Singapore - CASBAA’s annual Satellite Industry Forum will take place on June 17, 2013 at the Shangri-La, Singapore. The Association’s comprehensive forum on the thriving satellite market in the Asia-Pacific will examine An Industry in Transition this year, highlighting key issues top-of-mind with stakeholders in the region. This year’s forum will look into the worries about spectrum access, market access and regulatory regimes and identifying growth markets and future trends in … [Read more...] about CASBAA’s Satellite Industry Forum 2013 to highlight key issues with regional stakeholders
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Newtec appoints Mario Querner as VP Asia
Singapore and Sint-Niklaas, Belgium – Satellite communications specialist, Newtec, has appointed former-Technicolor, Alcatel-Lucent, and ECI Telecom executive Mario Querner as the company’s new VP Asia. He has more than 25 years of international business experience in telecommunications and media working in both Europe and Asia. Based in Singapore, Querner will manage Newtec’s Singapore and Beijing offices, and lead the business activities for Newtec in Asia Pacific. … [Read more...] about Newtec appoints Mario Querner as VP Asia
activeTV launches new original content division
Singapore/Australia - Award winning television producer activeTV has announced the launch of a new content division – activeTV Originals. The division aims to address the need for more original content creation across the Asia-Pacific region, and develop world-class formats that have international appeal. More than 50 industry executives and channel heads were given a taste of the current slate of programmes and pilots under the Originals division, spanning a range of genres, at the launch … [Read more...] about activeTV launches new original content division
MIPTV: Keshet International closes deal with China’s Shixi Media for six formats
Keshet International (KI), the global distribution arm of Keshet Media Group, announced that it has closed a major deal with China’s Shixi Media for six of its formats. The deal will see Shixi creating local versions of KI’s prime time children's talent show Master Class, dating show Girlfri3nds, Remember Me - a new docu-reality recently launched at MIPTV, entertainment show Big Ten, second screen game show 50 things You Have To Know and the successful satire What a Wonderful … [Read more...] about MIPTV: Keshet International closes deal with China’s Shixi Media for six formats
Asia Pacific’s pay-TV boom to continue
Pay-TV revenues in Asia Pacific will be US$12 billion higher in 2018 (US$43.9 billion total) than in 2012, according to a report from Digital TV Research. It also estimates that pay-TV revenues (subscriptions and on-demand) will grow by US$2.1 billion in 2013 to US$33.9 billion. Simon Murray, the author of the report, said, “China overtook Japan to become the most lucrative pay-TV market in 2012. Pay-TV revenues will more than double in five countries [Indonesia (tripling), Pakistan, the … [Read more...] about Asia Pacific’s pay-TV boom to continue
Rive Gauche Television sells over 350 hours into key territories worldwide
Los Angeles – Jon Kramer, CEO of Rive Gauche Television (RGTV) has announced that the company has sold over 350 hours to multiple broadcasters in various territories worldwide. This includes Scare Tactics - which has been sold to Beeponmedia Italy (Europe), and Beeponmedia Albania & Kosovo (Eastern Europe), as well as My Strange Addiction to Blue Eyes German (Europe), DSMART Turkey (Eastern Europe) and Canal Vie (Canada). More factual programmes such as Animal Science (LIC China), Sea … [Read more...] about Rive Gauche Television sells over 350 hours into key territories worldwide