Zone Romantica

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Zone Romantica
Zone Romantica.svg
Country United Kingdom
Broadcast areaEurope
Network Chello Zone/Chello Central Europe
Programming
Picture format 576i (SDTV)
Ownership
Owner Chellomedia Liberty Global
Sister channels Zone Club
Zone Europa
Zone Fantasy
Zone Horror
Zone Reality
Zone Thriller
History
LaunchedCentral & Eastern Europe: 1 March 1998
UK & Ireland: 3 September 2007
ClosedUK & Ireland: 16 November 2009
Hungary: 2 July 2012
Central & Eastern Europe: 3 December 2012
Replaced byRomania: Romantica (2007–2012)
UK & Ireland: CBS Drama (2009)
Hungary & Romania: Film Café (2012)
Central & Eastern Europe: CBS Drama (2012)
Poland: CBS Action (2012) Polsat Romans (2013)
Former namesRomantica (Until 2006)
Links
Website zoneromantica.tv
romantica.tv UK

Zone Romantica (formerly Romantica) was a European TV channel that launched in 1998. The channel broadcast a mixture of telenovelas, music and entertainment from all over the world, but mainly from Latin America. The channel was available 24 hours a day, to 20 territories across Europe and the Middle East. The channel reached 8 million subscribers.

Contents

The channel launched on Sky Digital in the UK and Ireland on 3 September 2007. It was broadcasting between 8 a.m. and 3 a.m. from the start. [1] It slot on the Sky EPG had been purchased from BEN TV. [2]

On 6 May 2008 it was one of the channels that were on the free-to-air platform Freesat platform from the start. [3]

On 14 September 2009, it was revealed that the international arm of CBS, CBS Studios International, struck a joint venture deal with Chellomedia to launch six CBS-branded channels in the UK during 2009. The new channels would replace Zone Romantica, Zone Thriller, Zone Horror and Zone Reality, plus timeshift services Zone Horror +1 and Zone Reality +1. [4] [5] On 1 October 2009, it was announced that CBS Reality, CBS Reality +1, CBS Drama and CBS Action would launch on 16 November 2009 replacing Zone Reality, Zone Reality +1, Zone Romantica and Zone Thriller. On 5 April 2010, Zone Horror and Zone Horror +1 were rebranded as Horror Channel and Horror Channel +1, following the rebrand of the portfolio's other three channels in November 2009. [6]

On 2 July 2012, Hungarian version of Zone Romantica is replaced by Film Café. [7] On 1 August 2012 Chellomedia revealed that all European versions of the Zone Channels would be rebranded into CBS Channels. [8] CBS Action replaced Zone Romantica on 3 December 2012. On 1 September 2013 Zone Romantica Has Completely Closed Replacing Polsat Romans on Poland. On 3 December 2012 in Europe Zone Romantica has rebranded to CBS Drama.

Programming

Programme Line-up for UK/Éire features 3 Classic First Run US Daytime Soap Operas.

Current shows [9]

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References

  1. ↑ "Zonemedia to launch Romantica channel". The Airwaves. 20 August 2007. Archived from the original on 24 July 2011.
  2. ↑ "Zone brings US soaps to UK screens". Digital Spy. 20 August 2007.
  3. ↑ "In full: Freesat channels at launch". Digital Spy. 6 May 2008.
  4. ↑ "CBS FINALChello Zone partnership press release" (DOC). Chello Zone. 14 September 2009.
  5. ↑ "CBS to launch UK channels with Chellomedia". Broadcastnow. 14 September 2009.
  6. ↑ "Zone Horror rebrands as Horror Channel". Broadband TV News. 31 March 2010.
  7. ↑ "Chello rebrands movie channels". Broadband TV News. 18 June 2012.
  8. ↑ "CBS and Chellomedia take entertainment across EMEA". Broadband TV News. 1 August 2012.
  9. ↑ "Zone Romantica". Archived from the original on 4 August 2012. Retrieved 27 June 2012.
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