Sony Pal (stylised as Sony पल) (Hindi for Moment) is an Indian free-to-air television channel that was launched on 1 September 2014. It was initially aimed at women with women-oriented

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programming, now focused on family-oriented programming. The channel is owned by

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. The channel is available on

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and

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in USA and Canada.

History

Sony Pal was launched on 1 September 2014 originally as a pay-TV channel, with Juhi Chawla as its ambassador. The channel mostly aired women-centric reality shows to compete with mainstream Hindi GECs like Star Plus,

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, Colors whose core TG is also women-oriented. The channel had a low audience share of 11,000 during the first weeks of its launch, as compared to other channels like Life OK, Star Plus,

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and

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. Due to this, the channel ceased its business operations on 13 February 2015, broadcasting re-runs of Sony TV and Sony SAB shows. The channel was then rebranded and turned into free-to-air TV channel, as it started syndication of former SET and Sony SAB series like '' Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah'', '' CID'' and '' Baalveer''. Sony Pal started gathering a fair audience share by 2016. The Chennal was pay television channel for 3 years after that from 1 April 2025 it returns to DD free dish along with other channels

Programming

Original series

References

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