Sydney- Bermuda-based billionaire Bruce Gordon has bought the Nine Network affiliate in Adelaide, South Australia, from Southern Cross Broadcasting, to add to his WIN empire in regional Australia. He paid A$105 million (US$86.1 million) for the financially struggling station, just $5.7 million more than SCB shelled out for it in 1998. Recently WIN bought the Nine affil in Perth, Western Australia, while PBL Media acquired the Newcastle-based affil NBN. The James Packer-controlled PBL has flagged … [Read more...] about Bruce Gordon adds Nine Adelaide to his empire
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Decode Entertainment’s Naughty Naughty Pets to bow in Japan
Toronto / London- Children and family entertainment specialist Decode Entertainment signed a deal with Japan’s NHK to bring animation Naughty Naughty Pets to its Saturday morning schedule. The CBC-commissioned series of shorts (26 x 3 mins) is airing on Cartoon Network in the U.S. and on Boomerang and is available on mobile and CN video. Decode has also signed a deal for Naughty Naughty Pets with Mexican network Canal Once and is developing the shorts into a long form series. Naughty … [Read more...] about Decode Entertainment’s Naughty Naughty Pets to bow in Japan
BBC World News channel launches on YouTube
London- BBC World News, a new news and information channel on YouTube, is now available with approximately 30 news clips daily. Users can view the news stories on demand, comment and rate clips, as well as post video responses. Available only to users outside UK on YouTube at www.youtube.com/bbcworldnews, the channel’s top five ‘most watched’ news clips of the week have been ‘Meles Zenawi on HARDtalk’, ‘Escaped Orangutan wreaks havoc’, ‘Cannes … [Read more...] about BBC World News channel launches on YouTube
Zonemedia offers content on internet TV service Joost
Zonemedia will supply content to Joost, a broadcast quality internet television service. It will offer programming from its Extreme Sports Channel including Kelly Slater Invitational, Streetball, Pro Surfing Tour, The World Ski and Snowboard Festival and Genex. The programmes will be available in regions including Europe, Israel, South Africa and the Russian Federation. Over the coming months additional Zonemedia channels will also launch including Zone Horror and Zone Reality. With Zonemedia … [Read more...] about Zonemedia offers content on internet TV service Joost
AETN All Asia Networks’ channels launching in Southeast Asia
Kuala Lumpur- AETN All Asia Networks Pte Ltd (AAAN), a joint venture of A&E Television Networks and ASTRO All Asia Networks, will launch The History Channel and Crime & Investigation Network in Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei and Thailand on June 15, 2007. Both channels will be carried on Astro in Malaysia and Brunei, on StarHub in Singapore and on Truevision in Thailand. The History Channel and Crime & Investigation Network will be fully language-versioned in Bahasa Malaysia and Bahasa Indonesia, … [Read more...] about AETN All Asia Networks’ channels launching in Southeast Asia
Cashed-up Pandora TV expanding in Korea
Seoul- Pandora TV, Korea’s largest video-sharing site, has raised US$10 million, led by DCM, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm, to expand its service offerings and finance further build-out of its network infrastructure. Founded in 2004, Pandora TV has shown consumers, media players, mobile service providers and advertisers that UCC video can drive revenue across the media mix, Media Partners Asia said in its analysis of the company. According to KoreanClick, UCC sites gained a … [Read more...] about Cashed-up Pandora TV expanding in Korea
