Singapore – Mediacorp bagged 12 awards at the 2017 New York Festivals TV and Film Awards. The New York Festivals and its International Television and Film Awards recognise the best in news, sports, documentary, information and entertainment programmes, including music videos, infomercials and feature films. This year, entries were received from over 40 countries making the awards one of the most well-known and widely respected competitions in the world. Among the Mediacorp brands, Channel … [Read more...] about Mediacorp’s doc wins at 2017 NY Festivals Awards
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Odd Squad sales
Singapore- Bomanbridge Media has announced the sale of the Emmy-winning children’s show Odd Squad to Taiwanese public broadcaster, Public Television Service Foundation (PTS); Thai Public Broadcasting; Television Broadcasting Limited (TVB) in Hong Kong and Mediacorp Pte Ltd in Singapore. Produced by Sinking Ship Entertainment and The Fred Rogers Company for PBS (USA) and TVO and SRC (Canada) the series recently won 4 Daytime Emmy Awards for Children's or Pre-School Children's Series in the … [Read more...] about Odd Squad sales
MediaCorp invests in gaming content
Singapore - MediaCorp Pte Ltd has announced that it has taken a majority stake in Cubinet Interactive (MSC) Sdn Bhd, a Kuala Lumpur-based digital games publisher. Started in 2006, Cubinet has a base of mainly young adult gamers in Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines and Vietnam. It offers an online point-based redemption system and has even gone into online comics. Cubinet also offers an online point-based redemption system (CubiBonus), casual platform games (CubiGames) and an online … [Read more...] about MediaCorp invests in gaming content
MediaCorp appoints new Board Directors
Singapore – MediaCorp Pte Ltd has announced the appointment of Dr Thomas Ng, Dr Pari Sara Shirazi, Mr Chan Heng Kee and Mr Ahmad Nizam to its Board of Directors with immediate effect. Dr Ng, 57, is the co-founder of GGV Capital and also a founding investor of Alibaba.com, SAVI Technologies, Oculex Pharmaceuticals, AAC (2018.HK) and Ku6.com, Dr Shirazi, 56, is the President and Founder of Tisch School of the Arts Asia (based in Singapore) and concurrently the Vice Dean of Tisch School of … [Read more...] about MediaCorp appoints new Board Directors
MediaCorp appoints new CEO
MediaCorp Pte Ltd has appointed Mr Shaun Seow as its Chief Executive Officer and Board Director with immediate effect. Seow has been MediaCorp’s Deputy CEO since 2005, overseeing a range of business lines spanning television, radio, print, interactive and outdoor media. He started out as a newspaper journalist at Singapore Press Holdings and Japan’s Nihon Kezai Shimbun, before switching to a broadcasting role at the Television Corporation of Singapore. There, he worked as a news … [Read more...] about MediaCorp appoints new CEO