BeTV was a
pay television
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channel, owned by
Sony Pictures Entertainment
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in the Asia-Pacific region. Launched on 2 April 2012, it replaced
AXN Beyond
AXN Beyond was a pay television channel, owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment in the Asia-Pacific region. It was launched on 1 January 2008.
Feeds
* Southeast Asian feed - available in Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand, and Indonesia
* Philippine ...
as a spin-off of
AXN Asia
AXN is an Asian pay television channel owned by KC Global Media Asia based in Singapore. It primarily airs action, police procedural, and reality shows. The network was formerly wholly owned by Sony Pictures Television, but the Asia Pacific, Midd ...
and
Sony Entertainment Television
Sony Entertainment Television (SET) is an Indian Hindi-language general entertainment pay television channel, that was launched on 30 September 1995, and is owned by Culver Max Entertainment, a subsidiary of the Japanese Sony.
SET India's You ...
. Selected programs from
AXN Philippines and
SET
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were exclusively available in the Philippine feed of the channel.
AXN Beyond HD, renamed BeTV HD on 2 April 2012. The renamed channel would become the first channel that ceases to be carried on
Astro B.yond HD and Astro B.yond PVR on 26 August 2013 at midnight.
BeTV was finally shut down on 15 October 2014 due to its merger with SET to form
Sony Channel
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.
Feeds
* Southeast Asian feed: available for most countries in the region. It lasted two months, from 1 August until 30 September 2015.
* Philippine feed: available only to that certain country. Its programming schedule was similar to the Southeast Asian feed, with local advertisements and featuring programming imported from AXN and SET. It was shut down in October 2014.
* Malaysian feed: – It branched off the Southeast Asian feed. Its HD feed ceased broadcasting on 26 August 201
Programming
The channel mainly aired popular shows and movies syndicated from the
United Kingdom
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and the
United States
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.
See also
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AXN Asia
AXN is an Asian pay television channel owned by KC Global Media Asia based in Singapore. It primarily airs action, police procedural, and reality shows. The network was formerly wholly owned by Sony Pictures Television, but the Asia Pacific, Midd ...
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Animax Asia
Animax is the pay television channel in Asia owned by KC Global Media Asia which broadcasts Japanese language anime and Simulcast anime, anime programming through English-language feeds in Southeast Asia (formerly including Brunei), South Asia (ex ...
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GEM
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Sony Channel
Sony Channel is a brand of general entertainment television channels, owned by Sony Pictures Television. It was previously known as Sony Entertainment Television (SET), but many of the channels, except the Indian television channel, were rebrand ...
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SET Asia
Sony Entertainment Television (SET) is an Indian Hindi-language general entertainment pay television channel, that was launched on 30 September 1995, and is owned by Culver Max Entertainment, a subsidiary of the Japanese Sony.
SET India's You ...
(Indian region)
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List of programs broadcast by BeTV (Asia Pacific)
BeTV was a pay television channel, owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment in the Asia-Pacific region. Launched on 2 April 2012, it replaced AXN Beyond as a spin-off of AXN Asia and Sony Entertainment Television. Selected programs from AXN Philip ...
References
External links
Official Website(Main for SIN/HK/THAI/JKT)
Official Website(MY/PH only)
{{Philippine cable channels
Television channels and stations established in 2012
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2013
Sony Pictures Television
Defunct television channels