Jadeworld
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Jadeworld is a broadcasting station based in Sydney, Australia that caters for the Chinese community in Australia. It currently consists of 14 channels, with many programs relayed from TVB operations in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Current channel line-up

Channel Number Channel Genre Language(s)
1 TVBJ Variety Cantonese
2 Celestial Movies
Celestial Movies
Celestial Movies is a 24-hour movie channel bringing current Chinese blockbusters to the world. The channel also showcases internationally acclaimed titles from Japan and Korea, and features behind-the-scenes, interviews with movie stars and directors, entertainment news and film award ceremonies...

Movies Cantonese/Mandarin
3 Dragon TV Mainland programs Mandarin
4 TVB8 Lifestyle Mandarin
5 TVB Xing He Dramas Cantonese/Mandarin
6 TVBS-Asia
TVBS-Asia
TVBS-Asia is a satellite cable channel operated by TVBS in Taiwan, launched on June 2, 1997, but only broadcasts abroad.-External links:...

Lifestyle Mandarin
7 TVBS-NEWS
TVBS-NEWS
TVBS-NEWS or is a satellite cable news television channel in Taiwan, launched on 2 October 1995. TVBS-NEWS is also the first 24 hour nationwide news channel in Taiwan.- External links :...

Taiwanese News Mandarin
8 CCTV-4
CCTV-4
CCTV-4 is the international broadcast for CCTV International in the Mandarin language. It is one of six CCTV channels that broadcasts outside of China, the other five being CCTV News, CCTV-E, CCTV-F, CCTV-Русский and CCTV-العربية....

Mainland programs Mandarin
9 Hunan TV Mainland programs Mandarin
10 Chongqing TV Mainland programs Mandarin
11 TVBN Hong Kong news Cantonese
12 TVB Lifestyle (replaces TVB Korean on 1 Jan 2009) Lifestyle programs Cantonese/Mandarin
13 Phoenix TV
Phoenix Television
Phoenix Satellite Television Holdings Ltd or Phoenix Television is a Hong Kong-based Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese television broadcaster that serves the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong along with other markets with substantial Chinese viewers...

Mainland programs Mandarin
14 Phoenix Infonews Mainland programs Mandarin

History

Jadeworld began as JEDi (Jade Entertainment Digital Interactive) in 2000, broadcasting only 7 channels-
Channel Number Channel Language(s)
1 TVBJ Cantonese
2 Movie Channel Cantonese/Mandarin
4 TVB8 Cantonese/Mandarin
5 TVB Xing He (dramas) Cantonese/Mandarin
6 TVBS-Asia Mandarin
7 TVBS-N Mandarin
9 CNBC Asia
CNBC Asia
CNBC Asia is a business news television channel in Asia. A subsidiary of NBC Universal, it is the Asian service of the Consumer News and Business Channel . Its programmes originate from Singapore, Hong Kong and Sydney and has bureaus in Tokyo and Seoul....

English


CCTV-4
CCTV-4
CCTV-4 is the international broadcast for CCTV International in the Mandarin language. It is one of six CCTV channels that broadcasts outside of China, the other five being CCTV News, CCTV-E, CCTV-F, CCTV-Русский and CCTV-العربية....

 was added in 2000, while CNBC Asia was taken off the channels in 2001.

JET-TV was offered to certain plan subscribers from until 2005.

The addition of Dragon TV, Hunan TV, Chonqing TV and Phoenix TV in 2006-07 caters for subscribers of Mainland descent.

Jadeworld offered an IPPV service to subscribers after a software upgrade in 2001. Movies from Hong Kong were streamed in a box-office style interface in a timetabled fashion daily. Each movie cost A$9.90.

The variety of movies offered by the IPPV system were limited, and unpopularity with the subscribers led to it being shut down a few months later.
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