- Yes stars
Infobox TV channel
name=yes stars
logosize=173px
logofile=YesStars2008.png
logoalt=Greater Than Life TV Shows Experience
launch=March 14 ,2008
country=
slogan=Greater Than Life TV Shows Experience
(Free translation)
owner= yes (Israel's satellite television provider)
former names=yesWeekend (2004-2006)
yesSTARS (2006-2007)
yes stars 123 (2007-2008)
web= [http://yes.walla.co.il/?w=3/7901 yes stars Official Website]
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sat serv 1=yes
sat chan 1=Channel 12 (yes stars 1)
sat serv 2=yes
sat chan 2=Channel 13 (yes stars 2)
sat serv 3=yes
sat chan 3=Channel 14 (yes stars 3)
sat serv 4=yesHD
sat chan 4=Channel 501 (yes stars HD)
|Carried by the Israeli satellite television provider - "yes", yes stars is an Israeli group of television channels which broadcasts American, British and Israeli television shows. The channel began under this trademark onMarch 14 ,2008 with the new slogan - "Greater Than Life TV Shows Experience". This has happened a year after re-branding yesSTARS from2006 as yes stars 123 onMarch 4 ,2007 .The new brand of "yes stars" has the same 3 yes stars channels which launched on March 4, 2007 -
yes stars 1 ,yes stars 2 andyes stars 3 , but with new logos. In addition, the Israeli television shows and movies channel - "yesIsraeli" moved from channel 5 to channel 15, and changed its name to "yes stars Israeli".OnMarch 25 , 2008 the HD version of yes stars channels - "yes stars HD " - began airing. The channel broadcasts selected shows from the yes stars channels in High Definition.All the channels air new episodes of shows in the weeknights (Sundays - Thursdays).
History
Summer Nights
In
2003 , "yes" aired a channel called Summer Nights, that featured shows in the nights of the summer of 2003. The channel was cancelled at the end of the summer.yesREAL / yes stars real
In the summer
2004 , "yes" decided to air a channel called "yesREAL", with reality shows, such as Survivor andThe Amazing Race . Due to the success of the channel, "yes" ran this channel again."yes" reurned to air the past channel under its new name yes stars real on
July 13 , 2008. The channel aired 13 reality and life style shows 24/7 and the shows aired in the same method of the regular stars channels with new episodes on weeknights (Sundays-Thursdays) and re-runs at the rest of the time. The channel went off air at the end of the broadcast day ofSeptember 13 , 2008.yesWeekend
On
October 22 ,2004 , "yes" launced the channel yesWeekend, which broadcast American and British television shows from the beginning, in the weekends (From Thursday night at 22:00 until Sunday morning at 06:00). Later in the days, of "yesWeekend", the channel moved to broadcast only on Fridays and Saturdays, and in the weeknights it carried the shows that already aired on "yesWeekend" in syndication. In the last two months of the channel, the channel began showing re-runs on weekdays of the shows broadcast in the weekend, as a pilot for yesSTARS. OnMarch 4 ,2006 "yesWeekend" was cancelled.yesSTARS
Under a massive campaign under the name: "The Revolution is Coming", which began on
February 9 ,2006 , "yes" launched onMarch 5 ,2006 "yesSTARS", with new episodes of shows broadcast on "yesWeekend", and new shows that began the 2005/6 season. The shows aired on weeknights (Sundays - Thursdays), and the re-runs of the shows were in the weekdays and the weekends (Fridays - Saturdays).On
January 16 ,2007 , it was promoted in print and digital media that yesSTARS will expand to 3 channels - "yes stars 1", "yes stars 2" and "yes stars 3" - on channels 12, 13 and 14 on yes. OnFebruary 11 ,2007 , "yes" launched an official promotional to the new group of channels stating the launch date toMarch 4 ,2007 . OnMarch 3 ,2007 yesSTARS has been cancelled.OnMarch 4 ,2007 , the channel became "yes stars 2".yes stars 123
As part of the television shows channels re-brand on "yes", yesSTARS expanded to 3 channels on March 4, 2007:
*yes stars 1 (channel 12) - The channel replaced the most veteran television shows channel on "yes" - yes+ which aired betweenSeptember 3 ,2000 andMarch 3 , 2007.
*yes stars 2 (channel 13) - Replaced the original yesSTARS channel.
*yes stars 3 (channel 14) - Replaced "channel 3" which aired on channel 30 on "yes".The three channels carried the slogan - "To Fall in Love, to Get Devoted, to Get Addicted".
Broadcasting Formats
"yes stars" channels air shows in 4 formats:
*Normal (4:3)
*Letterbox (4:3)
* Pan & Scan (4:3)
*In order to watch widescreen (16:9) shows on a 4:3 TV, there are 3 options to see the picture:
* 4:3 Letterbox (Widescreen with black bars - Original Aspect Ratio)
* 16:9 (Anamorphic Widescreen)
* 4:3 (Pan & scan)Choosing the format of the picture is in the digital
set-top box setup. The setup does not affect shows which are not broadcasted in Widescreen.yes stars HD
"yes stars HD" broadcasts shows in High Definition at a resolution of 1080i50 with an original aspect ratio of 16:9 (widescreen) using H.264/MPEG-4 compression format. The channel available only to the HD consumers of "yes", using "yes"' HD set-top box.
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