Launched 1 March 1989 Language Turkish Founded 1 March 1989, Turkey | Country Turkey Customer service 00 90 212 335 00 00 Headquarters Istanbul | |
Owned by Cem Uzan (1989–2004)
Ahmet Özal (1989–1992)
TMSF (2004–2005)
Aydın Doğan (2005–2011)
Ferit Şahenk (2011–)
Doğuş Media Group (2015-) Picture format 576i 16:9 (SDTV)
1080i (HDTV) Slogan Türkiye'nin bir Star'ı var!. (Turkey has a Star!)
Starsan Star'dasın. (2014-now) Parent organization Isil Televizyon Yayincilik A.S. TV shows Kara Sevda, Love For Rent, Cesur ve Güzel, Broken Pieces, Yüksek Sosyete Profiles |
Star TV is a Turkish nationwide TV channel. Owned by Ferit Şahenk, Doğuş Media Group since 2011.
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History
Founded by Cem Uzan and Ahmet Özal in 1989 as Magic Box, Star TV is Turkey's first private TV channel. The channel started its test broadcasting on 5 May 1990. For a brief time in the early 1990s, it was called Star Magic Box because the name Star 1 was copyrighted by another media corporation. Its first logo was a blue S with a star on it before it turned to red in early 2000s.
Star TV aired many world-known series for the first time in Turkey. Among them were The A-Team, Magnum, P.I. Simon & Simon, MacGyver, Days of Our Lives, M*A*S*H, Lassie, Murphy Brown, Perfect Strangers, Dragnet, Charles in Charge, The Jeffersons, Twin Peaks, Married... with Children, The Bold and the Beautiful, General Hospital, All My Children, Santa Barbara, Another World, Dallas, 21 Jump Street, Miami Vice, The Equalizer, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Wiseguy, Leave It to Beaver, Hunter, Who's the Boss?, Gimme a Break!, Murder, She Wrote, Mission: Impossible, Time Trax, Out of This World and Airwolf.
The channel is also the first private Turkish channel to start digital broadcasting in 1999.
On February 2004, Star TV was put on the block by Turkish savings and deposit insurance funds (TMSF) along with other media assets, including seven radio stations, a newspaper and another TV station of the Uzan Group, to cover debts owed to the Treasury resulting from the takeover of İmar Bankası and Adabank. TMSF put Star TV up for auction, and its purchased by Isil Television Broadcasting Corp. of Dogan Media Group, which offered the highest bid of $306.5 m at the auction on September 2005.
Star TV was sold by Doğan Holding to the Doğuş Media Group on 17 October 2011, for $327m.
Series
Coming Soon
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News
Parliament Pazar Gecesi Sineması
It is also famous for its Parliament Pazar Gecesi Sineması (Parliament Sunday Movie Night) in 1992 until 1999, which showed high quality films without any commercial breaks, despite the sponsorship by the cigarette brand.
Star was forced to stop the Parliament Pazar Gecesi Sineması when the Turkish government passed a law that forbids cigarette commercials.
Star TV HD
Star TV began broadcasting in HD on May 29 2009. It's the second active HD channel in Turkey after Kanal D.
Euro Star
The channel also broadcasts in Europe with the name Euro Star with the difference of not broadcasting Champions League matches live. Euro Star has its own productions in addition to Star TV's productions.