{"id":702,"date":"2004-11-17T15:20:32","date_gmt":"2004-11-17T20:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=702"},"modified":"2005-04-13T13:13:47","modified_gmt":"2005-04-13T18:13:47","slug":"stars_come_out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/17\/stars_come_out\/","title":{"rendered":"Stars Come Out on DirecTV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. digital TV service DirecTV announced today that it will begin offering\nfour Indian channels from News Corp.&#8217;s Star Group to its 13.5 million customers.<\/p>\n\n<p>The new channels include:<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Star Plus &ndash; Hindi entertainment and dramas. India&rsquo;s leading cable\nchannel, with 50 million viewers a week.<\/li>\n<li>Star One &ndash; Hindi action\/thrillers, comedies and dramas. Recently launched.<\/li>\n<li>Star News &ndash; 24-hour Hindi news channel. Reaches 20 million homes in\nAsia.<\/li>\n<li>Star Vijay &ndash; Tamil entertainment. Reaches 8 million homes in Asia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>The HindiDirect package includes Star Plus, Star One and Star News, and is\navailable for $29.99 per month. Star Vijay is offered in the TamilDirect package,\nwhich will cost $14.99 per month. A cricket sports package is also on the plate\nfor $199.<\/p>\n\n<p>Despite numerous requests, Star After Dark and Star Spice will not be offered\n(or even conceived). One day, my friends, one day&hellip;<\/p>\n\n<p>Variety\/Yahoo!: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;u=\/variety\/20041117\/va_tv_ne\/directv_beams_up_4_indian_channels_1\" target=\"new\">DirecTV\nBeams Up 4 Indian Channels<\/a><br>\nBusiness Wire\/Yahoo!: <a href=\"http:\/\/biz.yahoo.com\/bw\/041117\/175598_1.html\" target=\"new\">DirecTV\nExpands International Programming Platform to Include Star Indian Channels and\nInternational Cricket<\/a><br>\nStarTV: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startv.com\/\" target=\"new\">Official Site<\/a> <br>\nDirecTV: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.directv.com\/\" target=\"new\">Official Site<\/a><\/p>\n\n<!--more-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. digital TV service DirecTV announced today that it will begin offering four Indian channels from News Corp.&#8217;s Star Group to its 13.5 million customers. The new channels include: Star Plus &ndash; Hindi entertainment and dramas. India&rsquo;s leading cable channel, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/17\/stars_come_out\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}