The channels that stopped broadcasting were Baby TV, National Geographic, National Geographic Wild, Star Chinese Movies, Star Chinese Channel, Star Movies, and Star World, according to the My Sky website. Word of the channels’ eventual removal was first announced in June 2023.
According to a Variety report, the development was foreshadowed by similar moves in 2020 and 2021. Disney closed its sports channels in Taiwan in 2020. In September 2021, it closed Fox, Fox Crime, Fox Life, FX, and Channel V; and other movie channels.
Consumers can still watch the channels by subscribing to either the Disney+ or Disney+ Hotstar streaming platforms. These have been rolled out within the Asia-Pacific region, except China.
Not surprising. Disney has been trying everything it can to boost its Disney+ streaming service, to make it “worth it” to a wide variety of people. Even if the viewership of those channels individually have been a trickle (especially when compared from before), bundling them into Disney+ can still be a good move.
Star channels and Fox channels were on “life-support” since 2017, and gradually increased the commercial ads with limited screening of their flagship shows and movies. Bakit kasi nilipat ang feed sa Pinas… Nakakadepress iyong Fox Movies dito, parang may timer kung kailan mag-commercial break.
Deads naman na kasi CATV. Yung mga umiiyak pa na wala na NatGeo akala mo naman may subscription sila, lol.
