History
December 1993 Star Channel was launched to compete with Mega Channel, ANT1, Alpha TV, and ERT Channels. It began broadcasting children's programs along with foreign series.
1994 Star Channel began to exchange family/children's programs from Alpha, then known as Skai (Greek spelling of Sky) with Star's children's programming.
2005 Star Channel makes its debut Internationally, joining the UBI World TV platform, making Star Channel available to viewers in Australia as well as Asia - Africa region
2008 UBI World TV launches in New Zealand making Star International available.
2010 Forcibly removed from the Eurovision Song Contest and banned by the European Broadcasting Union for three years for illegally airing live feed from Norwegian broadcaster NRK of the Eurovision dress rehearsals.
2011 In march Star Channel started showing some of its programs in 16:9 (Mostly TV Series and Films) and since April it switched to 16:9 for all its programs, including all of its own shows and its news broadcast.
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