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Zonemedia old logo.Chello Zone (formerly Zone Vision, Zone Media) is a London, United Kingdom-based television company, founded in 1991 by Chris Wronski and owned by Chellomedia (Liberty Global).
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History
The company was originally founded to distribute television programmes in Eastern Europe, but now operates in 125 countries. They operate channels under 7 brands, albeit with some limited to specific countries, and provide 22 sound tracks across these.
Its English speaking-targeted channels show mainly US and Canadian imports as well as older BBC and ITV produced content; whereas its Central European stations show large quantities of recent British television. Original sound tracks are provided on most shows which are dubbed.
On 14 September 2009, it was revealed that the international arm of CBS, CBS Studios International, struck a joint venture deal with Chellomedia to launch six CBS-branded channels in the UK during 2009. The new channels would replace Zone Romantica, Zone Thriller, Zone Horror and Zone Reality, plus timeshift services Zone Horror +1 and Zone Reality +1.[1][2] On 1 October 2009, it was announced that CBS Reality, CBS Reality +1, CBS Drama and CBS Action would launch on 16 November 2009 replacing Zone Reality, Zone Reality +1, Zone Romantica and Zone Thriller.[3]
On 5 April 2010, Zone Horror was rebranded as Horror Channel, following the rebrand of the portfolio’s other three channels in November 2009.[4] On-air the channel name appears as Horror. The rebrand was produced by Chello Zone’s in-house creative services team.[5]
Channels
Current
The Zone Fantasy logo- Zone Reality
- Horror Channel (joint venture with CBS Studios International)
- Horror Channel +1 (joint venture with CBS Studios International)
- Zone Romantica
- Zone Club
- Zone Fantasy
- CBS Action (joint venture with CBS Studios International)
- CBS Drama (joint venture with CBS Studios International)
- CBS Reality (joint venture with CBS Studios International)
- CBS Reality +1 (joint venture with CBS Studios International)
- Extreme Sports Channel
- Romantica (joint venture with Realitatea Media)
- JimJam (joint venture with HiT Entertainment)
Former
- Zone Reality Extra (Replaced by Zone Horror +1)
- Zone Reality +1 (Replaced by CBS Reality +1)
- Zone Thriller (Replaced by CBS Action)
References
- ^ "CBS FINALChello Zone partnership press release" (DOC). Chello Zone. 2009-09-14. http://newsroom.zonemedia.net/Scripts/FileDownload.asp?fPath=D%3A%5CWWW%5FDomains%5CZONE%5FPRESS%5CFiles%5CPress%5CCBS+FINALChello+Zone+partnership+press+release%2Edoc.
- ^ "CBS to launch UK channels with Chellomedia". Broadcastnow. 2009-09-14. http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/international/cbs-to-launch-uk-channels-with-chellomedia/5005560.article.
- ^ "CBS channels to launch in UK". Broadcastnow. 2009-10-01. http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/international/cbs-channels-to-launch-in-uk/5006298.article.
- ^ "Zone Horror rebrands as Horror Channel". Broadband TV News. 2010-03-31. http://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2010/03/31/zone-horror-rebrands-as-horror-channel/.
- ^ "UK's Zone Horror Reverting to Its Horror Channel Name". Dread Central. 2010-03-31. http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/36730/uks-zone-horror-reverting-its-horror-channel-name.
- "Chello Zone acquires WBITD content". C21 Media. 26 January 2009. http://www.c21media.net/news/detail.asp?area=1&article=47217. Retrieved 20 December 2009.
External links
Chello Zone Extreme Sports Channel · JimJam[gl 1] · Romantica[gl 2] · Zone Club · Zone Europa · Zone Fantasy · Zone Reality · Zone Reality +1 • Zone RomanticaChello Benelux Chello Central Europe Chello Multicanal The Biography Channel[gl 4] • Canal Cocina • Canal de Historia[gl 4] • Canal Hollywood (co-onwed with ZON Multimédia) • Canal Hollywood HD (co-onwed with ZON Multimédia) • Canal Panda (co-onwed with ZON Multimédia) • Panda Biggs (co-onwed with ZON Multimédia) • MOV (co-onwed with ZON Multimédia) • Decasa • Odisea/Odisseia • Sol Música • Extreme teuve • Cinematk • Somos Teuve • Natura • Buzz Teuve • Canal 18 • MGM • MGM HD • Crimen & InvestigaciónUPC Broadband
EuropeUPC Ireland · UPC Romania · UPC Netherlands · UPC Poland · UPC Czech Republic · UPC Hungary · UPC Austria · UPC Broaband Slovakia · Focus Sat · UPC CablecomTelenet (> 50% ownership) Australia Austar (~55%) · showtime movie channels (20%)Japan J:COM (~38%) · Jupiter Telecommunications · Jupiter TVMiddle & South America United Kingdom - ^ joint venture with HiT Entertainment.
- ^ joint venture with Realitatea Media (51% owned by Chellomedia).
- ^ a b Co-owned with MGM Networks in a joint venture (50% owned by Chellomedia).
- ^ a b joint venture with A&E Television Networks.
- ^ joint venture with Studio 100.
- ^ joint venture with VGas.
- ^ a b c d joint venture with CBS Studios International in a joint venture (50% owned by Chellomedia).
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