Chello Zone (formerly Zone Vision, Zone Media) is a London, United Kingdom-based television company, founded in 1991 by Chris Wronski and owned by Chellomedia (Liberty Global).

The company was originally founded to distribute television programmes in Eastern Europe, but now operates in 125 countries. They operate channels under 7 brands, albeit with some limited to specific countries, and provide 22 sound tracks across these.

Its English speaking-targeted channels show mainly US and Canadian imports as well as older BBC and ITV produced content; whereas its Central European stations show large quantities of recent British television. Original sound tracks are provided on most shows which are dubbed.

On 14 September 2009, it was revealed that the international arm of CBS struck a joint venture deal with Chellomedia to launch six CBS-branded channels in the UK during 2009. The new channels will replace Zone Romantica, Zone Thriller, Zone Horror and Zone Reality, plus timeshift services Zone Horror +1 and Zone Reality +1. ^[1][2] On 1 October 2009, it was announced that CBS Reality, CBS Reality +1, CBS Drama and CBS Action will launch on 16 November 2009 replacing Zone Reality, Zone Reality +1, Zone Romantica and Zone Thriller. Zone Horror and its +1 will remain as it is for now. ^[3]

Contents 1 Channels 1.1 Current 1.2 Former 2 References 3 External links

[edit] Channels

[edit] Current

• Zone Reality
• Zone Horror
  • Zone Horror +1
• Zone Romantica
• Zone Club
• Zone Fantasy
• CBS Action (joint venture with CBS Studios International)
• CBS Drama (joint venture with CBS Studios International)
• CBS Reality (joint venture with CBS Studios International)
  • CBS Reality +1 (joint venture with CBS Studios International)
• Extreme Sports Channel
• Romantica (joint venture with Realitatea Media)
• JimJam (joint venture with HiT Entertainment)

[edit] Former

• Zone Reality Extra (Replaced by Zone Horror +1)
• Zone Reality +1 (Replaced by CBS Reality +1)
• Zone Thriller (Replaced by CBS Action)

[edit] References

• "Chello Zone acquires WBITD content". C21 Media. 26 January 2009. http://www.c21media.net/news/detail.asp?area=1&article=47217. Retrieved 20 December 2009. 

[edit] External links

• Chello Zone website

v • d • e Liberty Global Chello Zone Extreme Sports Channel · JimJam3 · Romantica2  · Zone Club · Zone Europa · Zone Fantasy · Zone Reality · Zone Romantica Chello Benelux Film1 · Sport1 · ShopZo/SUUS · Weerkanaal Chello Central Europe Filmmúzeum · MGM Channel1  · Minimax · Sport 1 · Sport 2 · Spektrum TV · TV Deko · TV Paprika Chello Multicanal The Biography Channel4  · Canal Cociña · Canal de História4 · Canal Hollywood · Canal Panda · Decasa · Odisea · Sol Música UPC Broadband Europe UPC Ireland · UPC Romania · UPC Netherlands · UPC Poland · UPC Czech Republic · UPC Hungary · UPC Austria · UPC Broaband Slovakia · Focus Sat · Cablecom Telenet (> 50% ownership) Prime · Studio 100 TV5 · Zita · 9lives · GarageTV  · PCTV · TV.be · vandaag.be · Hostbasket · Telenet Solutions Australia Austar (~55%)  · showtime movie channels (20%) Japan J:COM (~38%)  · Jupiter Telecommunications · Jupiter TV Latin America VTR Global Com  · MGM Networks1  · Liberty Cablevision · Pramer (79%) United Kingdom CBS Action6  · CBS Drama6  · CBS Reality6  · Zone Horror ^Note 1 Co-owned with MGM Networks in a joint venture (50% owned by Chellomedia). ^Note 2  joint venture with Realitatea Media (51% owned by Chellomedia). ^Note 3  joint venture with HiT Entertainment. ^Note 4  joint venture with A&E Television Networks. ^Note 5  joint venture with Studio 100. ^Note 6  joint venture with CBS Studios International in a joint venture (50% owned by Chellomedia).