Shop CJ is an Indian teleshopping channel. It was launched in 2009 as Star CJ Alive , as a joint venture between Star TV and the Korean CJ Group . Star exited the joint venture in 2014 and the channel was renamed to Shop CJ.[1]
In 2017, TV18 acquired[2] Home Shop 18 —only to sell them in 2019.[3]
Star CJ Alive 2009–2014 Shop CJ 2014–present References
Part of Disney India (The Walt Disney Company )
Television channels: Hindi: Entertainment: Star Plus | Star Bharat | Star Utsav | Movies: Star Gold | Star Gold 2 | Star Gold Select | Star Utsav Movies | Youth entertainment/music: Bindass 1
English: Entertainment: Disney International HD 1 | Movies: Star Movies | Star Movies Select | Knowledge and infotainment: National Geographic | Nat Geo Wild | Lifestyle: Star Life | Kids: Disney Channel 1 | Hungama 1 | Super Hungama 1 | Disney Junior 1 | BabyTV
Regional-language TV channels: Entertainment channels: Tamil: Star Vijay | Telugu: Star Maa | Kannada: Star Suvarna | Malayalam: Asianet and Asianet Plus | Bengali: Star Jalsha | Marathi: Star Pravah | Odia: Star Kiran Movie channels: Tamil: Vijay Super | Telugu: Star Maa Movies and Star Maa Gold | Kannada: Star Suvarna Plus | Malayalam: Asianet Movies | Bengali: Jalsha Movies | Marathi: Pravah Picture Music channels: Tamil: Vijay Music | Telugu: Star Maa Music
Star Sports :English: Star Sports 1 | Star Sports 2 | Star Sports 3 | Hindi: Star Sports 1 Hindi | Star Sports First Regional languages: Star Sports 1 Tamil , Telugu , Kannada , Bangla and Marathi Star Sports Select :Star Sports Select 1 , Star Sports Select 2
Planned channels: National channels: 'Kids:' Hungama 1 Regional languages: 'Bengali:' Jalsha Josh
International channels: United Kingdom and Europe: Utsav Plus , Utsav Gold and Utsav Bharat Middle East and Southeast Asia: Vijay TV , Asianet Middle East Africa: Star Life , Star Select
Other assets: Video-on-demand service: Disney+ Hotstar (Originals | Specials ) | Film production: Star Studios (Other ) Satellite TV, broadband and OTT: Tata Play 2 (Tata Play+ | HD | + HD | UHD 4K | 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 Movies 1 | UTV Stars | Bindass Play 1 | UTV Action Telugu 1 | Star World | Star World Premiere HD | UTV HD 1 | UTV Movies 1 | UTV Action 1 | UMP Movies 1 Divested: News network 3 (Star News | Star Ananda | Star Majha ) | Star CJ Alive 4 | MTV (India) 5 | Bloomberg UTV/UTVi 1 International channels discontinued in India: Nat Geo Music | Nat Geo People | BabyTV (SD only) Unlaunched: Star Sports 1 Gujarati | Star Sports 1 Malayalam
Non-Indian channels: Star China Media 6 (Star Sports (China) | Xing Kong | Channel V (China) | Fortune Star ) | Antv 7 | Film Indonesia | MTV Asia 5 | Star World Asia 8 , Star Movies8 (Asia , Philippines and Taiwan ) | Viva Cinema 9 | Channel V (Korea)
Notes: 1 Originally owned, sold or discontinued by The Walt Disney Company India before its acquisition of Star.2 Joint venture with Tata Group .3 Sold to ABP Group .4 Sold to CJ ENM .5 Joint venture between Star and Viacom . Dissolved in 1994 with the launch of Channel V and Channel V India .6 Sold to China Media Capital.7 Sold to Visi Media Asia , which had owned 80% of the channel (Star formerly owned 20%).8 Rebranded from Star to Fox channels in 2017. Defunct since 1 October 2021.9 Relaunched as Pinoy Box Office, later known as PBO .
Part of Reliance Industries Limited Network18 )
Subsidiaries: Viacom18 1 (Viacom18 Studios )
News18 network:Hindi: News18 India | English: CNN-News18 2 3 : Hindi: CNBC Awaaz | English: CNBC-TV18 HD | Gujarati: CNBC Bajar
Regional news channels: (most acquired from the ETV Network ) Hindi-speaking regions: News18 Punjab/Haryana/Himachal Pradesh , Uttar Pradesh/Uttarakhand , Madhya Pradesh/Chhattisgarh , Bihar/Jharkhand and Rajasthan Other regional channels: News18 Kannada , Bangla , Odia , Lokmat + (Marathi), Gujarati , Urdu , Assam/Northeast + (Assamese), Tamil Nadu + (Tamil) and Kerala + (Malayalam)
AETN18 network 4 : History TV18 HD
Other channels: Topper TV | Shop CJ
Defunct channels: FYI TV18 HD
Divested channels: Home Shop 18
+ Not formerly owned by ETV Network ; these channels have always been owned by TV18. 1 Joint venture with ViacomCBS . 2 Joint venture with Turner Broadcasting System (WarnerMedia ). 3 Joint venture with NBCUniversal (Comcast ). 4 Joint venture with A&E Networks .
