Hong Kong’s television industry brings the best and worst of times as Viu TV kicked off its service with more programming selection for consumers while Hong Kong’s Asia Television (ATV) broadcasting company goes off air. The Asia Television (ATV) broadcasting company had faced a gradual decline in production quality and viewership and stopped airing as ATV failed to renew its’ license. The departure of ATV coincided with the emergence of PCCW’s ViuTV as it entered the market taking on … [Read more...] about Changing Landscape
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Exclusive: Celestial enters new frontier
Hong Kong – Celestial Pictures took its first step into the gaming business today by launching the first-ever game application for a Chinese movie. It was developed with leading independent Chinese game developer, Art Coding. Available from today, My Kingdom Game can be played via the game’s website or downloaded for free from Apple’s iTunes store (for iPhones and iPod Touches. An iPad compatible version will be released later). Through a simple, casual rhythm-based game, the … [Read more...] about Exclusive: Celestial enters new frontier
Shaolin meets Africa
Hong Kong – Shaw Brother’s classic Kung Fu movies are landing in Africa, following a landmark deal between Celestial Pictures and Sony Max, Sony Pictures Television’s 24-hour action and reality channel in Africa. The deal gives exclusive cable and satellite broadcast rights to Sony Max for a package of titles from Celestial’s Shaw Brothers Film Library. Sony Max, which launched in February 2011 on digital pay TV platform Multichoice, currently has 3.3 million subscribers … [Read more...] about Shaolin meets Africa
Bloomberg blooms across Asia Pacific
Hong Kong – Bloomberg Television says it has expanded its reach more than 20 per cent this year and is now the most widely distributed full-time, pan-regional business and financial news channel in the region's key financial hubs of Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia and Korea. The channel achieved this distribution lead in such strategic territories across the Asia-Pacific region, as a result of a concentrated distribution drive. In Singapore, Bloomberg TV is now available to every StarHub … [Read more...] about Bloomberg blooms across Asia Pacific
Hong Kong in focus
Still reeling from the global recession, ad spend for 2009 dipped earlier in the year, rising in the second half as the property market started to recover, leading to doubledigit growth in the last quarter. While data from admanGo shows overall ad spend rose by 5.86 percent to HK$26.11 billion on year, actual spend was lower than the previous year as marketers are buying more for less. The Association of Accredited Advertising Agencies (HK4As) said recently although ad spend has increased, the … [Read more...] about Hong Kong in focus
