Zee Café

Zee Café
Zee Café's logo
Launched 15 March 2000
Owned by Zee Entertainment Enterprises
Parent: (Essel Group)
Picture format 480i (SDTV)
1080i (HDTV)
Country India
Language English
Broadcast area India , Nepal
Headquarters Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Sister channel(s) Zee Studio
Zee TV
Website www.zeecafe.tv
Availability
Satellite
Airtel digital TV Channel 150(SD)
Channel 151(HD)
Dish TV Channel 450(SD)
Channel 35(HD)
Reliance Digital TV Channel 254(SD)
Sun Direct Channel 260(SD)
Tata Sky Channel 208(SD)
Channel 207(HD)
Videocon d2h Channel 181(SD)
Dish Home Channel TBA
Cable
Available on most cable systems Check local listings for channels
Hathway Channel 30
You Scod18 Channel 353
Kerala Vision Channel 222
Zee Café's logo used until 18 June 2011

Zee Café, formerly Zee English, is an Indian English-Hindi language cable and satellite television channel owned by Zee Entertainment Enterprises, a subsidiary of the Essel Group. It was launched on 15 March 2000 as Zee English and is known as a general entertainment channel (GEC).[1] On 27 March 2005, it was renamed Zee Café.[2] The channel mainly syndicates popular American television shows to appeal to the English-speaking population of India.

Current programming

The channel airs a range of different shows including dramas, sitcoms and reality shows.

Sitcom

Drama

Other

International distribution

Zee Café launched on Sky in the United Kingdom and Ireland on 15 July 2010.[3] The channel originally served as Zee's network hybrid channel, which used to broadcast shows from a number of its existing channels in India. On 11 September 2012, it was repositioned as a classics channel, airing re-runs of old Zee TV programming,[4] covering cookery, dramas, horror and mythology. At the same time the channel became free-to-air.[5] On 10 June 2013, the British version of Zee Café closed and was replaced by Lamhe, another free-to-air classics channel from Zee.[6]

See also

References

  1. "Indiantelevision.com's television industry headlines". Us.indiantelevision.com. Retrieved 7 November 2011.
  2. "Indiantelevision.com > News Headlines > Dish TV goes mobile, Zee dons new look". Us.indiantelevision.com. 28 March 2005. Retrieved 7 November 2011.
  3. "ZEE Cafe launches on Sky Digital EPG". BizAsia. 15 July 2010. Archived from the original on 17 August 2010.
  4. "ZEE Cafe set to reposition as classics channel". BizAsia. 6 September 2012.
  5. "Change Log: Zee Café". KingOfSat. Retrieved 12 June 2013.
  6. "Lamhe replaces ZEE Cafe in UK". BizAsia. 10 June 2013.

External links

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