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Satellite TV gets boost
Television Asia Plus - 27 January 2012
Thailand media organization Nation Group is expanding its satellite TV business with a three year Baht 500 million (US$160,000) plan. The company plans to launch at least two more stations - Krungthep Turakij and Yaowachon Channel - taking the total number of its stations to seven. It aims to capture audiences in all segments and expects to boost broadcasting advertising to 40 per cent of total ad revenue. Thanachai Theerapattanavong, exe [...]
Loss to Cartoon Network team
Television Asia Plus - 27 January 2012
Dulce Lim Chen, Vice President, Cartoon Network Enterprises (CNE) Asia Pacific, passed away suddenly on Wednesday in Hong Kong. Lim Chen had been in the job since February 2008 and was responsible for CNE’s various licensing businesses, including merchandise, publishing, home video products and interactive games as well as promotions and events in 14 countries across the region. “Dulce will be remembered as a visionary and dynamic leader w [...]
Changes at Zodiak
Television Asia Plus - 26 January 2012
Zodiak Media Group is rebranding as Zodiak Media and the company has announced a series of corporate appointments to strengthen its group operations, communication and strategic planning. Vincent Chalvon Demersay – who remains CEO of Marathon Media, a Zodiak Media company, has been appointed Chief Strategy Officer for the group. He will work closely with Group COO Jonathan Slow and his team, and will also report to Group CEO David Frank. D [...]
Sundance extends international reach
Television Asia Plus - 26 January 2012
Park City, Utah – AMC/Sundance Channel Global has signed several agreements with major Pay-TV platforms across multiple key markets in Asia and Europe for new launches of its international television networks and VoD services, at the Sundance Film Festival. In Asia, Sundance channel is launching on Veetime in Taiwan as a 24/7 linear offering with Mandarin subtitles, becoming the third key local platform to carry the channel following deals in [...]
MP & Silva to distribute the 2014 Asian Games
Television Asia Plus - 26 January 2012
Singapore – MP & Silva, an international sports media company, has entered a long-term global partnership with the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) to distribute the worldwide media rights for several upcoming regional sporting events. This deal will see the distribution of the 2014 Incheon Asian Games, the 2012 Haiyang Asian Beach Games, the 2013 Asian Indoor and Martial Art Games, the 2013 Asian Youth Games, the 2013 Asian Unity Games and the 2 [...]
Former Nickelodeon exec joins Red Kite Animations
Television Asia Plus - 25 January 2012
Production company Red Kite Animations, has expanded its development team with the appointment of former Nickelodeon Development Executive, Leanne Preston, as Development Manager. In her new role, Preston will be responsible for sourcing and developing new content for children’s TV. Having set a development strategy in place, the team is now looking for projects and ideas to add to the slate. Preston will report to Executive Director and Chie [...]
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White Mark builds 7.1 Dolby audio studios for Hogarth Singapore
Asia Image - 27 January 2012
Suffolk, England - Studio and acoustic design consultancy White Mark Ltd has completed two high specification audio production studios in Singapore for advertising implementation agency, Hogarth Worldwide. Both rooms have been built with locally sourced materials, making them the only White Mark rooms in the world that are constructed entirely of teak. The two new studios are the latest in a long list of projects that White Mark has undertaken [...]
DVS Pronto goes 4K
Asia Image - 27 January 2012
Hanover – DVS has launched Pronto4K, the latest in its Pronto line of disk recorders. With the launch of Pronto4K, DVS presents a further development of its renowned disk recorder product line. The new DVS Pronto4K disk recorder allows compressed or uncompressed material from HD to 4K resolution to be played out as well as compressed or uncompressed SD, HD and 2K material to be captured in real time. With support for a variety of file formats and [...]
Editshare ships Ark update
Asia Image - 27 January 2012
Boston - EditShare Ark, the company's backup and archiving solution, is now available with a new interface and expanded tape library support. The new Ark release features numerous enhancements including a new user interface that displays extensive information about Ark system activity support for additional tape loaders, and more options for configuring network interfaces to maximize performance across the EditShare tiered storage platform. " [...]
Digital Film Tools releases video/film plug-in
Asia Image - 26 January 2012
Los Angeles - Digital Film Tools, developer of visual effects software, has released Film Stocks with plug-in support for Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, Adobe After Effects CS5 and up, Adobe Premiere® Pro CS5 and up, Apple Aperture, Apple Final Cut Pro 6 and 7, and Avid editing systems. Film Stocks offers artists simulations of 288 different color and black and white photographic film stocks, motion picture [...]
Matt Danilowicz joins Bexel as President
Asia Image - 26 January 2012
Burbank, California — Bexel, a unit of the Vitec Group’s Services Division and a worldwide provider of broadcast services and solutions, has appointed Matt Danilowicz to the position of president. In his new role, Danilowicz will be responsible for all operational aspects of Bexel. He will report to Jerry Gepner, chief executive officer for The Vitec Group Services Division. With more than 20 years of experience in improving the workflows and [...]
AP boosts access to HD content with EMC Isilon scale-out storage platform
Asia Image - 26 January 2012
Singapore - The Associated Press (AP) has deployed EMC Isilon scale-out NAS to support the Big Data demands of its high-definition video production and archive workflows. By implementing a single EMC Isilon system and software, AP has boosted the performance of copy and transfer rates, streamlined storage management, improved reliability, and lowered its video archive storage costs up to 45% per terabyte of HD video content, without compromising [...]
Asahi Broadcasting Aomori taps into Grass Valley technology
Asia Image - 26 January 2012
San Francisco - Asahi Broadcasting Aomori (ABA), a local All-Nippon News Network facility owned by TV Asahi Corp., and specifically serving the Aomori prefecture of Japan (510,000 households), is completely upgrading its digital news production operations to a high-definition (HD), file-based system from Grass Valley. It’s the first such end-to-end digital news production system from Grass Valley installed by a local Japanese broadcaster and c [...]
DFT presents FLEXXITY V1.5 for Mac
Asia Image - 25 January 2012
DFT Digital Film Technology, provider of film and digital post production solutions that preserve, manage, and deliver pictures, has announced FLEXXITY V1.5 for Mac. In addition to supporting a Linux workflow, FLEXXITY V1.5 for Mac provides the post software tools for dailies, playout, and archive applications for facilities with an existing Apple infrastructure. DFT will showcase this latest version of the post production software suite at C [...]
Blackmagic releases HyperDeck Shuttle 2
Asia Image - 20 January 2012
Beijing, China – Blackmagic Design today released a new version of its HyperDeck Shuttle Solid State Disk recorder. HyperDeck Shuttle 2 replaces the existing model and adds broadcast quality 10-bit recording and playback to the Avid DNxHD format. HyperDeck Shuttle 2 is shipping now and available from Blackmagic Design resellers worldwide. HyperDeck 2.0 software public beta is available to download now from the Blackmagic Design web site. Any c [...]
Kodak files for bankruptcy protection
Asia Image - 19 January 2012
Eastman Kodak Co. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in New York after years of falling sales related to the decline of its namesake film business as digital cameras have taken over the market. The photographic film pioneer said it had secured US$950 million, 18-month credit facility from Citigroup Inc. to help keep it afloat during bankruptcy proceedings. The company also named Dominic Di Napoli, a vice chairman at FTI Consulting Inc. [...]
