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Cinecanal

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Cinecanal
Broadcast areaLatin America
HeadquartersArgentina
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Mexico
Peru
Programming
Language(s)Spanish
Portuguese (only in Brazil)
English (as an optional audio track)
Picture format1080iHDTV
(downscaled to16:9480i/576ifor theSDTVfeed)
Ownership
Owner
Sister channels
History
Launched1 April 1993;31 years ago(1 April 1993)
1 April 2022;2 years ago(1 April 2022)(Brazil)
Links
Websitefoxplay.com(Hispanic Latin America, now closed)

Cinecanalis aLatin Americanpan-regional cabletelevision channellaunched on April 1, 1993. It is owned by a group ofHollywoodstudios and Latin American cable companies. It is owned by theFox Networks Group,a subsidiary ofDisney International Operations,which is itself a subsidiary ofThe Walt Disney Company.

History

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The channel is dedicated to films. It began on 1 April 1993.

On November 27, 2020, Disney announced that it would rename the Fox channels in Latin America to Star on 22 February 2021. This change will not affect FX, National Geographic, FXM, Cinecanal or Fox Sports Channels.[1]

In early April 2022, Cinecanal was launched in Brazil, as a replacement forStar Life,which shut down across the region.[2]

References

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  1. ^"Disney Renaming Fox Channels In Latin America To Star | What's On Disney Plus".November 27, 2020.
  2. ^Jungbluth, Marcos (January 11, 2022)."Disney planeja descontinuar Disney Junior e lançará Cinecanal no Brasil".TV Laint.RetrievedJanuary 30,2022.