Vijay Music is a Tamil music channel from the Star TV network. It was launched on 4 October 2020, and is Star’s third channel in Tamil after Star Vijay and Vijay Super , as well as its second regional music channel after Star Maa Music . Its competitors include Raj Musix Tamil , Sun Music , Isaiaruvi and Jaya Max .
2020–present [ ]
Vijay Music was originally scheduled to be launched along with four other channels on 1 February 2020, along with a rebranding of Star Gold , and the renaming of Movies OK to Star Gold 2 .[1] [2] However, their launch was indefinitely postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[3]
Nevertheless, Vijay Music was launched on 4 October 2020 during the launch of Season 4 of Bigg Boss Tamil.[4] Its logo is similar to what was introduced by Jalsha Movies , and later copied briefly by Star Maa Gold .
Logo with black background.
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 .
