Sony Max (known popularly as Set Max) is an Indian
pay television entertainment channel which is a sister channel to
Sony Entertainment Television, operated by
Culver Max Entertainment. The channel started broadcasting on 20 July 1999 and is available internationally. It launched a
HD simulcast version on 25 December 2015.
Programming
Its main audience attraction, other than
Hindi-language movies, was the
Twenty20 cricket tournament
Indian Premier League (IPL), which the channel had been broadcasting since the tournament's launch in 2008 till 2017, after which it sold the broadcasting rights to
Star Sports. It also airs complimentary cricket talk show programmes like
Extraaa Innings T20. It occasionally airs
Hollywood
Hollywood usually refers to:
* Hollywood, Los Angeles, a neighborhood in California
* Hollywood, a metonym for the cinema of the United States
Hollywood may also refer to:
Places United States
* Hollywood District (disambiguation)
* Hollywood, ...
movies and
WWE matches in
Hindi. Sony Max is one of the most watched television channels of India,
as of July 2018 the second most popular in the country,
as well as the top Bollywood channel in the UK that month, ahead of rivals like
Zee Cinema.
Availability
Outside India
An HD simulcast feed of the European version was launched on
Sky in UK on 1 August 2017.
An SD Feed is Available Across all Countries such as United States, Canada (Distribution by Asian Television Network),
Caribbean
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, United Kingdom, Europe,
Mauritius,
South Africa,
Middle East,
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...
,
Thailand,
Maldives,
Bangladesh,
Hong Kong,
Singapore, Australia,
Nepal , New Zealand and
South Korea.
Associated channels
Sony Max 2
For details, see
Sony Max 2
Sony Max 2 is an Indian pay television channel owned by Culver Max Entertainment and launched in 2014. It is the second Indian channel launched by Sony which is focused solely on old Hindi-language movie broadcasts, being the sister channel ...
Sony Wah
Sony Wah, launched on 8 May 2016, is an Indian television channel owned by
Culver Max Entertainment . It is targeted towards audience of small towns and rural areas in the country and its programming consists on
Hindi-language movies and southern Indian films dubbed in that language.
References
External links
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{{Sony Pictures Networks India
Television stations in Mumbai
Hindi-language television channels in India
Sony Pictures Entertainment
Television channels and stations established in 1999
Sony Pictures Networks India
Indian Premier League on television
Movie channels in India
1999 establishments in Maharashtra