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Satellite Television Asia Region (STAR) is an Asian television service owned by China Media Capital. It is headquartered in Hong Kong, with regional offices in mainland China, Taiwan and India. According to the STAR website, their service has more than 300 million-viewers in 53-countries and is watched by approximately 120 million-viewers every day. ==History== STAR TV was originally known as STAR TV Network (STAR TV, Chinese: 衛星電視有限公司 (衛星電視)) by the incorporated on 24 February 1988 with a consortium of Hutchison Whampoa, China International Trust and Investment Corporation and Cable & Wireless Worldwide with joint venture of Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited, was established on 1 August 1990 a network of STAR TV, subsidiary of News Corporation with owner by Congromerated of Rupert Murdoch and member of Hutchison Whampoa with owner by Congromerated of Richard Li, was started broadcasting of 5 satellite television channels on 1 July 1991 from AsiaSat-1 Satellite and was officially launch of STAR TV is a satellite television in Asia based on 24-hours daily of 5 satellite television channels on 26 August 1991 at 21:00 HKT by the officially first satellite television channel on "Prime Sports" is a 24-hour daily of English and Chinese sport satellite channel with sport programmes by the motorsports, baseball, basketball, golf, badminton, tennis, professional wrestling & international multi-sport event a subsidiary of Prime Network and member of Liberty Media such: In 1993, Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation purchased 63.6% of STAR for over $500 million, followed by the purchase of the remaining 36.4% in 1 January 1993. Murdoch declared that:〔(http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/apr/22/chinathemedia.rupertmurdoch )〕 After this, the former prime minister Li Peng requested and obtained the ban of satellite dishes throughout the country. Subsequently the STAR TV network dropped the BBC channels from its satellite offer. This, and many ensuing declaration from Murdoch, led critics to believe the businessman was striving to appease the Chinese government in order to have the ban lifted.〔 In February 2001, The company rebranded from "STAR TV" to "STAR", reflecting the company's evolution from a television brand to a multi-service, multi-platform brand. In August 2009, STAR Broadcasting Corporation revealed a restructure to its Asian broadcast businesses into three units – STAR India, STAR Greater China, and Fox International Channels Asia. On 9 August 2010, News Corporation signed an agreement with China Media Capital (CMC), which CMC acquired a controlling stake in STAR China's properties (Xing Kong, Xing Kong International, Channel () Mainland China and the Fortune STAR Chinese movie library). In 2014, 21st Century Fox has sold its minority stake in the broadcaster Star China TV to China Media Capital after finally giving up on the emerging Chinese television market. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「STAR (Greater China)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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