Nat Geo brand is older than Disney. In India Star might get History and FYI but Disney will never associate A&E brands to Nat Geo which they don't control globally. In EU they had to sell their stake to Hearst which A&E brands in EU. Even in US they are not distributing A&E content under Disney Media Distribution which is distributing everything Disney holds after the merger.
No sane company would drop STAR brand. It has presence all over Asia. Star India has started to uplinking the channels to African nations also. If Disney were ever drop the name STAR, what brand they will rebrand with ABC? or FX? We all know what's FX position when it was in India. STAR if was a temporary brand, FOX would have sold brand itself to CMC while exiting from China wouldn't have licensed it instead. How ever big the global brand is they have an established brand like STAR to maintain its position. Average person thinks Disney as a Cartoon Company, probably 75+% people might not even know that Star is owned by Disney.
