Having acquired global telecast and production rights for the ICC, Cricket Australia, England and Wales Cricket Board and the Champions League Twenty20, ESPN STAR Sports has no shortage of cricket coverage with which to fill its schedules, as Ritesh...... Read More
Henry Jenkins is the Director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program and the Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities. He is the author/editor of nine books on various aspects of media and popular culture, including Convergence Culture: Where...... Read More
Give an ordinary ten year old boy a watch-like gadget that can turn him into ten different aliens, and faster than you can say XLR8, a kids TV phenomenon is born. Cartoon Network Asia Pacific tells Television Asia Plus...... Read More
Hong Kong – The third annual Music Matters Asia-Pacific forum at the Grand Hyatt in Hong Kong concluded June 5 on a high note, following some heated comments that telecommunication firms are making huge profits at the expense of...... Read More
London – Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) announced today that it has successfully acquired control of the Dutch entertainment company, 2waytraffic. The acquisition gives SPE new capabilities in the global light entertainment market, which includes games, variety and reality shows,...... Read More
Speculation is mounting that REED MIDEM’s cross-platform content show AMAZIA is to be cancelled. Scheduled for 17-20 November 2008, at the HKCEC in Hong Kong, many exhibitors were confused at AMAZIA’s timing so soon after MIPCOM, just before the...... Read More
2waytraffic International and Endemol International have signed a multiple territory deal for Ba Ba Boom, the former’s new game show format. Following Ba Ba Boom’s launch at MIPTV in April 2008, the deal provides Endemol the right to produce...... Read More
Swedish media firm Bringiton has partnered with Nokia’s N-Gage mobile gaming platform globally for youth multi-platform series Play Us which has been sold by distributor ShineReveille International to networks in nine countries including the Philippines, France, Portugal, Spain, Sweden,...... Read More
Asian youth TV specialists share their insights on drawing the most dynamic and avant-garde of audience segments to the goggle box. Calvin Wong reports... Read More
Synergies between gaming and television are increasingly evident as content and hardware crossovers blur the divide. Calvin Wong looks at dynamisms in both directions... Read More
Leipzig/Singapore – Games Convention Asia (GCA) and Games Convention Asia Conference (GCAC) will take place at Suntec International Convention & Exhibition Centre Singapore from September 18-20, and September 18-19, 2008, respectively. GCA is a convention for regional interactive entertainment,...... Read More
Culver City, California – Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) has appointed Spencer Hunt to the newly-created position of vice president, game production and digital product development. Based at SPTI’s headquarters in Culver City, California, he reports to Marie Jacobson,...... Read More
With the worldwide gaming industry tipped to boom, STAR has moved to invest in the Championship Gaming Series to bring professional gaming to TV. Calvin Wong reports... Read More