Star Channel

Star Channel (formerly known as FOX and later Fox Channel) is a Latin American subscription television channel of US origin, owned by The Walt Disney Company Latin America and operated by Disney Media Networks Latin America. It is mainly aimed at the family audience.

Star Channel
Broadcast area	Latin America
Headquarters	Argentina Brazil Chile Colombia Mexico Peru
Programming
Language(s)	Spanish Portuguese English (as an optional audio track)
Picture format	1080i HDTV (downscaled to 16:9 480i for the channel's SDTV feeds)
Ownership
Owner	The Walt Disney Company Latin America (Disney International Operations)
Sister channels	Cinecanal FX FXM Star Life Star Premium
History
Launched	14 August 1993; 31 years ago (14 August 1993) (as Fox, Latin America) 17 September 1994; 30 years ago (17 September 1994) (as Fox, Brazil) 22 February 2021; 3 years ago (22 February 2021) (as Star Channel)
Former names	Fox (1993–2018) Fox Channel (2018–2021)
Links
Website	star-brasil.com (Brazil) star-latam.com (Hispanic Latin America)
Availability

It began broadcasting on August 14, 1993 under the Fox name, presenting comedy, action, and drama series under its original name (except for The Simpsons and Futurama), as well as films of various cinematographic genres. Since 2005, it has had a block of cartoons for adults, broadcast from Monday to Friday at night called ¡No Molestar! (¡Do Not Disturb!).

On November 5, 2018, the channel was renamed to Fox Channel. After the acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney in 2019, and in order to avoid relating it to the current Fox Corporation, on November 27, 2020, Disney announced that the Fox channels would be renamed under the name Star, issue that was finalized on February 22, 2021.^[1]

1. ↑ "Disney Renaming Fox Channels in Latin America to Star | What's on Disney Plus". 27 November 2020.