WB Channel
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WB Channel (short for Warner Bros.) was an Indian pay television channel. It was launched on 15 March 2009 by AT&T's WarnerMedia (then TimeWarner) through its international division exclusively for the Indian subcontinent.[1] The channel featured a mix of Hollywood films and (formerly) television dramas from the Warner Bros. Vault.
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Country | India |
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Broadcast area | Indian subcontinent |
Headquarters | Mumbai, Maharashtra |
Programming | |
Language(s) | English |
Picture format | 16:9 SDTV |
Ownership | |
Owner | WarnerMedia International (as of 2019) Turner International India (earlier) |
Sister channels | HBO CNN Cartoon Network Pogo Imagine TV |
History | |
Launched | 15 March 2009 |
Closed | 15 December 2020 |
Availability | |
Cable | |
Hathway | Channel 79 |
Asianet Digital TV | Channel 468 |
Satellite | |
Dish TV | Channel 253 |
Sun Direct DTH | Channel 412 |
BIG TV | Channel 358 |
Tata Sky | Channel 369 |
Airtel Digital TV | Channel 257 |
Videocon d2h | Channel 253 |
Dish Home (Nepal) | Channel 510 |
The channel was shut down on 15 December 2020 a little after midnight interrupting the airing of the Area 51 movie. The channel was closed along with HBO India.[2]
ReferencesEdit
- ↑ "Turner And Warner Bros. Entertainment To Entertain India With The Launch Of A New Channel: WB". www.warnerbros.com. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
- ↑ "Popular English film channels HBO and WB to be discontinued in India; find out why". DNA India. 18 October 2020. Retrieved 16 December 2020.