Cinecanal

Cinecanal
Broadcast area	Hispanic America
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	FX; FXM; Star Channel; Star Life;
History
Launched	1 April 1993; 28 years ago; 1 April 2022; 18 days' time (Brazil)
Links
Website	foxplay.com (Hispanic Latin America, now closed)

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.

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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. Retrieved January 30, 2022.

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