in Telugu -speaking markets. In February 2017, Star India and global media conglomerate TED announced a new TV series, TED Talks India – Nayi Soch . The programme starred Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan and featured newer TED talks made in Hindi language. The programme followed the signature TED format of prominent speakers voicing their opinions in an 18-minute or less monologue in front of

1215-588: The channel Star Life was launched in Africa in English language offering the English dubbed Indian Hindi series from the Indian star channels. On 4 January 2019, Star TV shut down its television operations in USA for the promotion of its digital counterpart, Hotstar. On 20 March 2019, Star India became a subsidiary of Disney India after the US$ 71.3 billion deal in the acquisition of former parent company 21st Century Fox

1260-408: The company, though it was later taken over by the bank. HSBC took a 22% stake in the company and replaced Clague. In 1977, Hutchison Whampoa Limited was formed as a result of merger between Hutchison International Limited and Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock Company Limited. A year later Hutchison Whampoa was listed on the stock exchange. In 1979, Michael Sandberg convinced G. M. Sayer to not hand over

1305-676: The country. 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 also 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,

1350-520: The deal was blocked in 2016 by the EU's Competition Commissioner . In January 2015, Li Ka-shing confirmed plans for Cheung Kong Holdings to purchase the remaining shares in Hutchison Whampoa that it did not already own, and merge the two companies as CK Hutchison Holdings. The merger is part of a larger reorganisation of Li's businesses, which will involve the spin-off of property assets into Cheung Kong Property. The new holding company has been incorporated in

1395-456: The first niche premium English movie channel in India to do so. However, a delay in TRAI's new tariff order, followed by protests from digital cable operators and multi-system operators, caused the plans to be postponed till mid-March 2023. On 14 April 2022, Disney India rebranded Star India to Disney Star . On 27 May 2022, Fox Star Studios was renamed just Star Studios , as part of the removal of

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1440-482: The largest companies listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange . HWL was an international corporation with a diverse array of holdings which included the world's biggest port, and telecommunication operations in 14 countries that were run under the 3 brand. Its businesses also included retail, property development, and infrastructure. In 2015, the company merged with Cheung Kong Group as part of

1485-543: The leadership of Sir Douglas Clague gained a controlling interest of Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock . He pursued an aggressive path of diversification, acquiring A.S. Watson , Davie, Boag and Co. Ltd., Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock Co. Ltd. , and China Provident Co. Ltd. A decade later, however, the conglomerate reported losses of HK$ 130 million and became unable to service its growing debt. In 1975, Clague lost control of Hutchison Whampoa due to disastrous speculation on foreign currency and stock markets. HSBC refused to bail out

1530-505: The military junta in Burma. They state that the company's subsidiary Myanmar International Terminals Thilawa (MITT) is "strategically positioned to facilitate and service Myanmar's international trade" and are concerned about the role foreign investment plays in "perpetuating" the country's brutal regime. Star Maa Star Maa is an Indian Telugu language general entertainment pay television channel operated by Disney Star ,

1575-641: The mobile internet and has launched the mobile portal Three.mobi under its "3" brand. Hutchison Whampoa attempted to purchase O2 for £10.25 billion in March 2015, but the European Commission blocked the acquisition in May 2016. Hutchison Whampoa has received criticism from charities such as the Burma Campaign UK and appear on the charity's 'dirty list' for their involvement in trade with

1620-410: The purchase of the remaining 36.4% on 1 January 1993. Star broadcasting operations were run from Rupert Murdoch's Fox Broadcasting premises. It later launched Star Movies , Channel V , and Star News with a limited Hindi offering, and then Star Plus for Indian viewers. In 2001, Star India acquired South India based Vijay TV . In 2003, Star India's Star News deal with NDTV ended. In the same year,

1665-467: The same year, Star Affiliate and CJ Group of South Korea launched CJ Alive (later known as Shop CJ), a 24-hour Indian television shopping channel that used Star Utsav for hosting the television marketing programs in six-hour slots in its initial stage of launch. Star Affiliate exited the joint venture in May 2014. News Corporation launched a film production and distribution business in India through Fox Star Studios India, an affiliate of Star India in

1710-409: The same year. In April 2012, Star India won the rights to Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) through 2018, replacing Nimbus Communications . Valued at ₹ 3,851 crore (equivalent to ₹ 73 billion or US$ 870 million in 2023), the agreement included rights to India national cricket team home matches on television and mobile streaming, as well as domestic tournaments such as

1755-535: The streaming services JioCinema and Disney+ Hotstar with Nita Ambani serving as the chairperson of the joint venture, with Uday Shankar serving as vice chairperson with the deal giving 16.34% to Reliance and 46.82% to Viacom18, with the deal being expected to close sometime in late 2024 or early 2025 pending regulatory approval. In March 2024, it was reported that Paramount Global was looking to sell its 13.01% stake in Viacom18 to Reliance, which already owned

1800-440: The third most watched Telugu GEC. In the last quarter of 2014, Maa TV overtook Gemini TV to become the leader. Since 2017, the viewership of the channel started to have a great jump and it consistently became the most watched Telugu GEC after the launch of Bigg Boss Telugu with a record viewership and GRPs not garnered by any Telugu GEC. In week 26 while it had 529 GRPs in week 28, it jumped to 828. While as in week 28, it

1845-411: The three of them acquired equal stake in the channel. Founder Murali Krishna Raju's holding came down to 20% after the restructuring. The company's second channel, MAA Music, was launched on 30 May 2008. On 4 February 2011, Maa TV Network launched two new channels, Maa Movies and Maa Junior with content focused on movies and children respectively. Coinciding with the occasion, film actor Ram Charan

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1890-558: The time of acquisition, Nimmagadda Prasad had 65 percent stake in the company, Chiranjeevi and his family owned 20 percent, and Nagarjuna 10 percent. On 13 February 2017, Maa TV was rebranded as Star Maa with a new logo before the start of the Meelo Evaru Koteeswarudu Season 4 . In June 2017, Her sister channel, Maa Movies, Maa Music and Maa Gold were also rebranded into Star Maa Movies, Star Maa Music and Star Maa Gold. On 6 September 2020, Star Maa introduced

1935-404: The venture. D. Rajendra Prasad, a veteran of Telugu television business associated with Citi Cable, was also reportedly a co-promoter of the company. As of 2003, Murali Krishnam Raju owned 70% of the company. In March 2006, Nimmagadda Prasad along with film stars Chiranjeevi and Nagarjuna became promoters by purchasing 60% stake worth ₹ 40 crore . After the revised capital structure,

1980-478: Was closed. Now, Disney India owns television channels of UTV Software Communications and Star India. In April 2020, the Walt Disney Company merged Hotstar with Disney+ in India to form Disney+ Hotstar with Hotstar operating independently and coexisting with Disney+ in Canada and US, since it launched on 4 September 2017; the United Kingdom on 13 September 2018; and Singapore on 4 November 2020, prior to Disney+ in

2025-437: Was inducted as a Director on the board of the company. On 9 April 2012, an official announcement was made by Sony Pictures and Maa Television Network that the former would be picking up 30 percent of stake in the latter, subject to necessary approvals. However, the deal did not materialize. In February 2015, Star India acquired broadcast business of MAA Television Network for an estimated price of ₹ 2,000–2,500 crore. At

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