Ratings highlights for August 17 2007 according to Preliminary Fast National Ratings, placed Disney’s High School Musical 2 as the “Most-Watched Basic Cable Telecast Ever”, having drawn 17.2 million viewers to top the previous record of 16 million held by ESPN’s Monday Night Football game on September 23 2006 by 8%. It also ranked as the top “Basic Cable Movie of All Time in Total Viewers”, surpassing the 15.5 million viewers drawn by previous record holder, … [Read more...] about Disney’s High School Musical 2 debuts with top ratings
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StarHub goes for Goal and launches HubStation
Singapore – After failing to strike a deal with ESPN STAR Sports, StarHub has opted to produce its own Football Channel to air English Premier League soccer. The new channel will be packaged by Hong Kong’s Goal TV, in association with Ten Sports in Dubai. Live matches and magazine programs will be produced by TWI, while EPL highlights, studio previews, half-time studio shows and match summary shows will be produced by Goal TV and Ten Sports. Football Channel will be made available to … [Read more...] about StarHub goes for Goal and launches HubStation
StarHub goes for Goal
Singapore – After failing to strike a deal with ESPN STAR Sports, StarHub has opted to produce its own ‘Football Channel’ to air English Premier League soccer. The new channel will be packaged by Hong Kong’s Goal TV, in association with Ten Sports in Dubai. ‘Live’ matches and magazine programmes will be produced by TWI, while EPL highlights, studio previews, half-time studio shows and match summary shows will be produced by Goal TV and Ten Sports. December … [Read more...] about StarHub goes for Goal
VTC scores EPL goal
Hanoi - Vietnamese cable television channel VTC has bought the exclusive Vietnamese broadcast rights to the English Premier League (EPL), the most popular football league in Vietnam. VTC reached the three-year agreement with ESPN Star Sports – the owner of exclusive broadcast rights of EPL across Asia – and will begin the EPL broadcasts August 10. VTC can air live coverage of 200 EPL matches, weekly football highlights and also the rights to magazine coverage. Exclusive EPL rights … [Read more...] about VTC scores EPL goal
ESPN STAR Sports chooses Tandberg Television for MPEG-4 AVC contribution and distribution system
Hong Kong– ESPN STAR Sports is looking to manage distribution of programming to head-ends across Asia and satellite transponder usage using Tandberg Television’s video compression head-end for its MPEG-4 AVC contribution and distribution (C&D) system. ESPN STAR Sports’ programming has a cumulative reach of over 310 million viewers in Asia via its encrypted pay services to 15 networks covering 24 countries. It’s using Tandberg Television’s MPEG-4 AVC EN8000 encoders … [Read more...] about ESPN STAR Sports chooses Tandberg Television for MPEG-4 AVC contribution and distribution system
Vietnam TV rejects EPL soccer price as too high
Vietnam Television (VTV) has announced it will stop broadcasting English Premier League (EPL) football matches after months of price negotiations between VTV and ESPN Star Sports (ESS) have failed. ESS holds the exclusive broadcast rights to EPL for upcoming seasons, 2007-2010 in some, but not all Asian markets. But VTV told local media that Singapore-based ESS has pushed the price up too high for Vietnam. VTV and Ho Chi Minh City Television (HTV) – two of Vietnam’s largest … [Read more...] about Vietnam TV rejects EPL soccer price as too high