FOX
Parent brand:
FOX International Channels (FIC)
Sub or sibling brands:
FOX Family Movies, FOX Action Movies, STAR Movies, FX, FOX Movies Premium
Ownership in Asia:
FOX International Channels (FIC)
Senior executive for Asia:
Brian Lau, Senior Vice President Content & Communications
Channel description:
FOX Movies Premium is dedicated to providing first-run and exclusive content through an unmatched entertainment experience. From Hollywood blockbusters to all-time movie classics.
FOX Family Movies offers a wide variety of animated and live action movies from Disney and other major studios that viewers of all ages can enjoy. With a broad spectrum of unforgettable and iconic characters from family-oriented movies, FOX Family Movies is safe for children and fun for the whole family.
FOX Action Movies explodes onto the television scene providing nonstop, action entertainment all day, every day. There is no other movie channel that defines action like FOX Action Movies. Dedicated to innovative programming themes and unique stunts, there is no better showcase of the biggest, most popular and most iconic action features from around the world. If you crave action, prepare yourself for a mind-blowing television experience with the one and only, FOX Action Movies.
STAR Movies is Asia’s legendary brand synonymous with blockbuster Hollywood movies. Offering the best of international movie entertainment, this is the go-to destination for all film lovers.
Scheduling policy:
FOX Movies Premium provides mainstream, first-run Hollywood Blockbusters and evergreen library movies of all genres, with blockbuster premieres every Saturday night.
FOX Family Movies brings you 24 hours of classic, family-orientated movies in both live-action and animation genres, with premieres every Sunday night.
FOX Action Movies brings you 24 hours of iconic, action heroes and blockbuster classics, with premieres every Saturday & Sunday night.
STAR Movies provides mainstream, first-run Hollywood Blockbusters and movies of all genres, with blockbuster premieres every Saturday night.
Distribution in Asia:
FOX Movies Premium: Brunei, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Macau, Malaysia, Maldives, Myanmar, Pacific Islands, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.
FOX Family Movies: Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand.
FOX Action Movies: Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.
STAR Movies: China, India, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam.
Key carriage agreements in Asia:
FOX Movies Premium and FOX Movies Premium HD is available on most major operators across Asia.
FOX Family Movies and FOX Family Movies HD are available on most major operators across Asia.
FOX Action Movies and FOX Action Movies HD are available on most major operators across Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
STAR Movies is available on all major operators across China, India, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam.
Key tiers:
FOX Movies Premium and FOX Movies Premium HD are available on the Premium tier.
Online, VOD, SVOD or mobile deals:
FOX Movies Premium is available via online and SVOD in select markets across Asia.
Upcoming shows:
FOX Movies Premium: Upcoming blockbuster premieres include X-Men: Days of Future Past, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Maleficent and Rio 2.
Along with the premieres above, FOX Movies Premium has also acquired the Pay-TV rights to Guardians of the Galaxy, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 and The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, and many more titles for 2015!
FOX Family Movies: Upcoming premieres include Monsters University, The Croods, So Undercover, Toy Story 3 and Streetdance All Stars!
FOX Action Movies: Upcoming premieres include Olympus Has Fallen, The Other Guys, Braveheart, Bullet to the Heat, S.W.A.T., Rocky Balboa, Terminator 3 and Independence Day.
STAR Movies: Upcoming blockbuster premieres include X-Men: Days of Future Past, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Maleficent and Rio 2.
STAR Movies has also acquired Pay-TV rights to Guardians of the Galaxy, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 and The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, and many more titles for 2015!
V[HD]
Parent brand:
FOX International Channels (FIC)
Sub or sibling brands:
Channel [V] International, Channel [V] China, Channel [V] Taiwan, Channel [V] India, [V] Thailand, National Geographic Music HD, National Geographic Channel, Nat Geo Wild, Nat Geo People
Ownership in Asia:
FOX International Channels (FIC)
Senior executive for Asia:
Sun Young Moon Vice President, Programming – National Geographic Channel, StarWorld & Channel [V] Content & Communications
Channel description:
Channel [V] is Asia’s trend-setting music channel, bringing viewers the latest chart-topping music videos, exclusive interviews, concerts and original programmes.
Nat Geo Music is a 24-hour channel that celebrates the world’s vibrant cultures through music. Exotic beats and smooth rhythms reverberate across the channel along with seasoned artists whose anthems have bridged borders and revolutionised the music scene.
Scheduling policy:
Channel [V]: The latest international music every week.
Nat Geo Music features music videos celebrating the world’s cultures scheduled against a 24/7 rotation.
Distribution in Asia:
Channel [V]: Brunei, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Macau, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam and China across multiple feeds.
Nat Geo Music and Nat Geo Music HD is available in Indonesia, Malaysia, Maldives, Myanmar, Mongolia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, India, and Taiwan.
Key carriage agreements in Asia:
Channel [V] is available on all major operators across Asia.
Nat Geo Music and Nat Geo Music HD is available on all major operators across Asia.
Key tiers:
Channel [V]: Basic tier or a-la-carte.
Nat Geo Music: Basic tier or a-la-carte.
Program highlights:
Channel [V]: The Rave, The Morning Fix, VCD, Top 5, The Playlist, [V]S, Videoscope, KPOP Explosion.
Upcoming shows:
Nat Geo Music: Thematic world music blocks featuring Reggae, Latino, African beats and local music.
HBO
Parent brand:
HBO® (a Time Warner company)
Sub or sibling brands:
HBO GO, HBO On Demand, HBO Signature, HBO Hits, HBO Family, Cinemax, Screen Red
Ownership in Asia:
HBO Asia
Senior executive for Asia:
Jonathan Spink, CEO, HBO Asia
Channel description:
HBO® is a 24-hour commercial-free premium programming subscription service for movie lovers and home to the biggest and latest Hollywood blockbusters and award-winning HBO Original programmes.
HBO Asia has exclusive deals with Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures, Universal Studios, and Warner Bros. HBO’s extensive content also includes movies from The Walt Disney Studios, Marvel Studios, Lionsgate, and many major independent studios.
Available in both standard and high-definition (HD), HBO HD is the first high-definition commercial-free regional English movie channel in Asia – broadcast with better clarity, sharper picture quality, wide-screen format and Dolby® Digital 5.1 surround sound.
HBO is subtitled in seven different local languages and provides dual language options in selected territories.
Scheduling policy:
Saturday Night Premieres – HBO brings the biggest and latest Hollywood movies to Asian cable TV viewers first on Saturday nights.
All HBO and Cinemax scripted content air in Asia less than a day of their U.S. debut.
Distribution in Asia:
Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Macau, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Palau, Papua New Guinea, People’s Republic of China, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, and on military bases in South Korea.
Key carriage agreements in Asia:
HBO is available on key cable operators in 23 territories across Asia.
Key tiers:
HBO is sold as a premium channel in most territories.
On-line, VOD, SVOD or mobile deals:
HBO GO
Subscribers can watch HBO (and Cinemax) Original content on HBO GO, HBO’s broadband streaming service, anytime, anywhere and on multiple devices, including computers, tablets and mobile phones. Content on HBO GO is released less than 12 hours after the U.S.
HBO ON DEMAND
HBO ON DEMAND is HBO’s subscription video on demand service that offers subscribers flexibility and complete control to watch Hollywood blockbusters, HBO and Cinemax Original programmes whenever they want to. A catch-up service complementary to HBO, content on HBO ON DEMAND is subtitled in local languages and broadcast with dual language options in selected territories where available.
HBO is also available on Astro On The Go.
Recent and upcoming developments:
All HBO and Cinemax scripted content now air less than a day of their U.S. premiere.
HBO GO is now available in Hong Kong through nowTV and the Philippines through SKYCable.
Upcoming shows:
A brand-new HBO Original series, Togetherness, starring Amanda Peet, Steve Zissis, Mark Duplass, Melanie Lynskey, and the new season of HBO Original comedy series, Girls, will debut back-to-back on 12 January, 2015.
Movies on HBO in January and February include: Academy Award® acclaimed movies, including Inside Llewyn Davis (Oscar Issac, Carrey Mulligan), All Is Lost (Robert Redford) and Her (Joaquin Phoenix, Scarlett Johansson, Amy Adams), in addition to Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (Chris Pine, Keira Knightley), Lee Daniel’s The Butler (Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey), The Lego Movie (Will Ferrell, Elizabeth Banks), Non-stop (Liam Neeson, Julianne Moore).
New seasons of Game of Thrones, New Detective, Veep, Silicon Valley and The Leftovers will be on HBO in 2015.
MTV
Parent brand + Ownership in Asia:
Viacom International Media Networks
Senior executive for Asia:
Paras Sharma, Vice President of MTV Brand, Comedy Central & Digital Media, Asia
Channel description:
MTV is the biggest and boldest global youth brand. With a global reach of more than a half-billion households, MTV is the cultural home of the millennial generation, music fans and artists, and a pioneer in creating innovative programming for young people.
MTV reflects and creates pop culture with its award-winning content built around compelling storytelling, music discovery and activism across TV, online and mobile.
MTV LIVE HD features the best recorded “LIVE” music from the biggest acts from across the world, with music-based programming that is original, acquired and from the vast MTV library, such as music festivals, live music performances featuring Dolby 5.1 surround sound, intimate studio sessions, music documentaries and original productions – all in crystal-clear High-Definition (HD) quality! In addition, the featured shows come with behind-the-scenes on tour, on-set and interview specials via MTV’s exclusive access to the current hottest music talent.
Scheduling policy:
MTV’s schedule features 24-hour programming catered for young adults between 15 to 34 years old.
MTV LIVE HD’s schedule features 24-hour programming with LIVE music performances and music festival highlights in High Definition, catered for young adults between 16 to 34 years old.
Distribution in Asia:
MTV: 11 feeds in over 30 markets in Asia, reaching out to over 114 million households across cable, DTH, IPTV, mobile and internet platforms.
MTV LIVE HD: 1 feed in 9 markets in Asia, reaching out to over 1.26 million households across cable, DTH, IPTV, mobile and internet platforms.
Key carriage agreements in Asia:
MTV and MTV LIVE HD: Widely available across Asia.
Key tiers:
MTV Asia is generally available as part of the basic group packages provided by Pay-TV operators.
MTV LIVE HD is generally available as part of the premium high-definition packages provided by affiliates.
On-line, VOD, SVOD or mobile deals:
MTV channels and/or content are available for digital simulcast/ OTT broadcast, multiscreen SVOD and Catch-up with various operators in the region, and several apps are in the pipeline.
Recent and upcoming developments:
Effective 1 November 2014, MTV expanded its presence in Indonesia through a four-hour MTV-branded block that airs daily across four local free-to-air TV partners in five cities, including Jakarta, Bandung, Surabaya, Banjarmasin and Makassar.
Through its collaboration with FORTE, MTV will continue to expand its presence via additional local free-to-air TV partners across Indonesia in 2015. Earlier in 2014, MTV collaborated with Viva Communications, Inc. to bring a dedicated Filipino feed, MTV Pinoy.
In October 2014, MTV entered a collaboration with the Tourism Promotions Board of the Philippine Department of Tourism to showcase iconic international music artists and the hottest new acts in both the regional and local music scenes on a single stage, while featuring the best of Philippine music and culture to international youth audiences.
The collaboration will see the launch of MTV Music Evolution in the second quarter of 2015, as the concert brings to life the evolution of a music genre and enables young people to experience and discover how music styles and sounds have evolved over the years. Recorded live for global telecast, the first edition of MTV Music Evolution will hit the shores of Manila through international hip hop in 2015. A recent viewer engagement campaign MTV carried out is Things That Matter 2014, a youth-focused digital activation allowing the public to vote for the top 10 things that mattered to them in 2014 with results to be published in January 2015.
Upcoming shows:
MTV: The MTV Show, Brothers Green, Say It In A Song, Catfish: The TV Show, Are You the One?, Ridiculousness, Awkward, The Ride, MTV World Stage Malaysia, MTV 81, Seoul Sundays, MTV Video Music Awards, MTV Movie Awards, MTV EMAs.
MTV LIVE HD: MTV Essentials, MTV @ The Festivals, MTV Live Sessions, MTV World Stage, MTV Live Vibrations and This Week’s MTV Top 20.
WB
Parent brand:
Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., a Time Warner company
Ownership in Asia:
Turner International India Pvt Ltd
Senior executive for Asia:
Ricky Ow, President
Phil Nelson, Managing Director & Senior Vice President, North Asia and Southeast Asia-Pacific
Siddharth Jain, Managing Director, South Asia.
Channel description:
WB offers viewers in India and Pakistan the best mix of evergreen Hollywood hits, from the late 1990s right up until the present. The channel’s line-up includes hits from the legendary studios of Warner Bros. Entertainment, spanning action, adventure, horror and rom-com genres.
Scheduling policy:
WB is a 24-hour English movie channel.
Distribution in Asia Pacific:
WB is currently available in India and Pakistan.
Key carriage agreements in Asia:
WB is available through all major digital cable and DTH operators in India.
Recent and upcoming developments:
In 2015, WB will add more variety to its offerings with a good dose of the ever-popular kung-fu and increasingly popular horror genres – while continuing to focus on action and adventure.
Upcoming films:
The year ahead should see a slew of fresh content playing across the channel, ranging from the all-out-action hit Transporter 3, to martial arts titles White Vengeance, The Four, and Jackie Chan’s First Strike.
All this will be complemented with Hollywood blockbusters from Warner Bros. like Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, Hangover 2 and Green Lantern.