Star TV Centralia

Star TV Centralia 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 announces that new company that is named Star TV Centralia, which based of it's Hong Kong-based company, It's ownership will 50% also owned by Hutchison Whampoa to start it's Centraliese operations.

After starting up it's Centraliese operations that the networks at the time operated, which names are given is:


 * Star Plus - Replaced with Star World Centralia in 1996 while the channel can be viewed on satellite.
 * 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.
 * BBC World Service Television - An news network broadcasted by BBC, later removed in 1994, relaunched in 1995 as BBC World and Prime.
 * Prime Sports - An channel that airs Sports, later in 1996 rebranded as Star Sports.
 * Star Chinese Channel - A Taiwanese channel by Star TV Taiwan; broadcast programs which had been in Hong Kong and Taiwanese networks such as; ATV, TVB, CTV and more.

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 in 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 of 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, International news channel CNN International, English-language film channel Star Movies, and Cantonese-language film channel Star Chinese Movies.

Meanwhile, BBC signed a contract to Star TV Centralia to receive back the channel in 1995, it was accepted and the channels were relaunched as:


 * BBC World: a news channel, replaced by Star News in this lineup in 1998.
 * BBC Prime: a entertainment channel, merged with Star World in 2000, still operated in cable and satellite providers.

Star TV and MTV ended partnership that supplied music television programming, so Star TV launched Channel V to replace the American brand.

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.

On February 18th 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.

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.