Star! Scandinavia

Star! Scandinavia

Baltic countries South Africa
Ownership
Owner	NonStop Television
History
Launched	1 September 2000
Closed	15 July 2015
Former names	E!
Links
Website	nonstop.tv/star

Star! Scandinavia was a television channel in northern Europe that is devoted to entertainment and celebrity news and programming. The channel was managed by Scandinavian television broadcaster NonStop Television, part of Turner Broadcasting.

The channel was fashioned after

.

History

Star! Scandinavia was launched in September 2000, but was then named

), and joint-venture channels in Israel and throughout Argentina, Brazil and the rest of Latin America. In July 2004 the Scandinavian channel changed its affiliation and was renamed Star! while E! set up their own channel in Europe.

It was originally available in

.

The channel started broadcasting terrestrially in Sweden in the autumn of 2002. It was originally broadcasting for 24 hours per day, but when new licenses were granted in February 2006 the broadcasting hours of the channel were reduced and Star! would broadcast from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. On 1 May 2010 Star! started broadcasting in

TopTV

pay TV operator.

Following a deal between Star!'s brand owner, CTVglobemedia (now Bell Media), and Comcast, the original Star! channel in Canada was replaced by E! on 29 November 2010. The rebranding did not affect Star! in Scandinavia.^[1]

Star! was closed on 15 July 2015, with an 2002 episode of FashionTelevision, after the episode ended, a slide was seen, the message saying "Thanks", the Star! logo and the website for the channel (it redirected to the Turner website) after which the channel space created by E! in 2000 folded and ceased to exist.^[2]

Logos

• 
  2000-2004
• 
  2004
• 
  2004-2015

References