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[dino29]

Can we expect Star Sports channel to replace Super Hungama now? Can we expect Star Sports 1 Bhojpuri or Star Sports 1 Nepali soon?

No. We can expect Super Hungama to continue catering to mostly anime audience and bring more such content belonging to this segment in coming future. Also u can expect new Youth channel , Retro Bollywood Movie channel, Kids Movie Channel and revamping / rebranding of many star/disney channels soon.

They have adequate sports channels, at most they will launch HD Feed for Star Sports 1 Tamil HD... Star Sports 3 HD unlikely to launch now as SD feed with content available in wide screen format sufficient to address needs of all customers. You may see a new content strategy soon being adopted by Star Sports Network with renewed focus to cover diverse sports across key channels and a possible return of ESPN soon

 

[iDJ]

How can service channel air Drake & Josh but Nick can't? Who owns Tata Play Fun Learn channel?

 

[dino29]

Some good films getting space on main channels which until now were either aired in watershed hours or on channels reserved for offbeat bollywood cinema.

Luck, Yahaan aired today on Sony Wah
Tigers, Omerta tomorrow on And Pictures HD
Company airing tomorrow morning on Zee Action
Also Xcuse will b shown tomorrow morning on Star Utsav Movies

 

[dino29]

Zee Cafe has been adding many good old and new shows to its content mix over the last 2 or 3 years and promos running which indicate more fresh shows r set to be added in near future

 

[iDJ]

Zee Cafe has been adding many good old and new shows to its content mix over the last 2 or 3 years and promos running which indicate more fresh shows r set to be added in near future

Zee Cafe was at it's peak around 2013-2014. They aired sitcoms like The Big Bang Theory and Cougar Town. It was the place to watch The Big Bang Theory 's latest season. They also gave us so many supernatural shows like The Vampire Diaries, The Originals, Pretty Little Liars etc. Even Desperate Housewives rerun along with original talk show Look Who's Talking with Niranjan was great. They hit downhill after Colors Infinity's launch. Even now they try to reinvent themselves once in a while.

 

[dino29]

Zee Cafe was at it's peak around 2013-2014. They aired sitcoms like The Big Bang Theory and Cougar Town. It was the place to watch The Big Bang Theory 's latest season. They also gave us so many supernatural shows like The Vampire Diaries, The Originals, Pretty Little Liars etc. Even Desperate Housewives rerun along with original talk show Look Who's Talking with Niranjan was great. They hit downhill after Colors Infinity's launch. Even now they try to reinvent themselves once in a while.

True. They were even at top in the English GEC rating charts during this time period. Also few years back they aired shows like Supergirl dubbed in Hindi on Big Magic, though this was not a new innovation as back in 90s and 2000s Star India and Sony had aired such dubbed shows on their channels

In mid 2000s there was even a dedicated channel Firangi launched for such content but unfortunately it did not deliver desired ratings hence shows were pulled off air but channel still exists along Filmy channel which r both owned by Sahara India.

 

[dino29]

Classic All Time Hit / Favorite Bollywood Movie Bawarchi will air today morning on Sony Max2. Unfortunately Sony Max bot only mismanage its post 2000s bollywood film library earlier on which they r trying to correct now but still many T Series , YRF, VVC, Eros,,Vishesh Films movies not getting adequate prime timw slots across their hindi moviw channels even more saddening is that despite having channels likw Max2, Max HD they just ignored such great collection of old/retro bollywood films it had in ita library for such a long time period.

Now as these movies shift to goldmines, hopefully they will air these at prominent time slots or maybe even star/disney or viacom18 can sigm agreement with goldmines for the same

 

[dino29]

Colors Infinity has dedicated weekday 8 PM slot to Food Shows, been airing various such shows on this time slot since last month or so

 

[iDJ]

Colors Infinity has dedicated weekday 8 PM slot to Food Shows, been airing various such shows on this time slot since last month or so

Yes, they are airing fresh content since fall.

 

[dino29]

Why has Sony Max 2 again started showing movies in 4:3 video aspect ratio, just sometime back they had made a transition to wide screen aspect ratio of telecast of content???