Hungama

Hungama, meaning commotion or excitement, is an Indian children’s TV channel which shows primarily the Japanese children’s cartoon shows Doraemon and Shin Chan, alongside some local Indian productions. It was originally launched by UTV Software Communications, which was later acquired by The Walt Disney Company India and also runs Disney Channel, Marvel HQ (formerly Disney XD) and Disney Junior in the kids’ genre.

2004–2005

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The initial logo of the channel was unveiled on 7 June 2004 and the channel was launched that autumn, around the same time as Turner’s Pogo channel.

Indianteleevision: Hungama logo (article incorrectly shows the 2005 logo)

2005–present

In 2005, a few months after the channel’s launch, the logo was changed to a colourful spiral, which is used to this day. With the acquisition of Star by The Walt Disney Company India in March 2019, Hungama and the other Disney kids’ channels in India are now sister channels of other Star channels.

An HD feed was scheduled to be launched on 1 December 2021, along with an HD feed of Disney Channel, and Marvel HQ being renamed to Super Hungama, while BabyTV HD was to be withdrawn from India.^[1] However, on 26 November 2021, these launches were indefinitely postponed, due to a delay in the TRAI’s new tariff rules. They are now expected to launch some time in 2022.^[2]

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Star TV

Part of Disney India (The Walt Disney Company)

Regional languages:
Entertainment channels: Tamil: Star Vijay ^HD | Telugu: Star Maa ^HD | Kannada: Star Suvarna ^HD | Malayalam: Asianet ^HD and Asianet Plus | Bengali: Star Jalsha ^HD | Marathi: Star Pravah ^HD
Movie channels: Tamil: Vijay Super (HD upcoming) | Telugu: Star Maa Movies ^HD and Star Maa Gold | Kannada: Star Suvarna Plus | Malayalam: Asianet Movies (HD upcoming) | Bengali: Jalsha Movies ^HD
Music channels: Tamil: Vijay Music | Telugu: Star Maa Music

Star Sports:
English: Star Sports 1 ^HD | Star Sports 2 ^HD | Star Sports 3 | Hindi: Star Sports 1 Hindi ^HD | Star Sports First
Regional languages: Star Sports 1 Tamil (HD upcoming), Telugu (HD upcoming), Kannada, Bangla and Marathi
Star Sports Select: Star Sports Select 1 ^HD, Star Sports Select 2 ^HD

International channels:
United Kingdom and Europe: Utsav Plus ^HD, Utsav Gold ^HD and Utsav Bharat | UMP Movies¹
Middle East and Southeast Asia: Vijay TV, Asianet Middle East
Africa: Star Life

Other assets:
Video-on-demand service: Disney+ Hotstar (Originals | Specials) | Film production: Fox Star Studios (Other)
Satellite TV, broadband and OTT: Tata Play² (Binge/Binge+ | Fiber)

Former channels and properties:

Indian channels:
Defunct: Life OK/Star One | Star Movies Action | FX | Fox Crime | Channel V | ESPN | Movies OK | Nat Geo Tamil and Nat Geo Telugu | ESPN Star Sports | UTV World Movies¹ | UTV Stars^{HD, 1} | Bindass Play¹ | UTV Action Telugu¹
Divested: News network³ (Star News | Star Ananda | Star Majha) | Star CJ Alive⁴ | MTV (India)⁵ | Bloomberg UTV/UTVi¹
International channels discontinued in India: Nat Geo Music | Nat Geo People | BabyTV
Unlaunched: Star Sports 1 Gujarati | Star Sports 1 Malayalam

Notes:
¹Originally owned, sold or discontinued by The Walt Disney Company India before its acquisition of Star.
²Joint venture with Tata Group.
³Sold to ABP Group.
⁴Sold to CJ ENM.
⁵Joint venture between Star and Viacom. Dissolved in 1994 with the launch of Channel V and Channel V India.
⁶Sold to China Media Capital.
⁷Sold to Visi Media Asia, which had owned 80% of the channel (Star formerly owned 20%).
⁸Rebranded from Star to Fox channels in 2017. Defunct since 1 October 2021.
⁹Relaunched as Pinoy Box Office, later known as PBO.

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The Walt Disney Company India

Parent: The Walt Disney Company

Television channels:

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Star TV

Part of Disney India (The Walt Disney Company)

Other assets:
Video-on-demand service: Disney+ Hotstar (Originals | Specials) | Film production: Fox Star Studios (Other)
Satellite TV, broadband and OTT: Tata Play² (Binge/Binge+ | Fiber)

Former channels and properties:

Video-on-demand: Disney+ Hotstar

UTV Software Communications: UTV Motion Pictures
Defunct: UTV Indiagames | UTV Ignition Games

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The Walt Disney Company

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The Walt Disney Studios

Part of The Walt Disney Company

Disney Music Group:
Walt Disney Records | Hollywood Records (Marvel Music) | Disney Music Publishing | Buena Vista Records

Disney Theatrical Productions Group:
Disney on Broadway | Disney on Ice | Disney Theatrical Productions | Disney Live!

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ABC

Parent company: The Walt Disney Company

Predecessor companies: Capital Cities/ABC | American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres

United States broadcast television:
ABC (HD) (Others) | Localish

Radio networks:
ABC Audio | ABC News Now | ABC News Radio

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ABC Radio, Inc. (1945–2007)

Note: All stations listed by market size -- largest to smallest -- with call letters at the time they were sold.

WFDF was originally in the Flint radio market before moving to Farmington Hills in the Detroit radio market in 2006. As a result of the station's move to Detroit, WFRO in the Toledo market as well as another station in Northern Michigan (also on 900) were taken off the air to allow WFDF to increase its broadcast power.
Disney/ABC never owned the station, but operated it under a Local Marketing Agreement. Birach Broadcasting has since taken complete, outright control of the station.
These stations are either silent or completely off the air at this time.
WGVX also simulcasts on 105.3 and 105.7.

Sources: ABC Radio, Cumulus Media, Cumulus Media Networks, Radio Disney and Westwood One on Wikipedia

Other assets:
ABCtek

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ABC News

Special programming:
ABC News Special Report

Affiliate news-sharing video service: ABC News One

Live-streaming networks:
ABC News Live

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ESPN

Owners: The Walt Disney Company (80%) | Hearst Communications (20%)

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ESPN on ABC

Current programming:

U.S. radio stations
ESPN Radio | ESPN Xtra | ESPNU Radio | ESPN All Access

International:
Australia (ESPN2) | Brazil (2 | 3 | 4 | Extra) | Caribbean | Latin America (Extra | 2 | 3 | 4 (except Mexico and Argentina) | Extra Polo) | UK¹ | Africa⁵ | Netherlands (2 | 3 | 4 | Ultra HD)

Canadian networks (Co-owned with Bell Media):
The Sports Network (TSN1 | TSN2 | TSN3 | TSN4 | TSN5) | RDS | RDS2 | RDS Info | ESPN Classic Canada

Japanese networks
J-Sports 1 | J-Sports 2 | J-Sports 3 | J-Sports 4

¹Operated by BT under license.
²Also airs on MLB Network.
³Partnership with TV5 Network Inc.
⁴Partnership with Sony Pictures Networks India.
⁵Airs only on DStv.

Disney XD
Canada¹² | Latin America | Netherlands and Flanders | Poland

Fox Life
India | Portugal

Fox Movies
Balkans | Portugal | Middle East

Fox Comedy
Portugal | Poland

FX
Latin America (FXM)

Star (Latin America and Brazil)
Star Channel | Star Life

Radio networks
ABC Audio | ABC News Radio | ABC News Now | ESPN Radio | ESPN Xtra

Other assets: Disney Cruise Line | Disney Vacation Club | Adventures by Disney | Walt Disney Imagineering

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Marvel

Part of The Walt Disney Company

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Marvel Cinematic Universe

Created by Marvel Studios

Part of The Walt Disney Studios (The Walt Disney Company)

Entities
Stark Industries | Time Variance Authority

¹ Distributed by Paramount Pictures
² Distributed by Universal Pictures
³ Distributed by Sony Pictures

Other
Marvel Stadium

¹ Produced by Toei
² Produced by Marvel Studios; Not canon to Marvel Cinematic Universe

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The Walt Disney Company India

Parent: The Walt Disney Company

Television channels:

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Star TV

Part of Disney India (The Walt Disney Company)

Other assets:
Video-on-demand service: Disney+ Hotstar (Originals | Specials) | Film production: Fox Star Studios (Other)
Satellite TV, broadband and OTT: Tata Play² (Binge/Binge+ | Fiber)

Former channels and properties:

Video-on-demand: Disney+ Hotstar

UTV Software Communications: UTV Motion Pictures
Defunct: UTV Indiagames | UTV Ignition Games

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A+E Networks

Co-owned by Hearst Communications and The Walt Disney Company

NOTE: Except for European markets which fully owned by Hearst (and its respective partners) since 2019.

Canada:
Lifetime | History | Historia | History 2

Latin America²:
A&E | History | History 2 | Lifetime³

United Kingdom & Ireland:⁴
Blaze | Crime & Investigation | Sky History | Sky History 2

Italy:
Blaze | Crime & Investigation | History

Iberian Peninsula:⁵
Blaze | Historia | Crimen & Investigación/Crime & Investigação

India:⁶
History TV18

Asia
Lifetime | History | Crime + Investigation

Others:
A&E Studios | A&E IndieFilms | Lifetime Films | History Films

Notes
¹Joint venture with Vice Media.
²Joint venture with Ole Communications.
³Joint venture with Sony Pictures Television.
⁴Joint venture with Sky Limited.
⁵Joint venture with AMC Networks International.
⁶Joint venture with TV18.

Predecessor companies: News Corporation | 21st Century Fox | Capital Cities/ABC Inc.
Split companies: Fox Corporation

Notes
¹Disney manages and operates this station owned by Emmis Communications.
²Disney manages film catalog created for ABC; remainder of library controlled by Bristol-Myers Squibb.
³Disney manages and operates this television and interactive units by Saban Capital Group.
⁴Joint venture with Paramount Pictures.
⁵Joint venture with Hearst Communications, which owns 20% of ESPN and 50% of A&E Networks.
⁶Co-owned with Westinghouse Broadcasting (aka Group W)
⁷Joint venture with Rádio Holding Participações Ltda.
⁸Joint venture with Electronic Arts.
⁹Joint venture with Sky Limited.
¹⁰Joint venture with Telefónica.
¹¹Owned by Corus Entertainment.
¹²Joint venture with Sky Network Television.
¹³Joint venture with Global Group.
¹⁴Joint venture with Apollo Global Management.
¹⁵Joint venture with GMA Network Inc.
¹⁶Joint venture with CJ ENM.
¹⁷Owned by Televisión Nacional de Chile, but distributed by Disney in Latin America.
¹⁸Co-owned with NBCUniversal
¹⁹Co-owned with ViacomCBS
²⁰Operated by Good Karma Brands under an LMA.
²¹Co-owned with Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland (RTL Group)
²²Joint venture with TV Globo.
²³Sold to ViacomCBS Networks International.
²⁴Sale of these stations to Good Karma Brands pending FCC approval.
²⁵Sale of this station to VCY America pending FCC approval.
²⁶Co-owned with TDC Group.

Hungama

2004–2005

2005–present

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