Country | Israel |
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Ownership | |
Owner | yes (Israel's satellite television provider) |
History | |
Launched | December 14, 2008 |
Former names | yesWeekend (2004-2006) yesSTARS (2006-2007) yes stars 123 (2007-2008) |
Carried by the Israeli satellite television provider yes , yes TV Shows Channels (formerly stylized as yes stars) is an Israeli group of television channels which broadcasts American, British and Israeli television shows. As of April 5, 2016, it consists of four channels:
yes Drama and yes Action air new episodes of shows in the weeknights (Sundays - Thursdays). yes Comedy airs new episodes of shows in the weekends (Fridays and Saturdays). yes Oh airs new episodes on weeknights.
The channel yes Real was canceled on January 16, 2012 and replaced with yes Oh.
On November 4, 2015, yes Base was discontinued.
In 2003, yes aired a channel called Summer Nights, that featured shows in the nights of the summer of 2003. The channel was cancelled at the end of the summer.
In the summer 2004, yes decided to air a channel called yesREAL, [1] with reality shows, such as Survivor and The Amazing Race. Due to the success of the channel, yes ran this channel again.
yes returned to air the past channel under its new name yes stars real on July 13, 2008. [2] The channel aired 13 reality and life style shows 24/7 and the shows aired in the same method of the regular stars channels with new episodes on weeknights (Sundays - Thursdays) and re-runs at the rest of the time. The channel went off air at the end of the broadcast day of September 13, 2008.
On May 26, 2009 yes announced the return of the reality shows channel - yes stars Real - on July 5, 2009 on channel 20. [3] The channel aired the shows 24/7 in the same method of the regular stars channels with new episodes on weeknights (Sundays - Thursdays) and re-runs at the rest of the time. The channel went off air at the end of the broadcast day of August 29, 2009.
On October 22, 2004, yes launched the channel yesWeekend, [4] which broadcast American and British television shows from the beginning, in the weekends (From Thursday night at 22:00 until Sunday morning at 06:00). Later in the days, of yesWeekend, the channel moved to broadcast only on Fridays and Saturdays, and in the weeknights it carried the shows that already aired on yesWeekend in syndication. In the last two months of the channel, the channel began showing re-runs on weekdays of the shows broadcast in the weekend, as a pilot for yesSTARS. On March 4, 2006 yesWeekend was cancelled.
Under a massive campaign under the name: The Revolution is Coming, which began on February 9, 2006, yes launched on March 5, 2006 yesSTARS, [5] with new episodes of shows broadcast on yesWeekend, and new shows that began the 2005/6 season. The shows aired on weeknights (Sundays - Thursdays), and the re-runs of the shows were in the weekdays and the weekends (Fridays - Saturdays).
On January 16, 2007, it was promoted in print and digital media that yesSTARS will expand to 3 channels - yes stars 1, yes stars 2 and yes stars 3 - on channels 12, 13 and 14 on yes. On February 11, 2007, yes launched an official promotional to the new group of channels stating the launch date to March 4, 2007. On March 3, 2007 yesSTARS has been cancelled. On March 4, 2007, the channel became yes stars 2.
As part of the television shows channels re-brand on yes, yesSTARS expanded to 3 channels on March 4, 2007: [6]
The three channels carried the slogan - "To Fall in Love, to Get Devoted, to Get Addicted".
On March 14, 2008, yes replaced the logos of yes stars 1, yes stars 2 and yes stars 3. In addition, the Israeli movies and television shows channel yesIsraeli became yes stars Israeli and moved to channel 15. [7]
On March 25, 2008 the HD version of yes stars - yes stars HD aired. [8] The channel airs selected shows from the yes stars channels in high definition.
On December 14, 2008 yes re-branded the channels again, and yes stars 1, yes stars 2 and yes stars 3 has been canceled.
As of December 14, 2008 [9] - yes changed the channels to be consisted of five [10] as follows:
As of January 17, 2010 [11] - yes changed the channels to be consisted of five channels as follows (As of August 20, 2010, the word "stars" was removed from the channels' name):
The channel "yes stars Israeli" was canceled on January 16, 2010 and replaced with yes stars Next.
as of January 15, 2011 - consists of five channels as follows., [12]
On July 2, 2011 yes SCI FI changed to Yes Real broadcast reality shows.
yes TV Shows Channels air shows in 4 formats:
In order to watch widescreen (16:9) shows on a 4:3 TV, there are 3 options to see the picture:
Choosing the format of the picture is in the digital set-top box setup. The setup does not affect shows which are not broadcast in Widescreen.
yes stars HD broadcasts shows in High Definition at a resolution of 1080i50 with an original aspect ratio of 16:9 (widescreen) using H.264 compression format. The channel available only to the HD consumers of yes, using yes' HD set-top box. The channel aired until April 21, 2009, then it was replaced with a full schedule simulcast on 2 channels - yes stars Drama HD and yes stars Action HD.
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