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Sydney - Discovery HD has launched as one of the five dedicated HD channels on new service FOXTEL HD +.
Since its 2005 launch into the Asia Pacific region, Discovery HD is now available
in Austr [...]
Tokyo – Sony movies are to be streamed via the Internet to its latest LCD sets, before their release onto DVD.
Hancock, starring Will Smith, will be the first movie streamed over the Internet to So [...]
Singapore – NBC Universal’s two new channels Sci Fi and Universal Channel will debut on StarHub Digital Cable’s Entertainment Basic Upsize Group from 5pm July 1 2008.
Sci Fi, taglined ‘where imagin [...]
Seoul - Fox International Channels' (FIC) new subsidiary Fox Ventures Korea, slated for launch July 2008, is to target that market's rapidly growing new media business.
Digital video-on-demand, an [...]
Singapore - BBC Global Channels' senior vice president strategy and business development Anne Howarth has been seconded to the Asia team.
Described by one source as only a temporary secondment, the [...]
Sources have confirmed that Li Yifei, executive vice president and managing director of MTV Networks China, is set to leave the company.
But rumours that Li's exit was forced upon her are being pl [...]
La Rochelle - MediaCorp's Caldecott Productions International (CPI) will be launching its HD channel - Caldecott HD - on internet and IPTV platforms such as Babelgum, Joost, Factual TV, ClixSmartv and [...]
Television Asia Annual Guide eVersion
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11 August 2008 - 15 August 2008
Location: Los Angeles Convention Center, LA,California
11 September 2008 - 16 September 2008
Location: RAI Center, Amsterdam
11 October 2008 - 12 October 2008
Location: Cannes,France
Cover Story:
2007 saw Malaysia’s media industry continue its ascendancy with major players recording healthy growth and profits with new business developments announced through the year, as the nation celebrated its 50th year of independence and nationhood.
Advertising expenditure across all media in 2007 rec [...]
Featured Stories:
While there is still much hype surrounding new media, most, in 2008, are no longer new. Newsgroup chat rooms, conceived in 1979, will celebrate their 30th anniversary next year. ‘Weblogs’, now commonly known as blogs, were created in 1997; ‘bloggers’ have been blogging for a decade. Yahoo and Google [...]
“we have made some notable achievements over the past year. In the area of satellite transponder leasing, we renewed the contracts with several major customers and added new clients from the broadcast sector that successfully expanded the broadcast neighbourhood of our satellite fleet and diversifie [...]
the purpose of the study was to analyse regulation of the satellite services industry in 21 countries across Asia, divided by size and value into primary markets and secondary markets.
Although the focus was to examine key aspects of regulatory effectiveness – and not to simply to promote an Open [...]
May Yin Oh Senior Director of Business Development for Greater China and India, Qualcomm MediaFLO Technologies.
Mobile television is now a reality in 12 Asia-Pacific countries and consumer demand in Asia is growing faster than the rest of world. ABI Research estimates there will be 260million mobi [...]