Star Gold 2 is a Hindi movie channel in India owned by the Star TV network. Originally launched in 2012 as Movies OK , it rebranded on 1 February 2020 along with Star Gold. It serves as a sister channel to Star Gold , Star Gold Select , Star Gold Thrills , Star Gold Romance , and Star Utsav Movies .
Movies OK [ ] 2012–2020 [ ] Launched on 6 May 2012, Movies OK was the second and last Star India channel to use the OK brand targeted at an urban audience, the first being Hindi general entertainment channel Life OK , which was launched on 18 December 2011.
2012–2017 [ ] 2017–2020 [ ] The logo and graphics package were slightly modified around 2017.
Star Gold 2 [ ] 2020–present [ ] Movies OK was renamed to Star Gold 2 at midnight on 1 February 2020, officially signifying the retirement of Star’s OK brand, as sister channel Life OK had rebranded to Star Bharat in 2017. Later, an HD feed of Star Gold 2 was launched after replacing UTV . Star Gold rebranded with new graphics which were used by Star Gold 2 on its launch but with a greenish shade.
HD logo against background.
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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 Gold Romance | Star Gold Thrills | 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 Youth channel: Tamil: Vijay Takkar
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 .
