Yes Action

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Country	Israel
Programming
Picture format	576i (SDTV 16:9, 4:3) 1080i (HDTV)
Ownership
Owner	yes (Israel's satellite television provider)
Sister channels	yes Drama HD yes Comedy HD yes Oh HD yes EDGE
History
Launched	December 14, 2008
Former names	yes stars 2 (2007-2008) yes stars Action (2008-2010)

Yes Action (stylized as yes Action and formerly called yes stars Action) is an Israeli television channel carried by the Israeli satellite television provider - yes, which broadcasts American, British and Israeli TV shows of the thrillers, Sci-Fi, action and competitive reality genres. The channel aired on December 14, 2008 on channel 13 - as part of the latest television shows' channels re-brand by yes. The channel replaced the former yes stars 2. The channel airs the shows' new episodes on weeknights (Sundays - Thursdays), and its re-runs on weekdays and weekends (Fridays - Saturdays).

yes Action schedule is being simulcasted in High Definition on yes Action HD on channel 17.

Picture formats

yes Action airs shows in 4 formats:

• Normal (4:3)
• Letterboxed (4:3)
• Pan & Scan (4:3)
• Widescreen (16:9)

In order to watch widescreen (16:9) shows on a 4:3 TV, there are 3 options to see the picture:

• 4:3 Letterbox (Widescreen with black bars - Original Aspect Ratio)
• 16:9 (Anamorphic Widescreen)
• 4:3 (Pan & scan)

Choosing the format of the picture is in the digital set-top box setup. The setup does not affect shows which are not broadcast in Widescreen.

yes Action HD airs the shows in High Definition 1080i and in widescreen (16:9) at all times. Shows that are not shot in HD are upscaled to 1080i.

History of the channel

The past logos of yes Action (From left to right): yes stars 2 - from March 4, 2007 and until March 13, 2008. yes stars 2 - from March 14, 2008 and until December 13, 2008. yes stars Action - from December 14, 2008 and until August 19, 2010. yes Action - from August 20, 2010 and until January 20, 2012.

On March 4, 2007, yes replaced the channel yesSTARS - which has been cancelled on March 3, 2007 after exactly a year - with yes stars 2, as part of the re-brand of the foreign TV shows channels and expanding yesSTARS to 3 channels - yes stars 1, yes stars 2 and yes stars 3.

On March 14, 2008, as part of a new re-brand of the television shows channels on yes, yes Stars 2 obtained a new logo.

On December 14, 2008, as part of another re-brand of the channels, yes stars 2 was replaced with yes stars Action, and as of April 22, 2009 simulcasted its entire schedule in High Definition on yes stars Action HD, replacing yes stars HD, which aired most of the channel's shows in HD.

On August 20, 2010, the word stars was removed from the channel name.

Shows broadcast on yes Action

Series	Season	Broadcast Type	Network
Angela's Eyes	1	Widescreen	Lifetime
Battlestar Galactica	1-4	Widescreen	Syfy
Brotherhood	1 2-3	Pan & Scan Widescreen	Showtime
Burn Notice	1-2	Widescreen	USA Network
Cape Wrath	1	Widescreen	Showtime/Channel 4
Cold Case	1-2 3-6	Pan & Scan Widescreen	CBS
Criminal Justice	1	Widescreen	BBC One
Criminal Minds	1-5	Pan & Scan Widescreen	CBS
Dexter	1 2-8	Letterbox Widescreen	Showtime
Doctor Who	1 2-7	Pan & Scan Widescreen	BBC One
Dollhouse	1-2	Widescreen	Fox
Generation Kill	1	Widescreen	HBO
Ghost Whisperer	1-2 3-4	Pan & Scan Widescreen	CBS
Heroes	1-4	Widescreen	NBC
In Plain Sight	1	Widescreen	USA Network
Jekyll	1	Pan & Scan	BBC One
Justice	1	Widescreen	Fox
Law & Order: Criminal Intent	6	Widescreen	NBC/USA Network
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	4-8	Widescreen	NBC
Leverage	1-2	Widescreen	TNT
Life	1-2	Widescreen	NBC
Murphy's Law	4-5	Widescreen	BBC One
Numbers	1-6	Pan & Scan Widescreen	CBS
Person of Interest	1	Widescreen	CBS
Prime Suspect	6-7	Letterbox	ITV
Prison Break	1 2-4	Pan & Scan Widescreen	Fox
Psych	1-3	Widescreen	USA Network
Reaper	1-2	Widescreen	The CW
Robin Hood	1-2	Widescreen	BBC One
Sanctuary	1	Widescreen	Syfy
Saved	1	Widescreen	TNT
Saving Grace	1-2	Widescreen	TNT
Shark	1-2	Widescreen	CBS
Sleeper Cell	1-2	Letterbox	Showtime
Smallville	2-3 4 5-10	Pan & Scan Letterbox Widescreen	The WB/The CW
Sold	1	Widescreen	ITV
Supernatural	1-4	Widescreen	The WB/The CW
Survivor	12-16 17-18	Normal Pan & Scan	CBS
The Amazing Race	9-14	Normal	CBS
The Closer	1-7	Widescreen	TNT
The Fixer	1	Widescreen	ITV1
The Kill Point	1	Widescreen	Spike
The Riches	1-2	Widescreen	FX Networks
The Sopranos	1-6	Widescreen	HBO
The Triangle	Miniseries	Widesreen	Syfy
The Tudors	1-2	Pan & Scan	Showtime
The Unit	1-4	Widescreen Pan & Scan	CBS
Third Watch	6	Widescreen	NBC
Tin Man	Miniseries	Widescreen	Syfy
Torchwood	1-3	Widescreen	BBC Three/BBC Two
True Blood	1-4	Widescreen	HBO
Underbelly	1	Widescreen	Nine Network
White Collar	1-4	Widescreen	USA Network

External links

• Official website