Hong Kong– Simon Twiston Davies, CEO of CASBAA, has been awarded the Annual CASBAA Chairman’s Award during the final day of the CASBAA Convention 2012. He is set to step down from his current role on December 31, and will be succeeded by a new management team led by in-coming CEO Christopher Slaughter. "Under Twiston Davies's management, CASBAA has become a central industry voice for the multichannel TV industry across 18 Asia Pacific markets running from Japan to Pakistan, China to … [Read more...] about CASBAA Convention 2012: Twiston Davies honoured with Chairman’s Award
China
YOU On Demand enters VOD agreement with NBCUniversal
New York – YOU On Demand Holdings, Inc., China's leading national Pay-Per-View (PPV) and VOD platform, has entered a licensing agreement with NBCUniversal International Television Distribution for the VOD rights in China to a broad selection of current, library and upcoming NBCUniversal feature films. The titles will be available to subscribers on both YOU On Demand's Transactional Video On Demand (TVOD) and Subscription Video On Demand (SVOD) platforms. YOU's customers will now have … [Read more...] about YOU On Demand enters VOD agreement with NBCUniversal
APAC leads global TV market, to hit 1bn TV sets in 2012
The Asia Pacific region is now the world’s largest TV market, and is forecast to pass the one billion TV sets mark this year, according to market analyst Informa Telecoms & Media. The research firm added that the region – mainly driven by China and India – tops the pay-TV subscription market, with 394 million households subscribed to pay-TV services by the end of last year. When it comes to revenues, however, APAC lags behind other regions. In particular, China and India … [Read more...] about APAC leads global TV market, to hit 1bn TV sets in 2012
The Future is Now
Deutsche Welle (DW), Germany’s international broadcaster, has secured distribution of several lifestyle and culture programmes on four leading Chinese video portals –v.huanqiu.com, youku.com, tudou.com and ku6.com. These new partners place great importance on offering high quality, interesting, relevant, international programming to their audiences and reach approximately one million viewers throughout China. Among the titles that have been chosen are the Chinese editions of Global … [Read more...] about The Future is Now
Chinese college drama
Beijing – China’s Mei Tian Mei Yu (Mei Tian) and H& R Century TV (H&R), in conjunction with Metan Development Group (Metan), Warner Bros. International Television Production (WBITVP) and the creative team behind the TV series Gossip Girl, have come together to develop a modern new teen drama series (30x60min) set in China. Instrumental in bringing the parties together, Metan together with WBITVP, will provide development and production consultation on the project. Set to … [Read more...] about Chinese college drama
Content Kingdom
TVAPlus: Looking at sales and distribution firstly; how did last year fare compared to 2010 and how you are seeing content moving and what sort of content is moving in Asia Pacific currently? Steve: We’re certainly seeing more digital deals, particularly in China, Taiwan and also in Korea. Also other than digital, we have done a lot more formats in the past 12 months. Last year was also the first time we cracked Korea. On top of that, we have actually done a lot of work around our new … [Read more...] about Content Kingdom