Hong Kong – Addressing the growing demand for Over-The-Top services, Celestial Tiger Entertainment (CTE), operator of the largest bouquet of pan-Asian channels dedicated to Asian entertainment, announced four new carriage deals for OTT services of its existing channel brands across Asia. The new carriage deals include CTE’s first OTT launch in Taiwan and OTT carriage agreements in Hong Kong and Singapore.
The deals cover the following CTE channels: Celestial Movies (CM), the premier 24-hour first-run Chinese movie channel in Asia; Celestial Classic Movies (CCM), the world’s most-widely distributed classic Chinese movie channel; KIX, the ultimate destination for action entertainment; and Thrill, Asia’s only regional horror, thriller and suspense movie channel.
myTV SUPER, Hong Kong ‘s leading free-to-air broadcaster TVB’s OTT service, now carries CCM, KIX and Thrill. KIX and Thrill will be offered both as linear-streaming channels and as branded on-demand services, while CCM will be offered as a linear streaming channel only. All three channels are available under the Action Thriller Movie Entertainment Pack.
CATCHPLAY, a renowned film distributor and co-producer headquartered in Taiwan, now carries a CM branded SVOD service on its OTT service- CATCHPLAY On Demand. The same content is also available for StarHub customers through its CATCHPLAY Unlimited HD add-on channel.
FTV, one of the leading free-to-air broadcasters and largest OTT content aggregators in Taiwan, will carry CCM on its OTT service, Four Seasons. Through FTV, Taiwan’s leading mobile operator Asia Pacific Telecom, also carries CCM on its OTT service, Gt TV. LiTV, a renowned OTT service provider in Taiwan, carries CCM. LiTV offers nearly 100 local and international TV channels and is the subsidiary of TGC Taiwan Inc, a leading digital technology and entertainment service producer in Taiwan.
Beyond OTT launches, CTE also recently signed traditional linear carriage agreements with Southeast Asia’s platforms and distributors. Thrill launched on Nexmedia, one of the leading digital terrestrial-based pay-TV platforms in Indonesia. In Thailand, the company closed a deal with TTT Networks, a leading Thai cable channel distributor, to distribute CTE’s channels to local cable operators across Thailand. TTT Networks first deal for CTE is a carriage agreement for KIX and Thrill with Charoen TV, the biggest cable operator available in Bangkok and surrounding provinces.
