Joi was an Italian Entertainment TV channel, owned by Mediaset and broadcast on Premium Gallery, a digital terrestrial television service in Italy. It is devoted to family entertainment and broadcasts movies and TV series.

History

Joi and Joi +1 began broadcasting on 19 January 2008 at 1.30pm. On 21 September 2010, coinciding with the launch of The Event, the channel underwent a graphics restyling. On 1 July 2011 Joi +1 (together with Steel +1 and Mya +1) ceased broadcasting. On 1 January 2013 the channel renewed itself, moving towards an editorial line dedicated to entertainment and airing many TV series previously broadcast on Mya or Steel. On 1 March 2016, a new timeshift version of the channel, Joi +24, was activated on channel 316 which broadcast the previous day's deferred programming. This version ceased broadcasting on 19 April 2018. On 1 June 2018 the channel also lands on Infinity and on 4 June it lands on Sky in HD. After the closure of Mediaset Premium on 1 June 2019, the channel continues to broadcast on Infinity and Sky. However, on 17 June 2019, it was announced the channel would cease broadcasting on 1 July. Part of its programming was transferred to Premium Stories.

Programs