Yes Drama

yes stars Drama

Country	Israel
Ownership
Owner	yes (Israel's satellite television provider)

Yes Stars Drama (styled as yes stars Drama) is an Israeli television channel carried by the Israeli satellite television provider - yes, which broadcasts American, British, and Israeli TV shows of the dramas, lifestyle and reality genres. The channel aired on December 14, 2008 on channel 12 - as part of the latest television shows' channels re-brand by yes. The channel is a split of the former yes stars 1 to the current yes stars Drama and yes stars Comedy. The channel airs the shows' new episodes on weeknights (Sundays - Thursdays), and its re-runs on weekdays and weekends (Fridays - Saturdays).

As of April 22, 2009, all the schedule of the channel is being simulcasted in High Definition on yes stars Drama HD on channel 993. From December 21, 2009 yes stars Drama HD airs on channel 512.

Picture Formats

yes stars Drama airs shows in 4 formats:

• Normal (4:3)
• Letterbox (4:3)
• Pan & Scan (4:3)
• Widescreen (16:9)

In order to watch widescreen (16:9) shows on a 4:3 TV, there are 3 options to see the picture:

• 4:3 Letterbox (Widescreen with black bars - Original Aspect Ratio)
• 16:9 (Anamorphic Widescreen)
• 4:3 (Pan & scan)

Choosing the format of the picture is in the digital set-top box setup. The setup does not affect shows which are not broadcasted in Widescreen.

yes stars Drama HD airs the shows in High Definition 1080i and in widecreen (16:9) at all times. Shows that are not shot in HD are upscaled to 1080i.

History of the channel

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The logo of yes stars 1 from March 4, 2007 and until March 13, 2008.

On March 4, 2007, yes replaced the channel yes+ - which has been cancelled on March 3, 2007 after six and a half years - with yes stars 1, as part of the re-brand of the foreign TV shows channels and expanding yesSTARS to 3 channels - yes stars 1, yes stars 2 and yes stars 3.

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The logo of yes stars 1 from March 14, 2008 and until December 13, 2008.

On March 14, 2008, as part of a new re-brand of the television shows channels on yes, yes stars 1 obtained a new logo.

Shows broadcast on yes stars Drama

Series	Season	Broadcast Type	Network
America's Most Smartest Model	1	Normal	VH1
American Princess	2	Normal	WE
Army Wives	1-2	Widescreen	Lifetime
Beautiful People	1 (UK)	Widescreen	BBC Two
Big Love	1-2	Widescreen	HBO
Bonkers	1	Widescreen	ITV
Bridezillas	5	Normal	WE
Crash	1	Widescreen	Starz
Desperate Housewives	3 4-5	Pan & Scan Widescreen	ABC
Dirt	1-2	Widescreen	FX
Dirty Sexy Money	1-2	Widescreen	ABC
Drop Dead Gorgeous	1-2	Widescreen	BBC Three
Eastbound & Down	1	Widescreen	HBO
Echo Beach	1	Widescreen	ITV
Eli Stone	1-2	Widescreen	ABC
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition	1-3	Normal	ABC
Fairy Tales	1	Widescreen	BBC One
Fat March	1	Normal	ABC
Flavor of Love	2	Normal	VH1
Charm School	1	Normal	VH1
Friday Night Lights	1-2	Widescreen	NBC
Gillian Moves In	1	Widescreen	Channel 4
Grey's Anatomy	1-3 4-5	Pan & Scan Widescreen	ABC
Heartland	1	Widescreen	TNT
Hell's Kitchen	1-3 4-5	Pan & Scan Widescreen	Fox
How to Look Good Naked	1	Widescreen	Channel 4
I Love New York	1	Normal	VH1
Kitchen Nightmares	1	Widescreen	Fox
Lipstick Jungle	1	Widescreen	NBC
Moving Wallpaper	1	Widescreen	ITV
Mutual Friends	1	Widescreen	BBC One
Nanny 911	3	Normal	Fox
Nip/Tuck	1-6	Widescreen	FX Network
No Angels	3	Widescreen	Channel 4
One Tree Hill	1-2 3-6	Pan & Scan Widescreen	The WB/The CW
Plus One	1	Widescreen	Channel 4
PoweR Girls	1	Normal	MTV
Private Practice	1-2	Widescreen	ABC
Pushing Daisies	1-2	Widescreen	ABC
Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares	1-3 4	Pan & Scan Widescreen	Channel 4
Rock Rivals	1	Widescreen	ITV
Secret Diary of a Call Girl	1-2	Widescreen	ITV2
Sensitive Skin	1-2	Widescreen	BBC Two
Side Order of Life	1	Widescreen	Lifetime
Six Feet Under	1-5	Widescreen	HBO
Skins	1-2	Widescreen	E4
Strictly Confidential	1	Widescreen	ITV
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip	1	Widescreen	NBC
Supernanny	3-4 (UK) 3-4 (US)	Normal	Channel 4 ABC
The Bachelor	9-13	Normal	ABC
The Bachelorette	4	Normal	ABC
The Biggest Loser	3-4	Normal	NBC
The Chase	1-2	Widescreen	BBC One
The L Word	4-6	Widescreen	Showtime
The O.C.	4	Widescreen	Fox
The Palace	1	Widescreen	BBC One
The Starter Wife	Miniseries	Widescreen	USA Network
Tori & Dean: Inn Love	1	Widescreen	Oxygen
Weeds	1-4	Widescreen	Showtime
Wife Swap	5-7	Normal	ABC