Los Angeles– Steve Harvey, Doug Herzog, Quincy Jones, Sophie Turner Laing and Norman Lear will receive NATPE’s 13th annual Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Award on 20 January 2016. The announcement was made by NATPE President and CEO Rod Perth. Named in honour of Brandon Tartikoff, the award was created to recognize a select group of television professionals who exhibit extraordinary passion, leadership, independence and vision in the process of creating television programming. The award … [Read more...] about NATPE Legacy Award honourees
Platforms
A+E expands with new appointments
New York– A+E Networks has expanded its International Formats Sales Team, it was announced by Ellen Lovejoy, Vice President International Content Sales. Naomi Koh has been named Director, International Format Sales; Paul Hardy was appointed International Roving Executive Producer; and Robyn Hurd, Senior Director, International Content Sales takes on an expanded role managing Format Sales in EMEA with direct responsibility for the UK and EMEA. Koh joins A+E Networks from Channel 5, where … [Read more...] about A+E expands with new appointments
Brazilian pay-TV market to reach 28 million by 2018
Buenos Aires- According to Dataxis’ new report, Pay TV Series 2015: Brazil, the Brazilian pay-TV market will reach 27.7 million households (HHs) by 2018. This figure represents a 30.7% increase when compared to end-2015. Households with DTH pay TV services will account for 60.9% of total pay-TV HHs in Brazil in 2015. Dataxis forecasts that DTH will remain the leading delivery network by 2018, although its market share will diminish over the years, due to a challenging economic environment, … [Read more...] about Brazilian pay-TV market to reach 28 million by 2018
Latest Deals
Eleven Sports acquires Liga Endesa Singapore- Eleven Sports Network has acquired rights with the Asociacion de Clubes de Balconesto (ACB) to broadcast the 2015-16 Liga Endesa basketball season in Singapore. The network will have the rights to broadcast two games per round from the Liga Endesa, as well as action from the ACB’s other official competitions, the Supercopa Endesa and Copa del Rey. Riot Creative acquires Couch Diaries Riot Creative, part of Leftfield Entertainment (Pawn … [Read more...] about Latest Deals
Weekly Launches
Cathay Pacific and CNN’s global campaign CNN International announced a new global campaign with Cathay Pacific that will run for six weeks, starting 22 October. The campaign centres around the sponsorship of a series of six on-air segments titled The Trip That Changed My Life, supported by a digital campaign, video content and image galleries, as well as a social media campaign. AsiaSat first UHD channel Hong Kong–Asia Satellite Telecommunications Co. Ltd. (AsiaSat) announced … [Read more...] about Weekly Launches
B4U new channel on AsiaSat
Hong Kong– Asia Satellite Telecommunications Co. Ltd. (AsiaSat) announced that B4U has launched its new B4U Movies Asia Pacific channel on AsiaSat 7 at 105.5oE. B4U currently broadcasts two Bollywood Indian entertainment channels, B4U Movies and B4U Music, in Hindi language via AsiaSat 7. AsiaSat 7 enables B4U to enjoy instantaneous access to all major multi-system operators (MSOs), cable operators, pay-TV platforms and hotel networks across the region. This new Hindi language movie … [Read more...] about B4U new channel on AsiaSat