Zee Café
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| Country | India |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | Mumbai |
| Programming | |
| Language(s) | English |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Zee Entertainment Enterprises Parent: (Essel Group) |
Zee Café, formerly Zee English, is an Indian English-Hindi language cable and satellite television channel owned by Zee Entertainment Enterprises, a subsidiary of the Essel Group. It was launched on 15 March 2000 as Zee English and is known as a general entertainment channel (GEC).[2] On 27 March 2005, it was renamed Zee Café.[3] The channel mainly syndicates popular American television shows to appeal to the English-speaking population of India.
Programming
The channel airs a range of different shows including dramas, sitcoms and reality shows.
International distribution
Zee Café launched on Sky in the United Kingdom and Ireland on 15 July 2010.[4] The channel originally served as Zee's network hybrid channel, which used to broadcast shows from a number of its existing channels in India. On 11 September 2012, it was repositioned as a classics channel, airing re-runs of old Zee TV programming,[5] covering cookery, dramas, horror and mythology. At the same time the channel became free-to-air.[6] On 10 June 2013, the British version of Zee Café closed and was replaced by Lamhe, another free-to-air classics channel from Zee.[7]
See also
References
- ^ "Zee Café's new positioning 'All Eyes on NEW' promises to give a NEW dimension to the English Entertainment space". Media Infoline. 17 October 2016. Retrieved 11 November 2016.
- ^ "Indiantelevision.com's television industry headlines". Us.indiantelevision.com. Retrieved 7 November 2011.
- ^ "Indiantelevision.com > News Headlines > Dish TV goes mobile, Zee dons new look". Us.indiantelevision.com. 28 March 2005. Retrieved 7 November 2011.
- ^ "ZEE Cafe launches on Sky Digital EPG". BizAsia. 15 July 2010. Archived from the original on 17 August 2010.
- ^ "ZEE Cafe set to reposition as classics channel". BizAsia. 6 September 2012.
- ^ "Change Log: Zee Café". KingOfSat. Retrieved 12 June 2013.
- ^ "Lamhe replaces ZEE Cafe in UK". BizAsia. 10 June 2013.