Sony Max is an Indian

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entertainment channel which is a sister channel to

Sony Entertainment Television Sony Entertainment Television (abbreviated as SET) is an Indian Hindi-language general entertainment pay television channel that was launched in 1995 and is owned by Culver Max Entertainment, a division of Sony Pictures. History This chann ...

, operated by

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. The channel started broadcasting on 20 July 1999 and is available internationally. It launched a HD simulcast version on 25 December 2015. Sony MAX

Programming

Its main audience attraction, other than

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-language movies, was the

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tournament Indian Premier League (IPL), which the channel had been broadcasting since the tournament's launch in 2008 till 2015, 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

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movies and

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matches in

. 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

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Associated channels

Sony Max 1

''Sony Max 1'' is a Hindi movie channel from

, has been launched officially on 1 May 2025.

Sony Max 2

''Sony Max 2'' is an Indian

channel owned by

and launched in 2014. It is the second Indian channel launched by Sony which is focused solely on old

-language movie broadcasts, being the sister channel of Sony Max. It primarily targets audiences interested in classic Bollywood films, offering a dedicated platform for nostalgia and entertainment.

Sony Wah

''Sony Wah'' is an Indian

free-to-air Free-to-air (FTA) services are television (TV) and radio services broadcast in unencrypted form, allowing any person with the appropriate receiving equipment to receive the signal and view or listen to the content without requiring a subscri ...

television channel owned by

. It is targeted towards audience of small towns and rural areas in the country and its programming consists on

Hindi-language Modern Standard Hindi (, ), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in the Devanagari script. It is an official language of the Government of India, alongside English, and is the ''lin ...

movies and southern Indian films dubbed in that language.

References

External links

* {{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 Culver Max Entertainment