Hungama TV
Country | India |
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Headquarters | Mumbai, India |
Ownership | |
Owner | UTV Software Communications |
Hungama TV is a TV channel for kids in India based in Mumbai. Originally a subsidiary of UTV Software Communications launched in 2004, the channel was sold to Disney in 2006.[1]Ironically, Disney bought UTV in 2011. The channel helped to increase Disney's presence in India. Hungama is now an operating unit of Disney Channel Worldwide. It is aimed primarily at children and preteens (ages 4-14), available in three languages (Hindi, Tamil and Telugu).
Overview & Availability
Hungama TV is a local kids' 16 hours Hindi Entertainment channel in India. It is available in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu language. Hungama TV is available in all major cable and all major satellite platforms in India.
Blocks
Ha Ha Hungama
This block aired episodes of Kochikame, Shin-chan and Doraemon at afternoon time.
Dore-Monday
This block aired Doraemon episodes the whole day every Monday which made its name. It specialized Doraemon's face at the center of Hungama TV's logo.
Bheja-Friday
This block aired Shin-chan episodes the whole day every Friday which made its name. It specialized Shin-chan's face at the center of Hungama TV's logo.
Bheja-Friday was forced off the air in October 2008 due to a ban on the airing of Shin-Chan over controversy regarding highly inappropriate content within the show. The show, along with the Bheja-Friday block, albeit with heavy censorship, resumed on the 27th March 2009.
Golden Bhopu Awards
Hungama TV announced Golden Bhopu Awards for children to choose their favorite character and nominate. Nominations occurred normally during shows programmings. Its tagline was "Apna Favorite Character Batao Or Bhopu Bajao".
Programming
The channel primarily focuses on anime for children and teens.
Most Successful Shows
Rank | Year | Show | Status | No. of Episodes Arrived In India |
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1 | 2005-present | Doraemon | On-Air | 2250+ |
2 | June 19, 2006 –October 2008, March 2009-present | Shin Chan | On-Air | 1500+ |
3 | march 2006–July 2011 | Kochikame | Off-Air | 267 |
New Avatar
Hungama TV had a makeover of sorts. The new avatar imparts a more local flavour while retaining the ‘unapologetically fun loving, mischievous and boisterous’ character of the channel.The brand refresh has been three-pronged; replete with a new tagline - Hungama Machaya Kya?, a new on-air look and package, and a fresh interactive feel.Supplementing the new look for the channel is a music video featuring kids in a colourful, playful mood, bringing alive emotions they experience in everyday life. The new tagline is based on a recent survey by the channel where it emerged that there are always a few kids in every group who dictate the action and activities of the flock. Hungama decided to highlight these kids through its tagline while inspiring other children to follow their example and live life to the fullest.
Current shows
Hungama TV airs popular kids anime Like Doraemon and Shin-Chan and live action shows like Hero which are very popular among kids. Hungama TV focuses on anime for children's aimed at kids and preteens (ages 4-14). Shows like Doraemon, Shin-chan, Chimpui, Detective Conan, Hero, Kochikame and etc. were the biggest hits on Hungama TV. Hungama TV on its beginning showed 50 percent live action shows and 50 percent animated shows, which is the reason for its success from the channel's beginning. Hungama TV's schedule nearly changes every week. Timings of shows are not stable. Just some programs are fixed. The current shows are as follows:
Current programming
- Vir The Robot Boy
- Doraemon
- Shin-chan
- Lucky Man
- Marvo the Wonder Chicken
- Ninja Warrior
- Kid vs. Kat
- Magical Hat
- [Gon (Mon-Fri 1:00 pm ) ]]
- monster kid
- Digimon Xros Wars
- B-Daman Crossfire
Movies
Hungama TV has aired many movies, both anime and live-action, but has repeated only the movies of the popular anime Shin Chan dubbed in Hindi-
- Treasures Of Buri Buri Kingdom(17 October 2009)
- Shin Chan in Action Kamen vs Higure Rakshas(29 August 2010)
- Shinchan in Bungle In The Jungle(1 April 2011 theatre; 22 May 2011 TV)
- Shin Chan Movie: Adventures In Henderland(18 December 2011)
- Shin Chan in Dark Tama-Tama Thrilling Chase(June 17, 2012)
- Shin Chan Movie: The Golden Sword(26 January 2013)
- Shin Chan Movie: The Spy(8 June 2013)
- Shin Chan Movie: Villain Aur Dulhan(28 September 2013)
- Shin Chan Movie: Himawari Banegi Rajkumari(22 March 2014)
- Shin Chan Masala Story The Movie(21 June 2014)
- Shin Chan In Very Very Tasty Tasty(19 July 2014)
Former programming
- Are You Afraid of the Dark?
- Arthur (TV series)
- Digimon Xros Wars
- Asari-chan
- Aaron Stone
- Being Ian
- Chooha Mantar
- Dharam Veer
- Detective Conan
- Enigma (TV series)
- Full Toss Inter School Cricket
- Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs
- Kiteretsu Daihyakka
- Kochikame
- Martin Morning
- Nintama Rantarō
- Noddy aur Daddy
- Ojarumaru
- Guzura
- Pawan
- Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf
- Power Rangers SPD
- Power Rangers Jungle Fury
- Power Rangers Ninja Storm
- Power Rangers: Mystic Force
- Power Rangers: Operation Overdrive
- Shaka Laka Boom Boom
- Robotan
- Ryukendo
- Shuriken School
- Shisha
- Sonic X
- Sanya
- Tayo The Little Bus (2013-present)
- Tamagon the Counselor
- Tao the Little Wizard
- Titeuf
- Tensai Bakabon
- Télé Match
- Tiger
- Yu-Gi-Oh!
- Zenmai Zamurai
- Zoran
- Space Goofs
- Ratz
Dubbing in-house policies
When Disney purchased the rights to this channel in 2011, A new policy has been implemented by Disney and UTV that all foreign content that was shipped to air on this channel, along with the other Disney networks would start to be dubbed in-house by UTV Software Communications. For certain foreign programs that have previously have been dubbed into Hindi, Tamil or Telugu from before, Disney was not able to use the original dubs of some of the programs, such as Pokémon for example, which was originally dubbed by Sound & Vision India in 2003. Disney could not afford the rights to broadcast the original Hindi dub of that anime on the channel, and also it's due to license rights and market competition. Therefore a new dub was created starting off with re-runs of the anime when it premiered on May 19, 2014. New dubs would have to be created for other foreign content as well, for the same reasons. The true reasons for having to create new dubs of foreign programs in-house, is clearly unknown. However, these examples shown can be a good possibility for the reason.