World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) is no stranger to the Asia Pacific, with loyal fans strewn across the region from Japan and Korea, through South and Southeast Asia, down to Australia and New Zealand. Recently, Taj TV’s Ten Sports brought WWE Superstar The Great Khali back to his native India; fans were able to meet the 7 ft 3 inch, 420 pound giant at live events at the NSIC Exhibition Ground during his two days in New Delhi, May 7 & 8; and at Bhavans College Grounds during his time in … [Read more...] about WWE smacks down in Asia
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New media in practice
While there is still much hype surrounding new media, most, in 2008, are no longer new. Newsgroup chat rooms, conceived in 1979, will celebrate their 30th anniversary next year. ‘Weblogs’, now commonly known as blogs, were created in 1997; ‘bloggers’ have been blogging for a decade. Yahoo and Google started in 1994 and 1998. These media are not ‘new’ at all, but so-labelled because they represent alternative ways to distribute information. While the media have … [Read more...] about New media in practice
CNN takes Talk Asia to the streets
for the March 8-23 period this year, CNN Asia Pacific embarked upon a truly cross-platform campaign to raise awareness of Talk Asia as a high-profile weekly interview show featuring Asian achievers and newsmakers, whilst also driving tune-in for an on-air interview with Shekhar Kapur interview on-air. “Talk Asia is a dynamic, popular Asia-based program that has a loyal viewer and consumer base in India,” explains Nicky Robinson, director of marketing, CNN Asia Pacific. “Due to … [Read more...] about CNN takes Talk Asia to the streets
High five for AsiaSat
“we have made some notable achievements over the past year. In the area of satellite transponder leasing, we renewed the contracts with several major customers and added new clients from the broadcast sector that successfully expanded the broadcast neighbourhood of our satellite fleet and diversified the programming content. These included several thematic channels such as the luxury lifestyle HD channel LUXE TV, urban music channel Trace TV, children’s channel Wikkid Plus, and E! … [Read more...] about High five for AsiaSat
Quality is key…
The launch of MEASAT-3 (M3) allowed MEASAT to support the growth of core DTH customers in Malaysia and Indonesia. In addition, towards the end of 2007 we reached agreement with Antrix, the commercial arm of the ISRO, to support the launch of the Reliance DTH platform in India. Reliance have now finalized their testing on the satellite, and are preparing their commercial launch.” Brown-Kenyon says that, with the signing of an agreement with Antrix / Reliance, all the Ku-Band capacity on M3 … [Read more...] about Quality is key…
Meeting digital demands
The recent deployments of PPV and even VOD/SVOD have been primarily driven by platforms looking for competitive advantage, and to reduce subscriber churn. And as demand for applications surges in the region, emerging technologies such as IPTV and mobile TV are opening up new revenue streams for broadcasters and content distributors. Be it the launch of BBC Worldwide’s Global Channels first subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) service, BBC HD, for Taiwanese audiences with Chunghwa Telecom; … [Read more...] about Meeting digital demands