Star TV Centralia

Star TV Centralia (trade name Star, formerly Satellite Television Asian Region Centralia Limited (shortened as STAR Centralia Limited) until 2011 (until January 2001 as Star TV (stylised as STAR TV) and after, STAR from 2001 to 2011) is an television company, owned by CTV Corporation and Disney International Centralia using the name licensed from Disney Star.

Launch
In December 1991, CTV Corporation had announced that it will launch a new company that is named Star TV Centralia, under a joint-venture with Hutchison Whampoa and its television business (HutchVision). Its ownership will be 50% owned by Hutchison Whampoa.

After starting up its Centraliese operations that the networks at the time operated, these channels were launched in Centralia, with digital services provided by Sony. These channels was provided as:


 * BBC World Service Television - An news network broadcasted by BBC, later removed in 1994.
 * MTV Asia - An channel that airs music, later renamed to Channel V and in 2012 merged with old FX to form Fox Showbiz that broadcast Japanese game shows, entertainment shows and music shows.
 * Prime Sports - An channel that airs sports, later in 1996 rebranded as Star Sports.
 * Star Chinese Entertainment Channel - 24-hour Chinese entertainment channel backed by TVB, ATV and CTV, relaunched as Star Chinese Channel in 1992 following the addition of news to the midday lineup.
 * Star English Entertainment Channel - 24-hour English entertainment channel, relaunched as Star Plus in 1992 following the addition of cartoons to the morning lineup.

In June 1993, Star TV and Wharf Cable signed a deal in which Hong Kong's new cable television provider would carry Star TV's channels, However, the deal was terminated in February 1994 due to the carriage dispute between the two parties.

Ownership of Hutchison Whampoa sold to News Corporation
In 1993, News Corporation owner Rupert Murdoch sold 50% ownership from Hutchison Whampoa for $525 million.

With the controversial removal of BBC World Service Television from the company's satellite television offerings in Northeast Asia in 1994, Star TV replaced the BBC channel with 3 channels, English-language entertainment channel NBC Asia, English-language film channel Star Movies, and Cantonese-language film channel Star Chinese Movies.

Star TV and MTV ended partnership that supplied music television programming, so Star TV launched Channel V to replace the American brand. In Centralia, this did not carry the international feed; instead it shows many local programmes.

On 30 March 1996 at 7 pm Hong Kong Time; Star TV split Star Plus and Star Chinese Channel to certain areas:


 * Star Plus would continue to serve viewers in South Asia, the Middle East and Singala; while East, Southeast Asian, and Centraliese viewers would receive the newly relaunched Star World channel.
 * Star Chinese Channel would still be available to the viewers in Taiwan and Centralia; but the television watchers in Hong Kong and the Mainland China would get the new Phoenix Chinese Channel instead.

In October 1996, Star Sports (since rebranded from Prime Sports) and ESPN Asia have agreed to combine their loss making operations in both Asia and Centralia. The new joint venture, ESPN Star Sports, would be headquartered in Singapore (where ESPN's operations in Asia had based in).

In 1997, Star Select, a TV provider competes with Centralia Cable Vision (now Centelecom TV) somewhat as of a package of television channels in Middle East, is launched.

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.

New decade
In 2009, the Centraliese version of Star TV is moved from headquarters from Hong Kong to Centralia City in Centralia during the restructure.

In 2020, Star Movies merged with both Fox Movies and Fox Premium Movies to form the then-current Star Movies channel, later rebranded to Star Movies Gold in 2022.

Current

 * Channel V - music channel
 * Star Comedy - comedy channel also owned by Disney Networks Group Centralia
 * Star Crime - crime and investigation channel also owned by Disney Networks Group Centralia
 * Star Hits 2 - hits channel also owned by Disney Networks Group Centralia
 * Star Kids - kids channel
 * Star Kids Jr. - junior channel also owned by Disney Networks Group Centralia
 * Star Life - variety channel also owned by Disney Networks Group Centralia
 * Star Movies Gold - formerly Star Movies and broadcasts same catalog of movies from defunct Fox Movies channel.
 * Star Movies HD - broadcasts same catalog of movies from Taiwanese version
 * Star News - news channel
 * Star Radio 1 - a relay channel of Class 95
 * Star Sports - sports channel
 * Star Sports 2 - cricket channel
 * Star World - airs Asian, and Western programs and also airs Toggle Originals programming. Toggle Originals not in English are dubbed

Former

 * BBC WSTV - news channel
 * Fox Movies - movie channel
 * Fox Premium Movies - movie channel
 * GTV - free-to-air Centraliese TV station that company owned from 2009-2010
 * V - music channel