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Star Hub TV is a pay television service provided by StarHub in Singapore.It has been a subsidiary of StarHub Limited since StarHub acquired Singapore Cable Vision (SCV) in 2001, and was the sole pay-TV operator in the country until 2007 when mio TV (now Singtel TV), an IPTV service from its competitor, Singtel, was launched.
StarHub provides cable television services through its subsidiary Singapore Cable Vision Ltd. Its Hybrid Optical Fibre-Coaxial network reaches 99% of households in Singapore. In November 2004, it announced the launch of digital cable services over its cable network, which added more channels and allowed greater consumer interactivity. [36]
The network's origins trace back to 1997, when Singapore CableVision spent SG$500,000 worth of rights for the coverage of high- and lower-tier English football, culminating in the launch of the Football Channel on 9 August. [1] A second channel, SuperSports, was announced in December 1999, with non-football events making up most of its schedule.
StarHub also has a different package for their fibre internet service. [129] On 1 October 2002, Singapore Cable Vision merged with Singapore telecommunications company StarHub to create StarHub Cable Vision, a pay TV service with more than 40 international channels of news, movies, entertainment, sports, music and education. [ 130 ]
Hub VV Drama (formerly known as VarietyVision, officially launched on 13 May 1992 and officially dissolved on 31 May 1995) is a cable television StarHub TV on Channel 855. Its programming consists solely of drama series from Hong Kong, China, South Korea and Taiwan, dubbed or Subtitles into Chinese. There are no commercial breaks during programmes.
That same year, StarHub, a Singapore telecommunications company, acquired SCV and the cable television network was subsequently renamed as StarHub Cable Vision, and again as StarHub TV in 2007. Digital cable was introduced to Singapore in November 2004 and completely replaced the previous analogue cable service by June 2009. [4]
Hub E City is a cable television StarHub TV channel 825 which belongs to StarHub.Its programming consists solely of drama series and hot entertainment programmes from Taiwan, Japan and Korea, dubbed into Mandarin for dramas (variety shows remain Korean) and also airs highly rated Taiwanese variety shows presented by popular hosts.
Smyth Cablevision; Defunct Irish cable companies (mostly gradually merged into what is now Virgin Media Ireland) Cablelink (rebranded as NTL) Casey Cablevision (acquired by Virgin in 2018) Chorus Communications (became UPC in 2007) CMI (Cable Management Ireland) (merged to form Chorus) Cork Multichannel/Cork Communications (became Chorus)