Author: TVA Editor

Kuala Lumpur – Sea Providence or Re Lang Dao (Mandarin for Redang Island) is in production, a joint venture between…

Delhi/London – Indian indie Zonsta Creation is producing two reality series for Zone Reality Channel in Asia. A Life Extraordinary,…

Kuala Lumpur – Juita Viden and Endemol are co-producing Deal or No Deal for the country's ntv7, marking the 50th…

Singaopore: Animax, the youth-skewed anime channel, has launched Animax Awards, a pan-Asia scriptwriting competition for budding and established writers. The…

Singapore – Airing on AXN from Friday March 30 2007, a new lifestyle show has been tailored as an integrated…

Singapore – Sony Electronics Asia Pacific Pte Ltd will sponsor a 13 part 30-minute new travel and food series, World…

Seoul-Korea's Educational Broadcasting System (EBS) will launch the country's first English education channel on April 6 on the Skylife satellite…

Sydney- Network Ten is beefing up its HD programming to include all regular season games and finals of AFL football,…

Sydney– FOXTEL has acquired six transponders on Optus' just-announced D3 satellite to deliver HD services, new channels and enhanced picture…

Beijing– Oriental Cable Network (OCN) will extend its VOD platform with Tandberg's new real time ingest (RTI) system for the…

London- TWI, the sports production arm of IMG Media, has been reappointed to produce and distribute all English Premier League…

Tokyo – National Association of Japanese Commercial Broadcasters (Minporen) has expelled Kansai Telecasting Corp. (KTV), after revelations that bogus scientific…

Tokyo / London– Gakken Index Corporation has acquired rights to 400 hours of Granada International's programming to supply to major…

Tokyo – Multiple system operator (MSO) Jupiter Telecommunications (J:COM) has appointed new board members and undergone an internal reorganization approved…

Kuala Lumpur– Shareholders of Media Prima Berhad (MPB), Malaysia's dominant broadcaster, have approved the acquisition of Big Tree Outdoor Sdn…

Mumbai- Rajat Jain, Managing Director, The Walt Disney Company (India) Private Limited is leaving to pursue new opportunities after spending…

Hong Kong– Laureen Ong will join STAR as Chief Operating Officer in June 2007 to replace Steve Askew, who resigned…

Sydney- FremantleMedia Australia has appointed five new executives as part of a senior management restructure orchestrated by Chief Executive Mark…

Sydney- Jane Smith, former Chief Executive of the New South Wales Film and Television Office, has joined Seed Australia, the…

Beijing- China Central TV, the national broadcaster, will start broadcasting high-definition programs in October, and the Chinese standard on terrestrial digital broadcasting…

Improving the viewer experience? Or simply selling more HD TV sets and services? It’s hard not to be cynical when…

Prognostications for the electronic media markets of Hong Kong could hardly be rosier—and that could spark more M&A activity.

An expected 12,000 professionals will arrive at MIPTV hoping to win some of the expected US$4 billion worth of business. Television Asia hears from the selling end at the annual audiovisual and digital content fiesta in Cannes

India’s Star Plus has restored some of its lost sheen following the return of Kaun Banega Crorepati earlier this year. Ritesh Gupta takes the pulse of the Hindi general entertainment genre

Surveys of the top 10 shows in the region demonstrate that audiences still overwhelmingly prefer shows made in their home country or elsewhere in Asia, but Western game show and reality formats are still in vogue in some markets.

Everyone knows that sex sells, and while it’s available on the streets of many an Asian city, the legal distribution of adult content is still a long way off in many markets. But, asks Magz Osborne, what opportunities do new media platforms hold for adult entertainment?

Television Asia hears from regional channels and broadcasters who share their successes of 2006, and their considerations when acquiring programmes as well as new media plans

As ATV celebrates its 50th anniversary, the Hong Kong-based broadcaster is putting in place plans to make the next 50 even more successful

With the proliferation of time- and place-shifting technologies, viewers are watching TV when and where they want to, outside the confines of network-dictated schedules. How, asks Magz Osborne, is this impacting ‘primetime’ and what are the challenges for advertisers and ad-supported channels?

New Delhi: Following India’s surprise first-round exit from the ongoing International Cricket Council’s (ICC) World Cup, being held in the…