Star Sports Network (previously known as ESPN STAR Sports or ESS) is a sports broadcasting network owned by News Corporation through its subsidiaries STAR TV and Fox International Channels. It was formed as ESPN STAR Sports, a joint venture between ESPN Inc. (jointly owned by The Walt Disney Company and Hearst Corporation, and through ESPN International, which it directly owns,) and News Corporation in 1994. News Corporation acquired Disney's stake in the company in 2012 and Manu Sawhney was replaced by Peter Hutton as the CEO.