E! has licensed its name and brand identity to regional cable television networks in nearly every country worldwide. This includes an international network that is broadcast from the Netherlands across most of Europe (i.e France, Ireland, the UK) , and joint-venture channels in Israel and throughout Argentina, Brazil and the rest of Latin America. In Canada, a locally-owned channel with a similar focus, Star!, bought the rights to most original E! programming when it launched in 1999. When this contract expired in September 2007, the E! library was reassigned to Canwest, which relaunched its secondary television system, CH, as a Canadian version of E!, combining the American channel's entertainment programming with lower-profile primetime programming mainly acquired from the major U.S. broadcast networks. (*)