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| Country | United Kingdom |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Europe |
| Network | Chello Zone/Chello Central Europe |
| Programming | |
| Picture format | 576i (SDTV) |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | ChellomediaLiberty Global |
| Sister channels | Zone Club Zone Europa Zone Fantasy Zone Horror Zone Reality Zone Thriller |
| History | |
| Launched | Central & Eastern Europe: 1 March 1998 UK & Ireland: 3 September 2007 |
| Closed | UK & Ireland: 16 November 2009 Hungary: 2 July 2012 Central & Eastern Europe: 3 December 2012 |
| Replaced by | Romania: Romantica (2007–2012) UK & Ireland:CBS Drama (2009) Hungary & Romania:Film Café (2012) Central & Eastern Europe:CBS Drama (2012) Poland:CBS Action (2012) Polsat Romans (2013) |
| Former names | Romantica (Until 2006) |
| Links | |
| Website | zoneromantica.tv romantica.tv UK |
Zone Romantica (formerlyRomantica) was a European TV channel that launched in 1998. The channel broadcast a mixture oftelenovelas, music and entertainment from all over the world, but mainly from Latin America. The channel was available 24 hours a day, to 20 territories acrossEurope andthe Middle East. The channel reached 8 million subscribers.
The channel launched onSky Digital in the UK and Ireland on 3 September 2007. It was broadcasting between 8 a.m. and 3 a.m. from the start.[1] It slot on the Sky EPG had been purchased fromBEN TV.[2]
On 6 May 2008, it was one of the channels that were on the free-to-air platformFreesat platform from the start.[3]
On 14 September 2009, it was revealed that the international arm ofCBS,CBS Studios International, struck a joint venture deal withChellomedia to launch six CBS-branded channels in the UK during 2009. The new channels would replace Zone Romantica,Zone Thriller,Zone Horror andZone Reality, plus timeshift services Zone Horror +1 and Zone Reality +1.[4][5] On 1 October 2009, it was announced thatCBS Reality, CBS Reality +1,CBS Drama andCBS Action would launch on 16 November 2009 replacing Zone Reality, Zone Reality +1, Zone Romantica and Zone Thriller. On 5 April 2010, Zone Horror and Zone Horror +1 were rebranded asHorror Channel and Horror Channel +1, following the rebrand of the portfolio's other three channels in November 2009.[6]
On 2 July 2012, Hungarian version of Zone Romantica is replaced byFilm Café.[7] On 1 August 2012, Chellomedia revealed that all European versions of the Zone Channels would be rebranded into CBS Channels.[8]CBS Action replaced Zone Romantica on 3 December 2012. On 1 September 2013, Zone Romantica had completely closed replacing Polsat Romans on Poland.On 3 December 2012, in Europe, Zone Romantica has rebranded toCBS Drama.
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