UTV Movies

UTV Movies is an Indian Hindi-language pay television channel owned by Disney Star, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company India. It airs blockbuster Bollywood films from UTV's own library and Fox Star Studios and other major studios in India.

UTV Movies
CountryIndia
Network
HeadquartersMumbai, Maharashtra
Programming
Picture format576i SDTV
History
Launched24 February 2008 (2008-02-24)

International feed

In the United States, UTV Movies International is available on DirecTV[1] (Since 2009) and Time Warner Cable.

The channel launched on Sky in the UK and Ireland on 12 December 2011.[2] In the region the channel is known as UMP Movies (UTV Motion Pictures Movies) due to legal issues over the UTV brand, which is already in use by the Northern Irish broadcaster UTV Media in Europe.[3] A launch on Freesat followed on 8 February 2012, however the channel was removed from the platform on 7 February 2013.[4][5] UMP Movies also launched on Virgin Media on 18 December 2012.[6] It closed on Sky on 29 September 2016, and was replaced by Rishtey Cineplex. It later shut down on Virgin on 1 October 2016.

See also

References
  1. "DIRECTV Has Satellite TV Exclusive on UTV's Hindi Movies in the U.S." BizAsia. 10 December 2008.
  2. "UMP Movies makes UK launch on Sky Digital". BizAsia. 12 December 2011.
  3. "UTV Movies to be known as UMP Movies in UK". BizAsia. 10 December 2011. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014.
  4. "UMP Movies launches on Freesat". BollywoodTrade.com. 10 February 2012.
  5. "UMP Movies leaves Freesat after a year". a516digital. 12 February 2013.
  6. "Four new channels to launch on Virgin Media". BizAsia. 8 December 2012.
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