Star TV is a Turkish nationwide TV channel. It has been owned by Ferit Şahenk's Doğuş Media Group since 2011.

History

Founded by Cem Uzan and

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in 1989 as Magic Box, Star TV is Turkey's first private TV channel. The channel started its test broadcasting on 5 May 1990. For a brief time in the early 1990s, it was called Star Magic Box because the name Star 1 was copyrighted by another media corporation. Its first logo was a blue S with a star on it before it turned to red in the early 2000s. Star TV aired many world-known series for the first time in Turkey. Among them were '' The A-Team'', '' Magnum, P.I.'' '' Simon & Simon'', '' MacGyver'', ''

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'', '' Lassie'', '' Murphy Brown'', '' Perfect Strangers'', '' Dragnet'', '' Charles in Charge'', '' The Jeffersons'', '' Twin Peaks'', '' Married... with Children'', ''

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''. The channel is also the first private Turkish channel to start digital broadcasting in 1999. In February 2004, Star TV was put on the block by Turkish savings and deposit insurance fund''s (TMSF) along with other media assets, including seven radio stations, a newspaper and another TV station of the Uzan Group, to cover debts owed to the Treasury resulting from the takeover of İmar Bankası and Adabank. TMSF put Star TV up for auction, and it's purchased by Isil Television Broadcasting Corp. of

Dogan Media Group Dogan may refer to: * Dogan, English and Irish surname * Dogan, a type of building that occurs frequently in Stephen King's fantasy series The Dark Tower. * Doğan, Turkish surname and masculine first name * Doğan News Agency, a Turkish news age ...

, which offered the highest bid of $306.5 m at the auction in September 2005. Star TV was sold by

Doğan Holding Doğan Holding is amongst the biggest conglomerates in Turkey operating in the energy, media, industry, trade, insurance and tourism industries. Founded by Aydın Doğan who still is a major shareholder, the company is led by his daughter Begü ...

to the Doğuş Media Group on 17 October 2011, for $327m.

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, 18 October 2011
Doğan Yayın sells Star TV to Doğuş Group for $327 million

Programs

Star TV HD

Star TV began broadcasting in HD on 29 May 2009. It's the second active HD channel in Turkey after Kanal D.

Euro Star

The channel also broadcasts in Europe with the name Euro Star, with the difference of not broadcasting Champions League matches live. Euro Star has its own productions in addition to Star TV's productions.

References

External links

Official website (in Turkish)
{{Television in Turkey Television stations in Turkey Television channels and stations established in 1990 1990 establishments in Turkey Doğuş Group Mass media in Istanbul