Country | India |
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Broadcast area | India South Africa Bangladesh United Kingdom Ireland Nepal Singapore Macau Hong Kong Canada United States Thailand |
Headquarters | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
Programming | |
Picture format | 1080i HDTV (downscaled to letterboxed 576i for the SDTV feed) |
Ownership | |
Owner | Sony |
Parent | Culver Max Entertainment |
Sister channels | See List of channels owned by Culver Max |
History | |
Launched | 20 July 1999 |
Links | |
Website | www |
Availability | |
Terrestrial | |
Airtel Digital (India) | Channel 201 Channel 202 (HD) |
D2h (India) | Channel 201 Channel 202 (HD) |
Dish TV (India) | Channel 343 channel 342 (HD) |
Sky UK | Channel 715 Channel 895 (HD) |
Sun Direct (India) | Channel 330 |
Tata Play (India) | Channel 314 Channel 312 (HD) |
Zuku TV (Kenya) | Channel 907 |
Akash DTH (Bangladesh) | Channel 262 |
Streaming media | |
Sling TV | Internet Protocol television |
SonyLIV | Live |
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Its main audience attraction, other than Hindi-language movies, was the Twenty20 cricket tournament Indian Premier League (IPL), [4] which the channel had been broadcasting since the tournament's launch in 2008 till 2017, after which it sold the broadcasting rights to Star Sports. It also airs complimentary cricket talk show programmes like Extraaa Innings T20. It occasionally airs Hollywood movies and WWE matches in Hindi. Sony Max is one of the most watched television channels of India, [5] as of July 2018 the second most popular in the country, [5] as well as the top Bollywood channel in the UK that month, ahead of rivals like Zee Cinema. [6]
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