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  • Animax launches on Hong Kong Cable

    MUMBAI: Sony Pictures Entertainment has launched its animation channel Animax on Hong Kong Cable.

    The channel is seen on five dedicated services in Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Asia, South East Asia and Japan across Asia.

    Hong Kong Cable Television Limited is Hong Kong’s leading pay television service provider, offering a 31 channel service, to about 540,000 subscribers. The Company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of i-CABLE Communications Limited, Hong Kong’s only fully integrated communications company that owns and operates one of the two broadband networks with near universal coverage; creates its own multi-media contents; and offers pay television and Internet access including broadband services concurrently.

    The total household reach Animax garnered across Asia comes around 14 million. According to a World Screen report, the channel has become the leading international channel on Kabelvision in Indonesia.

     

    Animax was able to achieve a reach of over eight million cable and satellite homes within four days of its launch in India.

  • MGM Channel launches in Indonesia

    MGM Channel launches in Indonesia

    MUMBAI: MGM Networks, a unit of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has signed a distribution agreement covering an MGM-branded, movie-driven network in Indonesia.
     
     
    Under the agreement, the MGM Channel is being delivered to subscribers via the basic tier of Indonesia’s Pay-TV operator, Kabelvision (PT Broadband Multimedia Tbk). In India, MGM has a 50:50 JV with Zee for the English movie channel Zee MGM. The Kabelvision deal follows several other recent agreements by MGM Networks in Asia. These include a strategic alliance with CNBC Asia Pacific to produce and distribute the MGM Channel in the Greater China market and Southeast Asia. In addition, the channel also launched on PCCW’s Now Broadband TV platform in Hong Kong.

    Separately, MGM launched its second MGM-branded channel in South Korea earlier this year. In October, the MGM Channel also launched on systems in Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Iceland, which brings to a dozen the European countries where it can be seen.

    The Kabelvision agreement is the latest step in MGM Networks’ global expansion, which over the last two years has increased its channel interests fourfold to more than 100 countries on six continents.

  • TV7 helps ESPN Star Sports spread tentacles in Indonesia

    TV7 helps ESPN Star Sports spread tentacles in Indonesia

    Sports broadcaster ESPN Star Sports (ESS) has entered into an agreement with TV7, the latest terrestrial television station in Indonesia.

    The sports broadcaster is aiming at further expansion of its distribution coverage and growing list of distribution partners across the region, an official release states.

     

    TV7 subscribers will be able to view sporting events like the English Premier League. Coverage will include EPL highlights and preview shows. The US Open Tennis Tournament, the ESPN X Games as well as the CGU Asian Bowling Tour will also air on the station.

     

    In Indonesia, ESS programming is also syndicated to free-to-air channel TPI. The 24-hour ESPN and Star Sports cable channels are available on the platform of pay television cable operators Indovision, Kabelvision, Telkomvision and PT Indosat Mega Media. Over 91,500 cable households receive the two sports channels in Indonesia.

     

    ESS, a 50:50 joint venture between ESPN and Star, runs nine networks in the region – ESPN Asia, ESPN India, ESPN Taiwan, ESPN Philippines, MBC-ESPN, Star Sports Asia, Star Sports India, Star Sports Taiwan and Star Sports SEA.