Cinecanal
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Broadcast area | Hispanic America |
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Headquarters | Argentina Brazil Chile Colombia Mexico Peru |
Programming | |
Language(s) | Spanish Portuguese (only in Brazil) English (as an optional audio track) |
Picture format | 1080i HDTV (downscaled to 16:9 480i for the channel's SDTV feeds) |
Ownership | |
Owner | The Walt Disney Company Latin America (Disney International Operations) |
Sister channels | |
History | |
Launched | 1 April 1993 1 April 2022 (Brazil) |
Links | |
Website | foxplay |
Cinecanal is a Latin American pan-regional cable television channel launched on April 1, 1993. It is owned by a group of Hollywood studios and Latin American cable companies. The studio owners include Paramount, 20th Century Studios, Searchlight Pictures, Universal Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and Universal Pictures.
History[]
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 is expected to be launched in Brazil, as a replacement for Star Life, which will be shut down across the region.[2]
Films included from companies like:
- 20th Century Fox
- Searchlight Pictures
- DreamWorks Pictures
- DreamWorks Animation SKG
- Paramount Pictures
- Lionsgate Entertainment
- Universal Pictures
- Sony Pictures
References[]
- ^ "Disney Renaming Fox Channels In Latin America To Star | What's On Disney Plus". November 27, 2020.
- ^ Jungbluth, Marcos (January 11, 2022). "Disney planeja descontinuar Disney Junior e lançará Cinecanal no Brasil". TV Laint. Retrieved January 30, 2022.
- Movie channels
- Latin American cable television networks
- Spanish-language television stations
- The Walt Disney Company Latin America
- United States television station stubs