Zone Romantica (formerly ''Romantica'') was a European TV channel that launched in 1998. The channel broadcast a mixture of

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s, music and entertainment from all over the world, but mainly from Latin America. The channel was available 24 hours a day, to 20 territories across

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and the Middle East. The channel reached 8 million subscribers. The channel launched on Sky Digital in the UK and Ireland on 3 September 2007. It was broadcasting between 8 a.m. and 3 a.m. from the start. It slot on the Sky EPG had been purchased from BEN TV. On 6 May 2008, it was one of the channels that were on the free-to-air platform

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platform from the start. On 14 September 2009, it was revealed that the international arm of CBS,

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, struck a joint venture deal with Chellomedia to launch six CBS-branded channels in the UK during 2009. The new channels would replace Zone Romantica, Zone Thriller, Zone Horror and Zone Reality, plus timeshift services Zone Horror +1 and Zone Reality +1. On 1 October 2009, it was announced that

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, CBS Reality +1,

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and CBS 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 as

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and Horror Channel +1, following the rebrand of the portfolio's other three channels in November 2009. On 2 July 2012, Hungarian version of Zone Romantica is replaced by Film Café. On 1 August 2012, Chellomedia revealed that all European versions of the Zone Channels would be rebranded into CBS Channels. 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 to

Programming

Programme Line-up for UK/Éire features 3 Classic ''First Run'' US Daytime Soap Operas.

Current shows

* A escrava Isaura * Amazônia, de Galvez a Chico Mendes * Aunque mal paguen * ¿Dónde está Elisa? * El encantador * Hilda Furacão * La quiero a morir *

Los misterios del amor ''Los misterios del amor'' (English title: ''The mysteries of love'') is a Venezuelan telenovela written by Alberto Barrera Tyszka and produced by Venevisión in 2009. On May 13, 2008, Venevisión started broadcasting ''Los misterios del amor'' ...

* Mulher * Muñoz vale por 2 * Pocholo * Sabrosa pasion * Sabrosa pasion plus * Salvador de mujeres * Vivir asi * Voltea pa' que te enamores * La diosa Coronada

References

External links

''Zone Romantica'' Official Website
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