MUMBAI: The MGM Channel has been launched in Taiwan. It will also launch in Malaysia in the coming months. The MGM channel launched a year ago...
MUMBAI: The Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (Casbaa) and CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets today announced the results of CLSAs independent assessment of the cost of...
NEW DELHI: Contrary to speculations and expectations – the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), it seems is unlikely to make a definitive recommendation on introduction...
MUMBAI: ESPN Star Sports (ESS) has announced key changes to its management team. The aim is to strengthen its operations across China and Taiwan while furthering...
MUMBAI: One of the leading dailies reported today that market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has initiated an investigation into the insider trading...
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,...
MUMBAI: The US-based communications & networking research and consulting firm Yankee Group has predicted that pay-TV subscriptions in the Asia Pacific region will increase to $22.1...
MUMBAI: The Animax South Asia service, the third in the channel’s regional expansions since the beginning of 2004, was heralded in India today with a champagne...
MUMBAI: Asia’s premier electronic media event BroadcastAsia2004 will be held in Singapore from 15 – 18 June. Themed Redefining Broadcasting, BroadcastAsia2004 will encompass the entire spectrum...
MUMBAI: Chinese government has asked the country’s television presenters to stop dyeing their hair, exposing too much flesh and using English words. The government’s new policy...
MUMBAI: While Indian media is on constant prowl for news related to the upcoming elections, CNN has a broader angle in mind. With the current flavour...
MUMBAI: Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited (VSNL) and pan-Asian telecommunications services provider Asia Netcom have announced a strategic partnership to enhance our connectivity to the Asia Pacific...
NEW DELHI: The overall basic cable & satellite TV subscriber growth rate slowed down to 9 per cent year on year (Y/Y) in 2003 in the...
NEW DELHI: Star India, the Indian arm of Rupert Murdoch’s pan-Asian television venture Star Group Pvt Ltd, has drawn up some ambitious plans for 2004, which...
NEW DELHI: Buoyed by growth in India and Taiwan, the Rupert Murdoch-controlled Star Group Pvt. Ltd. is on track for $40 million FY 2004 profit as...
MUMBAI: Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) is continuing to expand the line up of television channels in Asia. Animax Asia will launch in January 2004. The Singapore,...
HONG KONG: The cable and satellite TV industry would have lost US$874 million in net revenues by the end of 2003 due to piracy. This was...
MUMBAI: The latest Pan Asia Cross Media Survey (PAX 2002/03 suggests that CNN’s audiences earned US$79.9 billion in the past year. According to the study posted...
MUMBAI: On 5 October, DJ Manish was declared the winner of the MTV Motoalert DJ Challenge, in a final knockout at the Velocity, Mumbai. Manish was...
Purchase of high-end products among elite consumers in Asia has shown an increasing trend, according to Synovate Pax – a survey conducted by global market research...
TAIPEI: The Taiwan Digital Cable TV Summit 2003, organised by Media Partners Asia and The Cable Broadband Institute in Taiwan, will be held at the Far...
SINGAPORE: The action oriented AXN is growing viewer cachet in the Far East. According to Nielsen Media Research, the channel from Sony Pictures Television International’s (SPTI)...
MUMBAI: Who says soaps are just about hankie wringing? In Taiwan, a hit soap is reportedly serving the immigration department to ferret out illegals. The Taiwan...
HONG KONG: Rupert Murdoch’s Star Group claims that its Star Mandarin Movies has outperformed all Chinese and Hollywood movie channels in Taiwan in the first half...
SINGAPORE : Sports broadcaster ESPN Star Sports (ESS) has announced the appointment of Goh Theng Kie and Loh Sin Gee as finance director and financial controller...
SINGAPORE: It may have burnt its fingers with its pre and post-match shows around the cricket World Cup but when it comes to sports news updates...
MUMBAI: One of the sessions for the seminar of technology for information, media and the entertainment industry saw a presentation on Total TV. It is Asia’s...
LONDON: The board of WPP Group plc (WPP) has announced reportable revenue was down to ?3.908 billion (almost three per cent) in the unaudited results for...
TAIWAN: Bloomberg Television is set to boost distribution in Taiwan through a partnership with the ERA Group to provide regional and international finance news, information and...
MUMBAI: Revenues generated by the cable and satellite industry in India will increase from a current estimated $2.6 billion to $ 10.9 billion by 2015, according...
HONG KONG: Asiacontent.com has announced that it has reached agreement with MTV Networks, its joint venture partner, to terminate the parties’ joint venture. The joint venture,...
Hallmark Entertainment Network on Wednesday signed agreements with two new partners, Videoland in Taiwan and Korea’s World Event Network Co. Ltd (WENTV). The move comes just...
SINGAPORE: The television scene in India is exploding but the local channels failed to cut any ice at the recently concluded seventh edition of the Asian...
TAIPEI: ESPN Star Sports has just launched its dedicated Taiwan website, ESPNSTAR.com.tw, to directly provide sports news and information and build an interactive community for sports...
MUMBAI: Alice Chiang has been appointed director, advertising sales, by ESPN Star Sports for Taiwan. Chiang, who brief includes overseeing the sports broadcaster’s ad sales interests...
HONG KONG/LOS ANGELES: The Star Group and Fox World, a wholly owned unit of Los Angeles-based Fox Television Studios, have joined forces to produce and distribute...
NEW YORK: Media conglomerate AOL Time Warner has awarded Citibank e-Business, a Citigroup division,the regional mandate to provide cash management services to its subsidiaries across ten...
Taiwan : China Network Systems (CNS), Taiwan’s leading cable TV service provider, in which Rupert Murdoch’s Star TV has a stake, will be launching Asia’s first...
MUMBAI: BBC Worldwide and 19 Entertainment, whose pop act credentials include The Spice Girls, have announced a new joint venture – Pop Goes English. The aim,...
NEW DELHI: The issue of conditional access system (CAS) is generating renewed heat on the eve of its expected passage in the Indian Parliament’s Upper House...
Its creativity is reaping rich rewards. Literally. MTV India’s Poga – Heal Your Life campaign took home the award for “Best 3D Animation” at the regional...
Hi! Everybody, well, great, great intro there, thanks Cyrus. I’d like to thank Mtv and Brand Equity for inviting me here today and Provogue. Just set...
April is a record month for ESPN’s SportsCenter show in Asia as all three local versions achieved notable milestones with SportsCenter in Taiwan incorporating presenters into...
NDS Group, a News Corporation company, has announced that China Network Systems (CNS), Taiwan’s leading cable TV service provider, has selected NDS to provide systems integration...
For the second successive year movie channel HBO has done well in Television Asia’s regional survey. Fans from India, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan and Hong...
The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (Casbaa), a regional trade group, has met Taiwanese pay-TV regulators the Government Information Office (GIO) and the Fair...
The sports television juggernaut rolls on. Come 15 August 2001, ESPN STAR Sports (ESS) broadcaster is going to launch two new services Star Sports Southeast Asia...
Asia’s first and only all-action and adventure channel, AXN Asia, has fortified its sales team in Asia with the appointments of account manager, Reon Wong in...
NDS, a News Corporation company and the leading provider of conditional access systems and interactive applications for digital pay TV, today announced it has launched the...
Come 5 February and a new corporate campaign is slated to break across Asia. That of rebranding Star TV as Star. The campaign covers a high-pitch...
