Reliance’s Jio TV Provides English Subtitles to Animax Asia

Reliance’s Jio TV has begun broadcasting the Animax Asia channel with English subtitles in India.

Jio TV started broadcasting the channel in India in January. The channel is out there for linear streaming on channel 444 of the Jio TV set-top-box and cell software.

Sony Photos Leisure eliminated Animax Asia from its Sony LIV software in Could 2020. Sony didn’t make an official announcement concerning the elimination of the channel. KC World Media formally acquired 4 Asian pay-TV channels, together with Animax Asia, from Sony Photos Leisure in the identical week because the elimination.

Selection reported in January 2021 that former Sony Photos Tv executives, Andy Kaplan and George Chien, had reached an settlement with Sony Photos Leisure for the acquisition of three leisure networks which can be broadcast in Southeast Asia and South Korea. The three networks embrace “AXN-branded channels within the area, the anime-focused Animax and South Korea’s Sony One leisure channel.” The ultimate settlement additionally contains the Japanese leisure service GEM.

The Indian division of Animax Asia, Animax India, was broadcast over cable and DTH tv between July 2004 and April 2017. The channel went by way of a number of modifications over its time on air. Animax India began broadcasting its total programming in English from August 2006 onward and was taken off of DTH providers from 2012 onward. Sony Photos Leisure changed the channel with Sony Yay in April 2017 and began streaming Animax Asia on the Sony LIV app concurrently.

Supply: Jio TV