Star Premium
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| Country |  United States |
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| Broadcast area | Latin America |
| Headquarters | Atlanta, Georgia |
| Programming | |
| Language(s) | English with subtitles in Spanish / Portuguese |
| Picture format | 480p (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | The Walt Disney Company Latin America |
| History | |
| Launched | Latin America: June 1, 1997 Brazil: February 13, 2016 |
| Closed | January 31, 2022 |
| Replaced by | |
| Former names | Moviecity (1997-2014) Fox+ (2014-2016) Fox+ Premium (2016-2017) Fox Premium (2017-2021) |
| Availability | |
| Cable | |
| Claro TV (Brazil) |
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| Vivo TV (Brazil) |
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| Satellite | |
| DirecTV (Latin America) |
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| SKY (México) |
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| Claro TV (Brazil) |
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| Vivo TV (Brazil) |
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| Oi TV (Brazil) |
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| SKY (Brazil) |
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| Streaming media | |
| Fox Play | foxplay |
Star Premium is a soon-to-be-defunct group of Latin American premium pay-TV movie channels founded in 1997 by LAPTV under the name Moviecity. Star Premium offers films in their original version, without censorship or dubbing.
It is currently owned by Disney International Operations and operated by The Walt Disney Company Latin America, which also operates other basic channels, including Cinecanal and FXM.
History[edit]
In Latin America, LAPTV operated nine premium channels (four in HD) plus two basic channels at the time of its acquisition by Fox International Channels, who became the operator of the brand.
Several studios have struck agreements to have their content aired elsewhere. In 2012, HBO signed a deal to air Universal Studios pictures, prompting Fox to no longer air them on its premium channels. In 2014 the service, then known as Fox+, stopped broadcasting new DreamWorks Animation studio films, starting with The Croods, on its premium channels; they continue to air on the basic cable Fox Channel. In 2014, Fox International Channels Latin America announced the launch of the multiplatform Fox+ Play brand and online service. On November 3 of that year, Moviecity was rebranded and restructured, and a commercial-free Fox Comedy channel launched.
In 2016, Fox+ launched in Brazil with two channels, Fox 1 and Fox Action. These channels initially aired only series, as the movie rights held in much of Latin America belonged to then-competitor Rede Telecine there.
The Fox+ Premium name was changed to Fox Premium in 2017. The channels were renamed differently in each region.
On November 27, 2020 Disney announced that they would be renaming the Fox branded channels in Latin America to Star on 22 February 2021.[1]
In mid-2021, Star Premium will stop broadcasting Universal Studios films, due to the launch of the Universal+ premium package in Latin America previously scheduled for December 2 of that same year, due to the fact that its films will be taken off the air on various television channels Star Channel and Star Premium.
With the changes made by Disney of the closure of 100 channels around the world, including Latin America, in addition to the launch of Star+ in the region that took place on August 31, 2021, the group will close broadcasts on January 31, 2022, just a month after the discontinuation of Brazilian version of Fox Sports group channels.[2][3]
Channels[edit]
Spanish-speaking Latin America & Caribbean[edit]
- Star Hits: First-run movies and Hollywood films.
- Star Series: First-run series and new episodes for acclaimed series.
- Star Action: Action movies, and live sporting events such as UFC and WWE PPV events and select Formula 1 races.]
- Star Cinema: Independent movies and Latin American and European films.
- Star Classics: Classic movies.
- Star Comedy: Comedy movies.
- Star Fun: Movies rated G or PG.
Brazil[edit]
- Star Hits (formerly Fox 1 & Fox Premium 1)
- Star Hits 2 (formerly Fox Action & Fox Premium 2)
References[edit]
- ^ "Disney Renaming Fox Channels in Latin America to Star | What's on Disney Plus". November 27, 2020.
- ^ Pisapapeles: (in Spanish) Disney anuncia el fin de los canales Star Premium para el 31 de enero de 2022 September 23, 2021.
- ^ What's on Disney Plus: Disney To Close Star Premium Channels Across Latin America September 25, 2021.