Star China Media
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| Type | Cable television network, Subsidiary of China Media Capital |
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| Country | Hong Kong |
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First air date
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26 August 1991 |
| Availability | Nationalwide |
| Headquarters | 13/F One Harbourfront 18 Tak Fung Street Area of Hung Hom Kowloon City District Kowloon Kowloon Peninsula, Hong Kong Telephone: (852) 2621 8888 Facsimile: (852) 2621 8000 |
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Broadcast area
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Kowloon Peninsula |
| Area | Pearl River Delta |
| Owner | China Media Capital |
| Parent | Star TV (21st Century Fox) |
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Key people
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Richard Li (CEO) |
| Established | 26 August 1991 |
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Launch date
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26 August 1991 |
| Group | Television |
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Official website
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Star TV |
Star China Media, sometimes styled as STAR (an initialism for Satellite Television Asia Region), is an Asian television service owned by China Media Capital. 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.
Star TV was originally known as Star TV Network (Chinese: 衛星電視有限公司 (衛星電視)) and was incorporated on 24 February 1988 as a consortium of Hutchison Whampoa, China International Trust and Investment Corporation and Cable & Wireless Worldwide, with joint venture of Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited. It was established on 1 August 1990 as a network of Star TV, a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation and Hutchison Whampoa. It started broadcasting of satellite television channels on 1 July 1991 from AsiaSat-1 Satellite and was officially launch of Star TV is a satellite television in Asia based on 24-hours daily of 5 satellite television channels on 26 August 1991 at 21:00 HKT by the officially first satellite television channel on "Prime Sports" is a 24-hour daily of English and Chinese sport satellite channel with sport programmes by the motorsports, baseball, basketball, golf, badminton, tennis, professional wrestling & international multi-sport event a subsidiary of Prime Network and member of Liberty Media such:
In 1993, Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation purchased 63.6% of Star for over $500 million, followed by the purchase of the remaining 36.4% on 1 January 1993. Murdoch declared that:
"(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"
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