* In December 1999 E !, the US entertainment channel, featured a mockumentary entitled Galaxy Quest: 20th Anniversary, The Journey Continues, concerning the making of the Galaxy Quest television show.

In this environment, cable TV companies appeared and thrived, providing 15-20 foreign channels for a very low price ( at the time 2 USD or less ), some with Romanian translation, offering high quality news, entertainment and especially movies or cartoons ( one of the ways cable companies advertised was the availability of a cartoon channel, Cartoon Network, appealing to children, which in turn would appeal to their parents ).

* Iris ( TV channel ), an Italian free entertainment television channel

It is also due to industry-wide fragmentation of television audiences ( the decline of network television generally, due to the rise in specialty channel viewership, as well as the increase of non-television entertainment options such as video games, the Internet, etc .).

# Trio, an arts and entertainment channel.

Disney Channel International Networks, currently run by President Carolina Lightcap, is a group of more than 90 entertainment channels and / or channel feeds for children and families available in over 160 countries and 30 languages.

In 24 January 2011, it was re-launched as an entertainment channel with new TV shows. In 2012, TNT will be renamed into tv2.

In 2000, Showtime launched the " Showtime Interactive 24. 7 " channel — providing DVD-like interaction opportunities to its entertainment offerings.

He realized that to keep viewers, the best and brightest in entertainment had to be seen, or else the viewers were going to keep on changing the channel.

Granada Plus was a general entertainment channel, a 50 – 50 joint venture between Granada Television and British Sky Broadcasting, aimed at older audiences using archived material.

All future Viacom content for India and new ventures such as a Hindi entertainment channel and a Hindi movie channel would be housed in this joint venture.

* TV2 founded in 1964 is the main channel for children's, teenagers ' and sports programmes though it also shows drama, entertainment and factual programmes.

* Yle Fem () is the Swedish-language full service channel broadcasting news, factual and children's programmes and entertainment.

* Yle Radio Suomi: The national and regional news, service and contact channel, also sport and entertainment.

The channel remains one of the principal television channels in the United Kingdom and provides 2, 508 annual hours of news and weather, 1, 880 hours of factual and learning, 1, 036 hours of drama, 672 hours of children's, 670 hours of sport, 654 hours of film, 433 hours of entertainment, 159 hours of current affairs, 92 hours of religion and 82 hours of music and arts.

The Spanish-language channel is tailored for the market and feature a mix of music and entertainment with local and international-recording artists, as well as original programming.

* The entertainment channel Galaxy was closed with its transponders handed over to Sky One.

* Rai Futura, an Italian entertainment TV channel

Carlton Select was the main entertainment channel from Carlton, and broadcast both in the UK and Africa.

Carlton World was a general entertainment and factual channel broadcast in the evenings, with sister Carlton Kids broadcast in the daytime.

RTÉ Two () is a free-to-air general entertainment channel operated by Irish state broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann.

* A leading Marathi entertainment channel, ETV-Marathi has launched a daily serial " Shrimant Peshwa Baji Rao Mastani " being produced by Nitin Chandrakant Desai Production from 14 June 2010.

Richardson approached producer Mike Bolland, the newly appointed Channel Four youth and entertainment commissioning editor to propose a series of Comic Strip films for the channel.

( on the entertainment industry in Australia )

In Australia on October 2, 2010, Richie performed at the AFL Grand Final Replay in the Pre-game entertainment to a sell out crowd and also post match at AAMI Park.

Based in the state of New South Wales, Australia, Indent has been set up to help young people ( 13 – 25 ) in NSW access drug and alcohol free all-ages entertainment.

The following January, he was awarded an Officer of the Order of Australia for his service to the entertainment industry.

* made a Member of the Order of the British Empire and an Officer of the Order of Australia for services to entertainment.

BMEC has an annual season of entertainment encompassing all forms of the performing arts from Australia and around the world.

Manga is credited by many as the major force behind turning Anime into mainstream entertainment in Australia during the 1990s and early 2000s.

The club ( one of the largest in Australia ) has a massive entertainment complex and resort, Panthers World of Entertainment.

In 1982, Dame Edna's alter-ego Barry Humphries was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for " services to the theatre " and on 16 June 2007 he was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to entertainment.

UKTV is a subscription television channel in Australia and New Zealand, screening British entertainment programming, sourced mainly from the archives of the BBC, RTL Group ( mainly Talkback Thames material ) and ITV plc.

In October 2001, Brazin Limited ( owner of Australia's largest entertainment retailer, Sanity ) reintroduced Virgin Megastores in the country via two related transactions with the Virgin Group, acquiring 77 troubled Our Price music stores in the UK for a symbolic £ 2, and inturn gaining exclusive license rights in Australia for Virgin Entertainment, initially setting up the first Virgin Megastore on Chapel Street's, The Jam Factory in April 2002.

In July 2004, Brazin Limited, which operates Virgin Megastores Australia, entered into an agreement with Myer to create Virgin entertainment locations in Myer stores.

It also had exclusive access to Disney Channel, ESPN and MTV Australia though it always lacked the general entertainment channels that Foxtel had.

Crown Casino and Entertainment Complex is a large casino and entertainment precinct located on the south bank of the Yarra River, in Melbourne, Australia.

Docklands Stadium ( also known by its former sponsored names of Colonial Stadium and Telstra Dome and its current sponsorship name of Etihad Stadium ) is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment stadium in the Docklands precinct of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

The studios are serviced by shows like 774 ABC Melbourne, 621 ABC Radio National, ABC Classic FM 105. 9, Triple J 107. 5, & television programs such as Stateline VIC, ABC News Victoria and also with other programs such as Spicks & Specks, East of Everything, as well as entertainment, arts, documentaries & more, plus international broadcasts Radio Australia & Australia Network.

Robert Stigwood ( born 16 April 1934 in Adelaide, South Australia ) is an impresario and entertainment entrepreneur who relocated to England in 1954.

International connections include: International Affiliation of Writers Guilds ( screenwriters guilds in the UK, US, Canada, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, France and Mexico ); European Writers Congress ( over 50 organisations ); Fédération des Scénaristes d ’ Europe ( screenwriters ’ groups in 14 countries ); UNI-MEI ( worldwide trade union organisation representing millions of workers in the TV, film, media and entertainment industries ).

Major published items include Unemployment, ( 1979 ), which analysed the economic causes and social consequences of unemployment in Australia and advocated a socialist response ; The Media: a New Analysis of the Press, Television, Radio and Advertising in Australia, ( 1984 ), on the political economy and content of the news and entertainment media ; The Killing of History, ( 1994 ), a critique of postmodernism in history ; The Fabrication of Aboriginal History: Volume One: Van Diemen's Land 1803-1847, ( 2002 ), which accuses a number of Australian historians of falsifying and inventing the degree of violence in the past ; The White Australia Policy, ( 2004 ), a history of that policy which argues that academic historians have exaggerated the degree of racism in Australian history ; and The Fabrication of Aboriginal History, Volume Three: The Stolen Generations 1881-2008, which argues the story of the " stolen generations " of Aboriginal children is a myth.

TV Globo Internacional ( Globo International Network ) operates satellite television channels around the world, including in the Americas, Oceania ( specifically Australia ), Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Japan, bringing a mix of entertainment, news and sports programming sourced from TV Globo, GNT, Globo News, Canal Viva, Canal Futura and SporTV to Brazilian and other Portuguese-speaking people ( Lusophones ).

Live Performance Australia, the peak body for Australia's live entertainment and performing arts industry, posthumously selected Barry Kay as one of eighty theatre artists awarded a place in its newly established virtual Hall of Fame.