Hub VV Drama

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Hub VV Drama
HUB娛家戲劇台
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Country Singapore
Broadcast areaNationwide
Network StarHub TV
Programming
Picture format HDTV 1080i
SDTV 576i
Timeshift serviceVV Drama+3
娛家戲劇台+3
Ownership
Owner StarHub
Sister channels Astro Sensasi
Hub Sports Arena
Hub Sports
Hub E City
History
Launched1 April 1992;32 years ago (1992-04-01)
Former namesVarietyVision
(13 May 1992-31 May 1995)
VV Drama
(1 June 1995-31 December 2016)

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. StarHub TV on channel 856 as VV Drama+3 a showing dramas they air 3-hours before at a 3-hours later timeslot until 28 July 2015.

Contents

This channel is owned by StarHub TV, alongside Astro Sensasi, Hub Sports Arena, Hub Sports and Hub E City.

This channel celebrated its 20th anniversary to new timeslots including a new Japanese drama timeslot on Friday at 22:30 SST.

History

VarietyVision launched on 13 May 1992 (pushed ahead from its prospective launch date of 1 June 1992). The channel initially broadcast eighteen hours a day every day of the week, except on Saturdays where it broadcast 24 hours. Content consisted of movies, documentaries, dramas and cartoons from suppliers from Taiwan, Hong Kong and the Chinese mainland. [1]

Commercial breaks

There are usually 1-minute commercial breaks in after the ending and before the beginning of each episode when 2 to 5 episodes of the same drama were broadcast back-to-back. Due to this scheme of not having commercial breaks during programmes, the show usually ends at about 45 minutes after the show has started to marks the end of the episode of each drama series, making the run of an episode faster than the typical one hour (60 minutes) including commercials.

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References

  1. "Two new leisure channels launched on pay TV". The Straits Times (retrieved from NLB). 15 May 1992. Retrieved 8 August 2023.