Bro their was a channel in cable tv called CCC sooryavansham and virasat used to air this movies regularly yes after that sooryavansham shift to sony may be in 2008 0r 2009 when max launched it was a sports channel in beginning when icc cricket world cup SPN sony was gec+movie channel in 2002 SPN acquired big banners dharma production and YRF and yes sooryavansham was with sony from beginning. Zee cinema was doing awesome mind-blowing that period. In 2004 star gold gave massive entry u know renewing movies from other networks trend started by star gold. They acquired all ashok honda directed films from zee 1st. In 2005 star made partnership deal with Shemaroo then star gold journey started.