Star TV Centralia

Star TV Centralia is an television company, owned by CTV Corporation and Disney International Centralia.

Pre-launch
Before 1996, Hoshi TV (WHole Channels of Japanese High Satellite) is available in both Japan and Centralia.

Launch
Following CTV Centralia's 66 anniversary, CTV Corporation announces that new company that is named "Star TV Centralia", which based of it's Hong Kong-based company, It will be partnered with Star TV Hong Kong to founded.

After foundation, it's networks, which is operated name is:


 * Star Plus - Asian feed, replaced with Star World Centralia one year later.
 * Star Movies - Asian feed, replaced with own Centralian feed in 2004.
 * Channel V - An channel that airs Music.
 * BBC World - An news network broadcasted by BBC, later removed and replaced with Star News in 1998.
 * Star Sports - An channel that airs Sports.
 * V - An channel that airs Sitcoms, defunct 2000? Channel V revived that name from 2007 to 2019.
 * Viva Cinema - Filipino feed, defunct when Star TV didn't renew their contract in 2003.
 * Phoenix Channel - The name is based of "phoenix", an bird, Broadcasting Chinese programs.

In 1997, Star Select, an package of television channels, is launched.

In 1998, As Star News in India launches, BBC World will stop broadcasting from Star TV Centralia channels, and replaced with newly-launched Star News Centralia channel.

Company rebranding
In February 2001, the company rebranded from Star TV to Star, reflecting the company's evolution from a television brand to an multi-service, multi-platform brand, In Japanese, the company referred itself as Sutāmedia (Japanese: スターメディア; lit. 'Star Media') instead of Eisei terebi from then on. It introduced a new set of logos. The logo scheme of Star network (the name next to the Star logo icon, contained within a rectangle with two opposite corners rounded) that had been used throughout 2007.

In 2009, the Centralian version of Star TV is moved from headquarters from Hong Kong, to Centralia City in Centralia, at least, the company in Japanese is now simply referred as Hoshi (Japanese: スターセントラリアンメディアホールディングス株式会社; lit. 'Star Centralian Media Holdings Ltd.'), and used the wide circle logo on 3 channels (including Star Movies, Star World, and Star Sports), which is known for adding an "O" in their names.

2014 refocus, national premium channels
In 2014, Star TV Centralia decided to do an restructure of the company, these 3 companies will be founded as:


 * Star Europe Channels Ltd operates and owns many Fox/Star international brands from Europe, such as YourTV (originated in Centralia, later launched in United Kingdom), Fox News Europe, BabyTV, and even more brands from Fox International Channels.
 * Star Films and Television took it's films and productions from Star TV Centralia libraries.
 * The original Star TV Centralia will operate an version of NHK World, Star2, also they owns Star World, Star Movies, Star Sports, it's 20% ownership of Jetix and Jetix Play, and Star News.

Later after the restructure, Fox Movies Premium (Asian feed) launched in Star Select, and Fox Movies (which has the same logo from Latin America) launched.

2020 rebranding
In 2020, Star TV Centralia did an rebranding on April 1st, they claimed on Twitter that it's not an April Fools joke, and they started the branding.