Star World

Star World (formerly known as Star Entertainment and Star Plus) is an English language entertainment television channel originally launched on 15 December 1991 by Star TV in Hong Kong as the old iteration of Star Plus.

This article is about the Asian English-language television network. For Indian edition of this channel, see Star World (Indian TV channel).

Star World
Programming
Language(s)English
Ownership
OwnerFox Networks Group (Disney Entertainment)
History
Launched
  • 15 December 1991 (1991-12-15) (Star Entertainment)
  • 1 January 2001 (2001-01-01) (Taiwan; first incarnation)
  • 1 January 2022 (2022-01-01) (Taiwan; second and final incarnation)
ReplacedFox Taiwan (relaunch)
Closed
  • 1 October 2017 (2017-10-01) (Southeast Asia and Hong Kong)
  • 1 February 2020 (2020-02-01) (Taiwan; first incarnation)
  • 15 March 2023 (2023-03-15) (India)
  • 31 December 2023 (2023-12-31) (Taiwan; second and final incarnation)
Replaced byFox Life
BBC Lifestyle (Taiwan)
Former namesStar Entertainment (1991–1992)
Star Plus (1992–1996)

On 30 March 1996, the channel was split into two, when the former became Star World in East and Southeast Asia part of STAR TV's rebranding, and the latter retained the Star Plus name in India and the Middle East. However, after Star (subsequently acquired by News Corporation) ended its partnership with Zee TV on 30 June 2000, Star Plus was transformed into a Hindi-language channel on 1 July 2000, with Star World being already introduced in the region as an English entertainment replacement.

The channel's programming line-up mostly consists of entertainment television programmes from the United States, the United Kingdom and sometimes Australia and New Zealand to appeal to English-speaking locals.

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