JW Player, the leading video software and data insights platform, announced it is acquiring VUALTO, a leading provider of live and on-demand video streaming and Digital Rights Management (DRM) solutions. The acquisition deepens JW Player’s already robust offering to global broadcasters and further accelerates its vision to empower customers with independence and control in today’s Digital Video Economy by offering easy-to-use, scalable video technology. This acquisition arrives as the … [Read more...] about JW Player acquires VUALTO to strengthen comprehensive video platform success
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Crash landing on connected TV
This story appears in the March-April 2021 issue of Television Asia Plus. Take a paragliding accident, star-crossed lovers and the world’s most secretive country, and you’ve got yourself one of the biggest TV phenomenons in Asian history. Premiering in February 2020, South Korea’s Crash Landing on You has become one of a multitude of Asian dramas providing a distraction to the ensuing chaos and boredom that has defined 2020. Now, with months of continued uncertainty on the horizon, Asian … [Read more...] about Crash landing on connected TV
Harbour Rights announces slate of new deals in Southeast Asia
Harbour Rights licensed a package of FLAVORS 11X52’ to TVB in Hong Kong. The package includes the latest production of the series from 2020 to 2021. FLAVORS is a favourite 4K travel series that discover the natural wonders, breath-taking landscapes as well as the tradition and handicrafts of the most beloved destinations around the world. While TVB focused on the wonders of the world, RTHK targeted the celebrities and picked up 4 biographies of movie stars; including CHAPLIN VS THE FBI 1x52' – … [Read more...] about Harbour Rights announces slate of new deals in Southeast Asia
Disney scales back operations in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong; Expands Disney+ in the region
The Walt Disney Company announced that it is consolidating its media networks business in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong, effective 1 October 2021. In a statement, The Walt Disney Company said that Disney will continue to operate in a streamlined television portfolio that covers Chinese language channels such as Star Chinese Channel and Star Chinese Movies; as well as Factual Entertainment like National Geographic Channel and Nat Geo Wild. Axed channels include Fox, Fox Crime, Fox Life and FX; … [Read more...] about Disney scales back operations in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong; Expands Disney+ in the region
BBC World News channel to launch on 3BB TV in Thailand
BBC Global News has announced that it will be launching its 24-hour news channel BBC World News on Thailand’s Three BB TV’s 3BB GIGATV platform (Channel 601). BBC World News will be available on 3BB, one of the largest fixed broadband service providers in Thailand, for the first time. The agreement allows 3BB’s 3.3 million subscribers access to BBC World News via the 3BB GIGATV app and through a range of broadband packages. BBC World News is the BBC’s commercially funded international … [Read more...] about BBC World News channel to launch on 3BB TV in Thailand
Jiangsu Broadcasting Corp. brings China’s stories to the international stage
Nanjing-based Jiangsu Broadcasting Corporation (JSBC) offers truthful, objective, and empathetic news that resonates well with the international audience. A testament to this is the broadcaster’s recent win at the 25th Asian Television Awards for the category of Best Single News Story (10 mins or less) for the documentary Canadian Girl Writes A Song of Peace for Nanjing. JSBCI President Ms. Yuanyuan Qiu told Television Asia Plus that prior to the National Memorial Ceremony for the … [Read more...] about Jiangsu Broadcasting Corp. brings China’s stories to the international stage