What is FINAS’ strategy for growth? Dato Jailani: From the beginning, the objective is to promote locally produced content and facilitate film production in Malaysia wholesomely. We want to be a prominent global player in this industry. This will lead to collaborations, co-production and partnership with foreign companies. All these have equipped us with a pretty broad range of great product: top-quality Malaysian movies, drama series, documentaries and other genres. What’s more, we … [Read more...] about International Appeal FINAS’ Dato’ Jailani Johari
Managing Asia-Pacific
Asian news with global perspective
What has been the strategy for Channel NewsAsia’s growth in the region? Debra: It is all about the quality of our content, our growing viewership and distribution. We have a very clear brand and editorial stance, reporting from Asia about Asia; we believe we have insight advantages and an unparalleled network. Since we went 24 hours in 2013, we have picked up many awards for our range of content (52 international awards from 2013 to date) in news, documentaries and other programmes. … [Read more...] about Asian news with global perspective
One-on-one with BBC’s Top Gun
Jim Egan, CEO of BBC Global News Ltd says, “The evolution of the Singapore bureau has been central to our plan to reinforce the BBC’s position as a major player in the Asia-Pacific media market. Over the past 15 years, we have built up a strong team of worldclass journalists in Singapore and I can’t think of a better time to further demonstrate our commitment by investing in state-of-the art facilities, making us fit for purpose for many more years to come.” What has been … [Read more...] about One-on-one with BBC’s Top Gun
Breaking News
What has been the strategy for CNN’s growth in this region? Ellana: Asia-Pacific is an incredibly important market for us at CNN. We’ve dedicated enormous newsgathering resources to this part of the world. We have a production centre in Hong Kong, plus bureaux in Seoul, Tokyo, Beijing, Mumbai, Delhi, Bangkok, Jakarta, Kabul and Islamabad. We have strong leadership in place in this part of the world because we know how important it is. In fact, last month we further strengthened our … [Read more...] about Breaking News
RTL CBS Asia’s Jonas Engwall
What has been the strategy for RTL CBS Asia’s growth? Jonas: We are creating strong content destinations for Asian audiences with our two channels, RTL CBS Entertainment HD and RTL CBS Extreme HD by using a 360-degree content delivery strategy – making our first and exclusive content available on any device at any time express from the U.S. or U.K. We focus on quality over quantity and from the beginning, we focused 100% on a 360-degree content approach, making all our content … [Read more...] about RTL CBS Asia’s Jonas Engwall
